Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2381 Compare Versions

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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	HOUSE BILL No. 2381
3	3	By Committee on Appropriations
4	4	Requested by Representative Tarwater
5	5	2-13
6	6	AN ACT concerning the office of the attorney general; establishing the
7	7	safe and secure firearm detection program; providing for certain entities
8	8	to use firearm detection software; establishing the safe and secure
9	9	firearm detection fund; transferring funds from the state general fund to
10	10	support the program.
11	11	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
12	12	Section 1. (a) There is hereby established the safe and secure firearm
13	13	detection program. The attorney general shall oversee and implement the
14	14	safe and secure firearm detection program in accordance with the
15	15	requirements of this section and any rules and regulations established by
16	16	the attorney general pursuant to this section.
17	17	(b) The attorney general shall enter into a contract with a private
18	18	vendor for firearm detection software to be used by a public entity or
19	19	accredited nonpublic school. Such software shall:
20	20	(1) Detect and alert building personnel and first responders regarding
21	21	the presence of visible, unholstered firearms on the public entity or
22	22	accredited nonpublic school property;
23	23	(2) be fully designated as qualified anti-terrorism technology under
24	24	the federal SAFETY act, 6 U.S.C. § 441 et seq.;
25	25	(3) integrate with a building's security camera infrastructure;
26	26	(4) be directly managed by the contracted vendor through a
27	27	constantly monitored operations center that is staffed by highly trained
28	28	analysts who can rapidly communicate possible threats to law enforcement
29	29	and appropriate building personnel; and
30	30	(5) be developed in the United States without the use of any third-
31	31	party or open-source data.
32	32	(c) Any public entity or accredited nonpublic school may apply to the
33	33	attorney general for authorization to use the firearm detection software.
34	34	The application shall be in such form and manner as the attorney general
35	35	requires and submitted at a time determined and specified by the attorney
36	36	general. Each application submitted by a public entity or accredited
37	37	nonpublic school shall specify the buildings in which such public entity or
38	38	accredited nonpublic school intends to use the firearm detection software.
39	39	(d) There is hereby established in the state treasury the safe and
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75	75	secure firearm detection fund, which shall be administered by the attorney
76	76	general. All expenditures from such fund shall be for implementing the
77	77	provisions of this section. All expenditures from such fund shall be made
78	78	in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of
79	79	accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the attorney
80	80	general or the attorney general's designee.
81	81	(e) On July 1, 2025, or as soon thereafter as moneys are available, the
82	82	director of accounts and reports shall transfer $20,000,000 from the state
83	83	general fund to the safe and secure firearm detection fund.
84	84	(f) The attorney general may promulgate rules and regulations to
85	85	effectuate the provisions of this section.
86	86	(g) Annually, on or before the first day of the regular session of the
87	87	legislature commencing in 2026, the attorney general shall prepare and
88	88	submit a report summarizing the safe and secure firearm detection
89	89	program for public entities and accredited nonpublic schools to the house
90	90	of representatives standing committees on appropriations and education
91	91	and the senate standing committees on ways and means and education.
92	92	(h) As used in this section:
93	93	(1) "Public entity" means the state or any political or taxing
94	94	subdivision of the state or any office, agency or instrumentality thereof, or
95	95	any other entity receiving or expending and supported in whole or in part
96	96	by public funds appropriated by the state or public funds of any political or
97	97	taxing subdivision of the state and a medical care facility.
98	98	(2) "Medical care facility" means a hospital, ambulatory surgical
99	99	center or recuperation center. "Medical care facility" does not include a
100	100	hospice that is certified to participate in the medicare program under 42
101	101	C.F.R. § 418.1 et seq. and that provides services only to hospice patients.
102	102	Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
103	103	publication in the statute book.
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