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KS SB229
Bill
Status
3/24/2025
Primary Sponsor
Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
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AI Summary
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Requires state agencies to submit annual reports each September to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations detailing all occupational licenses under their jurisdiction, including license holder counts, regulations, fees, education requirements, and reciprocity agreements
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Mandates that any new occupational license or material change to an existing license adopted by an agency on or after July 1, 2025, must be approved by joint resolution of the legislature before taking effect
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Standing committees in both the House and Senate must review proposed new licenses or material changes and provide written recommendations, with Kansas Legislative Research Department staff preparing analysis reports within two weeks
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Exempts healthcare-related licensing boards from these requirements, including the board of nursing, dental board, state board of healing arts, state board of pharmacy, behavioral sciences regulatory board, board of examiners in optometry, and state board of technical professions
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Required staff reports must analyze whether the license protects public health/safety/welfare, examine less restrictive alternatives, compare regulations in other states, and estimate compliance costs including fees, education costs, and time to obtain the license
Legislative Description
House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law.
Last Action
House Motion to accede adopted; Representative Tarwater, Representative Ward and Representative Sawyer Clayton appointed as conferees
3/16/2026