Kansas 2023-2024 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2168 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/25/2023

                            Session of 2023
HOUSE BILL No. 2168
By Representatives Blew and K. Williams
1-25
AN ACT concerning agriculture; relating to industrial hemp; allowing the 
fiber, grain and seeds thereof to be used as food for livestock, poultry 
and pets; adding hemp grain to the definition of grain; authorizing the 
secretary to utilize performance-based sampling when inspecting 
industrial hemp; lowering license and registration fees; extending 
license and registration periods to two years; exempting certain hemp 
processors from fingerprinting and background check requirements; 
amending K.S.A. 2-3901, 2-3906, 2-3907, 2-3908 and 34-223 and 
repealing the existing sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
New Section 1. (a) The secretary shall approve and allow the 
manufacture, transportation, importation, sale or storage of any 
commercial feeding stuffs that include hemp fiber, grain or seed as defined 
in K.S.A. 2-3901, and amendments thereto, except when any such 
commercial feeding stuffs is otherwise determined by the secretary to:
(1) Be misbranded or adulterated;
(2) contain or possibly contain any substance injurious to public 
health or the health of livestock, poultry or pets; or
(3) be sold, offered or exposed for sale in violation of any of the 
statutes contained in article 10 of chapter 2 of the Kansas Statutes 
Annotated, and amendments thereto, or any rules and regulations adopted 
thereunder.
(b) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to article 10 of 
chapter 2 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2-3901 is hereby amended to read as follows: 2-3901. 
(a) K.S.A. 2-3901 et seq., and amendments thereto, shall be known and 
may be cited as the commercial industrial hemp act.
(b) As used in the commercial industrial hemp act:
(1) "Commercial" means the cultivation or production of industrial 
hemp for any purpose authorized under K.S.A 2-3906, and amendments 
thereto.
(2) "Delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration" means the 
combined percentage of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol and its optical 
isomers, their salts and acids, and salts of their acids, reported as free 
THC:
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(A) On a dry weight basis, of any part of the plant cannabis sativa L.; 
or
(B) on a percentage by weight basis in hemp products, waste or 
substances resulting from the production or processing of industrial hemp.
(3) "Effective disposal" includes, but is not limited to:
(A) Destruction; or
(B) any other method of disposing of industrial hemp or hemp 
products found to be in violation of this act that is permitted under the 
provisions of 7 U.S.C. § 1621 et seq. and any rules and regulations 
adopted thereunder.
(4) "Hemp fiber, grain or seeds" means the mature stalks of industrial 
hemp, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of 
the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or 
preparation of the mature stalks, except the resin extracted therefrom, 
fiber, oil or cake or the sterilized seed of the plant that is incapable of 
germination.
(5) "Hemp products" means all products made from industrial hemp, 
including, but not limited to, cloth, cordage, fiber, food, fuel, paint, paper, 
particleboard, plastics, seed, seed meal and seed oil for consumption and 
any extract from industrial hemp intended for further processing. Final 
"hemp products" may contain a tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not 
more than 0.3%. As used in this paragraph, "tetrahydrocannabinol 
concentration" means the same as in K.S.A. 65-6235(b)(3), and 
amendments thereto.
(5)(6) "Hemp producer" means any individual, licensed or otherwise, 
engaging in the cultivation or production of industrial hemp for 
commercial purposes pursuant to K.S.A. 2-3906, and amendments thereto.
(6)(7) "Hemp processor" means a person registered under K.S.A. 2-
3907, and amendments thereto, to process and manufacture industrial 
hemp and hemp products.
(7)(8) "Industrial hemp" means all parts and varieties of the plant 
cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not, that contain a delta-9 
tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3% on a dry weight 
basis.
(8)(9) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, 
association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or any 
similar entity or any combination of the foregoing acting in concert.
(9)(10) "State educational institution" means the university of 
Kansas, Kansas state university, Wichita state university, Emporia state 
university, Pittsburg state university, Fort Hays state university, or any 
other accredited college, university, technical college or community 
college within Kansas.
(10)(11) "Authorized seed or clone plants" means a source of 
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industrial hemp seeds or clone plants that:
(A) Has been certified by a certifying agency, as defined by K.S.A. 2-
1415, and amendments thereto;
(B) has been produced from plants that were tested during the active 
growing season and were found to produce industrial hemp having a 
tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed 0.3% on a dry 
weight basis and has been certified in writing by the grower or distributor 
of such seeds or clone plants to possess such qualities; or
(C) meets any other authorized standards approved by the Kansas 
department of agriculture through rules and regulations, except that no 
seed or clone plants shall be considered authorized seed or clone plants if 
they do not meet any standard adopted by the United States department of 
agriculture pursuant to 7 U.S.C. § 1621 et seq., and amendments thereto.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 2-3906 is hereby amended to read as follows: 2-3906. 
(a) The Kansas department of agriculture, in consultation with the 
governor and attorney general, shall submit a plan to the United States 
department of agriculture under which the Kansas department of 
agriculture will monitor and regulate the commercial production of 
industrial hemp within the state in accordance with 7 U.S.C. § 1621 et seq. 
and any rules and regulations adopted thereunder.
(b) Such plan shall include the following:
(1) A procedure to maintain relevant information regarding land on 
which industrial hemp is produced, including a legal description of the 
land, for a period of not less than three calendar years;
(2) a procedure for testing, using post-decarboxylation or other 
similarly reliable methods, the delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration 
levels of industrial hemp produced;
(3) a procedure for the effective disposal of industrial hemp and hemp 
products that are found to be in violation of this act;
(4) any licensing requirements or other rules and regulations deemed 
necessary by the Kansas department of agriculture for the proper 
monitoring and regulation of industrial hemp cultivation and production 
for commercial purposes, including, but not limited to:
(A) Fees for licenses, license renewals and other necessary expenses 
to defray the cost of implementing and operating the plan on an ongoing 
basis; and
(B) standards for authorized seed or clone plants;
(5) a procedure for the creation of documentation that any person in 
possession of unprocessed industrial hemp may use to prove to any law 
enforcement officer that such industrial hemp was lawfully grown under 
this section;
(6) a procedure for conducting annual inspections of, at a minimum, a 
random sample of hemp producers to verify, including the use of 
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performance-based sampling, that industrial hemp is not produced in 
violation of this act; and
(7) any other procedures necessary to meet the requirements set forth 
in 7 U.S.C. § 1621 et seq. and any rules and regulations adopted 
thereunder.
(c) (1) A hemp producer who negligently violates this section or any 
rules and regulations adopted hereunder shall not be subject to any state or 
local criminal enforcement action, but shall comply with the following 
corrective actions as applicable:
(A) A reasonable date by which the hemp producer shall correct the 
negligent violation; and
(B) a requirement that the hemp producer shall periodically report to 
the Kansas department of agriculture on the hemp producer's compliance 
with this section and rules and regulations adopted hereunder, for a period 
of not less than the next two calendar years.
(2) A hemp producer who negligently violates this section or any 
rules and regulations adopted hereunder three times in a five-year period 
shall be ineligible to produce industrial hemp for a period of five years 
beginning on the date of the third violation.
(3) The Kansas department of agriculture shall immediately report 
any violation by a hemp producer with a greater culpable mental state than 
negligence to the attorney general and such hemp producer shall not be 
subject to the exemption in subsection (c)(1).
(d) Any individual otherwise eligible to become a licensed hemp 
producer shall not be eligible to produce industrial hemp if such individual 
has submitted any materially false information in any application to 
become a licensed hemp producer.
(e) (1) The department shall require, as a qualification for initial or 
continuing licensure, all individuals seeking a license or license renewal as 
a hemp producer under this section to be fingerprinted and to submit to a 
state and national criminal history record check. The fingerprints shall be 
used to identify the individual and to determine whether the individual has 
a record of criminal history in this state or any other jurisdiction. The 
department is authorized to submit the fingerprints to the Kansas bureau of 
investigation and the federal bureau of investigation for a state and 
national criminal history record check. The department may use the 
information obtained from fingerprinting and the criminal history record 
check for purposes of verifying the identification of the individual and for 
making an official determination of the qualifications for initial or 
continuing licensure as a hemp producer pursuant to this section and rules 
and regulations promulgated hereunder. Disclosure or use of any 
information received by the department for any purpose other than the 
purposes provided for in the commercial industrial hemp act shall be a 
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class A misdemeanor and shall constitute grounds for removal from office 
or termination of employment.
(2) An individual who has been convicted of a felony violation of 
article 57 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments 
thereto, or a substantially similar offense in another jurisdiction, within the 
immediately preceding 10 years, shall be disqualified from initial or 
continuing licensure as a hemp producer under this section.
(3) The Kansas bureau of investigation may charge a reasonable fee 
for conducting a criminal history record check.
(4) The individual seeking a license or license renewal as a hemp 
producer under this section shall pay the costs of fingerprinting and the 
state and national criminal history record checks.
(f) The secretary of agriculture shall promulgate rules and regulations 
to implement the plan submitted to the United States department of 
agriculture and to otherwise effectuate the provisions of this section.
(g) Upon the repeal of 7 U.S.C. § 5940 or either the adoption of a 
federal plan by the United States department of agriculture that allows for 
the cultivation and production of industrial hemp for commercial purposes 
within the state or upon the adoption of rules and regulations by the 
Kansas secretary of agriculture that establish the cultivation and 
production of industrial hemp for commercial purposes within the state, 
the Kansas department of agriculture may discontinue the industrial hemp 
research program established pursuant to K.S.A. 2-3902, and amendments 
thereto.
(h) Any modification fee established by the department for any 
requested change to a license that was previously issued by the department 
under this section shall not exceed $50.
(i) (1) The licensing period for any license issued by the secretary 
pursuant to this act shall be at least two years.
(2) The fee for any license issued by the secretary pursuant to this act 
shall not exceed $500 and shall be allowed to be paid in a single lump 
sum or in annual increments not larger than $250.
(j) Any licensing or other fees collected pursuant to this section and 
any rules and regulations adopted hereunder shall be deposited in the 
commercial industrial hemp act licensing fee fund established by K.S.A. 2-
3903, and amendments thereto, for all costs of the administration of the 
commercial production of industrial hemp.
(j)(k) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the 
commercial industrial hemp act, K.S.A. 2-3901 et seq., and amendments 
thereto.
Sec. 4. K.S.A. 2-3907 is hereby amended to read as follows: 2-3907. 
(a) The state fire marshal shall create and maintain a registry of all hemp 
processors operating within the state of Kansas.
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(b) Any person engaging in the processing of industrial hemp shall 
register annually biennially with the state fire marshal prior to processing 
industrial hemp.
(c) Registration shall expire annually biennially on June 30. 
Registration fees, not to exceed $1,000, shall be established pursuant to 
rules and regulations adopted by the state fire marshal. Such registration 
fees shall not exceed $500 and shall be allowed to be paid in a single lump 
sum or in annual increments not larger than $250.
(d) Any person required to register as a hemp processor pursuant to 
this section shall submit an annual a biennial registration application on a 
form provided by the state fire marshal that shall include, at a minimum:
(1) The full legal name, date of birth, address and telephone number 
of the applicant. If the applicant is not an individual, the same information 
shall also be provided for all owners and the individual responsible for all 
industrial hemp processing and related activities performed by the 
applicant;
(2) the physical location of any premises that will serve as a part of 
the applicant's industrial hemp processing operations;
(3) a brief description of the industrial hemp processing methods, 
activities and products planned for production; and
(4) certification that such applicant has fully complied with the 
fingerprinting and criminal history record check requirements contained in 
this section, if applicable. Any such applicant who provides a false 
statement of compliance with such requirements shall be guilty of a class 
C nonperson misdemeanor.
(e) The state fire marshal shall provide an updated list of all hemp 
processors to the Kansas bureau of investigation and to the county sheriff 
in each county where a hemp processor is located as often as is reasonably 
required or requested.
(f) Fees collected pursuant to this section shall be remitted to the state 
treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and 
amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state 
treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit 
of the fire marshal fee fund.
(g) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate as a hemp processor 
without valid registration. Upon a first conviction for a violation of this 
subsection, a person shall be guilty of a class A nonperson misdemeanor. 
On a second or subsequent conviction for a violation of this subsection, a 
person shall be guilty of a severity level 9, nonperson felony.
(h) (1) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (k), the state fire 
marshal shall require all individuals applying for a hemp processor 
registration who seek to engage in the extraction of cannabinoids from 
industrial hemp, including the disposal of such cannabinoids, pursuant to 
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the commercial industrial hemp act to be fingerprinted and submit to a 
state and national criminal history record check. The state fire marshal 
may require individuals who are current employees or applying to be 
employees of a hemp processor to be fingerprinted and submit to a state 
and national criminal history record check. The fingerprints shall be used 
to identify the individual and to determine whether the individual has a 
record of criminal history in Kansas or any other jurisdiction. The state fire 
marshal is authorized to submit the fingerprints to the Kansas bureau of 
investigation and the federal bureau of investigation for a state and 
national criminal history record check. The state fire marshal may use the 
information obtained from fingerprinting and the criminal history record 
check for purposes of verifying the identification of the individual and for 
making an official determination of the qualification and fitness of the 
individual to process industrial hemp pursuant to this act and rules and 
regulations promulgated hereunder. Disclosure or use of any criminal 
history information for any purpose other than the purposes provided for in 
the commercial industrial hemp act shall be a class A nonperson 
misdemeanor and shall constitute grounds for removal from office or 
termination of employment.
(2) An individual who has been convicted of a felony violation of 
article 57 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments 
thereto, or a substantially similar offense in another jurisdiction, within the 
immediately preceding 10 years, shall be disqualified from processing 
industrial hemp under this section.
(3) The state fire marshal may deny registration to any individual 
who has violated subsection (g) or any other provision of the commercial 
industrial hemp act.
(4) The Kansas bureau of investigation may charge a reasonable fee 
for conducting a criminal history record check.
(5) The individual seeking authorization to extract or dispose of 
cannabinoids from industrial hemp pursuant to this section shall pay the 
costs of fingerprinting and the state and national criminal history record 
check.
(6) Local and state law enforcement officers and agencies shall assist 
in taking and processing an individual's fingerprints as authorized by this 
section.
(i) (1) The state fire marshal shall promulgate rules and regulations to 
carry out the provisions of this section, including, but not limited to, rules 
and regulations on:
(A) The denial, conditioning, renewal or revocation of registration;
(B) the creation of multiple classes of registrations based upon the 
scope of hemp processing activities of an applicant;
(C) construction and safety standards for processing facilities;
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(D) security measures;
(E) inventory control;
(F) maintenance of records;
(G) access to and inspection of records and processing facilities by 
the state fire marshal and law enforcement agencies;
(H) the collection and disposal of any cannabinoids extracted during 
the processing of industrial hemp that cannot be lawfully sold in this state; 
and
(I) the transportation of industrial hemp or hemp products.
(2) The state fire marshal may grant an exemption from the 
application of a specific requirement of rules and regulations promulgated 
under paragraph (1), unless the state fire marshal determines that the 
condition, structure or activity that is or would be in noncompliance with 
such requirement would constitute a distinct hazard to life or property. Any 
such exemption shall be granted only upon written request of a registrant 
or applicant for registration that clearly demonstrates that enforcement of a 
specific requirement of a rule and regulation will cause unnecessary 
hardship as determined by the state fire marshal.
(j) The Kansas department of agriculture and the state fire marshal 
shall coordinate with one another, including providing any requested 
information from the other, regarding industrial hemp licensees, hemp 
processors and hemp processor applicants necessary for the enforcement 
of any laws or rules and regulations relating to industrial hemp.
(k) The state fire marshal shall grant an exemption from the 
fingerprinting and criminal history record check requirements of 
subsection (h) for processors who only manufacture hemp products that 
are derived from hemp fiber, grain or seeds.
(l) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the commercial 
industrial hemp act, K.S.A. 2-3901 et seq., and amendments thereto.
Sec. 5. K.S.A. 2-3908 is hereby amended to read as follows: 2-3908. 
(a) (1) It shall be unlawful for any of the following hemp products to be 
manufactured, marketed, sold or distributed by any person in the state of 
Kansas:
(A) Cigarettes containing industrial hemp;
(B) cigars containing industrial hemp;
(C) chew, dip or other smokeless material containing industrial hemp;
(D) teas containing industrial hemp;
(E) liquids, solids or gases containing industrial hemp for use in 
vaporizing devices; and
(F) any other hemp product intended for human or animal 
consumption containing any ingredient derived from industrial hemp that 
is prohibited pursuant to the Kansas food, drug and cosmetic act, K.S.A. 
65-636 et seq., and amendments thereto, and the commercial feeding stuffs 
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act, K.S.A. 2-1001 et seq., and amendments thereto. This subparagraph 
shall not otherwise prohibit the use of any such ingredient, including 
cannabidiol oil, in such hemp products.
(2) As used in this subsection:
(A) "Human or animal consumption" means:
(i) Ingested orally; or
(ii) applied by any means such that an ingredient derived from 
industrial hemp enters the human or animal body.
(B) "Intended for human or animal consumption" means:
(i) Designed by the manufacturer for human or animal consumption;
(ii) marketed for human or animal consumption; or
(iii) distributed with the intent that it be used for human or animal 
consumption.
(b) (1) It shall be unlawful for any of the following hemp products to 
be marketed, sold or distributed to any person in Kansas who is not 
registered as a hemp processor pursuant to K.S.A. 2-3907, and 
amendments thereto, or who does not possess a license by the Kansas 
department of agriculture under any commercial plan established pursuant 
to K.S.A. 2-3906, and amendments thereto, or the research program 
established pursuant to K.S.A. 2-3902, and amendments thereto:
(A) Industrial hemp buds;
(B) ground industrial hemp floral material;
(C) ground industrial hemp leaf material; or
(D) any extract from industrial hemp with a delta-9 
tetrahydrocannabinol concentration greater than 0.3% that will be further 
processed.
(2) No license or registration shall be required for the transport of 
hemp products described in paragraph (1) if such products are transported 
between hemp producers and hemp processors or between more than one 
hemp processor. Any such transportation of hemp products shall be subject 
to rules and regulations promulgated by the state fire marshal pursuant to 
this act.
(c) (1) Upon a first conviction for a violation of this section, a person 
shall be guilty of a class A nonperson misdemeanor.
(2) On a second or subsequent conviction for a violation of this 
section, a person shall be guilty of a severity level 9, nonperson felony.
(d) Nothing in this section shall prohibit:
(1) The use of any hemp product for research purposes by a state 
educational institution or affiliated entity; or
(2) the production, use or sale of any hemp product that is otherwise 
not prohibited by state or federal law.
(e) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the commercial 
industrial hemp act, K.S.A. 2-3901 et seq., and amendments thereto.
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Sec. 6. K.S.A. 34-223 is hereby amended to read as follows: 34-223. 
As used in chapter 34 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments 
thereto:
(a) "Action" includes counterclaim, setoff and suit in equity.
(b) "Delivery" means voluntary transfer of possessions from one 
person to another.
(c) "Fungible grain" means grain of which any unit is, from its nature 
or by mercantile custom, treated as the equivalent of any other unit.
(d) "Grain" means wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, soybeans, grain 
sorghums, hemp grain and any grains upon which federal grain standards 
are established. "Grain" includes seeds generally stored by warehouses, if 
special permission is granted by the secretary.
(e) "Holder of a receipt" means a person who has both actual 
possession of such receipt and a right of property therein.
(f) "Order" means an order by endorsement of the receipt.
(g) "Owner" does not include mortgagee or pledgee.
(h) "Person" includes individuals, corporations, partnerships and all 
associations of two or more persons having a joint or common interest.
(i) "To purchase" includes to take as mortgagee or pledgee.
(j) "Receipt" means a warehouse receipt or receipts.
(k) "Value" means any consideration sufficient to support a simple 
contract and includes an antecedent or preexisting obligation, whether for 
money or not, where a receipt is taken either in satisfaction thereof or as 
security therefor.
(l) "Public warehouseman" means a person lawfully engaged in the 
business of storing grain for the public.
(m) "Public warehouse" or "public grain warehouse" means every 
elevator or other building in which grain is received for storage or transfer 
for the public.
(n) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Kansas department of 
agriculture or the secretary's designee.
(o) "Department" means the Kansas department of agriculture.
(p) "Grain bank grain" means any grain that has been received into 
any public warehouse to be held for the account of the depositor and 
returned to the depositor at a later date either as whole or processed grain.
(q) "Storage grain" or "stored grain" means grain that has been 
received in any public warehouse located in this state, and such grain is 
not purchased by the lessee, owner or manager of such warehouse.
(r) "Functional unit" means a public warehouse that has the capacity 
to store, weigh in and weigh out grain. The storage capacity of any 
outlying storage facility of a public warehouse that is not a functional unit 
itself shall be included as part of the combined capacity of the 
warehouseman's nearest functional unit.
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(s) "Open storage" means the storage of grain pursuant to the 
issuance of a scale ticket, regardless of whether the grain is retained in the 
warehouse that issued the scale ticket or elsewhere.
(t) "Owner" means the holder of any warehouse receipt or any ticket 
for grain held in storage by a public warehouseman, regardless of whether 
the grain for which the warehouse receipt or ticket was issued is stored at 
the warehouse that issued the receipt or ticket or is stored elsewhere.
(u) "Deferred payment" means any payment to be made pursuant to 
the terms of a grain purchase contract after the delivery of grain to a public 
warehouseman.
(v) "Delayed pricing" means any method of pricing grain pursuant to 
the terms of a grain purchase contract after the delivery of grain to a public 
warehouseman.
(w) "Financial institution" means any institution whose deposits, 
shares or accounts are insured by a federal agency or any bank for 
cooperative created pursuant to title III of the farm credit act of 1971.
(x) "Standby letter of credit" means "letter of credit" as that term is 
defined in K.S.A. 84-5-103, and amendments thereto, that by its terms:
(1) Is irrevocable;
(2) is nontransferrable;
(3) names the seller that produced the grain as beneficiary;
(4) shall not expire earlier than 60 calendar days after the final 
payment is due pursuant to the terms of the underlying grain purchase 
contract; and
(5) cannot be drawn upon by the beneficiary in the absence of a 
default as defined by the terms of the underlying grain purchase contract.
(y) "Unpaid balance" means that portion of the purchase price under a 
grain purchase contract, together with an interest thereon, if any, that 
remains due and owing to the seller pursuant to the terms of the grain 
purchase contract at the time the seller makes a demand for payment as 
provided in the contract. If a grain purchase contract provides for delayed 
pricing and the price has not been established at the time the seller makes 
demand for payment, then for the purposes of this section only, the unpaid 
balance shall be determined as though the price had been established at the 
time of the closing of the relevant futures market on the last trading day 
before the seller made a demand for payment.
(z) "Hemp grain" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 2-3901, and 
amendments thereto.
Sec. 7. K.S.A. 2-3901, 2-3906, 2-3907, 2-3908 and 34-223 are hereby 
repealed.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 
publication in the statute book.
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