TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Law enforcement would be required to record some interrogations under a bill influenced by the case of a Kansas man who spent nearly 16 years behind bars for a killing his brother eventually admitted to committing.

That bill would also make nearly a quarter million dollars available to Floyd Bledsoe.

The bill mandates interrogations of suspects arrested for capital murder, 1st and 2nd-degree murder.

Representative Ramon Gonzalez, a Perry Republican, says the bill he introduced Tuesday is “partly” a response to the wrongful conviction of Mr. Bledsoe. He was sentenced to life in prison but released Dec. 8, 2015, after a DNA test and suicide notes indicated his brother, Tom Bledsoe, killed Zetta Camille Arfmann in 1999.

Alice Craig, Bledsoe’s attorney with the Project for Innocence at the University of Kansas, supports recording interrogations.

Mr Bledsoe would be eligible for about $235,000 in state compensation under the proposed legislation.

He was convicted in 2000, for the 1999 murder of Camille Arfmann in Oskaloosa. He was sentenced to life in prison but was released December 8th, 2015, after a DNA test and suicide notes indicated his brother, Tom Bledsoe, killed Arfmann.

Representative Ramon Gonzalez introduced a measure recently that would allow people wrongfully convicted to bring suit in state court within two years of their release. Compensation is doled out using a formula based on the federal minimum wage and time spent in prison.  Under the formula, Bledsoe would be eligible for $235,248.

Payments would come out of the state’s general fund.