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Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

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SB12 - Battery of judges, attorneys, court services officers and mental health employees.
SB13 - Allowing victim notification on status change of person confined.
SB14 - Relating to the criminal justice information system line fund.
SB15 - Creating a dispositive motion fee in civil actions.
SB16 - Attorney fees in certain actions.
SB17 - Judicial council membership.
SB18 - Enacting the police and citizen protection act; relating to use of body cameras by law enforcement officers.
SB19 - Electronic service of order or notice under the Kansas administrative procedure act and the Kansas judicial review act.
SB22 - Substitute for SB 22 by Committee on Judiciary – Public records; audio and video recordings using a body camera or a vehicle camera; legislative review of exceptions to disclosure of public records; open records act definitions of criminal investigation records, public agency and public record; disclosure of charitable gaming licensee information.
SB23 - Authorized restrictions of driving privileges; ignition interlock device.
SB34 - Penalties for voting crimes; prosecution of election crimes.
SB38 - Substitute for SB 38 by Committee on Judiciary - Bad faith assertions of patent infringement.
SB44 - Docket fees; electronic filing and management fund.
SB51 - Relating to court fees and costs; judicial branch surcharge fund; docket fees; electronic filing and management fund..
SB56 - Removing affirmative defense to promotion to minors of material harmful to minors for public, private or parochial schools.
SB57 - Kansas power of attorney act.
SB58 - Kansas judicial review act; venue.
SB59 - Clarifying district magistrate judge jurisdiction.
SB74 - Relating to drivers' license reinstatement fees.
SB104 - Courts; use of two-way electronic audio-visual communication.
SB105 - Enacting updates to the uniform interstate family support act (UIFSA 2008).
SB112 - Relating to citations issued by the department of wildlife, parks and tourism.
SB113 - Relating to licenses, permits, stamps and other issues of the department of wildlife, parks and tourism.
SB114 - Birth certificate amendments; charge for non-judicial personnel.
SB133 - Possession or consumption of alcoholic beverage by minor; immunity from criminal prosecution for minor seeking medical assistance.
SB140 - Relating to the forfeiture of appearance bonds.
SB146 - Racial profiling data collection and reporting requirements.
SB147 - Creating the community defense act; regulation of sexually oriented businesses.
SB148 - The safe families act.
SB149 - Civil commitment of sexually violent predators.
SB157 - Specifying that the child in need of care code does not permit any person to compel a parent to medicate a child if the parent is acting in accordance with medical advice from a physician.
SB158 - Establishing a CARE family program for foster care.
SB159 - Enacting the safe families act; power of attorney for care and custody of a child; also requiring a law enforcement officer to take a child into custody when there is a drug crime occurring in the child's residence and such crime threatens the safety of the child.
SB160 - Requiring action by a court regarding termination of parental rights in a child in need of care case.
SB183 - Collection of debts owed to courts or restitution owed under an order of restitution, use of collection services; judgments for court costs, fees, fines and restitution never become dormant.
SB184 - Civil procedure; judgments for court costs, fees, fines and restitution are never dormant.
SB185 - Sexually violent predators; reimbursement for costs incurred by counties.
SB191 - Increasing the penalty for criminal discharge of a firearm.
SB195 - Child support; reporting of arrearages to consumer credit reporting agencies; distribution of support payments.
SB196 - Relating to peer support counseling sessions.
SB197 - Applying the open meetings act to the supreme court nominating commission and judicial district nominating commissions; requiring attorneys to document eligibility to vote in the commission selection process and applying the open records act to such information; requiring certain applicant information to be made available to the public when appointing court of appeals judges.
SB198 - State directory of new hires; contractors.
SB219 - Relating to the reporting of abuse, neglect or exploitation of certain persons.
SB220 - Increasing the penalty for battery or aggravated battery against a mental health employee.
SB221 - Allowing businesses to pass on credit surcharge to consumers.
SB222 - Creating a hazard; leaving a dangerous weapon in a place accessible to children.
SB229 - Prohibiting certain advertising by an attorney who is not regularly admitted to practice law in Kansas.
SB230 - Increasing the fines for permitting driving in violation of certain restrictions.
SB297 - Grounds for impeachment of Kansas supreme court justices.
SB319 - Civil procedure; enacting the public speech protection act; limiting certain habeas corpus actions; amending definitions in the protection from stalking act; amending article reference for venue under the small claims procedure act.
SB320 - Repealing the nonseverability clause in 2015 House Bill No. 2005 and providing for the severability of the provisions of such bill, concerning the judicial branch.
SB321 - Eliminating conditions upon the protective filing of wills.
SB327 - Allowing hearsay at preliminary hearings.
SB334 - Requiring notice to the attorney general before any Kansas court determines that a statute or constitutional provision is invalid or unconstitutional.
SB360 - Open meetings; justifications for closing meetings.
SB361 - Open records act; definitions, public agency and public record.
SB362 - Adding electronically stored information to the criminal justice information system; amending the rules of civil procedure concerning official records and authentication.
SB377 - Amending grounds for law enforcement officer to request preliminary screening test for drugs or alcohol.
SB378 - Employment discrimination or retaliation protections for victims of domestic violence or sexual assault; complaint procedure; application of Kansas act against discrimination.
SB395 - Limiting length of legislative session to 100 calendar days in odd-numbered years and 60 calendar days in even-numbered years.
SB396 - Kansas zero-based budget law.
SB410 - Establishing a CARE family pilot program for foster care.
SB415 - Legislative review of exceptions to disclosure of public records.
SB424 - Amending consumer protection laws related to identity theft and security of personal identifying information.
SB428 - Substitute for SB 428 by Committee on Judiciary - Relating to eyewitness identification.
SB440 - Substitute for SB 440 by Committee on Judiciary – Supreme court general administrative authority over judicial branch.
SB455 - Amending the Kansas cigarette and tobacco products act.
HB2112 - Senate Substitute for HB 2112 by Committee on Judiciary – Amending the Kansas general corporation code and the business entity standard treatment act.
HB2115 - Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2115 by Committee on Judiciary - Electronic service of order or notice under the Kansas administrative procedure act and the Kansas judicial review act.
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