| KS | SB157 | Intro
25% | Requiring warrants issued for failure to appear to be provided to a compensated surety, changing the criteria for setting aside bond forfeiture and requiring remission if the defendant is returned to custody in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB155 | Intro
25% | Adding harboring or concealing a person who has violated terms of probation to the crime of obstructing apprehension or prosecution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB138 | Intro
25% | Requiring search warrants to be issued only on the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause made by a law enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB156 | Intro
25% | Creating the crime of unlawful use of a laser pointer and providing criminal penalties therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB186 | Intro
25% | Requiring probable cause affidavits to be made available to law enforcement agencies prior to the execution of a warrant or summons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB128 | Intro
25% | 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-clie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB127 | Intro
25% | Expanding the hearsay exception for statements made to a physician to all healthcare providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB54 | Intro
25% | Limiting discovery and disclosure of third-party litigation funding agreements in certain circumstances and requiring reporting of such agreements to the judicial council for study.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB129 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB203 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for an unavailable witness or a material witness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB222 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB206 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB60 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB135 | Intro
25% | Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by |
| KS | SB187 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain records and files to be automatically expunged from a juvenile's record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB185 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB188 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB183 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB205 | Intro
25% | Increasing the criminal penalty for certain violations of breach of privacy when the victim is a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
Senate Introduced |
| KS | SB204 | Intro
25% | Requiring the case and warrant information be sealed in criminal and juvenile offender cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
Senate Introduced |
| KS | SB221 | Intro
25% | Changing the membership of the judicial council to have one resident lawyer from each judicial district instead of four resident lawyers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
Senate Introduced |
| KS | SB30 | Intro
25% | Requiring the secretary of labor to conduct a state and national criminal history record check on employees who have access to federal tax information received directly from the internal revenue service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary |
| KS | SB53 | Intro
25% | 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 p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary |
| KS | SB62 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB71 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary |
| KS | SB84 | Intro
25% | Modifying criminal use of a financial card to include certain conduct involving gift cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary |
| KS | SB158 | Intro
25% | Allowing persons with felony drug convictions to receive benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB70 | Intro
25% | Providing for reasonable 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 th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB61 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB111 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB110 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless restraints are deemed appropriate by the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
