Kansas HB2329: Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria for such centers, prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers, modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements, authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds and transferring moneys from such account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services

What the bill says

An act concerning children and minors; changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers; modifying the intake criteria for such centers; prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers; modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers; relating to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code; increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders…

From the enrolled text, April 9, 2026:

AN ACT concerning children and minors; changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers; modifying the intake criteria for such centers; prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers; modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers; relating to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code; increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders; providing for increased placement of juvenile offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities; requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements between July 1, 2026, and July 1, 2030; requiring the Kansas juvenile justice oversight committee to monitor the impact and effectiveness of such placements; authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds in youth residential facilities prior to July 1, 2030; transferring moneys from such account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services; amending K.S.A. 38-2232, 38-2242, 38-2361, 38-2365, 38-2369, 38-2399, 75-52,161 and 75-7023 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 38-2243, 38-2330, 38-2391, 65-536 and 7552,164 and repealing the existing sections. Section 1. K.S.A. 38-2232 is hereby amended to read …