Part 3
67. House Bill 2124 – provides cities with the authority to allow the driving of golf carts upon sidewalks and permits local authorities with jurisdiction over city residence dis-tricts to reduce the maximum speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph with-out an engineering and traffic inves-tigation.
68. Senate Bill 408 – excludes a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the defi- nition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas Code for Care of Children, requires the secretary of DCF to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organi- zations and creates a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military per-sonnel to provide families with ser-vices that a military family advocacy program offers. The bill also author-izes a challenge to a voluntary ac-knowledgment or paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifies that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.
69. House Bill 2482 – removes the requirement that the Kansas State Board of Education use a cer-tain exam provider to deliver certain college entrance and career readiness exams and requires the board to pro-vide for such exams using any pro-vider.
70. Substitute for House Bill 2250 – permits the use of expedited part-ner therapy to treat sexually trans-mitted infections, authorizes a li-censed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergen-cy medication kits for pharmaceuti- cal emergencies and allows expired emergency opioid antagonists to be used to treat an opioid overdose. The bill also permits first responders to distribute and administer expired emergency opioid antagonists, per-mits a pharmacist to distribute epi-nephrine delivery systems to a school for use in emergency medica-tion kits, among other provisions.
71. House Bill 2464 – extends the number of years that tax credits may be issued or earned for contributions to graduates of aerospace and avia-tion-related educational programs and employers of program graduates, the tax credits for contributions to the Eisenhower Foundation and Friends of Cedar Crest Association and the sunset for the angel investor tax credit. The bill also provides for a minimum amount of such credits for investments in counties with a population of 50,000 or fewer.
72. House Bill 2497 – prohibits the assessment of a prepayment pen-alty against any party more than six months after the execution of a note evidencing a home loan made pri-marily for personal, family or household purposes secured by a real estate mortgage.
73. House Bill 2590 – enacts the Kansas Community Property Trust Act to authorize the use of commu-nity property trusts during the mar-riage of settlor spouses. The bill also amends the Kansas Uniform Trust Code to allow trustees to reimburse settlors of grantor trusts, authorizes the use of designated representatives for trusts and permit the terms of a governing instrument to expand restrict or eliminate certain general rules applicable to fiduciaries, trusts and trust administration.
74. House Bill 2700 – establishes the Kansas Digital Right-To-Repair Act to provide the right for people who purchase digital electronic equipment to get the legal authoriza- tion and necessary documentation and parts from the original equipment manufacturers to diagnose, maintain and repair such equipment.
75. Senate Substitute for House Bill 2501 – provides for immunity from civil liability to federal fire-arms licensees for returning a firearm to the firearm owner at the termina-tion of a firearm hold agreement. The bill also removes the criminal prohibition against firearm suppres-sors and shotgun barrel length quali-fication requirements and provides enhanced penalties for certain felo-nies committed while using a fire-arm suppressor or short-barreled shotgun.
76. House Bill 2192 – limits or prohibits work release for people convicted of a second or third offense of domestic battery, requires an offender convicted of a first offense to undergo a domestic violence of-fender assessment and excludes cer-tain offenders convicted of a nonper-son felony from participation in certified drug abuse treatment pro-grams. The bill also authorizes community correctional services officers to complete criminal risk-need assessments for divertees who are committed to such programs.
77. Senate Substitute for House Bill 2099 – authorizes the secretary of the Kansas Department of Correc- tions (KDOC) on behalf of the State of Kansas to convey certain real property located in Leavenworth County, Kansas to Leavenworth County.
78. Senate Bill 487 – requires the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) to implement a statewide of-fender registration system for agencies who register offenders under the Offender Registration Act. The bill also provides for a petition to de-termine that an offender is indigent and authorizes a notice to appear to be used for a violation of the act involving a nonpayment of a fee.
79. House Bill 2613 – provides for the Crime Victims Compensa-tion Board to establish fees chargea-ble for conducting examinations of people who may be victims of sexu-al assault. The bill also authorizes the board to adopt rules and regula-tions to administer such fees and to use cash in the Crime Victims Compensation fund for the payment of such fees along with allowing certain exceptions to the confidenti-ality of records and information giv-en to the board.
80. Senate Bill 403 – provides for the Pheasants Forever, Quail Forever and Delata Waterfowl distinctive licenses plates. The bill also restricts the use of material or objects cover- ing a license plate for motor vehicles and modifies the definition of con-viction in the Kansas Uniform Commercial Drivers’ License Act.
81. Senate Bill 353 – designates an official Kansas Railroad Hall of Fame and establishes the Kansas Railroad Hall of Fame selection committee.
82. Senate Bill 321 – designates certain bridges on U.S. Highway 69 and 18th Street Expressway in John-son County as the Representative Robert M Tomlinson Memorial Bridge, a bridge on I-135 in Sedgwick County as the Don Snyder Memorial Bridge and part of I-35 as the Deputy Sam Smith Memorial Highway. The bill also designates a part of U.S. Highway 36 as the Un-dersheriff Brandon Gaede Memorial Highway, part of K-49 Highway as the Private Michael E. Gerber Me-morial Highway and redesignates a part of the 35th Infantry Division Memorial Highway for I-35.
83. Senate Bill 412 – imposes a duty on a conservator to notify certain entities and people of any court order commanding performance or safekeeping of a conservatee’s estate assets.
84. Senate Bill 435 – provides procedures, standards and require-ments for the deposit and invest-ment of public cash, creates the Pub-lic Moneys Fee fund and authorizes the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method, among other provisions.
85. Senate Bill 232 – establishes the Born to Invest Act and requires the Kansas Office of Vital Statistics to provide data to the Kansas State Treasurer’s office for distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.
86. Senate Bill 92 – extends the expiration date for provisions that authorize an electric utility to not offer parallel generation service to certain large load customers and exempts certain large load customers from the determination of the utili-ty’s peak demand.
87. House Bill 2479 – authorizes electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order. The bill modifies the culpable mental state required to commit the crime of breach of privacy and increases the criminal penalties for certain violations of such crime. HB 2479 also modifies the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threat-ened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, among other provisions.
88. Senate Bill 382 – provides for the administration of statewide as-sessment to virtual school students by such students’ virtual schools, adds third parties who contract with school districts to the definition of special teacher and provides for spe-cial education state aid reimburse-ment for certain qualified teachers. The bill also authorizes non-public schools to permit non-accredited private elementary or secondary school students to participate in certain activities and authorizes for-eign exchange students who reside with a host family to enroll in and attend the resident school district of the host family.
89. Senate Bill 380 – requires retail electric suppliers to provide fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory rates and services to entities that provide electric vehicle charging services.
90. House Bill 2462 – requires the secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to adopt rules and regulations that allow for the direct and indirect po-table reuse of treated wastewater, provides additional requirements for applications to the Water Technical Assistance fund and the Water Pro-jects Grant fund along with extend-ing the current expiration date of such funds.
91. Substitute for House Bill 2114 – clarifies which structures shall be considered water obstructions and not a dam, increases application fees for a permit to build, modify or add to a dam. The bill also provides for post-construction permit fees and requires any licensed professional engineer who conducts inspections required by the act to be approved by the chief engineer or a certified intern engineer who is under the supervision of a licensed profession-al engineer.
92. House Bill 2116 – requires that certain contractual provisions be incorporated in all contracts for cer-tain cities and counties, including the provisions of form DA-146a, with some exceptions.
93. House Bill 2509 – allows licensed physical therapists to perform certain capillary blood tests, adds advanced practice registered nurse to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the Healthcare Pro-vider Insurance Availability Act and adds an advanced practice registered nurse position to the Board of Gov-ernors of the Healthcare Stabilization fund. The bill also requires advance practice registered nurses to maintain professional liability insurance as a condition of active licensure.
94. House Bill 2601 – establishes a registry for child abuse and neglect to be maintained by the secretary for DCF and provides for registration and expungement processes that include administrative hearings and opportunities for subsequent ap-peals. The bill also requires reports of abuse or neglect to include infor-mation regarding a custody dispute concerning the child who is the sub-ject of the report and directs the sec-retary to submit a report to the Kan-sas Legislature on such information.
95. House Bill 2413 – enhances the criminal penalty for an offense committed with the intent to com-mit transnational repression, requires the development of transitional re-pression recognition and response training and provides that theft of livestock or implements of husband-ry is a severity level five, non-person felony. The bill provides that the theft of grain or hay is a severity level six, non-person felony. HB 2413 also provides that certain parts of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.
96. House Bill 2534 – requires school districts to provide fentanyl abuse education programs and main-tain a supply of naloxone in all schools. The bill requires the Kansas Department of Education to estab- lish guidelines for active shooter drills conducted by public and ac-credited non-public elementary and secondary schools, among other provisions.
97. House Bill 2518 – enacts the Kansas Transparency in Consumer Legal Funding Act.
98. House Bill 2560 – authorizes the Kansas State Board of Regents to sell and convey certain real property in Manhattan on behalf of Kansas State University. The bill also grants authority to state educational institutions regarding transactions involving contracts, easements and the procurement of goods and ser-vices, among other provisions.
The final installment will be published in tomorrow’s edition