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House Abolition Bill Achieves New Firsts!

March 9, 2019

House Bill 2282 was introduced on February 12th.  It has 32 sponsors—the most ever for a Kansas abolition bill!  There are 15 Republican sponsors and 17 Democratic sponsors.

 

 

A hearing was held on February 19th in House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee.  Twenty people provided written or oral testimony in support of ending the death penalty. Only 3 people testified in favor of keeping it. We will be presenting testimony excerpts over the coming weeks.

 

Another first was achieved when the House committee actually held a vote on the bill on February 22nd – This was the first vote on abolition in a House committee since 1997!  It was a tie vote, and the Chair voted no so our bill did not advance to the full House for consideration. The close vote and our large number of bi-partisan sponsors reflects the growing support for the full House to have a debate on abolition.

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