# Kansas SB 156: Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum. Kansas SB 156, Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Judiciary; status signed, last action 2025-04-24 (Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB156-2025-2026 - 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 156 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-02-03 - Last action: 2025-04-24, Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025 - Sponsor: Committee on Judiciary - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: house committee on judiciary, senate committee on judiciary - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 8 (646 yes, 8 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 2 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - State payouts must cover inmates’ unpaid restitution: cost, low. Kansas must use covered state claim payments to pay inmates’ unpaid, court-ordered restitution. This includes trust-account money from corrections’ internal claims process and state claims committee settlements specifically approved through an appropriation act. It also covers civil settlements or… - Higher inmate claim cap, plus notice rules: mixed, low. Kansas raises the corrections secretary’s reimbursement cap from $500 to $750 per inmate claim. Payment is optional and requires the secretary to find that state negligence caused personal injury or personal property damage or loss. Reimbursements can go into inmates’ facility accounts, and reimbur… ## 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: 120 Nay: 4 | pass | 120 | 4 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 123 Nay: 0 | pass | 123 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2025-04-10 | Senate | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2025-03-27 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 120 | 4 | | | 2025-03-19 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 123 | 0 | | | 2025-02-19 | Senate | Final Action - Passed | pass | 40 | 0 | | ## Actions (23) - 2025-04-24: Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-04-11: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 18, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-04-10: Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted (Senate) - 2025-04-10: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2025-03-27: Conference committee report now available (House) - 2025-03-27: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 120, Nay 4, Absent 1 (House) - 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) - 2025-03-13: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary (House) - 2025-03-10: Hearing: Monday, March 10, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 582-N (House) - 2025-02-19: Final Action - Passed; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Received and Introduced (House) - 2025-02-19: Referred to House Committee on Judiciary (House) - 2025-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (Senate) - 2025-02-17: Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate) - 2025-02-17: Withdrawn from Consent Calendar and placed on General Orders (Senate) - 2025-02-12: Hearing: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S (Senate) - 2025-02-04: Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate) - 2025-02-03: 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_156/sb156_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_156/sb156_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_156/sb156_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. 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(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_156/sb156_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_156/sb156_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_156/sb156_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-SB156-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).