Makes appropriations for the support of government - Legislature and Judiciary Budget.
Impact
The implementation of S03001 is expected to stabilize the fiscal resources needed for the Legislature and Judiciary, ensuring that the operations of state governance can continue uninterrupted. The budget allocations are structured to support essential personnel and operational needs, fulfilling statutory requirements. By supporting these branches of government, the bill aims to uphold public services and legislative integrity, which is vital for the state's administrative functions.
Summary
Bill S03001 focuses on making appropriations for the support of government, specifically targeting the budget for the Legislature and Judiciary. The bill outlines financial allocations for various aspects of governmental operations, including salaries for members and employees of the legislature, nonpersonal services related to supplies and materials, and other operational expenses. The primary goal is to establish a fiscal framework that can sustain government functionalities into the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2025.
Contention
Discussions surrounding S03001 may arise concerning specific appropriations allocated within the bill. Notably, any disagreements could originate from differing opinions on the amounts designated for various agencies and potential criticisms regarding the efficiency of fund allocation. Legislators may debate the sufficiency of the budget for addressing current governmental needs versus expected fiscal constraints and economic conditions, potentially making this a focal point of contention during legislative sessions.
Increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider, adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture, increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing fentanyl and for manufacturing or distributing any controlled substances that are likely to be attractive to minors because of their appearance or packaging, creating a special sentencing rule to make sentences for distributing fentanyl presumptive imprisonment, excluding materials used to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine or gamma hydroxybutyric acid from the definition of drug paraphernalia, adding domestic battery and violation of a protection order to the crimes that a person can have the intent to commit when committing burglary or aggravated burglary, increasing criminal penalties for the crime of interference with law enforcement when the violation involves fleeing from a law enforcement officer and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute certain crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties.
Changing the culpability required for certain types of theft and increasing the criminal penalty for theft to a felony when the property is a motor vehicle of the value of at least $500.
Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required.
Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.
Senate Substitute for HB 2144 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating the crimes of encouraging suicide and organized retail crime, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof, including organized retail crime in the definition of racketeering activity under the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute specified crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties.