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.