All Roll Calls
Yes: 642 • No: 2
KansasHB 24792025–2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Authorizing 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, modifying the culpable mental state required to commit the crime of breach of privacy and increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of such crime, modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, describing who is a person in a position of authority for a school for the crime of unlawful sexual relations and increasing the penalties for the crimes of endangering a child and aggravated endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age.
Sponsored By: Committee on Judiciary
Signed by Governor
senate committee on judiciaryhouse committee on judiciary
Personalized for You
How does this bill affect your finances?
Personalize government policy and PRIA will tell you what this bill means for your household, plus every other piece of legislation we track. PRIA reads each provision against your financial profile to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Domestic violence monitoring adds victim alerts
Kansas judges must consider location monitoring with victim alerts for domestic violence, domestic battery, aggravated domestic battery, stalking, or protective-order charges. Judges weigh safety risks; monitoring with alerts requires the protected person's informed consent, including notice of refusal and termination rights. The protected person gets 48 hours to request areas and distances the defendant must avoid. Alerts notify them when the defendant enters or nears protected locations, and a device alert establishes probable cause for arrest for a protective-order violation. The monitored person pays all monitoring costs.
Blackmail protections cover fake intimate images
Kansas blackmail law covers threats to share illegally obtained private recordings or images showing an identifiable person nude or in sexual activity. The threat must seek something of value or force someone to act against their will. Covered images include material created or changed by artificial intelligence or other digital tools, even without the depicted person's participation. Threats used to force sexual conduct fall outside this blackmail rule; applicable sexual-offense laws govern instead.
Student protections cover more school adults
Kansas expands who counts as a school authority figure under the crime of unlawful sexual relations with a student. It includes nonstudent volunteers age 21 or older, workers assigned to school services, contractors, and contractor employees. The school must give the person authority to interact with students, and the student must attend that school. The rule covers public and private schools serving kindergarten through grade 12.
Child endangerment brings tougher penalties
Kansas sets higher criminal penalties for endangering children under six than for children age 6–17. Ordinary endangerment is a level 9 person felony for children under six, versus a Class A person misdemeanor for older children. Aggravated endangerment is a level 8 person felony for children under six, versus level 9 for older children. When bodily harm occurs, aggravated endangerment rises to level 5 for children under six and level 6 for older children.
Privacy rules change, child penalties rise
Kansas privacy crimes now require intentional, rather than knowing, conduct, including unauthorized recording or viewing of nudity or undergarments without consent where privacy is reasonably expected. Sharing rules cover digitally altered or artificial-intelligence images; sharing intimate images of adults requires no consent, expected privacy, and intent to harass, threaten, or intimidate. The specified recording or viewing offense against someone age 14–17 is a level 5 person felony. Specified recording, viewing, or sharing offenses by adults 18 or older against children under 14 are off-grid person felonies, outside the usual sentencing grid. That classification also covers attempts, conspiracies, and criminal solicitations, without the usual sentencing reductions for those crimes.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Committee on Judiciary
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 118 Nay: 1
Yes: 118 • No: 1
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 124 Nay: 0
Yes: 124 • No: 0
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 39 Nay: 0
Yes: 39 • No: 0
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 40 Nay: 0
Yes: 40 • No: 0
House vote • 3/27/2026
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 124 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/26/2026
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 39 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/10/2026
Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 40 • No: 0
House vote • 2/12/2026
Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 118 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Reengrossed on Monday, March 30, 2026
4/9/2026HouseEnrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
4/9/2026HouseApproved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026
4/9/2026HouseConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 124, Nay 0, Absent 1
3/27/2026HouseConference committee report now available
3/26/2026SenateConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 39, Nay 0, Absent 1
3/26/2026SenateNonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams and Rep. Dan Osman
3/12/2026HouseMotion to accede adopted; Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson appointed as conferees
3/12/2026SenateFinal Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0
3/10/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
3/9/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
3/9/2026SenateCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary
3/3/2026SenateHearing: Thursday, February 26, 2026, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S
2/26/2026SenateReferred to Senate Committee on Judiciary
2/13/2026SenateEngrossed on Thursday, February 12, 2026
2/12/2026HouseFinal Action - Passed as amended; Yea 118, Nay 1, Absent 6
2/12/2026HouseReceived and Introduced
2/12/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
2/11/2026HouseCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
2/11/2026HouseCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary
2/9/2026HouseHearing: Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 3:30 PM — Room 582-N
1/27/2026HouseIntroduced
1/20/2026HouseReferred to House Committee on Judiciary
1/20/2026House
Bill Text
As Amended by House Committee
As Amended by Senate Committee
As Introduced
Enrolled
Related Bills
SB 430, Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code.
SB 82, Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax credit for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures, repealing the agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement tax credits and expanding the eligibility for applicable expenses under the child day care services assistance tax credit.
SB 300, Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a general manufacturer and removing obsolete reference to global intangible low-taxed income provided for under the federal internal revenue code in determining Kansas adjusted gross income.
HB 2029, Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.
HB 2018, Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providing criminal penalties therefor and providing for a civil cause of action for damages.
HB 2036, Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces.