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Senate Standing Committee on Judiciary

Meeting Day: Daily Time: 10:30 am Location: 346-S

Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

Sponsored Bills
SB16 - Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act, criminal street gangs.
SB17 - Amending the crime of unlawful sexual relations.
SB18 - Civil procedure; restraining order.
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SB20 - Amendments to the Kansas offender registration act.
SB39 - Unlawful possession of prescription-only drugs.
SB40 - Amending provisions relating to DNA evidence.
SB41 - Possession of a firearm during a drug distribution, cultivation or manufacture felony.
SB58 - Sentencing for unlawful manufacturing of controlled substances.
SB59 - Attorney general; reward for information.
SB60 - Amending the procedure for open records requests concerning criminal justice information.
SB61 - Human trafficking; crimes of commercial sexual exploitation of a child, selling sexual relations, promoting the sale of sexual relations and buying sexual relations; children in need of care; staff secure facilities.
SB77 - Relating to the state child death review board.
SB80 - Grand juries.
SB81 - Open records; requests for criminal justice information; restriction of certain officials' information from publicly accessible records.
SB88 - Increasing the children's advocacy center assessment fee.
SB89 - Interest on judgments in civil actions.
SB90 - Amending private remedies under the Kansas consumer protection act.
SB123 - Amending the Kansas restraint of trade act.
SB124 - Amending the Kansas restraint of trade act.
SB125 - Enforcement of support orders; income withholding.
SB126 - Abolishing the death penalty; creating the crime of aggravated murder.
SB140 - Immigration; enforcement of federal immigration laws; determination of citizenship; cooperative agreements; validity of certain contracts; eligibility for certain public benefits; effect of immigration status on criminal appearance bonds.
SB157 - Personal and family protection act; retired law enforcement officers.
SB158 - Open records act; disclosure of names of concealed carry licensees prohibited.
SB159 - Relating to reporting abuse, neglect or exploitation of certain persons.
SB255 - Special sentencing rule for attempt to commit capital murder.
SB256 - Amending the crime of mistreatment of a dependent adult; creating the crime of mistreatment of an elder person; amending the crime of unlawful sexual relations; amending provisions relating to appearance bonds and surety regulation; amending violations of the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act; also concerning the attorney general, costs in criminal appeals.
SB257 - Appellate rules for death penalty cases and rules for motions attacking sentences.
SB258 - Relating to issuance of certificates of birth resulting in stillbirth.
SB259 - State child death review board.
SB260 - Vehicle liens; centralized filing.
SB261 - Uniform trust code changes concerning an anti-lapse statute and creditor claims against settlors.
SB269 - Rules of evidence; clarifying application of timely objection rule.
SB270 - Criminal procedure; mental status defenses; notice and procedure.
SB271 - Amending the Kansas medicaid fraud control act.
SB287 - District magistrate judges; jurisdiction; cases on the record; appeals.
SB288 - Relating to restitution or collection of debts owed to the courts.
SB289 - Time limits for decisions by courts.
SB290 - Use of video conferencing for arraignment hearings in criminal cases.
SB310 - Grand juries; crimes to consider; amendment of indictment.
SB311 - Increasing the noneconomic damages cap, changing rules related to expert evidence and repealing statutes pertaining to collateral source benefits.
SB312 - Criminal procedure; speedy trial; mandatory stay of mandate for certain appeals.
SB313 - Increasing various docket fees and creating new docket fees.
SB329 - Clarifying court orders relating to parents in juvenile offender cases and changing the statute of limitations on certain juvenile offenses.
SB330 - Requiring certain inmates to be confined in administrative segregation and separated from other inmates.
SB334 - Relating to battery; interference with law enforcement.
SB348 - Qualifications for office of sheriff.
SB354 - Mistreatment of an elder person or dependent adult.
SB355 - Kansas power of attorney act.
SB359 - Relating to asbestos-related liability.
SB377 - Relating to district judge and district magistrate judge vacancies.
SB389 - Domestic case management.
SB394 - Substitute for SB394 by Committee on Judiciary--Enacting the foster parents' bill of rights act.
SB399 - Allocating moneys from driver's license fees to the judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund.
SB400 - Sexually violent predators; reimbursement for costs incurred by counties.
SB401 - Removing affirmative defense to promotion to minors of material harmful to minors for public, private or parochial schools.
SB402 - Amending statutes related to the Kansas criminal justice information system committee.
SB403 - Writ of habeas corpus; abuser of the writ; restrictions on successive petitions.
SB404 - Clarifying the culpability required for violations of the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act.
HB2034 - Senate Substitute for HB 2034 by Committee on Judiciary - Repealing outdated provisions relating to the purchase of certain real estate by the department of corrections.
HB2043 - Senate Substitute for HB 2043 by Committee on Judiciary - Duties, responsibilities and authority of the attorney general.
HB2065 - Senate substitute for HB 2065 by Committee on Judiciary - Relating to district magistrate judges; jurisdiction; appeals.
HB2070 - Time limits for decisions by courts.
HB2093 - Senate Substitute for HB 2093 by Committee on Judiciary - Consumer protection; unconscionable acts; identity theft and fraud.
HB2182 - Senate substitute for HB 2182 by Committee on Judiciary - Legislative review of open records exceptions.
HB2298 - Senate Sub for HB 2298 by Committee on Judiciary - Uniform controlled substances act.
HB2387 - Senate Substitute for HB 2387 by Committee on Judiciary - Sentencing of certain persons to mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 25 years ("hard 25") or 50 years ("hard 50").
HB2389 - Senate Substitute for HB 2389 by Committee on Judiciary - Crimes and criminal procedure; mistreatment of a dependent adult or an elder person; RICO; warrants; discharge of certain persons; appeals.
HB2446 - Senate Substitute for HB 2446 by Committee on Judiciary - Courts; allocating moneys from driver's license fees to judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund; allowing chief justice to authorize expenditures from court trustee operations fund in certain judicial districts; time limits for court decisions.
HB2448 - Senate Substitute for HB 2448 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating provisions relating to the Kansas bureau of investigation's DNA database; amending the crime of interference with judicial process; concerning sentencing dispositions, probation and postrelease supervision; concerning expungement of driving under the influence and criminal refusal convictions; concerning trials, conduct of jury after case is submitted.
HB2588 - Senate Substitute for HB 2588 by Committee on Judiciary - Concerning children and minors; relating to children in need of care; placement in juvenile detention facilities; permanent custodians; relating to juvenile offenders; alternative adjudication; youth residential centers and services; risk assessment; sentencing; good time credits.
HB2655 - Senate Substitute for HB 2655 by Committee on Judiciary - Allowing veterans with PTSD to seek mental health treatment upon certain convictions; also amending the crimes of interference with law enforcement and giving a false alarm.
Sponsored Resolutions - 2013 Legislative Session
SCR1605 - Constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; placing the court of appeals into the constitution; changing the membership of the supreme court nominating commission.
Sponsored Resolutions - 2014 Legislative Session
SCR1605 - Constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; placing the court of appeals into the constitution; changing the membership of the supreme court nominating commission.
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