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2021 Law Enforcement Related Bills
• SB3 - Creating a drug abuse treatment program for people on diversion and allowing
county and district attorneys to enter into agreements with chief judges and community
corrections for supervision.
• SB4 - Modifying the criminal penalties for unlawfully tampering with electronic
monitoring equipment.
• SB5 - Aligning the felony loss thresholds for certain property crimes with theft.
• SB6 - Counting any crime with a domestic violence designation as a prior conviction
under domestic battery.
• SB7 - Extending terminal medical release to inmates in the custody of the department of
corrections with a condition likely to cause death within 120 days.
• SB8 - Increasing good time and program credits for certain offenders.
• SB9 - Requiring newly certified law enforcement officers to attend diversity
meetings organized by the Kansas commission on peace officers' standards and
training.
• SB14 - Extending certain provisions of the governmental response to the COVID-19
pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property
and economic security during this public health emergency.
• SB18 - Permitting United States and NATO country military surplus vehicles to register
with the division of vehicles for road use.
• SB25 - Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating in school or road
construction zone or by individuals less than 18 years of age.
• SB36 - Permitting employees of salvage vehicle pools to perform vehicle identification
number inspections and salvage vehicle pools and dealers to apply for ownership
documents for vehicles that are disclaimed by insurance companies.
Week of Jan 18-22
• SB50 - Requiring marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales, use and transient
guest taxes and 911 fees from sales made through their platforms and removing click-
through nexus provisions.
• SB54 - Authorizing judges to extend protection from abuse orders for more reasons and
tolling time when subject of the order is in prison.
• SB56 - Requiring posting of a human trafficking awareness notice approved by the
attorney general in certain businesses and public places.
• SB57 - Suspending statutory speedy trial rights until May 1, 2024, in all criminal cases
filed prior to the effective date of this act and eliminating such rights in any criminal case
filed on or after the effective date of this act.
• SB58 - Prohibiting the filing of certain liens or claims against real or personal
property and providing for criminal penalties.
• SB59 - Modifying the crimes of selling sexual relations, promoting the sale of sexual
relations and buying sexual relations by changing terminology from "sexual relations" to
"a sex act."
• SB60 - Defining proximate result for purposes of determining when a crime is committed
partly within this state.
Week of Jan 25-29
• SB67 - Expanding the definitions of all-terrain vehicles and recreational off-highway
vehicles.
• SB69 - Providing for the love, Chloe foundation distinctive license plate.
• SB73 - Requiring the attorney general to carry out certain duties related to investigating
corruption committed by a public officer or public employee.
• SB79 - Providing the state fire marshal with law enforcement powers and requiring an
investigation of deaths resulting from fire.
• SB83 - Allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review
board documents.
• SB85 - Requiring notification to the governor and the legislature of missing foster care
youth.
• SB86 - Conforming certain KPERS provisions with the federal CARES act.
• SB89 - Exempting the transport of agricultural forage commodities from secured load
requirements.
• SB92 - Creating the Kansas equal access act to authorize the use of medical
marijuana.
• SB100 - Excluding the additional 90-day wait period and providing for the
elimination and delay of payment for certain fees for restricted driving privileges. • SB101 - Approving the operation and use of electric-assisted bicycles and regulating the
use thereof.
• SB102 - Requiring earlier notice of anticipated release from custody of a person who
may be a sexually violent predator to the attorney general and a multidisciplinary
team and specifying where such person will be detained during civil commitment
proceedings.
• SB104 - Requiring a court order be issued directing a child to remain in a present or
future placement for certain children in need of care.
• SB105 - Prohibiting denial of a petition for expungement due to the petitioner's inability
to pay outstanding costs, fees, fines or restitution.
Week of Feb 1-5
• SB113 - Creating the distracted driving violation and prohibiting the use of a wireless
telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle. • SB126 - Authorizing the sale of alcoholic liquor by class A clubs at special events under
the club and drinking establishment act.
• SB127 - Modifying the eligibility requirements for restricted driving privileges,
increasing the age for eligibility to renew drivers' licenses online to 65 and allowing
drivers' license renewal notices to be sent electronically.
• SB131 - Regulating funeral processions and permitting funeral escorts to direct traffic for
funeral processions.
• SB132 - Amending credits to on court-imposed fines for community service to the
statutory minimum wage.
• SB136 - Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
• SB137 - Expanding the military spouse and service member’s expedited licensure law to
all applicants who have established or intend to establish residency in Kansas, providing
for licenses in an emergency declared by the legislature, allowing telemedicine by out-of-
state healthcare providers and permitting the use of electronic credentials.
• SB138 - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health
clinics.
• SB146 - Providing that the highway patrol will provide the administration and oversight
of state certified ignition interlock manufacturers and their service providers.
• SB158 - Prohibiting the towing of vehicles outside the state of Kansas without prior
consent, requiring an interstate search of registered owners and lienholders prior to sale
of nonrepairable vehicles and vehicles less than 10 years old and requiring publication in
the newspaper seven days prior to sale of vehicles and property at auction.
Week of Feb 8-12
• SB161 - Providing for the use of personal package delivery devices on sidewalks and
crosswalks, exempting such devices from motor vehicle regulation and limiting
additional municipal regulation.
• SB167 - Classifying certain public utility motor vehicles as authorized emergency
vehicles without a designation by county commissioners.
• SB172 - Creating the crimes of trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility and
criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility and eliminating the crime of
tampering with a pipeline.
• SB190 - Creating the Kansas protection of firearm rights act to restore the right to
possess a firearm upon expungement of certain convictions.
• SB192 - Requiring relinquishment of firearms pursuant to certain court orders related to
domestic violence.
• SB193 - Expanding the definition of compensable personal injury in workers
compensation law to include mental injuries suffered from physical injury, emotional
shock or after a series of work-related events.
• SB195 - Increasing the penalty for certain violations of criminal discharge of a firearm
when a person was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which
the offender discharged a firearm and when a person less than 14 years of age was
present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender
discharged a firearm.
• SB196 - Requiring courts to order a defendant to pay certain restitution when the
defendant's offense resulted in the incapacitation or death of a victim who has a minor
child or children.
• SB197 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to increase data collection and
reporting on racial profiling and other biased policing.
• SB198 - Amending Kansas open records act provisions regarding access to certain
law enforcement audio and video recordings and enacting the police and citizen
protection act regarding use of body cameras by law enforcement officers.
• SB204 - Prohibiting a court from requiring psychiatric or psychological examinations of
an alleged victim of any crime.
• SB220 - Increasing the penalty for battery committed against a utility worker.
• SB224 - Establishing maximum length for trains to operate in Kansas and providing for
penalties for violations.
• SB225 - Providing affiliation with the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system by
the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism for membership of certain law
enforcement officers and employees.
• SB229 - 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.
• SB230 - Creating the crime of deprivation of rights under color of law and
providing a civil action for victims.
• SB231 - Increasing criminal penalties for hate crimes.
• SB246 - Providing statutory procedures and limitations related to forensic evidence
collection and clarifying liability for unlawful conduct under the Kansas tort claims
act.
• SB247 - Enacting criminal justice reform measures related to hiring, firearms
certification and psychological testing of law enforcement officers
Week of Feb 15-19
• SB254 - Authorizing certain licensees under the Kansas liquor control act and the club
and drinking establishment act to sell and serve cereal malt beverages.
• SB255 - Allowing the director of alcoholic beverage control to suspend or revoke a
license under the Kansas liquor control act or the club and drinking establishment act.
• SB256 - Changing the start time for Sunday sales of alcoholic liquor from 12 noon to 10
a.m. and removing restrictions on sales on certain holidays.
• SB257 - Allowing clubs and drinking establishments to sell beer and cereal malt
beverage for consumption off the licensed premises.
Week of Feb 22-26
• SB264 - Enacting the Kansas fights addiction act to establish a grant program for the
purpose of preventing, reducing, treating and mitigating the effects of substance abuse
and addiction.
• SB265 - Providing a KPERS death and long-term disability employer contribution
moratorium.
• SB266 - Amortizing the state and school KPERS unfunded actuarial liability over a 24-
year period and eliminating certain level-dollar employer contribution payments.
• SB267 - Appropriations for FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024 for various state agencies.
• SB268 - Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2021 through 2032 for
various state agencies and revising the pooled money investment portfolio repayment
schedule.
• SB269 - Prohibiting the sale, slaughter and acquisition of live dangerous regulated
animals, including nonhuman primates and wolves as dangerous regulated animals and
requiring sufficient distance and barriers between dangerous regulated animals and the
public.
• SB270 - Prohibiting the hiring of certain law enforcement officers with history of
serious misconduct allegations and making certain law enforcement disciplinary
records public records.
• SB272 - Requiring sexual assault evidence collection procedures to include a urinalysis
test to determine the presence of controlled substances that may have been used to
commit the alleged sexual assault.
• SB273 - Enacting the governmental response to certain emergencies by amending
the Kansas emergency management act, providing procedures for declaration and
extension of state of disaster emergencies, limiting powers granted to the governor
during a state of disaster emergency, defining public health disasters and
establishing special provisions therefor, creating the joint committee on emergency
management and prescribing powers, duties and functions of the secretary of health
and environment, city and county government and the board of education of each
school district to control the spread of disease and establishing judicial review
thereof.
Week of Mar 1-5
• SB284 - Amending the Kansas emergency management act to authorize a state of disaster
emergency to continue for no longer than 21 days unless ratified by concurrent resolution
of the legislature and provide for extensions for specified periods not to exceed 30 days
each.
• SB285 - Providing for the alpha kappa alpha distinctive license plate.
• SB287 - Enacting the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act and enacting the Kansas
innovative solutions for affordable healthcare act to expand medical assistance eligibility. NOTE: This is the Governor’s combination Medical Marijuana/Medicaid Expansion Bill
Week of Mar 8-12
• SB289 - Enacting the frontline service pay act to provide additional compensation to
Kansas employees at high risk of exposure to COVID-19 and who are engaged in
essential work for the state of Kansas.
• SB294 - Creating the Roy'Ale Spencer firearms safety act to require firearms to be safely
secured and establishing criminal penalties for violations of the act.
Week of Mar 15-19
• SB298 - Updates to the controlled substances act.
• SB300 - Amending the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act to add a
person who has engaged in identity theft or identity fraud to the definition of "covered
person" and add identity theft and identity fraud to the definition of "racketeering
activity."
Week of Mar 22-26
• SB305 - Requiring each law enforcement agency that utilizes automated license plate
recognition systems to adopt and maintain a detailed, written policy relating to the use
and operation of such systems and prescribing restrictions and requirements relating to
the collection, storage and sharing of captured license plate data.
Week of March 29-April 2
No new law enforcement related bills.
Week of April 5-9
No new law enforcement related bills.
Week of May 3-7
• SB314 - Reconciling conflicting amendments to certain statutes.
• SB315 - Creating the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act to regulate the production,
distribution, sale and possession of medical marijuana.
HOUSE BILLS
• HB2001 - Creating the crime of sexual extortion and requiring an offender to register
under the Kansas offender registration act.
• HB2007 - Updating motor carrier laws and the regulation of motor carriers by the state
corporation commission.
• HB2008 - Providing for the attorney general to coordinate training for law
enforcement agencies on missing and murdered indigenous people.
• HB2009 - Removing sodomy between consenting members of the same sex from
criminal sodomy.
• HB2010 - Creating a traffic infraction for operating a vehicle while fatigued.
• HB2014 - Permitting military surplus vehicles to register with the division of vehicles for
road use.
• HB2015 - Providing distinctive license plates for current and veteran members of the
United States army, navy, marine corps, air force and coast guard.
• HB2016 - Replacing the workers compensation prevailing factor standard with a
substantial factor standard.
• HB2017 - Amending the disallowance of workers compensation benefits for fighting or
horseplay if not work-related.
• HB2025 - Protecting private property from unauthorized access by certain
government officials and unauthorized surveillance.
• HB2026 - Creating a drug abuse treatment program for people on diversion and allowing
county and district attorneys to enter into agreements with chief judges and community
corrections for supervision.
• HB2027 - Modifying the criminal penalties for unlawfully tampering with electronic
monitoring equipment.
• HB2028 - Aligning the felony loss thresholds for certain property crimes with theft.
• HB2029 - Counting any crime with a domestic violence designation as a prior conviction
under domestic battery.
• HB2030 - Extending terminal medical release to inmates in the custody of the department
of corrections with a condition likely to cause death within 120 days.
• HB2031 - Increasing good time and program credits for certain offenders.
• HB2032 - Making the use of artificial light for the purpose of spotting, locating, or taking
wildlife unlawful.
• HB2040 - Changing the workers compensation law presumption of disqualifying drug
impairment on the basis of certain drug concentration test levels from conclusive to
rebuttable and removing the presumption with respect to marijuana.
• HB2041 - Providing that workers compensation benefits for workers who are receiving
social security or retirement benefits at the time of an accident are not reduced due to the
receipt of the social security or retirement benefits.
• HB2048 - Extending certain provisions of the governmental response to the COVID-19
pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and
economic security during this public health emergency.
• HB2049 - Prohibiting a public agency from charging a fee under the open records act for
records requested for an audit by the legislative division of post audit.
• HB2056 - Regulating the sale and distribution of kratom products as a part of and
supplemental to the Kansas food, drug and cosmetic act.
• HB2057 - Allowing an alcoholic liquor manufacturer to obtain a drinking establishment
license under certain conditions.
• HB2058 - Allowing reciprocity to recognize out-of-state licenses to carry a concealed
handgun.
• HB2059 - Providing reciprocity for licenses to carry concealed handguns and creating
two classes of concealed carry licenses.
• HB2061 - Increasing the minimum age to purchase or possess cigarettes and tobacco
products from 18 to 21, and prohibiting cigarette vending machines and flavored vaping
products.
• HB2062 - Providing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review
board documents.
• HB2063 - Providing certain KP&F tier II spousal and children's benefits for death
resulting from a service-connected disability.
• HB2064 - Making DROP elections revocable and allowing DROP members who first
elected a DROP period of less than five years to extend such DROP period.
• HB2066 - Expanding the military spouse and servicemember's expedited licensure law to
all applicants who have established or intend to establish residency in Kansas, providing
for the practice of telemedicine by out-of-state physicians, permitting the issuance of
temporary licenses in emergencies and the use of electronic credentials.
• HB2071 - Increasing the criminal penalties for stalking a minor.
• HB2076 - Clarifying that bond agents seeking discharge as a surety are required to
return the person released on bond to the court in the county where the complaint
subject to the bond was filed.
• HB2077 - Extending the Kansas criminal justice reform commission, limiting the
commission's scope of study and adding a public defender.
Week of Jan 18-22
• HB2078 - Suspending statutory speedy trial rights until May 1, 2024, in all criminal cases
filed prior to the effective date of this act and eliminating such rights in any criminal case
filed on or after the effective date of this act.
• HB2081 - Modifying how certain prior convictions are counted for the special sentencing
rule related to possession of a controlled substance and providing concurrent or
consecutive sentencing for persons convicted of new crimes while on release for a felony.
• HB2082 - Authorizing the crime victims compensation board to waive application time
restrictions for a victim of a sexually violent crime to receive compensation for mental
health counseling and adding certain children to the definition of victim.
• HB2084 - Allowing earned discharge credit for offenders on probation and limiting the
maximum term of supervision on probation.
• HB2088 - Requiring visual observation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect
as part of an investigation.
• HB2089 - Authorizing the attorney general to issue an alternative license to carry a
concealed handgun to qualified applicants during a declared state of disaster emergency.
• HB2092 - Removing drug offenders from the registration requirements of the
Kansas offender registration act and removing the felony penalty for multiple
nonpayments of fees under the act.
• HB2093 - Increasing criminal penalties for fleeing or attempting to elude a police
officer when operating a stolen vehicle and making fleeing or attempting to elude a
police officer evidence of intent to commit theft of a vehicle.
• HB2094 - Creating the wartime veteran and first responder survivors' grant program and
fund.
• HB2095 - Allowing courts to prohibit possession of a firearm in a temporary
custody order pursuant to the care and treatment act for mentally ill persons.
• HB2096 - Authorizing department of corrections employees, local correctional or
detention officers, judicial branch employees, municipal court employees and
administrative hearing officers to have identifying information restricted from
public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.
• HB2107 - Regulating funeral processions and creating a violation for not properly
yielding to funeral processions.
• HB2111 - Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security
officers of the department of corrections. • HB2115 - Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.
• HB2120 - Removing the spousal exception from the crime of sexual battery.
• HB2121 - Adding definitions related to defendants who abscond from supervision in the
criminal procedure code and for parole.
Week of January 25-29
• HB2128 - Clarifying jurisdiction and supervision of offenders in a certified drug abuse
treatment program and allowing certain nondrug offenders to participate in the program.
• HB2133 - Requiring a law enforcement officer executing a search warrant at
residential premises to be uniformed and to knock and announce themselves before
entering the property.
• HB2137 - Authorizing certain licensees under the Kansas liquor control act and the club
and drinking establishment act to sell and serve cereal malt beverages.
• HB2138 - Club and drinking establishment liquor license eligibility; spouse is a law
enforcement officer in another county.
• HB2139 - Reducing the criminal penalties for most severity level 5 drug crimes and
increasing the penalties for offenders in criminal history category 5-I.
• HB2140 - Prohibiting the carrying of a concealed handgun in the state capitol.
• HB2146 - Expanding the number of presumptive probation and border grid blocks
in the sentencing grid for drug crimes.
• HB2147 - Allowing early discharge from prison for certain drug offenders.
• HB2149 - Permitting the secretary for children and families to permit individuals in
certain circumstances who have been convicted of certain crimes to reside, work or
regularly volunteer at child care facilities licensed by the secretary.
• HB2150 - Creating a definition of financial exploitation, requiring additional mandatory
reporters and increasing investigation days in the abuse, neglect and financial exploitation
of certain adults.
• HB2151 - Creating Kansas elder and dependent adult abuse multidisciplinary teams and a
coordinator.
• HB2153 - Increasing the criminal penalty for mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder
person when the victim is a reside of an adult care home.
• HB2154 - Authorizing the department of education to contract with a private vendor to
install and operate school bus cameras.
• HB2164 - Requiring drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles
displaying hazard warning lights and providing a penalty for violation.
• HB2165 - Providing for all vehicles more than 35 years old to qualify as an antique
vehicle.
• HB2166 - Providing for the Braden's Hope distinctive license plates and changing the
requirements to begin production on distinctive license plates.
• HB2167 - Permitting concrete mixer trucks and requiring dump trucks to display license
plates on the front of vehicles.
• HB2168 - Decreasing the plate commitment and cost requirement for new distinctive
license plate production.
• HB2169 - Providing for the proud educator license distinctive license plate and
decreasing the plate commitment prior to production.
Week of Feb 1-5
• HB2184 - Creating the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act. (House Fed and
State Version)
• HB2190 - Clarifying successive motions, new evidence and time limitations for habeas
corpus claims.
• HB2191 - Increasing criminal penalties for the crimes of riot and incitement to riot when
the crime occurs in a correctional facility.
• HB2192 - Authorizing court services officers and community corrections officers to
provide a certification of identification to offenders for use to obtain a new driver's
license.
• HB2193 - Prohibiting an application fee for drivers' license reinstatements, removing
additional suspension period when convicted of driving while suspended and limiting
reinstatement fee to one per case.
• HB2194 - Providing for the alpha kappa alpha distinctive license plate.
• HB2198 - Permitting local eligible employers to affiliate with KP&F with regard to
coverage of certain local corrections employees.
• HB2200 - Allowing evidence-based program account money to be used on certain
children, requiring the department of corrections to build data systems and allowing for
overall case length limit extensions for certain juvenile offenders.
• HB2211 - Requiring law enforcement officers to impound the vehicles of individuals
unable to provide proof of financial security under certain circumstances.
• HB2212 - Eliminating Kansas residency requirements for various liquor licenses.
• HB2216 - Establishing maximum towing rates and standard procedures for wrecker and
towing services.
• HB2217 - Excluding the additional 90-day wait period and providing for the elimination
and delay of payment for certain fees for restricted driving privileges.
• HB2222 - Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to establish a Kansas voluntary
do-not-sell firearms list to prevent the purchase of firearms by any person who
voluntarily registers to be placed on the list.
• HB2223 - Amending the crimes of criminal sodomy and sexual battery to make certain
conduct unlawful when the victim's consent was obtained through a knowing
misrepresentation.
• HB2224 - Expanding the definition of "infectious disease" in certain statutes related
to crimes in which bodily fluids may have been transmitted from one person to
another.
• HB2226 - Requiring certain criminal convictions to be expunged from an offender's
record automatically.
• HB2227 - Allowing the chief justice to suspend certain time limitations during a state of
local disaster emergency, allowing suspension of verification requirements, allowing use
of electronic audio-visual communication to expeditiously resolve cases, and extending
the chief justice's authority to suspend time limitations until June 1, 2022.
• HB2228 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy regarding
submission of sexual assault evidence kits and allowing evidence collection at child
advocacy centers or other facilities.
• HB2229 - Increasing the criminal penalties for multiple thefts of mail.
• HB2231 - Amending the definition of the crime of conducting a pyramid promotional
scheme, providing for an exemption and defining key terms.
• HB2244 - Establishing requirements for the effective disposal of industrial hemp and
requiring industrial hemp processors to register with the state fire marshal.
• HB2245 - Permitting the division of vehicles to collect emergency contact information
for registration purposes and permitting law enforcement agencies to use such
information in the case of an emergency.
• HB2251 - Requiring relinquishment of firearms pursuant to certain court orders related to
domestic violence.
Week of Feb 8-12
• HB2255 - Enacting the sexual assault survivor information act to require certain entities
to provide information to sexual assault survivors.
• HB2263 - Approving the operation and use of electric-assisted bicycles and regulating
the use thereof.
• HB2271 - Permitting the court to exercise jurisdiction over children in need of care and
adult children in need of care to extend or re-enter custody of the secretary for children
and families until 21 years of age.
• HB2274 - Increasing the criminal penalty for buying sexual relations and removing
provisions related to how prior convictions are counted.
• HB2276 - Removing opposite sex requirement for unlawful voluntary sexual relations.
• HB2277 - Clarifying the definition of possession in the Kansas criminal code.
• HB2279 - Enacting the physical therapy licensure compact and authorizing criminal
history record checks.
• HB2281 - Establishing and implementing 988 as the suicide prevention and mental
health crisis hotline in Kansas.
• HB2288 - Decriminalizing the possession of drugs, reducing the criminal penalty for
distributing or manufacturing drugs, referring those found in possession of a controlled
substance to drug abuse treatment and creating the crime of failure to comply with drug
abuse treatment.
• HB2289 - Authorizing the issuance of $1,000,000,000 of pension obligation bonds to
finance a portion of the unfunded actuarial liability of KPERS and utilizing the net
investment returns on such bonds to provide annual retirant dividend payments to certain
retirants.
• HB2294 - Requiring any individual or agency selling an abandoned or towed vehicle to
acquire a certificate of title from the division of vehicles before the sale.
• HB2298 - Changing requirements for service of process on nonresident drivers and
clarifying service of process on certain business entities.
• HB2299 - Allowing a search warrant to be executed within 10 days from the date of
issuance.
• HB2300 - Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
• HB2307 - Expanding the definition of compensable personal injury in workers
compensation law to include mental injuries suffered from physical injury, emotional
shock or after a series of work-related events.
• HB2311 - Extending workers compensation permanent disability benefits for the lifetime
of the injured worker.
• HB2312 - Permitting injured workers to choose a healthcare provider for care under
workers compensation law.
• HB2318 - Providing for early discharge for certain offenders on lifetime postrelease
supervision and changing the definition of a persistent sex offender.
• HB2337 - Creating a misdemeanor for causing an injury to a vulnerable road user.
• HB2340 - Increasing the minimum age to 21 to purchase or possess cigarettes and
tobacco products.
• HB2344 - Requiring Riley county to elect a county sheriff beginning in the 2022 election
cycle and abolishing the Rile county law enforcement agency.
• HB2347 - Making changes related to sex offenses including creating the crime of rape
during a treatment session, lowering the criminal penalty for attempt, conspiracy and
solicitation of certain sex offenses and changing the elements of, reducing criminal
penalties and removing registration requirements for unlawful voluntary sexual relations.
• HB2348 - Modifying automobile insurance policy uninsured and underinsured motorist
coverage liability limitations for bodily injury or death.
• HB2349 - Creating a mechanism to seek relief from the Kansas offender registration
act requirements, decreasing criminal penalties for failure to register, allowing
courts to waive fees associated with registration, reducing number of places a
person is required to register and eliminating registration for most juvenile
adjudications.
• HB2350 - Expanding the number of presumptive probation and border grid blocks in the
sentencing grid for nondrug crimes.
• HB2360 - Removing recklessly causing fear or evacuation, lock down or disruption in
regular, ongoing activities from the crime of criminal threat.
• HB2361 - Authorizing the supreme court to adopt rules establishing specialty courts,
creating the specialty court funding advisory committee and the specialty court resources
fund.
• HB2362 - Modifying the elements of and making changes to the criminal penalties of
abuse of a child.
• HB2364 - Defining torturing for the purposes of the crime of cruelty to animals.
• HB2365 - Providing immunity from criminal prosecution for possession of
controlled substances or drug paraphernalia if seeking assistance related to
substance use.
• HB2366 - Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a
jailhouse witness and to forward information to the Kansas bureau of investigation.
• HB2369 - Extending the Kansas closed case task force and providing for staff assistance.
• HB2370 - Prohibiting a criminal conviction from acting as a sole disqualification for
occupational licensure and creating guidelines to follow when considering criminal
convictions of an applicant for occupational licensure.
• HB2375 - Adding items to the definitions of a knife and weapon for purposes of the
crime of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
• HB2376 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy relating to making
arrests for violation of a protective order and procedures for separating suspects
from the scene for a period of time.
• HB2377 - Revising the laws concerning driving under the influence, including
authorizing reinstatement of a driver's license for certain persons with an ignition
interlock device restriction, requiring persons with an ignition interlock device restriction
to complete the ignition interlock device program before driving privileges are fully
reinstated, providing for reduced ignition interlock device program costs for certain
persons and modifying the criminal penalties for driving a commercial motor vehicle
under the influence and driving under the influence.
• HB2387 - Revising laws relating to operating an aircraft under the influence, including
prescribing criminal and administrative penalties and providing for testing of blood,
breath, urine or other bodily substances, and preliminary screening tests of breath or oral
fluid.
• HB2389 - Authorizing a notice to appear for unlawful possession of marijuana and
defining complaint in the Kansas code of criminal procedure to include such notice
to appear. • HB2390 - Making permanent certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the
open records act.
Week of Feb 15-19
• HB2393 - Providing workers compensation benefits for first responders suffering from
post-traumatic stress disorder.
• HB2397 - Appropriations for FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024 for various state agencies.
• HB2399 - Amortizing the state and school KPERS unfunded actuarial liability over a 24-
year period and eliminating certain level-dollar employer contribution payments.
• HB2400 - Enacting the massage therapist licensure act, to provide for regulation and
licensing of massage therapists.
• HB2403 - Establishing the community defense act to regulate sexually oriented
businesses and impose criminal penalties for violations.
• HB2404 - Providing a KPERS death and long-term disability employer contribution
moratorium.
• HB2405 - Authorizing the issuance of $1,000,000,000 of pension obligation bonds to
finance a portion of the unfunded actuarial liability of KPERS.
Week of Feb 22-26
• HB2406 - Sunday start time for the sale of liquor in retail liquor stores changed from 12
noon to 9 a.m.
• HB2407 - Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to adopt a policy on sexual
assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
• HB2409 - Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions
from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.
• HB2410 - Creating the gun violence restraining order act authorizing the issuance of
court orders prohibiting the purchase or possession of firearms by a person.
• HB2412 - Enacting the Kansas fights addiction act to establish a grant program for the
purpose of preventing, reducing, treating and mitigating the effects of substance abuse
and addiction. • HB2415 - Providing the state fire marshal with law enforcement powers and requiring an
investigation of deaths resulting from fire.
• HB2416 - Modifying the procedure for declaring and extending a state of disaster
emergency, limiting powers granted to the governor during a state of disaster emergency,
authorizing the legislative coordinating council and the legislature to take certain action
related to a state of disaster emergency and prohibiting the governor or the state board of
education from closing private schools during a state of disaster emergency.
• HB2417 - Allowing clubs and drinking establishments to sell beer and cereal malt beverage for
consumption off the licensed premises.
Week of Mar 1-5
• HB2427 - Requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crime of
breach of privacy.
Week of Mar 8-12
• HB2430 - Creating the Kansas cannabis legalization act to authorize the cultivation,
manufacture, sale, possession and use of cannabis and cannabis products.
Week of Mar 15-19
• HB2433 - Protecting consumers and preventing online retail crime by requiring online
marketplaces to verify and authenticate the identity of third parties who sell products on
their platforms.
• HB2435 - Defining emergency responders to include public safety
telecommunicators.
• HB2436 - Enacting the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act and enacting the
Kansas innovative solutions for affordable healthcare act to expand medical
assistance eligibility.
• HB2439 - Creating the crime of unauthorized disclosure of a child's sexual orientation or
gender identity.
Week of Mar 22-26
• HB2448 - Permitting the secretary for children and families to license certain family
foster homes where a former foster care youth with juvenile adjudications resides.
Week of March 29-April 2
• HB2453 - Authorizing the sale and delivery of cereal malt beverages and beer containing
not more than 6% alcohol by volume to patrons under the Kansas cereal malt beverage
act.
Week of April 5-9
No new law enforcement related bills.
Week of May 3-7
• HB2454 - Creating additional violations of criminal discharge of a firearm for discharges
that are near a school or projectiles that leave the property from which they are
discharged.