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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	SENATE BILL No. 113
3	3	By Committee on Transportation
4	4	1-30
5	5	AN ACT concerning traffic regulations; relating to reckless driving;
6	6	including operating a motor vehicle at a speed of 100 miles per hour or
7	7	more and 35 miles per hour over the posted speed limit under the crime
8	8	of reckless driving; amending K.S.A. 8-254 and 8-1566 and repealing
9	9	the existing sections.
10	10	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
11	11	Section 1. K.S.A. 8-254 is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-254.
12	12	(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), the division shall revoke a
13	13	person's driving privileges upon receiving a record of the person's
14	14	conviction of any of the following offenses, including municipal
15	15	violations, when the conviction has become final, or upon receiving a
16	16	record of a person's adjudication as a juvenile offender for commission of
17	17	an act which, if committed by a person 18 or more years of age, would
18	18	constitute any of the following offenses when the adjudication has become
19	19	final:
20	20	(1) Involuntary manslaughter, as defined in subsection (a)(2) of
21	21	K.S.A. 21-5405, and amendments thereto, if the crime is committed while
22	22	committing a violation of K.S.A. 8-1566 or subsection (a) of 8-1568, and
23	23	amendments thereto, or the ordinance of a city or resolution of a county
24	24	which prohibits any acts prohibited by those statutes;
25	25	(2) vehicular homicide, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5406, and
26	26	amendments thereto;
27	27	(3) battery, as defined in subsection (a)(1) of K.S.A. 21-5413, and
28	28	amendments thereto, if the crime is committed while committing a
29	29	violation of K.S.A. 8-1566 or 8-1568, and amendments thereto, or the
30	30	ordinance of a city or resolution of a county which prohibits the acts
31	31	prohibited by those statutes;
32	32	(4) failure to stop and render aid as required under the laws of this
33	33	state in the event of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death or
34	34	personal injury of another;
35	35	(5) conviction, or forfeiture of bail not vacated, upon a charge of
36	36	reckless driving, except violations committed under K.S.A. 8-1566(a)(2),
37	37	and amendment thereto, shall not apply under this paragraph;
38	38	(6) conviction, or forfeiture of bail not vacated of for any felony in
39	39	the commission of which a motor vehicle is used; or
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76	76	(7) fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer as provided in
77	77	K.S.A. 8-1568, and amendments thereto, or conviction of violation of an
78	78	ordinance of any city or a law of another state which is in substantial
79	79	conformity with such statute.
80	80	(b) In lieu of revoking a person's driving privileges as provided by
81	81	subsection (a), the court in which the person is convicted or adjudicated
82	82	may place restrictions on the person's driving privileges as provided by
83	83	K.S.A. 8-292, and amendments thereto, unless the violation was
84	84	committed while operating a commercial motor vehicle, as defined in
85	85	K.S.A. 8-2,128. Driving privileges are to be automatically revoked if the
86	86	violation which leads to the subsequent conviction occurs in a commercial
87	87	motor vehicle, as defined in K.S.A. 8-2,128.
88	88	Sec. 2. K.S.A. 8-1566 is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-1566.
89	89	(a) Any person who drives any shall be guilty of reckless driving if such
90	90	person operates a vehicle:
91	91	(1) in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property
92	92	is guilty of reckless driving; or
93	93	(2) at a speed of 100 miles per hour or more or 35 miles per hour or
94	94	more over the maximum posted speed limit, except as provided in K.S.A. 8-
95	95	1506, and amendments thereto, without regard to any culpable mental
96	96	state.
97	97	(b) Except as provided in K.S.A. 8-2,142, and amendments thereto,
98	98	violation of this section is a misdemeanor. Upon a first conviction of a
99	99	violation of this section, a person shall be sentenced to not less than five
100	100	days nor more than 90 days imprisonment or fined not less than $25 nor
101	101	more than $500, or both such fine and imprisonment. On a second or
102	102	subsequent conviction of a violation of this section, a person shall be
103	103	sentenced to not less than 10 days nor more than six months imprisonment,
104	104	or fined not less than $50 nor more than $500 or both such fine and
105	105	imprisonment.
106	106	Sec. 3. K.S.A. 8-254 and 8-1566 are 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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