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Bill 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. 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. us/states/ks Kansas Legislature 2025-2026 SB 186 Kansas SB 186 (2025-2026)
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Kansas SB 186 (2025-2026) — 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.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. As Introduced (filed) — source
  2. As Amended by House Committee on Judiciary (committee substitute) — source
  3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

  • Committee on Judiciary — primary (organization)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2025-04-11 Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025 executive-signature
  • 2025-04-11 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 18, 2025
  • 2025-04-10 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0
  • 2025-04-10 Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted
  • 2025-03-27 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 124, Nay 0, Absent 1
  • 2025-03-27 Conference committee report now available
  • 2025-03-24 Motion to accede adopted; Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams and Rep. Dan Osman appointed as conferees
  • 2025-03-24 Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson
  • 2025-03-20 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 100, Nay 18, Absent 7 passage
  • 2025-03-20 Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
  • 2025-03-20 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
  • 2025-03-20 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted passage
  • 2025-03-19 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-02-20 Referred to House Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2025-02-20 Received and Introduced introduction
  • 2025-02-19 Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 40, Nay 0 passage
  • 2025-02-19 Committee of the Whole - Be passed passage
  • 2025-02-17 Withdrawn from Consent Calendar and placed on General Orders
  • 2025-02-17 Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Senate Committee on Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-02-05 Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2025-02-04 Introduced introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/36f6c5fc-ee0f-44b2-a1e3-e5e255e6ca1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).