# Kansas SB 135: Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act. Kansas SB 135, Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Judiciary; status signed, last action 2025-04-10 (Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB135-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-19 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas SB 135 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-30 - Last action: 2025-04-10, Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025 - Sponsor: Committee on Judiciary - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: house committee on judiciary, senate committee on judiciary - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 5 (365 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 3 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Abuse protection can change parenting arrangements: benefit, medium. Kansas courts can use protection-from-abuse orders to change certain custody, child residency, and parenting-time orders. This applies in parentage, divorce, separate-maintenance, and annulment cases, and includes certain temporary orders. The court needs sworn testimony showing good cause. An imme… - Child-welfare orders control conflicting parenting arrangements: mixed, medium. Kansas child-welfare and juvenile-justice orders control over conflicting protection-from-abuse orders involving the same child. This covers legal custody, parenting time, and orders about the child's best interests. That priority lasts until the child-welfare or juvenile-justice court's authority… - Safeguards and limits for changing protection orders: mixed, low. Courts cannot change protection-from-abuse orders through one-sided requests or requests for temporary orders, except under the child-welfare and juvenile-justice rule. A later final order can change protections after a hearing or by agreement of both parties. A conflicting final order must identif… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Judiciary ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 123 Nay: 0 | pass | 123 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 39 Nay: 0 | pass | 39 | 0 | | | 2025-03-26 | Senate | Concurred with amendments in conference | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2025-03-19 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 123 | 0 | | ## Actions (18) - 2025-04-10: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-04-08: Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-03-26: Concurred with amendments in conference; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2025-03-24: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson (Senate) - 2025-03-24: Motion to accede adopted; Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams and Rep. Dan Osman appointed as conferees (House) - 2025-03-19: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House) - 2025-03-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House) - 2025-03-19: Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted (House) - 2025-03-19: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 123, Nay 0, Absent 2 (House) - 2025-03-07: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary (House) - 2025-03-04: Hearing: Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 582-N (House) - 2025-02-13: Received and Introduced (House) - 2025-02-13: Referred to House Committee on Judiciary (House) - 2025-02-11: Consent Calendar Passed (Senate) - 2025-02-05: Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate) - 2025-02-04: Hearing: Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S (Senate) - 2025-01-31: Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate) - 2025-01-30: Introduced (Senate) ## Bill text - As Amended by House Committee on Judiciary: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_135/sb135_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_135/sb135_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_135/sb135_enrolled.pdf) ## 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. (signed) - 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 cred… (signed) - 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… (signed) - HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (signed) - 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, providin… (became law) - HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces. (failed) ## Sources - [As Amended by House Committee on Judiciary (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_135/sb135_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_135/sb135_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_135/sb135_enrolled.pdf) ## Related - [SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and r…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB430-2025-2026) - [SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB82-2025-2026) - [SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholi…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB300-2025-2026) - [HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2029-2025-2026) - [HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2018-2025-2026) - [HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts rece…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2036-2025-2026) - [Kansas bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas/bills) - [Kansas state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB135-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).