Bill Commons

KS SB 71

died on adjournment

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.

Kansas · 2026 Regular Session · upper

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did KS SB 71 pass?

No. KS SB 71 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2025-03-21): Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

What is KS SB 71 about?

KS SB 71 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “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.”.

Who sponsors KS SB 71?

Committee on Judiciary is the primary sponsor of KS SB 71.

Introduced
2025-01-23
Latest action
2025-03-21 — Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Committee on Judiciaryprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-03-21

    Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

  2. 2025-03-07

    Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary

    committee-passage-favorable

  3. 2025-02-19

    Final Action - Passed; Yea 40, Nay 0

    passage

  4. 2025-02-19

    Received and Introduced

    introduction

  5. 2025-02-19

    Referred to House Committee on Judiciary

    referral-committee

  6. 2025-02-18

    Committee of the Whole - Be passed

    passage

  7. 2025-02-04

    Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Judiciary

    committee-passage-favorable

  8. 2025-01-24

    Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary

    referral-committee

  9. 2025-01-23

    Introduced

    introduction

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/SB71/

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T04:56:44.586501Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=KS&identifier=SB 71. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.