Kansas SB 157: Designating February 15 of each year as Susan B. Anthony Day in the state of Kansas.

Bill Text

As Amended by House Committee
As Amended by Senate Committee
Session of 2025
SENATE BILL No. 157
By Committee on Judiciary
2-3
AN ACT concerning criminal procedure; relating to search and seizure;
requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause
justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement
officer; relating to release prior to trial; forfeiture of appearance bonds;
requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties; allowing
bond forfeiture to be set aside if in certain circumstances if a surety
can show that the defendant left the country was deported from the
United States; requiring remission in certain circumstances;
prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain
portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required;
amending K.S.A. 22-2502 and 22-2807 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 22-
2809b and repealing the existing section sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 22-2502 is hereby amended to read as follows:
22-2502. (a) A search warrant shall be issued only upon the oral or
written statement, including those conveyed or received by electronic
communication, of any person a law enforcement officer under oath or
affirmation which that states facts sufficient to show probable cause
that a crime has been, is being or is about to be committed and which
particularly describes a person, place or means of conveyance to be
searched and things to be seized. Any statement which that is made
orally shall be either taken down by a certified shorthand reporter,
sworn to under oath and made part of the application for a search
warrant, or recorded before the magistrate from whom the search
warrant is requested and sworn to under oath. Any statement orally
made shall be reduced to writing as soon thereafter as possible. If the
magistrate is satisfied that grounds for the application exist or that
there is probable cause to believe that they exist, the magistrate may
issue a search warrant for:
(1) The search or seizure of the following:
(A) Anything that can be seized under the fourth amendment of
the United States constitution;
(B) anything which that has been used in the commission of a
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crime, or any contraband or any property which that constitutes or
may be considered a part of the evidence, fruits or instrumentalities of
a crime under the laws of this state, any other state or of the United
States. The term "fruits" as used in this act shall be interpreted to
include any property into which the thing or things unlawfully taken
or possessed may have been converted;
(C) any person who has been kidnapped in violation of the laws
of this state or who has been kidnapped in another jurisdiction and is
now concealed within this state;
(D) any human fetus or human corpse;
(E) any biological material, DNA, cellular material, blood, hair or
fingerprints;
(F) any person for whom a valid felony arrest warrant has been
issued in this state or in another jurisdiction; or
(G) (i) any information concerning the user of an electronic
communication service;, any information concerning the location of
electronic communications systems, including, but not limited to,
towers transmitting cellular signals involved in any wire
communication;, and any other information made through an
electronic communications system; or
(ii) the jurisdiction granted in this paragraph shall extend to
information held by entities registered to do business in the state of
Kansas, submitting to the jurisdiction thereof, and entities primarily
located outside the state of Kansas if the jurisdiction in which the
entity is primarily located recognizes the authority of the magistrate to
issue the search warrant; or
(2) the installation, maintenance and use of a tracking device.
(b) (1) The search warrant under subsection (a)(2) shall authorize
the installation and use of the tracking device to track and collect
tracking data relating to a person or property for a specified period of
time, not to exceed 30 days from the date of the installation of the
device.
(2) The search warrant under subsection (a)(2) may authorize the
retrieval of the tracking data recorded by the tracking device during
the specified period of time for authorized use of such tracking device
within a reasonable time after the expiration of such warrant, for good
cause shown.
(3) The magistrate may, for good cause shown, grant one or more
extensions of a search warrant under subsection (a)(2) for the use of a
tracking device, not to exceed 30 days each.
(c) Before ruling on a request for a search warrant, the
magistrate may require the affiant to appear personally and may
examine under oath the affiant and any witnesses that the affiant may
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