HB2608 • 2026

Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy.

Crime

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Last action: 2026-04-10
Official status: Died in Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy.

What This Bill Does

Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy.

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Bill History

2026-04-10 House
Died in Committee
2026-01-30 House
Referred to House Committee on Judiciary
2026-01-30 House
Introduced

Official Summary Text

Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy.

Current Bill Text

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Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2608
By Committee on Judiciary
Requested by Representative L. Williams
1-30
AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating
to exposing another to a communicable disease; modifying the
elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual
intercourse or sodomy; increasing the penalties for such crime;
amending K.S.A. 21-5424 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 21-5424 is hereby amended to read as follows: 21-
5424. (a) It is unlawful for an individual, who knows oneself to be
infected with a life threatening communicable disease, to:
(1) Engage in sexual intercourse or sodomy with another individual
with the intent to expose that individual to that life threatening
communicable disease , regardless of whether such sexual intercourse or
sodomy is otherwise lawful or unlawful;
(2) sell or donate one's own blood, blood products, semen, tissue,
organs or other body fluids with the intent to expose the recipient to a life
threatening communicable disease; or
(3) share with another individual a hypodermic needle, syringe, or
both, for the introduction of drugs or any other substance into, or for the
withdrawal of blood or body fluids from, the other individual's body with
the intent to expose another person to a life threatening communicable
disease.
(b) Violation of this section is a severity level 7 4, person felony.
(c) As used in this section:
(1) "Sexual intercourse" shall not include penetration by any object
other than the male sex organ; and
(2) "sodomy" shall not include the penetration of the anal opening by
any object other than the male sex organ.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 21-5424 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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