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Minutes for HB2406 - Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Short Title
Prohibiting persons in charge of a building from requiring off-duty police officers carrying a concealed handgun from providing certain personal information or wearing anything identifying such persons as a law enforcement officer or as being armed.
Minutes Content for Tue, Feb 21, 2023
Chairperson Carpenter opened the hearing on HB2406, The revisor provided an overview of the bill (Attachment 21). A question was asked by Representative Ruiz.
Chairperson Carpenter recognized Darrell Atteberry, Chief of Police of BelAire, Kansas, as a proponent on the bill (Attachment 22). He stated that since passage of the Kansas Personal and Family Protection Act, off-duty law enforcement officers who elect to carry a concealed handgun to locations or events have been forced to submit personal identifying information. In some locations, the off-duty officers are required to wear wrist bands to designate that the off-duty officer is carrying a concealed handgun. Objecting to the demand for information results in being denied entry or being asked to leave. By requiring personal identifying information and placing a wristband on someone covered by K.S.A. 75-7c22 before that person is admitted to a venue or as a requirement to be admitted into the venue is akin to creating a regulation or rule to restrict, or if not prohibit, to dissuade the carrying of concealed handguns by off-duty or retired law enforcement officers. That was not the original intent of the legislature when it passed the Kansas Personal and Family Protection Act. The Committee was asked to pass HB2406 to rectify those situations. A question was asked by Representative Highberger.
There being no further conferees, Chairperson Carpenter closed the hearing on HB2406.
