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House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

  • Committee Assistant: Colette Niehues 785-296-7500
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    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 1:30 pm Location: 546-S

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Sponsored Bills
    SB73 - House Substitute for SB 73 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Requiring school district enrollment to be determined using the current school year or preceding school year enrollment under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.
    SB228 - Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for certain costs when a person is in a county jail awaiting examination, evaluation or treatment for competency, modernizing statutes concerning county jails, removing the requirement that every county shall have a jail, modifying procedures used when district courts commit prisoners to jail in another county and when counties contract with city jails to keep prisoners and requiring a medical examination before certain United States prisoners or city prisoners are taken into custody of a county jail.
    SB318 - House Substitute for SB 318 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Creating an inference of an intent to distribute a controlled substance based on the quantity of the substance possessed instead of a rebuttable presumption.
    SB419 - House Substitute for SB 419 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Providing immunity from prosecution for certain drug crimes when persons seek or provide medical assistance related to the use of a controlled substance.
    SB420 - House Substitute for SB 420 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Allowing juvenile offenders in the custody of the secretary of corrections to leave the juvenile correctional facility for certain programming and educational opportunities when approved by the secretary.
    HB2021 - Requiring the secretary for children and families to assess certain children and the secretary of corrections to provide certain services to juveniles in detention, changing the criteria used to refer and admit juveniles to a juvenile crisis intervention center, allowing evidence-based program account money to be used on certain children, requiring the department of corrections to build data systems and allowing for overall case length limit extensions for certain juvenile offenders.
    HB2022 - Providing for the appointment of the superintendent of the Kansas highway patrol by the attorney general, not the governor; transferring the duties of governor relating to the Kansas highway patrol to the attorney general; granting jurisdiction of the Kansas highway patrol to the attorney general, a division to be known as the Kansas highway patrol.
    HB2031 - Enacting the reduce armed violence act to increase the criminal penalties for certain violations of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon that involve firearms.
    HB2032 - Allowing persons with felony drug convictions to receive benefits under the food assistance program.
    HB2033 - Changing the criteria used to refer and admit juveniles to a juvenile crisis intervention center.
    HB2067 - Increasing the felony loss thresholds for certain property crimes to match the crime of theft.
    HB2068 - Modifying how certain prior convictions are counted for the special sentencing rule related to possession of a controlled substance and providing concurrent or consecutive sentencing for persons convicted of new crimes while on release for a felony.
    HB2069 - Providing that the service of postrelease supervision period shall not toll except as otherwise provided by law.
    HB2070 - Allowing certain nondrug offenders to participate in a certified drug abuse treatment program.
    HB2071 - Extending terminal medical release to inmates in the custody of the department of corrections with a condition likely to cause death within 120 days.
    HB2072 - Reducing the criminal penalties for most severity level 5 drug crimes and increasing the penalties for offenders in criminal history category 5-I.
    HB2073 - 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.
    HB2104 - Defining options for early discharge from probation for certain offenders and limiting the maximum term of supervision on probation.
    HB2180 - Increasing good time and program credit for certain offenders and removing liability protection for wrongful acts committed by the department of corrections in making good time and program credit calculations.
    HB2186 - Modifying the criminal penalties for unlawful voluntary sexual relations and excluding juveniles adjudicated for the offense from offender registration requirements.
    HB2212 - Eliminating offender registration requirements for certain juvenile offenders.
    HB2213 - Authorizing offenders subject to offender registration to register at one location, creating a mechanism for fees to be waived and creating a mechanism to seek relief from registration requirements for violent offenders.
    HB2214 - Changing the name of the Larned correctional mental health facility to the Larned state correctional facility and removing references to facilities that no longer exist.
    HB2280 - Requiring a person convicted of driving under the influence to pay child support for any child of a person killed during the offense giving rise to such conviction.
    HB2295 - Requiring people who live with offenders on probation, parole or postrelease supervision to report when such offender is not home during required hours.
    HB2328 - Excluding tests to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine or gamma hydroxybutyric acid in a substance from the definition of drug paraphernalia.
    HB2329 - Increasing the additional prison time for the special sentencing rule related to possessing a firearm during the commission of a drug felony.
    HB2350 - Creating the crimes of human smuggling and aggravated human smuggling and providing penalties therefor.
    HB2385 - Creating an inference of an intent to distribute a controlled substance based on the quantity of the substance possessed instead of a rebuttable presumption.
    HB2398 - Adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture, increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing fentanyl and creating a special sentencing rule to make sentences for distributing fentanyl presumptive imprisonment.
    HB2522 - Requiring the secretary of corrections to prepare inmates for release from custody and assist with gathering identification documentation.
    HB2568 - 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.
    HB2601 - Requiring certain persons on a third or subsequent conviction of driving under the influence to participate in a multidisciplinary model of services for substance use disorders.
    HB2630 - Amending the rules of evidence to allow history of previous domestic violence offenses to be admitted during a prosecution of a domestic violence offense.
    HB2639 - Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless restraints are deemed appropriate by the court.
    HB2654 - Excluding certain types of incarceration time from being included in the allowance for time spent incarcerated when calculating a criminal defendant's sentence.
    HB2655 - Requiring automated expungement of certain records from a person's criminal record to seal such records from public view and limit disclosure thereof.
    HB2656 - Creating the crime of engaging in a street stunt, providing criminal penalties therefor and adding the new offense as a method of committing fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer.
    HB2665 - Increasing criminal penalties for a driver who leaves the scene of a vehicular accident when the accident results in the death of any person or more than one person, if the driver knew or reasonably should have known that such accident resulted in injury or death.
    HB2666 - 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.
    HB2698 - Allowing juvenile offenders in the custody of the secretary of corrections to leave the juvenile correctional facility for certain programming and educational opportunities when approved by the secretary.
    HB2699 - Creating the crimes of home invasion and aggravated home invasion and providing criminal penalties for violation thereof.
    HB2740 - Increasing the criminal penalty for a third or subsequent conviction of domestic battery and creating a mandatory minimum sentence for aggravated domestic battery.
    HB2741 - Updating the general terms of supervision for offenders on probation and postrelease supervision.
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