Specifically, the bill:
● Prohibits the unlawful discharge of a firearm within or into the corporate limits of
any city. The bill provides exemptions for when a firearm may be discharged
within or into a city and also classifies the unlawful discharge of a firearm as a
class B, nonperson misdemeanor;
● Modifies the Personal and Family Protection Act to allow the possession of
firearms on certain governmental property, including in state and municipal
buildings;
● Defines, for the purposes of the bill, the terms “adequate security measures,”
“municipality,” “restricted access entrance,” “state and municipal building,” and
“weapon”;
● Excludes school districts from the definition of “municipality”;
● Excludes the State Capitol from the definition of “state and municipal building”;
● Requires adequate security measures at public entrances of state and municipal
buildings in order to prohibit the carrying of any weapon into a building;
● Prevents a state agency or municipality from prohibiting a licensed employee
from carrying a concealed handgun at the employee’s workplace, unless the
building has adequate security measures and adopted personnel policies prohibit
such concealed carry by employees who are licensed;
● Provides that it will not be a violation of the provisions in the bill for a licensed
person to carry a concealed handgun through a restricted access entrance into a
state or municipal building with adequate security measures;
● Establishes that it is not be a crime for a person to carry a concealed handgun
into a public building if properly posted and allows for the denial to a building or
removal of such person from a building where concealed carry is prohibited;
● Provides liability protections for entities allowing concealed carry in state or
municipal buildings;
Kansas Legislative Research Department 1 2013 Summary of Legislation● Allows corrections facilities, jail facilities, or law enforcement agencies to prohibit
the carrying of handguns or firearms, concealed or unconcealed, into the secured
areas of such buildings, except any other area of such building, outside a
secured area and readily accessible to the public, shall be subject to provisions
in the bill;
● Permits the chief judge of each judicial district to prohibit the carrying of a
concealed handgun into courtrooms or ancillary courtrooms within the district
provided other means of security are employed;
● Allows the governing body or chief administrative officer of any state or municipal
building to exempt the building for four years, subject to developing a plan for
security measures and filing notification of the exemption;
● Provides a specific four-year exemption for any state or municipal building if the
governing body or chief administrative officer follows specified procedures for
exempting certain entities identified in the bill: public medical care facilities, public
adult care homes, community mental health centers, indigent health care clinics,
and post-secondary educational institutions;
● Permits school districts, post-secondary educational institutions, public medical
care facilities, public adult care homes, community mental health centers, and
indigent health care clinics to allow a licensed employee to concealed carry a
handgun if the employee meets the entity’s general policy requirements and if the
entity does not have a personnel policy prohibiting employees from concealed
carry of a handgun;
● Excludes the buildings of the Kansas School for the Blind and School for the
Deaf from application for a designated institutional exemption;
● Removes a specific listing of buildings in current law where concealed carrying is
prohibited and inserts the new phrase “any building”;
● Strikes language prohibiting the possession of a firearm on the grounds of certain
government buildings, including the State Capitol, and retains existing law
prohibiting “open carry” in state and municipal buildings;
● Exempts the State Capitol from provisions of the bill on and after July 1, 2014,
and allows a licensee to carry a concealed handgun in the State Capitol, unless
the Legislative Coordinating Council determines the Statehouse does have
adequate security measures;
● Updates a statute by striking an outdated reference to the Ombudsman of
Corrections which no longer exists;
● Unless otherwise required by law, prohibits the release of records that would
disclose the name, home address, zip code, e-mail address, phone number or
Kansas Legislative Research Department 2 2013 Summary of Legislationcell number, or other contact information of any person licensed to carry
concealed handguns. The provision also applies to applicants for a license;
● Deletes a reduced fee for a concealed carry license obtained by retired law
enforcement officers;
● Allows corrections officers, parole officers, and corrections officers employed by
the Federal Bureau of Prisons to apply professional firearms certification toward
training requirements for a concealed carry license;
● Adds law enforcement officers from other states and qualified retired law
enforcement officers to a list of individuals exempted from the law prohibiting the
criminal carrying of a weapon;
● Allows law enforcement officers from other states and qualified retired law
enforcement officers to possess handguns within buildings where concealed
carry may be prohibited;
● Provides liability protections regarding concealed carry for private businesses
either allowing or prohibiting concealed carry in private buildings;
● Changes all references in the bill for either premise or premises and facility or
facilities to either building or buildings; and
● Makes most provisions in the bill effective on July 1, 2013, and the provisions
pertaining to the State Capitol effective on July 1, 2014 (unless the Legislative
Coordinating Council determines the Statehouse does not have adequate
security measures as defined in the bill).
