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KansasHB 24792025–2026 Regular SessionHouse
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.
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Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Domestic violence cases get victim-alert monitoring
The court must consider electronic monitoring with victim alerts for domestic violence, domestic battery, stalking, and protective-order cases. A magistrate may order it after a hearing and must weigh risk factors like past abuse, order violations, criminal history, weapons, threats, mental health commitments, and substance abuse. The protected person must give informed consent after the court explains rights, risks, tracked locations, and available help. The protected person has 48 hours to list places to exclude, and the order must name those places and any minimum distances. The law defines monitoring with victim alerts as tracking that can immediately send the monitored person’s location to the protected person when near listed protected places.
Harsher penalties for child endangerment
The law raises penalties for endangering a child based on the child’s age. If the child is 6 to under 18, endangering is a class A person misdemeanor. If the child is under 6, it is a severity level 9 person felony. Aggravated endangering is level 9 (age 6–17) or level 8 (under 6), and it rises to level 6 or level 5 if bodily harm happens. Courts must run aggravated endangering sentences one after another.
Stronger rules on sexual images and AI
The law expands breach of privacy to cover hidden viewing or recording of someone’s nude body or undergarments and sharing those images, including AI-made or AI-changed images. Many acts are severity level 8 person felonies and rise to level 5 on a second conviction within five years or if the victim is 14 to 17. If the offender is 18 or older and the victim is under 14, certain violations—and attempts, conspiracies, or solicitation—are off-grid person felonies. The blackmail law now includes threats to share nude or sexual images (including AI) and treats them as a severity level 4 person felony. For breach of privacy, the act must be done knowingly and intentionally and without lawful authority.
Defendants pay for monitoring and enforcement
If the court orders electronic monitoring with victim alerts, you must pay the device and monitoring costs. The court can also charge up to $15 per week for court services supervision, and at sentencing it may add the full amounts of these costs. A monitoring alert counts as probable cause for police to arrest you for violating a protective order. Courts and law enforcement must share monitoring information to coordinate responses and notify protected people.
More adults counted as school authority
The law defines who is a person in authority at a school. It includes non-students with school-given authority, such as volunteers age 21 or older, employees and designees, and contractors and their workers. This makes more adults subject to unlawful sexual relations rules that protect students.
Old criminal statutes repealed and replaced
The law repeals older versions of several criminal statutes and replaces them with the new text. This cleans up the code and makes the act’s updates the controlling law. These repeals do not create new costs or benefits by themselves.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
There is no primary sponsor on record.
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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 • 4/23/2026
Yea: 118 Nay: 1
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
3/27/2026HouseConference committee report now available
3/26/2026SenateConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 39 Nay: 0
3/26/2026SenateNonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Representative Humphries , Representative Williams, L. and Representative Osman as conferees
3/12/2026HouseMotion to accede adopted; Senator Warren, Senator Titus and Senator 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 Committee on Judiciary
3/3/2026SenateHearing: Thursday, February 26, 2026, 10:30 AM Room 346-S
2/26/2026SenateReferred to Committee on Judiciary
2/13/2026SenateEngrossed on Thursday, February 12, 2026
2/12/2026HouseFinal Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 118 Nay: 1
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 Committee on Judiciary
2/9/2026HouseHearing: Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 3:30 PM Room 582-N
1/27/2026HouseIntroduced
1/20/2026HouseReferred to Committee on Judiciary
1/20/2026House
Bill Text
As Amended by House Committee
As Amended by Senate Committee
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