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Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2704
By Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Requested by Jennifer King on behalf of Kansas Department of Corrections
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AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating
to credit for time spent incarcerated; providing that certain amendments
are applicable to any sentence computed on or after October 20, 2023;
amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 21-6615 and repealing the existing
section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 21-6615 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 21-6615. (a) (1) In any criminal action in which the defendant is
convicted, the judge, if the judge sentences the defendant to confinement,
shall direct that for the purpose of computing the defendant's sentence and
parole eligibility and conditional release dates thereunder, that such
sentence is to be computed from a date, to be specifically designated by
the court in the sentencing order of the journal entry of judgment. Such
date shall be established to reflect and shall be computed as an allowance
for the time that the defendant has spent incarcerated pending the
disposition of the defendant's case. The defendant shall be entitled to have
credit applied for each day spent incarcerated. In recording the
commencing date of such sentence the date as specifically set forth by the
court shall be used as the date of sentence and all good time allowances as
are authorized by the secretary of corrections are to be allowed on such
sentence from such date as though the defendant were actually
incarcerated in any of the institutions of the state correctional system.
(2) For any sentence computed on or after October 20, 2023, when
computing the defendant's sentence, the following shall not be considered
time spent incarcerated pending disposition of the defendant's case:
(A) Any time awarded as credit in another case when consecutive
sentences are imposed on a defendant; or
(B) any time spent incarcerated in another jurisdiction if no hold has
been issued in such jurisdiction for the case being sentenced.
(b) In any criminal action in which probation or assignment to
community corrections is revoked and the defendant is sentenced to
confinement, for the purpose of computing the defendant's sentence and
parole eligibility and conditional release date, the defendant's sentence is
to be computed from a date, hereafter to be specifically designated in the
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sentencing order of the journal entry of judgment. Such date shall be
established to reflect and shall be computed as an allowance for the time
that the defendant has spent in a residential facility while on probation or
assignment to community correctional residential services program. The
commencing date of such sentence shall be used as the date of sentence
and all good time allowances as are authorized by law are to be allowed on
such sentence from such date as though the defendant were actually
incarcerated in a correctional institution.
(c) Such credit is not to be considered to reduce the minimum or
maximum terms of confinement authorized by law for the offense of
which the defendant has been convicted.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 21-6615 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.
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