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.

Status: Died in Committee (as of 2026-04-10)

State: Kansas · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: SB 494

Subjects: Civil Procedure and Civil Actions, Crimes, Punishment and Criminal Procedure, Law Enforcement

Sponsors: Committee on Judiciary

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