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Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

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SB40 - House Substitute for SB 40 by Committee on Judiciary - Amending human trafficking and related crimes; creating certain new crimes; requiring training for commercial driver's license applicants; addressing offender registration, expungement of juvenile adjudications and victim compensation.
SB101 - House Substitute for SB 101 by Committee on Judiciary - Amending the protection from abuse act and protection from stalking act to establish the protection from stalking and sexual assault act; providing exceptions to the parental notification requirement when a sexual assault evidence collection examination of a minor has taken place; authorizing certain claims for compensation through the crime victims compensation board.
SB120 - Updating the code of civil procedure.
SB179 - House Substitute for SB 179 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating juvenile crisis intervention centers, amending the revised Kansas code for care of children and the newborn infant protection act and amending certain powers and duties of the secretary for children and families.
SB336 - House Substitute for SB 336 by Committee on Judiciary - Extending open records exceptions and requiring release of certain records by the secretary for children and families, regulating access to certain law enforcement audio and video recordings and requiring redactions of social security numbers in documents available for public inspection and copying.
SB374 - House Substitute for SB 374 by Committee on Judiciary - Amendments related to driving under the influence, including testing, administrative penalties and criminal penalties.
HB2033 - Authorizing certain claims for compensation through the crime victims compensation board.
HB2034 - Amending the crime of aggravated battery, concerning strangulation.
HB2035 - Clarifying the subject matter of criminal post-trial motions for correction of sentence.
HB2040 - Citations for overtaking and passing of school buses captured on camera.
HB2041 - Extending the judicial branch surcharge fund; requiring responsible party payment of court debt collection services; drivers’ license reinstatement fees and the judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund.
HB2053 - Requiring defendants to pay for the cost of collection in domestic cases.
HB2054 - Allowing agents and contractors of public officials to access records from the department of labor.
HB2069 - Providing for law enforcement agencies to request and receive certain prior employment records concerning applicants; addressing requests by the department of corrections for law enforcement assistance from jurisdictions outside the state; amending the definition of “conviction” for applicant qualification under the Kansas law enforcement training act.
HB2070 - Creating an exemption to the Kansas open records act for the central registry of Kansas police and law enforcement officers.
HB2071 - Sentencing for domestic battery; also relating to custody and disposition of cruelly treated animals.
HB2077 - Limiting civil liability for certain persons performing inspection, installation or adjustment of a child safety seat or providing education regarding the installation or adjustment of a child safety seat.
HB2101 - Abolishing common-law marriage.
HB2125 - Amending the Kansas general corporation code to include public benefit corporations.
HB2126 - Relating to the mediation or arbitration of trust provisions.
HB2127 - Transfer-on-death deeds; lapsing or vesting of ownership in grantee beneficiary.
HB2128 - Open meetings; clarifying justifications for closed or executive meetings; allowing the governor's domestic violence fatality review board to recess for a closed or executive meeting.
HB2153 - Amending the Kansas general corporation code to include public benefit corporations.
HB2176 - Providing exceptions to the parental notification requirement when a sexual assault evidence collection examination of a minor has taken place.
HB2186 - Enacting the uniform arbitration act of 2000.
HB2197 - Creating an exception to the Kansas open records act for juror lists.
HB2198 - Adding domestic battery and stalking to the list of offenses for which the Kansas bureau of investigation may collect biological samples.
HB2214 - Placing restrictions on adult sex offenders who were convicted of a sex offense involving a minor.
HB2215 - Removing opposite sex requirement for unlawful voluntary sexual relations.
HB2216 - Removing sodomy between consenting members of the same sex from criminal sodomy.
HB2234 - Setting a time in which infectious disease testing of certain offenders must take place.
HB2239 - Allowing cities and counties to opt out of the scrap metal theft reduction act.
HB2240 - Enacting the crisis intervention act.
HB2258 - Prohibiting mental examination of victim of sex offense.
HB2259 - Allowing hearsay at preliminary hearings.
HB2260 - Allowing probation revocation without graduated sanctions for persons on probation due to downward departure.
HB2301 - Kansas open records act exceptions for jury lists; legislative review of exceptions to disclosure of public records; closed or executive meetings.
HB2302 - Relating to the custody and disposition of cruelly treated animals.
HB2306 - Amending provisions concerning annual examinations, transitional release and conditional release of sexually violent predators.
HB2320 - Clarifying who receives notice of request for disclosure of warrants.
HB2321 - Amending citizen grand jury petition sufficiency and right to appeal.
HB2335 - Removing limitation on punitive damages and sending a portion of award to the state general fund.
HB2336 - Application of collateral source payments.
HB2337 - Amending the Kansas false claims act, concerning medicaid-related fraud and abuse.
HB2350 - Clarifying method for calculating the spousal elective share.
HB2457 - Enacting the asbestos trust claims transparency act.
HB2458 - Creating the crime of counterfeiting currency; including federal law enforcement officers in assault and battery against a law enforcement officer; adding violations of mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder person, changing the felony loss thresholds and adding the crime to the inherently dangerous felonies list; making the criminal penalty for possession of THC equal to the criminal penalty of possession of marijuana; amending the definition of escape in crimes of escape and aggravated escape from custody; allowing use of certified drug abuse treatment program for certain drug severity level 4 crimes.
HB2459 - Amending the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act and establishing the Kansas asset seizure and forfeiture repository.
HB2474 - Removing the requirement for district courts to mail marriage certificate information to the secretary of health and environment.
HB2479 - Allowing criminal cases to be stayed during state appeal of writ of habeas corpus relief; creating procedures and limitations concerning contact with jurors following a criminal jury trial; clarifying methods of recording grand jury proceedings.
HB2480 - Changing the definition of "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" in the Kansas law enforcement training act.
HB2481 - Creating the adoption protection act and updating the Kansas adoption and relinquishment act.
HB2497 - Granting immunity from civil liability to the person who files a grand jury petition.
HB2522 - Repealing the self-defense immunity.
HB2523 - Amending qualifications for the office of sheriff and changing the definition of "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" in the Kansas law enforcement training act and adding relations between law enforcement officers and certain persons interacting with law enforcement in the crime of unlawful sexual relations.
HB2524 - Allowing petitions for a protection from abuse order to include a request for transfer of rights to a wireless telephone number.
HB2550 - Removing caps on damages in wrongful death actions except those against certain healthcare providers.
HB2579 - Providing compensation for a person who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned and amending the code of civil procedure concerning contact with jurors following a civil jury trial.
HB2580 - Eliminating consumer reporting agencies' authority to charge certain fees related to consumer report security freezes.
HB2588 - Requiring courts to set aside forfeiture of appearance bond when the surety can show the defendant has died or has been expelled from the country.
HB2610 - Amending the residential landlord and tenant act to allow termination of rental agreement due to clear and present danger.
HB2612 - Prohibiting the wearing of hoods or masks to conceal a person's identity.
HB2625 - Establishing confidentiality of records contained in the central registry of all Kansas police officers and law enforcement officers.
HB2630 - Adding protecting children from witnessing abuse to the list of factors the court considers when determining custody, residency or parenting time.
HB2631 - Clarifying when reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation shall be sent to both the department for children and families and the appropriate law enforcement agency.
HB2705 - Clarifying that peer review privilege does not apply to factual information.
HB2706 - Allowing child advocacy centers to conduct sexual assault examinations.
HB2707 - Moving the registration for charitable organizations from the secretary of state to the attorney general.
HB2708 - Providing a procedure for the attorney general to enter into diversion agreements.
HB2709 - Amending penalties for lewd and lascivious behavior.
HB2724 - Making possession of a controlled substance a class A misdemeanor and making associated changes throughout the criminal code.
HB2725 - Clarifying what is considered the unauthorized practice of law in matters before the state board of tax appeals.
HB2728 - Release of information after the fatality of child in need of care caused by abuse or neglect.
HB2734 - Making changes to the Kansas sexually violent predator program.
HB2735 - Exempting juvenile adjudications for certain misdemeanors from the crimes that disqualify child care facilities.
HB2736 - Providing for immunity from criminal protection for possession of controlled substance of drug paraphernalia if seeking assistance with drug overdose.
HB2737 - Mandatory expungement of records following an acquittal at trial.
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