Republican Senator Jean Schodorf introduced a bill today setting out specific times and locations when protesters would be banned at funerals.
The Wichita lawmaker says an existing Kansas law banning protests at funerals is so vague that it's hard to enforce.
Schodorf has 30 co-sponsors in the 40-member Senate, and Majority Leader Derek Schmidt predicts easy passage.
Members of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church say they picket military funerals in the belief that soldiers are killed because of divine anger at U-S tolerance of homosexuality.
Schodorf's bill would keep demonstrators at least 300 feet from any funeral or memorial service. Protests would be banned in the hour before and two hours after a service.