Civil Code Advisory Committee

 
     

Members:

Meeting Dates:

None Scheduled.

J. Nick Badgerow, Chair

Overland Park

James M. Armstrong

Wichita

Hon. Terry L. Bullock

Topeka

Prof. Jim Concannon

Topeka

Hon. Bruce T. Gatterman

Larned

Allen G. Glendenning

Great Bend

John L. Hampton

Lawrence

Hon. Marla J. Luckert

Topeka

Hon. Kevin P. Moriarty

Olathe

Thomas A. Valentine

Topeka

Don W. Vasos

Fairway

 

 

Function:

The Civil Code Advisory Committee monitors the civil code and related areas of law.

Assignment:

The Committee will propose two bills in the 2011 legislative session. One is a clean-up bill following 2009 HB 2656, the civil code revision. The other is a new evidentiary rule based on Federal Rule of Evidence 502. The Committee will also monitor the progression of the apology law proposed by the Special Committee on the Judiciary.

In addition, the Committee will study the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that became effective December 1, 2010, amending Rule 8 (affirmative defenses), Rule 26 (discovery and expert disclosures), and Rule 56 (summary judgments) to determine if similar changes should be made in the Kansas Code of Civil Procedure.