CHAPTER 52
HOUSE BILL No. 2025
(Amended by Chapter 185)
An Act concerning crimes and punishments and
criminal procedure; relating to the crime
of inflicting harm, disability or death to
certain dogs; relating to counsel and other
defense services to indigent defendants;
relating to time limitations on prosecutions for
certain crimes; concerning bail forfeiture;
amending K.S.A. 20-350, 21-4318 and 22-
4507 and K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 21-3106 and
repealing the existing sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 21-4318 is hereby amended to read as
follows:
21-4318. (a) Inflicting harm, disability or death to a police or
arson dog
is knowingly and intentionally, and without lawful cause or
justification
poisoning, inflicting great bodily harm, permanent disability or
death,
upon a police or arson dog.
(b) As used in this section, the term:
(1) ``Arson dog'' means any dog which is owned, or the
service of
which is employed, by the state fire marshal or a fire
department for the
principal purpose of aiding in the detection of liquid
accelerants in the
investigation of fires.
(2) ``Fire department'' means a public fire department
under the con-
trol of the governing body of a city, township, county, fire
district or
benefit district or a private fire department operated by a
nonprofit cor-
poration providing fire protection services for a city,
township, county,
fire district or benefit district under contract with the
governing body of
the city, township, county or district.
(3) ``Police dog'' means any dog which is owned, or the
service of
which is employed, by a law enforcement agency for the principal
purpose
of aiding in the detection of criminal activity, enforcement of
laws or
apprehension of offenders.
(c) Inflicting harm, disability or death to a police or
arson dog is a
class A nonperson misdemeanor.
(d) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the
Kansas crim-
inal code.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 21-3106 is hereby amended to
read as
follows: 21-3106. (1) A prosecution for murder may be commenced
at
any time.
(2) Except as provided by subsection (7)
(8), a prosecution for any of
the following crimes must be commenced within five years after its
com-
mission if the victim is less than 16 years of age: (a) Indecent
liberties
with a child as defined in K.S.A. 21-3503 and amendments thereto;
(b)
aggravated indecent liberties with a child as defined in K.S.A.
21-3504
and amendments thereto; (c) enticement of a child as defined in
K.S.A.
21-3509 and amendments thereto; (d) indecent solicitation of a
child as
defined in K.S.A. 21-3510 and amendments thereto; (e) aggravated
in-
decent solicitation of a child as defined in K.S.A. 21-3511 and
amend-
ments thereto; (f) sexual exploitation of a child as defined in
K.S.A. 21-
3516 and amendments thereto; or (g) aggravated incest as defined
in
K.S.A. 21-3603 and amendments thereto.
(3) Except as provided in subsection (7)
(8), a prosecution for any
crime must be commenced within 10 years after its commission if
the
victim is the Kansas public employees retirement system.
(4) Except as provided by subsection (7)
(8), a prosecution for rape,
as defined in K.S.A. 21-3502 and amendments thereto, or
aggravated
criminal sodomy, as defined in K.S.A. 21-3506 and amendments
thereto,
must be commenced within five years after its commission.
(5) Except as provided in subsection (7)
(8), a prosecution for any
crime found in the Kansas medicaid fraud control act must be
com-
menced within five years after its commission.
(6) Except as provided by subsection (8), a prosecution for
the crime
of arson, as defined in K.S.A. 21-3718 and amendments thereto,
or ag-
gravated arson, as defined in K.S.A. 21-3719 and amendments
thereto,
must be commenced within five years after its
commission.
(7) Except as provided by subsection
(7) (8), a prosecution for any
crime not governed by subsections (1), (2), (3), (4)
and, (5) and (6) must
be commenced within two years after it is committed.
(7) The period within which a prosecution must be commenced
shall
not include any period in which:
(a) The accused is absent from the state;
(b) the accused is concealed within the state so that process
cannot
be served upon the accused;
(c) the fact of the crime is concealed;
(d) a prosecution is pending against the defendant for the
same con-
duct, even if the indictment or information which commences the
pros-
ecution is quashed or the proceedings thereon are set aside, or are
re-
versed on appeal;
(e) an administrative agency is restrained by court order from
inves-
tigating or otherwise proceeding on a matter before it as to any
criminal
conduct defined as a violation of any of the provisions of article
41 of
chapter 25 and article 2 of chapter 46 of the Kansas Statutes
Annotated
which may be discovered as a result thereof regardless of who
obtains
the order of restraint; or
(f) whether or not the fact of the crime is concealed by the
active act
or conduct of the accused, there is substantially competent
evidence to
believe two or more of the following factors are present: (i) The
victim
was a child under 15 years of age at the time of the crime; (ii)
the victim
was of such age or intelligence that the victim was unable to
determine
that the acts constituted a crime; (iii) the victim was prevented
by a parent
or other legal authority from making known to law enforcement
author-
ities the fact of the crime whether or not the parent or other
legal au-
thority is the accused; and (iv) there is substantially competent
expert
testimony indicating the victim psychologically repressed such
witness'
memory of the fact of the crime, and in the expert's professional
opinion
the recall of such memory is accurate and free of undue
manipulation,
and substantial corroborating evidence can be produced in support
of the
allegations contained in the complaint or information but in no
event may
a prosecution be commenced as provided in this section later than
the
date the victim turns 28 years of age. Corroborating evidence may
in-
clude, but is not limited to, evidence the defendant committed
similar
acts against other persons or evidence of contemporaneous physical
man-
ifestations of the crime. ``Parent or other legal authority'' shall
include
but not be limited to natural and stepparents, grandparents, aunts,
uncles
or siblings.
(8) An offense is committed either when every element occurs,
or, if
a legislative purpose to prohibit a continuing offense plainly
appears, at
the time when the course of conduct or the defendant's complicity
therein
is terminated. Time starts to run on the day after the offense is
committed.
(9) A prosecution is commenced when a complaint or information
is
filed, or an indictment returned, and a warrant thereon is
delivered to
the sheriff or other officer for execution. No such prosecution
shall be
deemed to have been commenced if the warrant so issued is not
executed
without unreasonable delay.
New Sec. 3. The clerk of the district court shall remit
at least
monthly to the county treasurer of each county in the judicial
district,
and the county treasurer shall deposit the same to the credit of
the county
general fund, the amount equal to 40% of the total amount of bail
for-
feitures received in such county during the preceding calendar
month.
Sec. 4. K.S.A. 20-350 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 20-350.
(a) Except for fines and penalties authorized to be paid to
counties pur-
suant to K.S.A. 19-101e and amendments thereto, and subsection
(b), and
amendments thereto, all moneys received by the clerk of the
district court
from the payment of fines, penalties and forfeitures shall be
remitted to
the state treasurer, in the manner provided by K.S.A. 20-2801 and
amend-
ments thereto, and the state treasurer shall deposit the same in
the state
treasury to the credit of the state general fund, except as
provided in
K.S.A. 74-7336, and amendments thereto.
(b) Except as provided by section 3, all moneys received by
the clerk
of the district court from the payment of bail forfeitures shall
be remitted
to the state treasurer at least monthly. The state treasurer
shall deposit
the same in the state treasury and shall credit equal portions
of such
remittance to the indigents' defense services fund and the state
general
fund.
(b) (c) The administrative judge may
invest any moneys on deposit
in the district court account if the moneys are not immediately
required
for the purposes for which they were collected or received. Such
moneys
may be invested in: (1) Time deposits, open account or certificates
of
deposit, for periods not to exceed six months, or savings deposits,
in com-
mercial banks located in the county, except that amounts invested
which
are not insured by the United States government shall be secured in
the
manner and amounts provided by K.S.A. 9-1402 and amendments
thereto; (2) United States treasury bills or notes with maturities
not to
exceed six months; or (3) savings and loan associations located in
the
county. No investment of more than the amount insured by the
federal
deposit insurance corporation shall be made in any one savings and
loan
association. Interest received from the investment of moneys
pursuant to
this subsection shall be paid to the state treasurer in the manner
provided
by K.S.A. 20-2801 and amendments thereto, and the state treasurer
shall
deposit the same in the state treasury to the credit of the state
general
fund.
(c) (d) Upon application of a party to
an action in which such party
claims ownership of moneys held by the district court, the
administrative
judge may invest such moneys in the same manner as provided by
sub-
section (b) (c). Interest received from the
investment of moneys pursuant
to this subsection shall become the property of the person found to
be
the owner of the moneys.
Sec. 5. K.S.A. 22-4507 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 22-
4507. (a) An attorney, other than a public defender or assistant
public
defender or contract counsel, who performs services for an indigent
per-
son, as provided by this act, shall at the conclusion of such
service or any
part thereof be entitled to compensation for such services and to
be re-
imbursed for expenses reasonably incurred by such person in
performing
such services. Compensation for services shall be paid in
accordance with
standards and guidelines contained in rules and regulations adopted
by
the state board of indigents' defense services under this
section.
(b) Claims for compensation and reimbursement shall be
certified by
the claimant and shall be presented to the court at sentencing.
A supple-
mental claim may be filed at such later time as the court may in
the interest
of justice determine if good cause is shown why the claim was
not pre-
sented at sentencing. In accordance with standards and
guidelines
adopted by the state board of indigents' defense services under
this sec-
tion, all such claims shall be reviewed and approved by one or more
judges
of the district court before whom the service was performed, or, in
the
case of proceedings in the court of appeals, by the chief judge of
the court
of appeals and in the case of proceedings in the supreme court, by
the
departmental justice for the department in which the appeal
originated.
Each claim shall be supported by a written statement, specifying in
detail
the time expended, the services rendered, the expenses incurred in
con-
nection with the case and any other compensation or
reimbursement
received. When properly certified and reviewed and approved, each
claim
for compensation and reimbursement shall be filed in the office of
the
state board of indigents' defense services. If the claims meet the
standards
established by the board, the board shall authorize payment of the
claim.
(c) If the state board of indigents' defense services
determines that
the appropriations for indigents' defense services or the moneys
allocated
by the board for a county or judicial district will be insufficient
in any
fiscal year to pay in full claims filed and reasonably anticipated
to be filed
in such year under this section, the board may adopt a formula for
pro-
rating the payment of pending and anticipated claims under this
section.
(d) The state board of indigents' defense services may make
expend-
itures for payment of claims filed under this section from
appropriations
for the current fiscal year regardless of when the services were
rendered.
(e) The state board of indigents' defense services shall adopt
rules
and regulations prescribing standards and guidelines governing the
filing,
processing and payment of claims under this section.
Sec. 6. K.S.A. 20-350, 21-4318 and 22-4507 and K.S.A.
1997 Supp.
21-3106 are hereby repealed.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its
publication in the Kansas register.
Approved April 2, 1998
Published in the Kansas Registers April 9, 1998