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Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2545
By Committee on Transportation and Public Safety Budget
Requested by Representative Hoye
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AN ACT concerning courts; relating to municipal court assessments;
increasing certain municipal court fee assessments; crediting such
assessment increase to the Kansas commission on peace officers'
standards and training fund and the crime victims assistance fund;
amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 12-4117 and repealing the existing
section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 12-4117 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 12-4117.(a) In each case filed in municipal court other than a
nonmoving traffic violation, where there is a finding of guilty or a plea of
guilty, a plea of no contest, forfeiture of bond or a diversion, a sum in an
amount of $22.50 $28 shall be assessed and such assessment shall be
credited as follows:
One dollar to the local law enforcement training reimbursement fund
established pursuant to K.S.A. 74-5620, and amendments thereto, $11.50
to the state general fund, $5 $10 to the Kansas commission on peace
officers' standards and training fund established by K.S.A. 74-5619, and
amendments thereto, $2 to the juvenile alternatives to detention fund
established pursuant to K.S.A. 79-4803, and amendments thereto, to be
expended for operational costs of facilities for the detention of juveniles,
$.50 to the protection from abuse fund established pursuant to K.S.A. 74-
7325, and amendments thereto, $.50 $1 to the crime victims assistance
fund established pursuant to K.S.A. 74-7334, and amendments thereto, $1
to the trauma fund established pursuant to K.S.A. 75-5670, and
amendments thereto, and $1 to the department of corrections forensic
psychologist fund established pursuant to K.S.A. 75-52,151, and
amendments thereto.
(b) The judge or clerk of the municipal court shall remit the
appropriate assessments received pursuant to this section to the state
treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and
amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state
treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit
of the local law enforcement training reimbursement fund, the Kansas
commission on peace officers' standards and training fund, the juvenile
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alternatives to detention fund, the crime victims assistance fund, the
trauma fund, the department of corrections forensic psychologist fund and
the state general fund as provided in this section.
(c) For the purpose of determining the amount to be assessed
according to this section, if more than one complaint is filed in the
municipal court against one individual arising out of the same incident, all
such complaints shall be considered as one case.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 12-4117 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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