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SB413 • 2026

Prohibiting counsel from suggesting an amount of damages for noneconomic loss in civil actions.

Prohibiting counsel from suggesting an amount of damages for noneconomic loss in civil actions.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibiting counsel from suggesting an amount of damages for noneconomic loss in civil actions.

Prohibiting counsel from suggesting an amount of damages for noneconomic loss in civil actions.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibiting counsel from suggesting an amount of damages for noneconomic loss in civil actions.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-10 House

    Died in House Committee

  2. 2026-03-11 House

    Hearing: Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 3:30 PM — Room 582-N — CANCELED event

  3. 2026-02-18 House

    Referred to House Committee on Judiciary

  4. 2026-02-18 House

    Received and Introduced

  5. 2026-02-18 Senate

    Final Action - Passed; Yea 29, Nay 11

  6. 2026-02-17 Senate

    Committee of the Whole - Be passed

  7. 2026-02-11 Senate

    Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Judiciary

  8. 2026-02-05 Senate

    Hearing: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S event

  9. 2026-01-29 Senate

    Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary

  10. 2026-01-28 Senate

    Introduced

Official Summary Text

Prohibiting counsel from suggesting an amount of damages for noneconomic loss in civil actions.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
Session of 2026
SENATE BILL No. 413
By Committee on Judiciary
1-28
AN ACT concerning civil procedure; prohibiting counsel from suggesting
an amount to award as damages for noneconomic loss in civil actions.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) No party or counsel shall offer the following to suggest
to the jury an amount to award as damages for noneconomic loss:
(1) A specific dollar amount;
(2) a range of dollar amounts;
(3) a mathematical formula or units of time; or
(4) a reference to objects or values lacking any relevant connection to
the facts proved by the evidence.
(b) The provisions of this act are severable. If any portion of this act
is held by a court to be unconstitutional or invalid, or the application of
any portion of this act to any person or circumstance is held by a court to
be unconstitutional or invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other portions
of this act that can be given effect without the invalid portion or
application and the applicability of such other portions of this act to any
person or circumstance remains valid and enforceable.
(c) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the code of
civil procedure.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.
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