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Minutes for HB2467 - Committee on Judiciary
Short Title
Removing the spousal exception from sexual battery.
Minutes Content for Tue, Feb 18, 2020
Jason Thompson gave a briefing of HB2467 explaining that it removes the spousal exception from sexual battery and requires a domestic violence offender assessment on a first conviction of domestic battery. The vote in the House on this bill was 105-15. (Attachment 1)
The Division of the Budget supplied the fiscal note. (Attachment 2)
The Kansas Sentencing Commission provide the Prison Bed Impact Assessment for the bill. (Attachment 3)
Sara Rust-Martin spoke as a proponent of HB2467 stating that marital rape is illegal in Kansas but Kansas remains one of eight states that continues to allow exceptions for sexually based crimes when the offender is the spouse of the victim. (Attachment 4)
Michelle McCormick spoke as a proponent of HB2467 stating that her agency sees thousands of people who receive violence from domestic partners. Kansas updated its domestic violence law and this piece seems to have fallen through the cracks. It needs to be corrected now. She supports the bill and the amendment. (Attachment 5)
Written proponent testimony was provided by the following people:
- Representative Nick Hoheisel, 97th District (Attachment 6)
- Victoria Pickering, Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (Attachment 7)
There were questions and then the hearing was closed.
