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IntroducedFeb 04, 2025
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Passed SenateFeb 19, 2025
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Passed HouseMar 20, 2025
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Signed into Law
Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required.
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Senate • Apr 10, 2025: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
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Summary/Bill Text
Comments on SB 186
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Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Judiciarysponsor
- Ed Klumpp on behalf of Kansas Peace Officers Association, Kansas Sheriffs' Association and Kansas Association of Chiefs of PoliceRequester
Votes
YES: 100
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Brownlee
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- B.
- W.
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Minnix
- Moser
- Neelly
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- S.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- A.
- C.
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- L.
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 18
YES: 124
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Brownlee
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B.
- W.
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Miller
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Poetter
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L.
- S.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A.
- C.
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 0
ABSENT: 1
Actions
- Apr 10, 2025 | Senate
- Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Mar 27, 2025 | House
- Conference committee report now available
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 124 Nay: 0
- Mar 24, 2025 | House
- Motion to accede adopted; Representative Humphries, Representative Williams, L. and Representative Osman appointed as conferees
- Mar 24, 2025 | Senate
- Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Senator Warren , Senator Titus and Senator Corson as conferees
- Mar 20, 2025 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 100 Nay: 18
- Mar 19, 2025 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary
- Mar 11, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 3:30 PM Room 582-N
- Feb 20, 2025 | House
- Received and Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Feb 19, 2025 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed
- Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Feb 17, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by
- Withdrawn from Consent Calendar and placed on General Orders
- Feb 12, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 10:30 AM Room 346-S
- Feb 05, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Feb 04, 2025 | Senate
- Introduced
Documents
- As introduced - Supplementary Note
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary Note
- Conference Committee Report Brief - Thu, Mar 27, 2025PDF
- House Committee on Judiciary, Tue, Mar 11, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Judiciary, Tue, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by J. Houston Bales, BIDS Legislative Committee (Neutral Written Only)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Tue, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Sheriff Jeff Easter, KS Sheriffs Assoc/KS Assoc of Chiefs of Police/KS Peace Officers Assoc (Proponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Tue, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Jason Thompson, Office of Revisor of Statutes (Bill Brief)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by Jeff Easter, Sheriff, Sedgwick Co, behalf of Ks Sheriffs Assoc; Ks Assoc of Chiefs of Police (SB186 proponent in person)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by James Houston Bales, BIDS Legislative Committee, Ks State Board of Indigents; Defense Services (SB186 neutral written)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by Natalie Scott, Revisor's Office, State of Kansas (SB186 Bill Brief)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by Todd Thompson, County Attorney on behalf of, Kansas County District Attorney Association (SB138 proponent in person)
- Conference Committee Report
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary