Corrections and Juvenile Justice

KS - Representative Bill Clifford (R)

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Chair

KS - Representative Stephen Owens (R)

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Vice Chair

KS - Representative Dennis "Boog" Highberger (D)

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Ranking Minority Member

KS - Representative John Carmichael (D)

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Member

KS - Representative Blake Carpenter (R)

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Member

KS - Representative Dan Osman (D)

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KS - Representative David French (R)

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KS - Representative Annie Kuether (D)

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KS - Representative Fred Patton (R)

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KS - Representative Samantha Poetter Parshall (R)

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KS - Representative John Resman (R)

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KS - Representative Eric L. Smith (R)

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KS - Representative John Wheeler (R)

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Member

KS - HB2001 Creating the crime of sexual extortion and requiring an offender to register under the Kansas offender registration act.

KS - HB2008 Providing for the attorney general to coordinate training for law enforcement agencies on missing and murdered indigenous people.

KS - HB2009 Removing sodomy between consenting members of the same sex from criminal sodomy.

KS - HB2010 Creating a traffic infraction for operating a vehicle while fatigued.

KS - 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, clarifying jurisdiction and supervision of offenders in a certified drug abuse treatment program, authorizing the Kansas sentencing commission to change risk assessment cut-off levels for participation in the certified drug abuse treatment program, modifying the criminal penalties for tampering with ele...

KS - HB2027 Modifying the criminal penalties for unlawfully tampering with electronic monitoring equipment.

KS - HB2028 Aligning the felony loss thresholds for certain property crimes with theft.

KS - HB2029 Counting any crime with a domestic violence designation as a prior conviction under domestic battery.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2031 Increasing good time and program credits for certain offenders.

KS - HB2077 Extending the Kansas closed case task force, providing for staff assistance and renaming the task force the Alvin Sykes cold case DNA task force, extending the Kansas criminal justice reform commission, limiting the commission's scope of study and adding a public defender, and authorizing the crime victims compensation board to waive application time restrictions for certain victims to receive compensation for mental health counseling and adding certain children to the definition of victim.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2083 Requiring legislative members of the sentencing commission to be members of the senate judiciary and the house corrections and juvenile justice committees.

KS - HB2084 Allowing earned discharge credit for offenders on probation and limiting the maximum term of supervision on probation.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2121 Increasing the criminal penalty for mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder person when the victim is a resident of an adult care home, adding definitions related to defendants who abscond from supervision in the criminal procedure code and for parole and 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, requiring the department of corrections to develop ...

KS - HB2128 Clarifying jurisdiction and supervision of offenders in a certified drug abuse treatment program.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2139 Reducing the criminal penalties for most severity level 5 drug crimes and increasing the penalties for offenders in criminal history category 5-I.

KS - HB2144 Requiring an offender who raises error in such offender's criminal history calculation for the first time on appeal to show prejudicial error.

KS - HB2146 Expanding the number of presumptive probation and border grid blocks in the sentencing grid for drug crimes.

KS - HB2147 Allowing early discharge from prison for certain drug offenders.

KS - HB2190 Clarifying successive motions, new evidence and time limitations for habeas corpus claims.

KS - HB2191 Increasing criminal penalties for the crimes of riot and incitement to riot when the crime occurs in a correctional facility.

KS - 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.

KS - 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.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2211 Requiring law enforcement officers to impound the vehicles of individuals unable to provide proof of financial security under certain circumstances.

KS - HB2215 Allowing persons with felony drug convictions to receive benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2274 Increasing the criminal penalty for buying sexual relations and removing provisions related to how prior convictions are counted.

KS - HB2275 Requiring the department of corrections to develop guidance to be used by parole officers when responding to violations of parole and postrelease supervision and that incentivize compliant behavior.

KS - HB2276 Removing opposite sex requirement for unlawful voluntary sexual relations.

KS - HB2277 Clarifying the definition of possession in the Kansas criminal code.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2300 Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.

KS - HB2318 Providing for early discharge for certain offenders on lifetime postrelease supervision and changing the definition of a persistent sex offender.

KS - HB2346 Allowing release of defendants to a pretrial supervision entity or program and allowing fees associated with supervision to the nonjudicial salary adjustment fund at the discretion of a chief judge.

KS - 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.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2350 Expanding the number of presumptive probation and border grid blocks in the sentencing grid for nondrug crimes.

KS - HB2360 Removing recklessly causing fear or evacuation, lock down or disruption in regular, ongoing activities from the crime of criminal threat.

KS - HB2361 Senate Substitute for HB 2361 by Committee on Judiciary - Removing the requirement that all district court judges in Douglas county serve on the board of trustees of the law library, authorizing the supreme court to adopt rules establishing specialty court programs, creating the specialty court funding advisory committee and the specialty court resources fund, authorizing courts to order defendants to participate in specialty court programs and allowing expungement of certain convictions when...

KS - HB2374 Authorizing the Kansas sentencing commission to change risk assessment cut-off levels for participation in the certified drug abuse treatment program.

KS - HB2401 Authorizing the secretary of corrections to enter agreements for public-private partnerships for projects for new or renovated buildings at correctional institutions for education, skills-building and spiritual needs programs; establishing a nonprofit corporation to receive gifts, donations, grants and other moneys and engage in fundraising projects for funding such projects for education, skills-building and spiritual needs programs.

KS - HB2455 Authorizing prison inmates to earn blood donation credit for early discharge from prison.

KS - HB2465 Reducing the criminal penalties for possessing, cultivating and distributing psilocyn or psilocybin.

KS - HB2471 Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code and authorizing exceptions if the court holds a hearing and makes certain findings on the record.

KS - HB2472 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for the department of corrections; appropriating moneys that had been lapsed in fiscal year 2021 in the evidence-based programs account.

KS - HB2515 Creating a mechanism to seek relief from the Kansas offender registration act requirements for drug offenders and allowing expungement of offenses when such relief is granted.

KS - HB2516 Requiring an offender who raises error in such offender's criminal history calculation for the first time on appeal to show prejudicial error and authorizing the court to correct an illegal sentence while a direct appeal is pending.

KS - HB2517 Transferring the responsibility to certify drug abuse treatment providers that participate in the certified drug abuse treatment program from the department of corrections to the Kansas sentencing commission.

KS - SB366 Creating a mechanism to seek relief from the Kansas offender registration act requirements for drug offenders, allowing expungement of offenses when such relief is granted and requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crimes of breach of privacy, internet trading in child pornography and aggravated internet trading in child pornography.

KS - SB368 Requiring registration as a sex offender for violations of the crime of internet trading in child pornography or aggravated internet trading in child pornography.

KS - SB385 Requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crimes of breach of privacy, internet trading in child pornography and aggravated internet trading in child pornography.

KS - SB408 Increasing the criminal penalties for multiple thefts of mail; specifying that the crime of burglary includes, without authority, entering into or remaining within any locked or secured portion of any dwelling, building or other structure, with intent to commit another crime therein; providing guidance to determine how offenders under the supervision of two or more supervision agencies can have supervision consolidated into one agency; requiring an offender who raises error in such offender's...

KS - HB2580 Authorizing legislators who are law enforcement officers to count legislative service toward continuing law enforcement education or training.

KS - HB2581 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.

KS - HB2607 Clarifying the time limitations for habeas corpus claims, 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.

KS - HB2620 Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a hospital, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof and increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider who is employed by a hospital.

KS - HB2634 Requiring a waiver of extradition proceedings as a condition of bond.

KS - HB2654 Providing guidance to determine how offenders under the supervision of two or more supervision agency can have supervision consolidated into one agency.

KS - HB2655 Requiring the secretary of corrections to establish procedures to provide inmates with an opportunity to take a nationally recognized career readiness assessment.

KS - HB2656 Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies related to motorcycle profiling and requiring law enforcement officers to participate in training related to motorcycle profiling.

KS - HB2657 Enacting the reduce armed violence act to increase the criminal penalties for certain violations of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon that involve firearms.

KS - HB2658 Replacing the list of standard conditions of probation and allowing for special conditions of probation.

KS - HB2673 Expanding the number of presumptive and border grid blocks in the sentencing grid for drug crimes.

KS - HB2674 Requiring a forfeiture of an appearance bond to be set aside in certain circumstances.

KS - HB2692 Requiring certain appointments to the Kansas commission on peace officers' standards and training to be made with preferences to increase diversity on the commission and be made by the Kansas state conference of NAACP branches and increasing the number of people on the commission.

KS - HB2705 Removing the rebuttable presumption of an intent to distribute controlled substances and replacing it with a permissive inference.