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AN ACT concerning criminal procedure; relating to grand juries; modifying procedures for the citizen petition process to impanel a citizen grand jury; providing for judicial review of such petitions prior to obtaining signatures; creating a misdemeanor crime for knowingly making a false statement or offering any benefit as consideration to induce a person to sign or remove a signature from such petitions; limiting criminal liability for good faith conduct by the person who initiates such petitions and any person who signs such petitions; prohibiting diversion agreements related to a true bill of indictment found by a citizen grand jury; amending K.S.A. 22-2909, 22-3001, 22- 3002, 22-3005, 22-3007, 22-3008, 22-3011 and 22-3015 and repealing the existing sections. WHEREAS, A citizen grand jury by petition serves as an independent, legal pathway and direct mechanism for ordinary citizens to seek a formal criminal investigation when they believe that public officials, institutions or prosecutorial authorities are failing or unwilling to properly address wrongdoing; and WHEREAS, The citizen grand jury by petition process is designed to ensure access to justice even when traditional systems may not respond and to give people a constitutional and statutory tool to ensure that allegations of serious misconduct receive a fair hearing, even if those in power resist investigation; and WHEREAS, Thomas Jefferson wrote "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their controul with a wholsome discretion, the remedy is, not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." Now, therefore:

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House Hearing: Thursday, January 29, 2026, 3:30 PM Room 582-N (on 01/29/2026)

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