KS SB188

Requires minimum $50,000 cash or surety bail for persons charged with manufacturing controlled substances, possessing drug precursors with intent to manufacture, distributing drug precursors, criminal street gang-related person felonies, and racketeering violations

Replaces "release on recognizance" terminology throughout Kansas statutes with "unsecured judicial release," which allows release without cash deposit but with a guarantee to pay the bond amount upon failure to appear

Prohibits unsecured judicial release for 11 categories of serious violent crimes including capital murder, first and second degree murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, aggravated robbery, rape, criminal sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, and aggravated indecent liberties with a child

Allows courts to grant unsecured judicial release for drug manufacturing charges only if the court finds on record the defendant is unlikely to reoffend, imposes pretrial supervision, or the defendant agrees to participate in licensed drug treatment

Amends 13 Kansas statutes (K.S.A. 21-5703, 21-5709, 21-5710, 21-5910, 21-5915, 21-6316, 21-6329, 22-2802, 22-2803, 22-2814, 22-2815, 22-2816, and 22-2817) and takes effect upon publication in the statute book