Kansas · 2025-2026
HB 2479
Authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order, modifying the culpable mental state required to commit the crime of breach of privacy and increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of such crime, modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, describing who is a person in a position of authority for a school for the crime of unlawful sexual relations and increasing the penalties for the crimes of endangering a child and aggravated endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age.
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Summary AI-generated
Kansas HB 2479 authorizes electronic monitoring with victim notification as a pretrial release condition for offenders charged with domestic violence, domestic battery, stalking, or protective order violations. The bill also modifies the culpable mental state and increases penalties for breach of privacy, adjusts elements of blackmail involving intimate images, defines persons in authority for unlawful sexual relations in schools, and raises penalties for child endangerment when the victim is under six years old.
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Roll-call votes on this bill
| Question | Chamber | Result | Yea | Nay | Other | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 124 Nay: 0 | lower | pass | 123 | 0 | 1 | Mar 27, 2026 | LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS |
| Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 0 | upper | pass | 38 | 0 | 1 | Mar 26, 2026 | LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS |
| Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | upper | pass | 39 | 0 | 0 | Mar 10, 2026 | LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS |
| House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 118 Nay: 1 | lower | pass | 116 | 1 | 6 | Feb 12, 2026 | LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS |