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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
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| HB2061 | Including aboveground and belowground lines, cables and wires in the definition of a critical infrastructure facility used for telecommunications or video services for the crimes of trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/18/2025 |
| HB2062 | Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, including the direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses of the mother as a factor in child support orders and providing for an income tax exemption for unborn and stillborn children, requiring courts to consider the value of retirement accounts in certain circumstances, authorizing payment from certain retirement accounts to pay child support arrearages and eliminating the exemption of pension and retirement | Veto Overridden | 02/20/2025 |
| HB2118 | Requiring any person who solicits a fee for filing or retrieving certain documents from the federal government, the state, a state agency or a local government to give certain notices to consumers and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/20/2025 |
| HB2131 | Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward related information to the Kansas bureau of investigation. | Crossed Over | 03/25/2025 |
| HB2134 | Amending the Kansas open records act by limiting certain charges for furnishing records and employee time required to make records available and exempting certain records from disclosure and amending the Kansas open meetings act by providing for the membership calculation of subordinate groups and requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2155 | Specifying that sheriffs have liability for official acts related to charge and custody of jails. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/20/2025 |
| HB2164 | Senate Substitute for HB 2164 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2166 | Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2177 | Increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer when the person has prior convictions of the offense. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2182 | Prohibiting a sheriff from charging a fee for service of process for proceedings under the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/20/2025 |
| HB2183 | Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy to prohibit certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, provide an exception for cable services in the crime of breach of privacy and prohibit dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purp | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2192 | Limiting or prohibiting work release for people convicted of a second or third offense of domestic battery. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2212 | Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum. | Crossed Over | 02/20/2025 |
| HB2215 | Modifying the definition of public-private partnership to increase the allowable cost-share limit for expenditures by the department of corrections on certain correctional institution construction projects. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/20/2025 |
| HB2228 | Senate Substitute for HB 2228 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts. | Vetoed | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2242 | Authorizing the governor to accept requests of concurrent jurisdiction from the federal government in certain circumstances. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2312 | Excluding certain offenders convicted of a nonperson felony from participation in certified drug abuse treatment programs and authorizing community correctional services officers to complete criminal risk-need assessments for divertees who are committed to such programs. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2323 | Establishing procedures for a civil action instituted by the commissioner of insurance related to fraudulent insurance acts, providing that expunged criminal records will be disclosed in any application for licensure as an insurance producer or public adjuster if the arrest, conviction or diversion is for a fraudulent insurance act and including automobile assigned claims plans in provisions related to fraudulent insurance acts. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2327 | Establishing procedures and requirements for the secretary of corrections to issue a certificate of employability to certain inmates. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2329 | Increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements and authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general f | Crossed Over | 03/14/2025 |
| HB2342 | Authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updating criminal history record language related to the state bank commissioner, requiring the secretary of labor to conduct criminal history record checks on employees who have access to federal tax information and authorizing the secretary of commerce to conduct such checks on final applicants for and employees in certain sensitive positions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2347 | Changing the culpability required for certain types of theft and increasing the criminal penalty for theft to a felony when the property is a motor vehicle of the value of at least $500. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2349 | Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act. | Crossed Over | 03/18/2025 |
| HB2359 | Enacting the uniform adult guardianship and protective proceedings jurisdiction act and the uniform guardianship, conservatorship and other protective arrangements act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2371 | Amending the Kansas revised limited liability company act, the business entity transactions act and the business entity standard treatment act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2378 | Establishing the removal of squatters act, providing a procedure to remove a squatter from a dwelling unit, requiring owners or agents of dwelling units to provide an affidavit to the county sheriff department or police department , requiring notice to vacate by the sheriff, establishing the crime of providing a false affidavit and establishing a civil cause of action for wrongful removal of a person from a dwelling unit, allowing attorney fees and punitive damages. | Crossed Over | 03/07/2025 |
| HCR5008 | Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for legislative oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| SB30 | Requiring that adoption of new occupational licensing requirements and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by joint resolution of the legislature unless otherwise ratified by the legislature by the enactment of a bill and providing for notice to agencies and the legislature and a procedure for legislative review of such occupational licensing requirements. | Crossed Over | 01/17/2025 |
| SB53 | Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of a county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district and allowing such board to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing functions of the district court of the county. | Crossed Over | 01/22/2025 |
| SB54 | Substitute for SB 54 by Committee on Judiciary - Limiting discovery and disclosure of third-party litigation funding agreements and requiring reporting of such agreements to courts. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/22/2025 |
| SB60 | Prohibiting second and successive motions and ineffective counsel claims in habeas corpus actions and providing for direct appeal to the supreme court in habeas corpus appeals filed by inmates sentenced to death. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SB61 | Requiring an electric public utility to pay a landowner's attorney fees when a party appeals the appraisers' award and the jury renders a verdict that is greater than the appraisers' award in an eminent domain action. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SB62 | Creating the crime of engaging in a street stunt, providing criminal penalties therefor and adding engaging in a street stunt to the list of crimes included in fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SB70 | Prohibiting fees for electronic copies of records under the open records act, exempting from disclosure formally closed investigations with no found violations, requiring county or district attorneys to file reports of violations with the attorney general in October instead of January, determining the membership calculation of subordinate groups under the open meetings act, requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe and providing fo | Crossed Over | 01/24/2025 |
| SB71 | Increasing the criminal penalties for buying sexual relations, removing provisions regarding city ordinances prohibiting buying sexual relations, requiring certain offenders to complete an educational or treatment program regarding commercial sexual exploitation and requiring the attorney general to approve such programs in consultation with the office of judicial administration. | Crossed Over | 01/24/2025 |
| SB84 | Modifying criminal use of a financial card to include certain conduct involving gift cards. | Crossed Over | 01/28/2025 |
| SB91 | Providing for payment of interest in civil actions for wrongful conviction and directing the attorney general to seek damages for the state from any person who knowingly contributed to the wrongful conviction and prosecute ouster and criminal proceedings as warranted. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| SB94 | Requiring a person convicted of an offense that resulted in the incapacitation or death of a victim who is the parent or guardian of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child support. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| SB96 | Creating the crime of deprivation of rights under color of law and providing a civil action for victims. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| SB102 | Clarifying the identifying information in mandatory reports of abuse or neglect of children and increasing the penalty for failing to report such abuse or neglect. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| SB110 | Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless restraints are deemed appropriate by the court. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| SB111 | Prohibiting fines and fees from being assessed against a juvenile or a juvenile's parent, guardian or custodian in a case pursuant to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| SB116 | Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward related information to the Kansas bureau of investigation. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| SB127 | Expanding the hearsay exception for statements made to a physician to all healthcare providers. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| SB128 | Creating an exception to certain mandatory reporting obligations for licensed social workers when working under the supervision of an attorney and permitting an attorney to require a licensed social worker to keep ethical obligations of attorney-client privilege while working under the supervision of such attorney. | Crossed Over | 01/31/2025 |
| SB129 | Raising the mandatory retirement age for magistrate judges regularly admitted to practice law who serve in counties with a population of 10,000 or fewer people. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| SB135 | Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| SB138 | House Substitute for SB 138 by Committee on Judiciary - Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act. | Crossed Over | 02/03/2025 |
| SB141 | Enacting the right to speak your truth act to prohibit defamation actions in certain circumstances. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB155 | Adding harboring or concealing a person who has violated terms of probation to the crime of obstructing apprehension or prosecution. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB156 | Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/04/2025 |
| SB157 | Requiring search warrants to be issued only on the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause made by a law enforcement officer, warrants issued for failure to appear to be provided to a compensated surety, bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and remission if the defendant is returned to custody in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making loans for certain portions of the required minimum appearance bond premium. | Crossed Over | 02/04/2025 |
| SB160 | Granting the attorney general concurrent authority to prosecute any crimes related to schools. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB180 | Requiring previous convictions to be considered in determining bond when a person is arrested for certain sex offenses. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SB183 | Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SB185 | Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SB186 | Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testim | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| SB187 | Requiring certain records and files to be automatically expunged from a juvenile's record. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SB188 | Requiring a secured release for release prior to trial when a person is charged with certain offenses and creating a mechanism for unsecured judicial release. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SB203 | Authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for an unavailable witness or a material witness. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| SB204 | Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of the county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district, allowing such boards to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing functions of the district court of the county and requiring the case, warrant and subpoena information be sealed in criminal and juvenile offender cases. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/06/2025 |
| SB205 | Increasing the criminal penalty for certain violations of breach of privacy when the victim is a child. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| SB206 | Requiring any person convicted of distribution of a controlled substance causing great bodily harm or death or register under the Kansas offender registration act for 15 years. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| SB208 | Prohibiting the use of any prone restraint on a juvenile who is in custody at a juvenile detention facility or juvenile correctional facility or being assessed as part of the juvenile intake and assessment system. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| SB220 | Increasing the penalty for unlawful employment under child labor laws. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| SB221 | Changing the membership of the judicial council to have one resident lawyer from each judicial district instead of four resident lawyers. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| SB222 | Prohibiting deference to a state agency's interpretation of a statute, rule or regulation or document by a state court or an officer hearing an administrative action. | Crossed Over | 02/06/2025 |
| SB237 | Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| SB239 | Creating a special sentencing rule to add 100 months to a sentence for distribution of a controlled substance when the substance involved is fentanyl and the distribution causes the death of a child. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| SB240 | Establishing procedures for a civil action instituted by the commissioner of insurance related to fraudulent insurance acts, providing that expunged criminal records will be disclosed in any application for licensure as an insurance producer or public adjuster if the arrest, conviction or diversion is for a fraudulent insurance act and including automobile assigned claims plans in provisions related to fraudulent insurance acts. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| SB241 | Providing that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| SB242 | Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| SB243 | Requiring outpatient competency evaluations in certain circumstances and requiring the court to make specific findings for inpatient competency evaluations. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| SB244 | Prohibiting a compensated surety from making loans for certain portions of the required minimum appearance bond premium. | Crossed Over | 02/07/2025 |
| SB245 | Providing that no person shall be sentenced to death for crimes committed after July 1, 2025, and creating the crime of aggravated murder. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| SB246 | Requiring all applicants for teaching licenses and certificates and employees of a school district or public innovative district to submit to a criminal history record check and creating the criminal history record check reimbursement fund for certain state and criminal history record checks conducted by the Kansas department for aging and disability services. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| SB247 | Eliminating the exemption for vehicle dealers from certain requirements of the scrap metal theft reduction act. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| SB248 | Requiring criminal history record check information relating to hemp producers to be sent to the state fire marshal, updating the fingerprinting language for the state banking commissioner for money transmitters and earned wage access services providers and authorizing the state gaming agency and attorney general to have access to more criminal history record information. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| SB255 | Authorizing certain inmates in the custody of the secretary of corrections to petition the court for a resentencing hearing. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| SB262 | Requiring government agencies, public utilities and other entities when exercising the power of eminent domain to make a good faith offer for the property prior to filing an eminent domain action, providing the good faith offer, if greater than the appraiser's award, shall be deposited with the court, allowing appeals from that amount, prohibiting the exercise of eminent domain for recreational trails and park and recreational facilities and deleting the power of the legislature to condemn prope | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| SB288 | Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |