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Kansas Justice & Public Safety Legislation

Track Kansas bills concerning courts, policing, criminal law, corrections, emergencies, and public safety. Review recent actions, sponsors, legislative sessions, and official source records.

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SB 60SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

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.

Latest action: Died in Committee

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SB 82SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax credit for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures, repealing the agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement tax credits and expanding the eligibility for applicable expenses under the child day care services assistance tax credit.

Latest action: Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted

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SB 91SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

Providing for payment of interest in civil actions for wrongful conviction and directing the attorney general to seek damages for the state from any person who knowingly contributed to the wrongful conviction and prosecute ouster and criminal proceedings as warranted.

Latest action: Died in Committee

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HB 2164HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Senate Substitute for HB 2164 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof.

Latest action: Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted

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HB 2250HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Substitute for HB 2250 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat sexually transmitted infections, authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies, allowing expired emergency opioid antagonists to be used to treat an opioid overdose, permitting first responders to distribute and administer expired emergency opioid antagonists, permitting a pharmacist to distribute epinephrine delivery systems to a school for use in emergency medication kits and amending definitions related to medication in schools to allow for use of epinephrine delivery systems.

Latest action: Engrossed on Friday, March 27, 2026

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HB 2329HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria for such centers, prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers, modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements, authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds and transferring moneys from such account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services.

Latest action: Reengrossed on Sunday, March 29, 2026

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HB 2393HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Authorizing the supreme court to impose a charge to fund the costs of non-judicial personnel through June 30, 2030.

Latest action: Approved by Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026

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HB 2413HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Enhancing the criminal penalty for an offense committed with the intent to commit transnational repression, requiring the development of transnational repression recognition and response training, providing that theft of livestock or implements of husbandry is a severity level 5, nonperson felony, providing that the theft of grain or hay is a severity level 6, nonperson felony and providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.

Latest action: Engrossed on Monday, March 30, 2026

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HB 2596HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Permitting the secretary of corrections to enter into certain contracts for the production of manufactured or modular homes for a pilot program at the Hutchinson correctional facility under the prison-made goods act.

Latest action: Reengrossed on Monday, March 30, 2026

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SB 260SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

House Subsitute for SB 260 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Relating to campaign finance; concerning a vacancy in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor; relating to reasons for withdrawal of candidacy from national, state and local offices; relating to the election of the board of directors of certain irrigation districts; specifying when such elections may be conducted by the mail ballot election law; relating to the crime of corrupt political advertising; removing the requirements that treasurers be listed in political advertising attributions; clarifying campaign finance reports regarding vendor information.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026

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SB 356SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

House Substitute for SB 356 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026

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SB 374SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence, setting forth relevant procedures and requiring further consideration of evaluation and treatment during the course of competency proceedings for defendants charged with the most serious offenses.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026

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SB 408SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Excluding a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the definition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas code for care of children, requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers, authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026

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SB 459SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Removing the prisoner review board from the supervision of the secretary of corrections, changing the appointing authority and creating qualifications for the members of the board and requiring parole hearings to be postponed if proper notice of the public comment session is not made to the victim.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026

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SB 487SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to implement a statewide offender registration system for agencies who register offenders under the offender registration act, providing for a petition to determine that an offender is indigent and authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for a violation of the act involving nonpayment of a fee.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026

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SB 84SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for allowing an adult to receive decision-making assistance from one or more other adults, requirements for decision-making agreements and duties related thereto.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026

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HB 2527HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Mar 26, 2026

Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities, prohibiting courts from assigning a defendant to work release if the defendant is required to register as a sex offender for certain crimes and prohibiting the secretary of corrections from granting an inmate leave from confinement except for specified purposes if theinmate is required to register as a sex offender for certain crimes or is serving a sentence for certain crimes that require registration as a sex offender.

Latest action: Substitute motion to not adopt and appoint a conference committee failed

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HB 2183HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Feb 6, 2026

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.

Latest action: Approved by Governor on Thursday, February 5, 2026

Justice & Public Safety Civil Rights

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HB 2062HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 11, 2025

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.

Latest action: Law effective July 1, 2025

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SB 193SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2025

Sub for SB 193 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Exempting law enforcement agencies who do not provide emergency opioid antagonists pursuant to the statewide protocol from the requirement to procure a physician medical director.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025

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