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KansasHB 23292025–2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria for such centers, prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers, modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements, authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds and transferring moneys from such account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services.
Sponsored By: Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
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senate committee on judiciaryhouse committee on corrections and juvenile justicehouse committee on federal and state affairs
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Easier crisis care access for kids
Juvenile stabilization centers can admit youth under 18 when the center's head finds they need services and would benefit from treatment. Admission no longer requires likely harm to self or others, written mental-health approval, or lack of another suitable treatment. Priority goes to cross-over youth age 10 or older. These are youth involved in both child welfare and juvenile justice, or facing child-welfare involvement partly because of juvenile justice involvement or allegations.
Longer detention limits for juvenile cases
The law raises the total detention limit over a juvenile's case from 45 days to 90 days. The cap does not apply to offenses classified for adults as off-grid felonies or nondrug severity level 1–4 person felonies. For detention under the covered sentencing option, courts must review each commitment every seven days. The overall case-length limit still applies.
More repeat youth offenders face commitment
The law broadens the chronic offender I category. It adds youth whose current offense occurred while on probation or conditional release for a prior felony adjudication. Qualifying chronic offenders assessed as moderate-risk or high-risk can be committed to a juvenile correctional facility. Previously, the risk threshold covered only high-risk offenders.
Tougher custody rules for juvenile offenses
A judge may order 12–24 months in corrections custody when fact-finders determine a youth possessed or used a firearm during a felony-level offense. The prior range was 6–18 months, and the new range applies regardless of assessed risk. Courts must approve a detention-risk assessment override for alleged firearm possession or use during an offense. The same rule covers a second offense within three months that would be an adult misdemeanor or felony. An override under either rule requires placement in juvenile detention.
State pays for youth residential beds
Corrections must contract for 35–45 non-foster-home youth residential beds from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2030. During that period, no facility can have more than 15 contracted beds. Beginning July 1, 2030, Corrections may contract for up to 50 beds. Corrections pays all costs of covered placements. Subject to appropriations, the evidence-based programs account funds bed contracts up to $4.5 million per fiscal year; spending from that account cannot continue after July 1, 2030.
State-paid placements to protect child victims
The law adds aggravated indecent liberties with a child to offenses eligible for short-term alternative placement when the victim is under 14. The victim must live with the youth, and a supervision officer consulting child welfare must find no adequate home safety plan. Relevant child-protection issues also must not permit a child-in-need-of-care case. Placement options include an emergency shelter, therapeutic foster home, or community integration program. The secretary pays all costs of court-ordered placements under this rule and must contract with shelters and therapeutic foster homes.
More crisis referrals and transport help
An officer can take a youth in crisis to a stabilization center without written community mental health center approval. This applies when a standardized assessment rules out detention and the youth cannot be delivered to a parent or custodian. Intake workers can add a center referral to release conditions when release without conditions risks harm and conditional release serves the child's best interest. Workers must give youth who are ineligible for detention, and anyone accompanying them, information about centers and services. At a parent, guardian, custodian, or intake worker's request, police may help with transport needed for safety; this is not arrest, detention, or criminal custody.
Residential placements for more youth offenders
From July 1, 2026, through July 1, 2030, courts using the specified corrections-custody sentencing option must order youth residential placement. Separately, the law favors youth residential placement over a juvenile correctional facility for chronic offenders. This preference also covers serious offender II or III youth ages 10 to under 14. A finding of significant risk of physical harm to another can overcome that preference. Corrections must arrange timely residential placement and pay all associated costs when the preference applies.
School separation rules for youth offenders
Courts generally must bar youth found responsible for listed offenses from attending the victim's school attendance center. Covered offenses include specified sex offenses and related attempts, conspiracies, or solicitations. A different rule applies when the district has only one attendance center both can attend. The court must first hear from the victim, youth, their families, and a school district representative. After that hearing, the court may order the attendance ban.
Broader crisis custody powers for children
The law renames juvenile crisis intervention centers as juvenile stabilization centers. A court can order temporary custody based on probable cause of a behavioral health crisis, without separately finding treatment is needed. Officers can take children into protective custody and deliver them to a stabilization center. Officer or court placement does not require written approval from a community mental health center.
Family crisis support with stay limits
Stabilization centers must provide needed parenting, communication, and case-management help to youth and families. They must allow access to faith-based services, plan for discharge, and connect families with community services. Centers may offer round-the-clock care, continuous short-term stays, or respite care. Stays cannot exceed 30 days per admission or 90 days in any 12-month period. A parent with legal custody or legal guardian can remove the child, subject to a hold of up to 24 hours to start child-protection proceedings or report concerns to child welfare or police.
State money for youth crisis services
Kansas must transfer $4 million for juvenile stabilization services on July 1 of 2026, 2027, and 2028. Each transfer can occur later if money is not yet available. The money moves from the corrections evidence-based programs account to a designated Department for Children and Families fund. These transfers support services, not direct payments to families.
Older youth crisis funding authority ends
The law ends a separate authority for Corrections to fund juvenile crisis intervention services through agreements with other cabinet agencies. That authority allowed up to $2 million each year from the evidence-based programs account or other available appropriations. The repeal does not establish how much money was being used or which services lose funding.
New limits on juvenile placement choices
Courts generally cannot choose a specific placement once a youth enters the corrections secretary's custody. The secretary can choose a state-run institution, youth residential facility, or another appropriate placement, subject to the residential-placement sentencing exception. Courts placing youth with a parent or suitable person cannot use a youth residential facility or another facility licensed under the cited child-care licensing law. They also cannot combine that sentencing option with corrections custody. The law also repeals listed Kansas statutes; the repeal list alone does not explain their separate effects.
Limits on youth crisis center rules
Kansas cannot require stabilization centers to employ physicians, dieticians, clinical directors, psychiatrists, advanced practice nurses, or other medical professionals. State rules cannot ban shared rooms or basement rooms, or require school-district notice or approval before licensing. Rules also cannot impose gender-based staffing requirements or staffing ratios beyond those for youth residential facilities. The Secretary for Children and Families must issue implementing rules by January 1, 2027.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
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Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 30 Nay: 10
Yes: 30 • No: 10
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 29 Nay: 10
Yes: 29 • No: 10
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 106 Nay: 16
Yes: 106 • No: 16
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 89 Nay: 34
Yes: 89 • No: 34
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 89 Nay: 32
Yes: 89 • No: 32
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 27 Nay: 12
Yes: 27 • No: 12
House vote • 4/9/2026
Motion to override veto prevailed
Yes: 89 • No: 34
Senate vote • 4/9/2026
Motion to override veto prevailed
Yes: 29 • No: 10
Senate vote • 3/26/2026
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 27 • No: 12
House vote • 3/26/2026
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 89 • No: 32
Senate vote • 2/18/2026
Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 30 • No: 10
House vote • 3/13/2025
Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 106 • No: 16
Actions Timeline
Reengrossed on Sunday, March 29, 2026
4/9/2026HouseEnrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026
4/9/2026HouseVetoed by Governor; Returned to House on Wednesday, April 8, 2026
4/9/2026HouseMotion to override veto prevailed; Yea 89, Nay 34, Absent 2
4/9/2026HouseMotion to override veto prevailed; Yea 29, Nay 10, Absent 1
4/9/2026SenateConference committee report now available
3/26/2026SenateConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 27, Nay 12, Absent 1
3/26/2026SenateConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 89, Nay 32, Absent 4
3/26/2026HouseConference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson appointed as second conferees
3/25/2026SenateConference committee report now available
3/25/2026SenateConference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Rep. Bob Lewis, Rep. Bradley Barrett and Rep. Tobias Schlingensiepen appointed as second conferees
3/25/2026HouseNonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Bob Lewis, Rep. Cyndi Howerton and Rep. Tobias Schlingensiepen
2/25/2026HouseMotion to accede adopted; Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson appointed as conferees
2/25/2026SenateFinal Action - Passed as amended; Yea 30, Nay 10
2/18/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
2/17/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Joseph Claeys
2/17/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Joseph Claeys was rejected
2/17/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Joseph Claeys
2/17/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Joseph Claeys was adopted
2/17/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended
2/17/2026SenateCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary
2/9/2026SenateHearing continuation: Monday, January 26, 2026, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S
1/26/2026SenateHearing: Thursday, January 22, 2026, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S
1/22/2026SenateEngrossed on Thursday, March 13, 2025
3/17/2025HouseReferred to Senate Committee on Judiciary
3/14/2025Senate
Bill Text
As Amended by House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
As Amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary
As Introduced
Enrolled
{As Amended by House Committee of the Whole}
{As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}
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