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Topeka asks committee to introduce bill allowing 20-year-olds into police training; committee sends proposal to the floor
Summary
City of Topeka requested introduction of bill 25 RS 0670 to permit 20-year-olds to attend the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center; committee approved introduction and passed the item to the House floor.
Whitney Dammeron, appearing on behalf of the City of Topeka, asked the Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice to introduce 25 RS 0670, a proposal that would allow a person aged 20 and older to enter the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center for training. Dammeron said those students would still have to be 21 before they could be commissioned as law enforcement officers in Kansas.
Representative Carmichael asked why the request came before this committee rather than the Judiciary or Federal and State Affairs committees, which have traditionally handled law-enforcement qualification issues. Dammeron said the City was comfortable going before either committee and would not object to reassignment to Judiciary.
After brief discussion, the committee chair said the item would be forwarded to the full House. No roll-call vote or recorded tally was included in the transcript.
The request was introduced as a committee sponsorship item and, per the transcript, was “passed on to the floor.” The transcript did not record a mover, seconder, or roll-call vote.
