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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2655: Authorizing the chief judge of each municipal court to establish a specialty court program, providing for expungement when a person has completed the requirements of such program, authorizing judges to waive the fee in expungement cases by reviewing and granting a poverty affidavit and requiring judges to waive the fee for petitions for expungement of municipal arrest records in certain cases.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 2655 is a bill introduced in the Kansas House on February 3, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Authorizing the chief judge of each municipal court to establish a specialty court program, providing for expungement when a person has completed the requirements of such program, authorizing judges to waive the fee in expungement cases by reviewing and granting a poverty affidavit and requiring judges to waive the fee for petitions for expungement of municipal arrest records in certain cases. Primary sponsor: Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): Died in Senate Committee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Committee on Corrections and Juvenile JusticePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Senate Committee
  2. Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary
  3. Received and Introduced
  4. Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
  5. Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
  6. Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
  7. Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 115, Nay 1, Absent 9
  8. Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
  9. Introduced
  10. Referred to House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source