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KS SB512
Bill
Status
2/16/2026
Primary Sponsor
Assessment and Taxation
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AI Summary
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Removes the eight-week cap on temporary unemployment, allowing workers to remain on temporary layoff status indefinitely while expecting to return to their employer, rather than being limited to eight consecutive weeks with possible extensions
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Excludes payments from compliant employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit (SUB) plans from the definition of "wages," meaning these employer-funded payments that supplement state unemployment benefits will not affect eligibility, disqualification, waiting week, or weekly benefit calculations
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Eliminates the negative debt write-off and forgiveness mechanism that automatically moved employers with reserve ratios at or below -7.150% to rate group N11 for three years, along with the option for employers to avoid this through voluntary contributions
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Prohibits charging contributing employers in ready-mixed concrete production/distribution and highway/bridge construction industries for benefit charges arising from temporary layoffs
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Removes the secretary's authority to grant eight-week extension increments for temporary unemployment, employer reporting duties for extensions, and industry-specific eligibility requirements for extensions that previously applied to ready-mixed concrete and construction industries
Legislative Description
Removing the eight-week return to work expectation from the definition of temporary unemployment, excluding payments under compliant employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans from the definition of wages and removing the negative debt write-off and forgiveness mechanism that conditionally moved employers to rate groups N11 for three years and the related option to avoid a negative debt write-off through voluntary contributions.
Last Action
Senate Withdrawn from Committee on Assessment and Taxation; Referred to Committee on Commerce
3/10/2026