7-127. Applicants for admission to practice law; required information; fingerprints; criminal history record check. (a) (1) Each applicant, in submitting the application, shall provide to the supreme court the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto. Whenever any person whose application for admission to practice law in this state is pending shall move from the residential address listed on such person's application, or when the name of any such person is changed by marriage or otherwise, such person, within 10 days thereafter, shall notify the supreme court in writing of such person's old and new residential addresses or of such person's former and new names.

(2) As used in this subsection, "applicant" means a person who has submitted an application for admission to practice law in this state.

(b) Any person whose application to practice law in Kansas is pending as of July 1, 2016, and for whom the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, is not correct on such application as of the effective date of this act*, shall provide the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, in writing to the supreme court within 60 days after the effective date of this act*. The supreme court, within 30 days after the effective date of this act*, shall send notice to all persons whose applications to practice law in Kansas are pending as of the effective date of this act*, that such persons are required by law to provide the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, in writing to the supreme court within 60 days after the effective date of this act*.

(c) The supreme court may require an applicant for admission to practice law in this state to be fingerprinted and submit to a national criminal history record check in accordance with K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 22-4714, and amendments thereto.

History: L. 2005, ch. 197, § 1; L. 2016, ch. 93, § 1; L. 2024, ch. 15, § 9; July 1.