# Kansas SB 186: Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required. Kansas SB 186, Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required., 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-SB186-2025-2026 - 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 186 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-02-04 - 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 (608 yes, 36 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 9 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Bond payers get partial forfeiture refunds: benefit, medium. After a bond-forfeiture judgment, courts must return part of the bond to the party responsible for paying it. The defendant must return to custody within 270 days after judgment. The refund is 90% within 90 days, 75% within days 91–180, and 50% within days 181–270. - Adult privacy protections cover fake intimate images: benefit, low. Kansas privacy law covers sharing digitally created or altered images appearing to show an identifiable adult nude or in sexual activity. The adult must be at least 18, have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and not consent to sharing. The person sharing the image must intend to harass, threaten… - Child image crimes cover artificial images: benefit, low. Possessing obscene, artificially generated images appearing to show children under 18 in sexually explicit conduct is a level 5 person felony. Possession must be intended to arouse or satisfy sexual desires or appeal to the sexual interest called prurient interest. Separate child-image transmission… - Officers face clearer warrant evidence rules: benefit, low. Law enforcement must have access to sworn probable-cause materials before an arrest warrant or summons is carried out. This does not make the materials public. A search warrant requires an officer's sworn oral or written statement giving facts that show probable cause. Spoken statements must be rec… - Victims get no-contact protection after release: benefit, low. Release bonds for defendants charged with person felonies or person misdemeanors must bar contact with the alleged victim. The no-contact period lasts at least 72 hours after release on bond. A magistrate can make a specific finding allowing an exception. - Upfront bail premiums cannot use surety loans: cost, medium. Commercial bail providers must charge a premium of at least 10% of the bond amount. At least half of that minimum premium must be collected before posting bond. The provider cannot lend that upfront amount or own or be affiliated with a financial institution making those loans. This blocks provider… - Video providers get privacy-law exemption: cost, low. Cable services, direct-to-home satellite providers, other multichannel video distributors, and their affiliates are exempt from this breach-of-privacy law. The exemption narrows this law's protections for conduct involving those providers. - Higher bonds for repeat sex-offense defendants: mixed, high. For listed sex charges, magistrates must check whether the defendant has a prior sexually violent crime conviction. Charges covered include rape, criminal or aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, and indecent or aggravated indecent liberties with a child. With that prior conviction… - Sureties gain forfeiture relief with limits: mixed, low. Courts must give a felony defendant's arrest warrant to the paid surety that posted bond when it asks. Unless good cause applies, courts must cancel forfeiture for missed required warrant entry within 14 days or failure to provide a requested copy. Courts must also cancel forfeiture when prosecutor… ## 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: 124 Nay: 0 | pass | 124 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 100 Nay: 18 | pass | 100 | 18 | | | 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 | 124 | 0 | | | 2025-03-20 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 100 | 18 | | | 2025-02-19 | Senate | Emergency 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 124, Nay 0, 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) - 2025-03-20: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House) - 2025-03-20: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House) - 2025-03-20: Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted (House) - 2025-03-20: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 100, Nay 18, Absent 7 (House) - 2025-03-19: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary (House) - 2025-03-11: Hearing: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 582-N (House) - 2025-02-20: Received and Introduced (House) - 2025-02-20: Referred to House Committee on Judiciary (House) - 2025-02-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 40, Nay 0 (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) - 2025-02-05: Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate) - 2025-02-04: 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_186/sb186_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_186/sb186_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_186/sb186_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_186/sb186_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_186/sb186_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_186/sb186_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-SB186-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).