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House Committee on Judiciary

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    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 3:30 pm Location: 582-N

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    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.
    SB244 - Prohibiting a compensated surety from making loans for certain portions of the required minimum appearance bond premium.
    HB2144 - Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for adults who want decision-making assistance and amending the crime of mistreatment of a dependent adult or an elder person.
    HB2173 - Authorizing certain offenders to petition for relief from registration requirements under the Kansas offender registration act.
    HB2181 - Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.
    HB2187 - 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 property for economic development.
    HB2224 - Requiring a law enforcement officer executing a search warrant at residential premises to be uniformed and to knock and announce themselves before entering the property.
    HB2241 - 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.
    HB2243 - Requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military installations to refer children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to a military family advocacy program.
    HB2253 - Making the theft of livestock or implements of husbandry a severity level 5, nonperson felony.
    HB2272 - Providing that no person shall be sentenced to death for crimes committed after July 1, 2025, and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
    HB2300 - Establishing limitations for land transactions for wind and solar energy projects and allowing a consumer to revoke such land transaction under the Kansas consumer protection act.
    HB2306 - Requiring a person convicted of involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence to pay child support for any child of a person killed during the offense.
    HB2309 - Providing for the modernization of notarization and the county register of deeds process with respect to real estate documents for the purpose of mitigation of real estate document-related fraud, requiring the development, implementation and administration of a two-tiered authentication system for notarization of real estate documents, requiring use of a 3D biometric antifraud system by all notaries public by December 31, 2026, and allowing any register of deeds to delay filing of real estate documents in the event of suspected fraud for purpose of investigating of the validity of such document.
    HB2321 - Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.
    HB2322 - Prohibiting law enforcement officers and agencies from engaging in motorcycle profiling and requiring police training programs to include training on motorcycle profiling.
    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.
    HB2348 - Providing that tenure at postsecondary educational institutions shall not be defined, awarded or recognized as an entitlement, right or property interest in a faculty member's current, ongoing or future employment by an institution.
    HB2350 - Providing that no juvenile less than 18 years of age shall be prosecuted as an adult.
    HB2351 - Amending the uniform arbitration act of 2000 to make certain agreements to appraise or arbitrate in contracts of insurance invalid and creating exceptions therefor.
    HB2352 - Requiring a duly ordained minister of religion to report certain abuse and neglect except when reporting would violate the penitential communication privilege and requiring training for persons obligated to report abuse and neglect.
    HB2353 - Requiring that certain written information be provided to patients when a physician or healthcare provider administers or prescribes any medicine or drug for the purpose of inducing an abortion.
    HB2354 - Providing an exception to the crime of unlawful possession of controlled substances for residents of Kansas who possess marijuana and are disabled veterans with a valid medical marijuana card issued by any state.
    HB2355 - Modifying provisions related to series limited liability companies.
    HB2356 - Amending the uniform nonparent visitation act to modify the evidentiary standard for awarding visitation to a nonparent.
    HB2357 - Providing for sealing and expungement of court records in eviction actions where the underlying rental agreement is governed by the residential landlord and tenant act and requiring mediation in such eviction cases unless the court finds that mediation would not aid the parties materially.
    HB2389 - Requiring certain prior convictions to be considered in determining bond when a person is arrested for certain sex offenses.
    HB2401 - Providing that prior convictions of a crime that is determined unconstitutional by an appellate court shall not be used for criminal history scoring purposes unless the basis of the determination of unconstitutionality by the appellate court is later overruled or reversed.
    HB2403 - Establishing the order of priority of a decedent's surviving parents who cannot agree on the disposition of such decedent's remains.
    HB2412 - Increasing the criminal penalties for endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age.
    HB2413 - Providing that theft of livestock or implements of husbandry is a severity level 5, nonperson felony.
    HB2419 - Providing an exception to KORA that authorizes certain retired KPERS members to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.
    HB2422 - Providing that the theft of grain is a severity level 6, nonperson felony.
    HB2426 - Defining the term "gender" to mean biological sex at birth for purposes of statutory construction, directing the division of motor vehicles to invalidate and reissue driver's licenses when necessary when necessary to correct the gender identification on such licenses and directing the office of vital statistics to invalidate and reissue birth certificates when necessary to correct the sex identification on such certificates.
    HB2444 - Providing that jail credit when consecutive sentences are imposed shall not apply to more than one case, creating special sentencing rules when a felony is committed by certain offenders while on probation, parole or postrelease supervision for a prior felony and requiring secured minimum bonds for certain defendants who commit a new felony while on probation, parole, postrelease supervision or bond for a prior felony unless the court makes certain findings.
    HB2460 - Providing an exception to the Kansas Open Records Act that authorizes members of the legislature to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.
    Sponsored Bills
    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.
    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.
    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 moneys from claims to fulfill child support obligations.
    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.
    HB2155 - Specifying that sheriffs have liability for official acts related to charge and custody of jails.
    HB2166 - Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.
    HB2173 - Authorizing certain offenders to petition for relief from registration requirements under the Kansas offender registration act.
    HB2181 - Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.
    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.
    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 purport to depict an identifiable person.
    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.
    HB2241 - 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.
    HB2242 - Authorizing the governor to accept requests of concurrent jurisdiction from the federal government in certain circumstances.
    HB2243 - Requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military installations to refer children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to a military family advocacy program.
    HB2300 - Establishing limitations for land transactions for wind and solar energy projects and allowing a consumer to revoke such land transaction under the Kansas consumer protection act.
    HB2306 - Requiring a person convicted of involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence to pay child support for any child of a person killed during the offense.
    HB2321 - Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.
    HB2322 - Prohibiting law enforcement officers and agencies from engaging in motorcycle profiling and requiring police training programs to include training on motorcycle profiling.
    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.
    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.
    HB2348 - Providing that tenure at postsecondary educational institutions shall not be defined, awarded or recognized as an entitlement, right or property interest in a faculty member's current, ongoing or future employment by an institution.
    HB2349 - Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.
    HB2350 - Providing that no juvenile less than 18 years of age shall be prosecuted as an adult.
    HB2351 - Amending the uniform arbitration act of 2000 to make certain agreements to appraise or arbitrate in contracts of insurance invalid and creating exceptions therefor.
    HB2352 - Requiring a duly ordained minister of religion to report certain abuse and neglect except when reporting would violate the penitential communication privilege and requiring training for persons obligated to report abuse and neglect.
    HB2353 - Requiring that certain written information be provided to patients when a physician or healthcare provider administers or prescribes any medicine or drug for the purpose of inducing an abortion.
    HB2354 - Providing an exception to the crime of unlawful possession of controlled substances for residents of Kansas who possess marijuana and are disabled veterans with a valid medical marijuana card issued by any state.
    HB2355 - Modifying provisions related to series limited liability companies.
    HB2356 - Amending the uniform nonparent visitation act to modify the evidentiary standard for awarding visitation to a nonparent.
    HB2357 - Providing for sealing and expungement of court records in eviction actions where the underlying rental agreement is governed by the residential landlord and tenant act and requiring mediation in such eviction cases unless the court finds that mediation would not aid the parties materially.
    HB2359 - Enacting the uniform adult guardianship and protective proceedings jurisdiction act and the uniform guardianship, conservatorship and other protective arrangements act.
    HB2371 - Amending the Kansas revised limited liability company act, the business entity transactions act and the business entity standard treatment act.
    HB2460 - Providing an exception to the Kansas Open Records Act that authorizes members of the legislature to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.
    HB2479 - Authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order.
    HB2480 - 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.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2025 Legislative Session
    HCR5008 - Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for legislative oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2026 Legislative Session
    HCR5008 - Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for legislative oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials.
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