Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2312

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/25/25  
Refer
2/26/25  

Caption

Excluding certain offenders convicted of a nonperson felony from participation in certified drug abuse treatment programs and authorizing community correctional services officers to complete criminal risk-need assessments for divertees who are committed to such programs.

Summary

HB 2312 revises Kansas law governing certified drug abuse treatment programs and related offender screening. The bill narrows eligibility for placement in these programs by excluding certain offenders convicted of nonperson felonies from participation unless they meet specified grid, criminal-history, and public-safety findings. It also preserves and clarifies the existing framework for drug abuse assessments, treatment placement, supervision, discharge, and revocation for offenders who do qualify. The bill also changes who may perform criminal risk-need assessments in some diversion-related cases, authorizing community correctional services officers to complete those assessments for divertees committed to certified drug abuse treatment programs. It updates the Kansas Sentencing Commission’s oversight role over certification, provider qualifications, payment, and program administration, while continuing to allow courts to order treatment, additional assessments, and probation-related supervision under the sentencing guidelines.

Impact

HB 2312 amends K.S.A. 21-6824 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 75-52,144 and repeals the prior versions of those statutes. In practical terms, it changes sentencing and diversion eligibility for certified drug abuse treatment programs, limits access for some nonperson felony offenders, and expands assessment authority to community correctional services officers in certain diversion cases. The bill affects sentencing courts, the Kansas Sentencing Commission, community corrections, court services, treatment providers, and offenders who may otherwise be eligible for drug treatment as a nonprison sanction.

Sentiment

The bill appears to have broad bipartisan support and little visible opposition. It passed the House 123-0 and the Senate 40-0, including passage in the Senate as amended. The unanimous votes suggest general agreement with the bill’s policy goals of refining treatment-program eligibility and improving administration of offender assessments and supervision.

Contention

No committee testimony or recorded debate was provided, so specific objections are not documented in the materials. Based on the bill text, the main policy issue is the exclusion of certain offenders convicted of nonperson felonies from certified drug abuse treatment programs, which could be seen as a public-safety safeguard by supporters but as a restriction on treatment alternatives by critics. A secondary operational issue is the shift allowing community correctional services officers to conduct criminal risk-need assessments for some divertees, which may raise questions about workload, consistency, and assessment standards.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

Similar Bills

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