Corrections and Juvenile Justice

KS - Representative Jennings (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 Carmichael (D)

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Member

KS - Representative B. (R)

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Member

KS - Representative Jennifer Day (D)

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Member

KS - Representative David French (R)

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Member

KS - Representative Annie Kuether (D)

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Member

KS - Representative Patton (R)

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Member

KS - Representative Samantha M. Poetter (R)

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Member

KS - Representative John Resman (R)

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Member

KS - Representative Eric L. Smith (R)

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Member

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.

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 criminal justice reform commission, limiting the commission's scope of study and adding a public defender.

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 Adding definitions related to defendants who abscond from supervision in the criminal procedure code and for parole.

KS - HB2128 Clarifying jurisdiction and supervision of offenders in a certified drug abuse treatment program and allowing certain nondrug offenders to participate in the 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 Authorizing the supreme court to adopt rules establishing specialty courts, creating the specialty court funding advisory committee and the specialty court resources fund.

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.