{"id":"DUT-KS-001","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Kansas","state":"KS","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Kansas Legislature (enrolled Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29, 2025 Session; L. 2025, ch. 115)","authority":"L. 2025, ch. 115, §§ 1-3 (Sub. for S.B. 29) (amending K.S.A. 65-101, 65-119, 65-129b, effective July 1, 2025)","instrument":"Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29 (2025), enrolled bill amending K.S.A. 65-101, 65-119 and 65-129b (the struck text is the statute as it stood throughout 2020-2021)","title":"AN ACT concerning public health; removing the authorization for a county or joint board of health or local health officer to prohibit public gatherings when necessary for the control of infectious or contagious diseases; amending K.S.A. 65-119 and 65-129b and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 65-101 and repealing the existing sections","dateIssued":"2025-07-01","effective":"prior text (shown struck) in force throughout 2020-2021; amended text effective July 1, 2025","end":"standing (prior text superseded July 1, 2025)","startDate":"2025-07-01","endDate":"2025-07-01","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","GATH","QUAR"],"addressees":["persons generally (as the objects of gathering prohibitions and isolation or quarantine orders); county boards of health and local health officers (as the officers bound to enforce)"],"clause":"The county or joint board of health or local health officer is hereby empowered and authorized to prohibit public gatherings when necessary for the control of any and all infectious or contagious disease. [K.S.A. 65-119(a), period text, shown struck by § 2 and replaced with \u0027may recommend against\u0027]","enforcement":"K.S.A. 65-127 ($25 to $100 for each offense against 65-119) (DUT-KS-004); K.S.A. 65-129 (class C misdemeanor for breaking quarantine or disobeying the Secretary\u0027s rules) (DUT-KS-006)","functions":[],"notes":"Supplies, from the Legislature\u0027s own document, the 2020-2021 text of the three sections the 2025 act rewrote: the Secretary\u0027s power to \u0027take action to prevent the introduction... and to prevent the spread of infectious or contagious disease\u0027 (65-101(a)(5)), the local board\u0027s and health officer\u0027s power to prohibit public gatherings and duty to see that isolation, restriction of communication, quarantine and disinfection \u0027are duly enforced\u0027 (65-119(a)), and the isolation-and-quarantine order power over \u0027an individual or group of individuals\u0027 with law-enforcement assistance (65-129b(a)(1)(B), (a)(2)). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb29_enrolled.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":86023,"grade":"secondary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-KS","url":"/library/DUT-KS-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-KS-001","citation":"Kansas Legislature (enrolled Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29, 2025 Session; L. 2025, ch. 115), Substitute for Senate Bill No. 29 (2025), enrolled bill amending K.S.A. 65-101, 65-119 and 65-129b (the struck text is the statute as it stood throughout 2020-2021) (standing) (Ex. DUT-KS-001)","stateName":"Kansas","related":["DUT-KS-002","KS-040","DUT-KS-017","DUT-KS-004","DUT-KS-006"]}