All Roll Calls
Yes: 406 • No: 0
KansasSB 4872025–2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to implement a statewide offender registration system for agencies who register offenders under the offender registration act, providing for a petition to determine that an offender is indigent and authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for a violation of the act involving nonpayment of a fee.
Sponsored By: Committee on Judiciary
Signed by Governor
house committee on corrections and juvenile justicesenate committee on judiciary
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Bill Overview
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5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Fewer offender registration updates during custody
Offenders in correctional facilities must register with the facility within three business days of entering custody. After that initial registration, no update is required until discharge, parole, furlough, or release for work or school.
Free petitions for offender fee relief
Registered offenders can ask their county's district court to find that they cannot afford registration fees. Filing the petition has no fee or surcharge. They must submit a sworn statement explaining why they cannot pay, including their weekly income and its sources. The statement must substantially follow the Judicial Council form and include the financial information required by law. The court decides whether they qualify and must record its findings.
Statewide system shares offender registration records
Beginning July 1, 2028, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation must provide a statewide offender registration system with real-time relocation notices. Agencies must submit records in a format approved by the bureau's director in consultation with the Kansas Sheriffs' Association. Correctional facilities must enter work- and school-release registration records into the system for distribution to registering agencies and the bureau. Technology fees go into a state fund administered by the director, solely for system development and upkeep. Spending requires legislative appropriations. As part of the transition, the law repeals section 1 of the act and K.S.A. 22-4904 on July 1, 2028.
Offender registration fees and payment exceptions
Beginning July 1, 2026, people required to register as offenders owe a technology fee at registration. Beginning July 1, 2028, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation sets that fee, capped at $10. Starting that date, the $20 registration fee and technology fee are due only in the person's county of residence. Registration must be completed even without payment. Updates, initial registrations, and transient reports every 30 days or more often are fee-free, except in scheduled reporting months. Those months are the birthday month and three, six, and nine months afterward. A court finding of inability to pay within the three years before the report also exempts the person from fees.
Unpaid offender fees face criminal charges
Failure to pay required offender registration fees at registration is a class A misdemeanor. The registering agency may issue a notice to appear, but payment within 20 calendar days requires dismissal of the charge. Two or more full payments remaining unpaid within 20 calendar days of the latest registration trigger a severity level 9 felony. Registration violations also take the person or nonperson crime label of the underlying offense. If both kinds of offenses require registration, the violation is labeled a person crime.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Committee on Judiciary
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 39 Nay: 0
Yes: 39 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 124 Nay: 0
Yes: 124 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 40 Nay: 0
Yes: 40 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/27/2026
Concurred with amendments in conference
Yes: 39 • No: 0
House vote • 3/18/2026
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 124 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/18/2026
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 40 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
4/9/2026SenateApproved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026
4/9/2026SenateConcurred with amendments in conference; Yea 39, Nay 0, Absent 1
3/27/2026SenateNonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson
3/23/2026SenateMotion to accede adopted; Rep. Bob Lewis, Rep. Bradley Barrett and Rep. Tobias Schlingensiepen appointed as conferees
3/23/2026HouseCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
3/18/2026HouseCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
3/18/2026HouseMotion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
3/18/2026HouseEmergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 124, Nay 0, Absent 1
3/18/2026HouseCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
3/17/2026HouseHearing: Monday, March 9, 2026, 1:30 PM — Room 546-S
3/9/2026HouseReceived and Introduced
2/25/2026HouseReferred to House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
2/25/2026HouseCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
2/18/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
2/18/2026SenateEmergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0
2/18/2026SenateCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary
2/17/2026SenateHearing: Thursday, February 12, 2026, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S
2/12/2026SenateReferred to Senate Committee on Judiciary
2/5/2026SenateIntroduced
2/4/2026Senate
Bill Text
As Amended by House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
As Amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary
As Introduced
Enrolled
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