Including operating a motor vehicle at a speed of 35 miles per hour over the posted speed limit under the crime of reckless driving.

As Amended by Senate Committee
Session of 2025
SENATE BILL No. 113
By Committee on Transportation
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AN ACT concerning traffic regulations; relating to reckless driving;
including operating a motor vehicle at a speed of 100 miles per hour or
more and 35 miles per hour over the posted speed limit under the crime
of reckless driving; amending K.S.A. 8-254 and 8-1566 and repealing
the existing sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 8-254 is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-254.
(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), the division shall revoke a
person's driving privileges upon receiving a record of the person's
conviction of any of the following offenses, including municipal
violations, when the conviction has become final, or upon receiving a
record of a person's adjudication as a juvenile offender for commission of
an act which, if committed by a person 18 or more years of age, would
constitute any of the following offenses when the adjudication has become
final:
(1) Involuntary manslaughter, as defined in subsection (a)(2) of
K.S.A. 21-5405, and amendments thereto, if the crime is committed while
committing a violation of K.S.A. 8-1566 or subsection (a) of 8-1568, and
amendments thereto, or the ordinance of a city or resolution of a county
which prohibits any acts prohibited by those statutes;
(2) vehicular homicide, as defined in K.S.A. 21-5406, and
amendments thereto;
(3) battery, as defined in subsection (a)(1) of K.S.A. 21-5413, and
amendments thereto, if the crime is committed while committing a
violation of K.S.A. 8-1566 or 8-1568, and amendments thereto, or the
ordinance of a city or resolution of a county which prohibits the acts
prohibited by those statutes;
(4) failure to stop and render aid as required under the laws of this
state in the event of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death or
personal injury of another;
(5) conviction, or forfeiture of bail not vacated, upon a charge of
reckless driving , except violations committed under K.S.A. 8-1566(a)(2),
and amendment thereto, shall not apply under this paragraph;
(6) conviction, or forfeiture of bail not vacated of for any felony in
the commission of which a motor vehicle is used; or
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(7) fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer as provided in
K.S.A. 8-1568, and amendments thereto, or conviction of violation of an
ordinance of any city or a law of another state which is in substantial
conformity with such statute.
(b) In lieu of revoking a person's driving privileges as provided by
subsection (a), the court in which the person is convicted or adjudicated
may place restrictions on the person's driving privileges as provided by
K.S.A. 8-292, and amendments thereto, unless the violation was
committed while operating a commercial motor vehicle, as defined in
K.S.A. 8-2,128. Driving privileges are to be automatically revoked if the
violation which leads to the subsequent conviction occurs in a commercial
motor vehicle, as defined in K.S.A. 8-2,128.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 8-1566 is hereby amended to read as follows: 8-1566.
(a) Any person who drives any shall be guilty of reckless driving if such
person operates a vehicle:
(1) in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property
is guilty of reckless driving; or
(2) at a speed of 100 miles per hour or more or 35 miles per hour or
more over the maximum posted speed limit, except as provided in K.S.A. 8-
1506, and amendments thereto, without regard to any culpable mental
state.
(b) Except as provided in K.S.A. 8-2,142, and amendments thereto,
violation of this section is a misdemeanor. Upon a first conviction of a
violation of this section, a person shall be sentenced to not less than five
days nor more than 90 days imprisonment or fined not less than $25 nor
more than $500, or both such fine and imprisonment. On a second or
subsequent conviction of a violation of this section, a person shall be
sentenced to not less than 10 days nor more than six months imprisonment,
or fined not less than $50 nor more than $500 or both such fine and
imprisonment.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 8-254 and 8-1566 are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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