Kansas bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas SB 494

Expanding the definition of stalking to include more technology-based methods, requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies for making primary aggressor assessments when responding to domestic violence calls and requiring a prosecutor to affirm such assessment was completed, prohibiting public agencies from charging fees to victims of domestic violence for public records, allowing evidence of other domestic violence offenses to be admissible in a criminal action in which the defendant is accused of a domestic violence offense, adding certain contact to options for protection from abuse or stalking orders and allowing lifetime extensions of protection from abuse orders for victims of domestic battery.

1. Introduced
2. In committee
3. Passed Senate
4. Passed House
5. To Governor
6. Became law

Sponsors

• Committee on Judiciary

Summary

Text versions

• As Introduced

Roll-call votes

No recorded votes on this bill.

Actions

• Feb 5, 2026 · Senate
  Introduced
• Feb 6, 2026 · Senate
  Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary
• Apr 10, 2026 · Senate
  Died in Committee