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Adjourned until Monday, January 12, 2026 at 02:00 p.m.
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Corrections and Juvenile Justice
House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
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Meeting Day: Daily Time: 1:30 pm Location: 546-S
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Bills In Committee
HB2227 - 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.
HB2324 - Increasing the criminal penalty for possessing or refusing to surrender any firearm in or on any school property or grounds.
HB2325 - Authorizing judges to commit juvenile offenders to detention for technical violations of probation, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and increasing criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders.
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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.
HB2164 - Authorizing persons who are 20 years of age or older to apply for certification as a police officer or law enforcement officer under the Kansas law enforcement training act.
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.
HB2178 - Allowing persons with felony drug convictions to receive benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
HB2179 - 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.
HB2192 - Limiting or prohibiting work release for people convicted of a second or third offense of domestic battery.
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.
HB2221 - Abolishing the department of corrections alcohol and drug abuse treatment fund, creating the Kansas department for aging and disability services alcohol and drug abuse treatment fund and transferring the moneys and liabilities from such abolished fund to the Kansas department for aging and disability services alcohol and drug abuse treatment fund.
HB2227 - 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.
HB2228 - Requiring the secretary of corrections to assist inmates with obtaining identification and employment related documentation prior to release from custody.
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.
HB2324 - Increasing the criminal penalty for possessing or refusing to surrender any firearm in or on any school property or grounds.
HB2325 - Authorizing judges to commit juvenile offenders to detention for technical violations of probation, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and increasing criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders.
HB2326 - Adding consideration of whether the offender has physical custody of such offender's minor child or is a legal guardian or custodian with physical custody of a minor child to the factors considered for diversions and dispositional departures.
HB2327 - Establishing procedures and requirements for the secretary of corrections to issue a certificate of employability to certain inmates.
HB2328 - Providing an exception to restrictions on prison-made housing units to allow the secretary of corrections to establish a program for delivering such units into designated areas.
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 fund moneys to contract for such beds.
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Chair
Rep. Bob Lewis
Vice Chair
Rep. John Resman
Ranking Minority Member
Rep. Tobias Schlingensiepen
Members
House
Rep. Bradley Barrett
Rep. Nathan Butler
Rep. John Carmichael
Rep. Ricky James
Rep. Angela Martinez
Rep. Brooklynne Mosley
Rep. Lance W. Neelly
Rep. Kevin Schwertfeger
Rep. Joe Seiwert
Rep. Chuck Smith
Staff
Theresa Lister - Committee Assistant
Jillian Kincaid - Legislative Research
Jordan Milholland - Legislative Research
Jason Thompson - Office of Revisor of Statutes
Natalie Scott - Office of Revisor of Statutes
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