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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 71: Increasing the criminal penalties for buying sexual relations, removing provisions regarding city ordinances prohibiting buying sexual relations, requiring certain offenders to complete an educational or treatment program regarding commercial sexual exploitation and requiring the attorney general to approve such programs in consultation with the office of judicial administration.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 71 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on January 23, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Increasing the criminal penalties for buying sexual relations, removing provisions regarding city ordinances prohibiting buying sexual relations, requiring certain offenders to complete an educational or treatment program regarding commercial sexual exploitation and requiring the attorney general to approve such programs in consultation with the office of judicial administration. Primary sponsor: Committee on Judiciary. Most recent recorded action (March 21, 2025): Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507.

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 JudiciaryPrimary 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. Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507
  2. Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary
  3. Final Action - Passed; Yea 40, Nay 0
  4. Received and Introduced
  5. Referred to House Committee on Judiciary
  6. Committee of the Whole - Be passed
  7. Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Judiciary
  8. Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary
  9. Introduced

Sources

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