As Amended by Senate Committee
Session of 2025
HOUSE BILL No. 2155
By Committee on Judiciary
Requested by Ed Klumpp on behalf of the Kansas Sheriffs Association
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AN ACT concerning sheriffs; relating to liability; specifying that sheriffs
have liability for official acts related to charge and custody of jails;
amending K.S.A. 19-811 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 19-811 is hereby amended to read as follows: 19-
811. The sheriff shall have the charge and custody of the jail of his the
sheriff's county, and all the prisoners in the same such jail, and shall keep
such jail himself personally, or by his a deputy or jailer, for whose acts he
and his sureties official acts the sheriff and sureties of the sheriff shall be
liable.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 19-811 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book Kansas register.
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