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Senate Judiciary Committee records multiple bill introductions on warrants, sureties and criminal statutes
Summary
Committee members and outside groups requested introduction of several measures ranging from changes to search-warrant language and judicial release rules to statutes affecting compensated sureties and criminalized conduct; the requests were entered for introduction.
The Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee took formal requests to introduce a series of bills covering warrants, compensated sureties, judicial release and several criminal-law changes.
Committee Chairwoman Warren opened the meeting by asking for bill-introduction requests; Senator Owens and representatives from the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association (KCDAA) then presented a list of measures the committee recorded for introduction.
The measures recorded for introduction included two RS filings presented at the meeting by the Kansas Judicial Council: 25RS0958, described as rejecting the deference doctrine, and 25RS0959, described as reducing the number of resident lawyers. Senator Owens also requested introduction of four RS bills the committee's advisers prepared: 25RS0666 (allowing compensated sureties access to warrants issued in criminal cases), 25RS0436 (creating the term “unsecured judicial release” and disallowing that release for individuals charged with certain crimes), 25RS0544 (criminalizing the use of lasers pointed at law-enforcement aircraft) and 25RS0963 (a trailer bill concerning lending-license requirements for compensated sureties).
Later in the agenda Steve Kearney, representing the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association, presented additional RS filings on behalf of prosecutors. Kearney asked that the committee introduce 25RS0731 (amending search-warrant language to change “any person” to a reference to law-enforcement officers); 25RS0904 (a victim/witness protection measure adding a show-cause notice to avoid arresting witnesses); 25RS0740 (aligning sentencing for surreptitious videoing of children across statutes); 25RS0743 (expanding the hearsay exception currently limited to “physician” to include “health care providers,” with a statutory cross-reference cited in testimony); and 25RS0760 (addressing harboring or obstructing apprehension of persons on probation).
Committee members were told these measures were drafted and ready for formal introduction; the chair recorded that the bills would be introduced and reminded members of the deadline for requesting introductions at the committee’s next opportunity.
Members did not vote on the bills at the hearing; the requests were entered for filing with the committee.
