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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	HOUSE BILL No. 2322
3	3	By Committee on Judiciary
4	4	Requested by James Iverson on behalf of the National Coalition of Motorcyclists
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6	6	AN ACT concerning law enforcement; relating to motorcyclists;
7	7	prohibiting motorcycle profiling and requiring law enforcement
8	8	agencies to adopt a policy relating to motorcycle profiling; requiring
9	9	the course of law enforcement training adopted by the director of police
10	10	training to include training on motorcycle profiling; amending K.S.A.
11	11	74-5604a and repealing the existing section.
12	12	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13	13	New Section 1. (a) No law enforcement officer or law enforcement
14	14	agency shall engage in motorcycle profiling.
15	15	(b) A person who is aggrieved by a violation of this section may:
16	16	(1) File a complaint with the attorney general who shall investigate
17	17	such complaint, and, upon making a finding that a law enforcement officer
18	18	or law enforcement agency has engaged in motorcycle profiling, require
19	19	such officer or agency to participate in additional training relating to
20	20	motorcycle profiling; or
21	21	(2) file an action in district court and recover actual and punitive
22	22	damages, injunctive relief and any costs and attorney fees.
23	23	(c) All law enforcement agencies in this state shall:
24	24	(1) Adopt a detailed, written policy prohibiting motorcycle profiling
25	25	and outlining disciplinary action that will be taken against an officer who
26	26	violates such policy; and
27	27	(2) require law enforcement officers who work in the agency to
28	28	participate in annual training related to motorcycle profiling with a goal to
29	29	reduce motorcycle profiling across the state.
30	30	(d) As used in this section, "motorcycle profiling" means the use of
31	31	the fact that a person rides a motorcycle or wears motorcycle-related
32	32	paraphernalia in making a decision to stop, question, take enforcement
33	33	action against, arrest or search a person or vehicle with or without a legal
34	34	basis.
35	35	Sec. 2. K.S.A. 74-5604a is hereby amended to read as follows: 74-
36	36	5604a. (a) The director of police training may establish a program for
37	37	extending the law enforcement training and instruction throughout the
38	38	state on a regional basis. The director of police training also may certify
39	39	annually the training schools of state and local law enforcement agencies
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75	75	providing a course of law enforcement training for full-time police officers
76	76	or law enforcement officers when such training programs satisfy the
77	77	qualifications and standards promulgated by the director of police training
78	78	after approval of the commission and when such programs satisfy a
79	79	demonstrated training need not met by existing programs. The director of
80	80	police training shall establish a course in basic law enforcement training
81	81	for part-time police officers or law enforcement officers, approved by the
82	82	commission, to be provided at the training center and certified state and
83	83	local law enforcement training schools. In addition, after the general
84	84	election of each election year and prior to January 1 of the next succeeding
85	85	year, and at such other times as the director of police training deems
86	86	necessary, the director of police training shall commence a training course
87	87	for persons elected to the office of sheriff at the preceding general election.
88	88	(b) The director of police training shall conduct a pretraining
89	89	evaluation of applicants for admission to the course for law enforcement
90	90	officers conducted by the training center or to any certified state or local
91	91	law enforcement training school to assure that each applicant is qualified
92	92	to serve as a law enforcement officer. The director of police training shall
93	93	adopt minimum standards, which shall receive prior approval by the
94	94	commission, to be considered in the pretraining evaluation. The director of
95	95	police training shall advise the city, county or state agency, railroad, school
96	96	district or community college authorizing the applicant to attend the
97	97	training center or certified state or local law enforcement training school of
98	98	the results of the pretraining evaluation. The director of police training,
99	99	with approval of the commission, may reject an applicant to the training
100	100	center who does not meet the minimum pretraining standards.
101	101	(c) Training courses conducted pursuant to this section:
102	102	(1) may include procedures for law enforcement to follow when
103	103	responding to an allegation of stalking; and
104	104	(2) shall include information about motorcycle profiling and training
105	105	on how to avoid motorcycle profiling.
106	106	Sec. 3. K.S.A. 74-5604a is hereby repealed.
107	107	Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
108	108	publication in the statute book.
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