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Exempting correctional authorities and certain business entities contracting with correctional authorities from certain rules and regulations governing the possession, transportation and use of explosive materials.
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.
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.
Substitute for HB 2357 by Committee on Judiciary - Providing for expungement of certain court records and consideration of mediation in eviction actions in which the underlying rental agreement is governed by the residential landlord and tenant act.
Providing for statewide electrician licensing by the board of technical professions.
Removing the two-bedroom requirement to qualify as hotel, motel or tourist court requiring collection of tax from all such qualifying rentals.
Requiring public construction contracts to include a mutual waiver of consequential damages.
House Substitute for SB 51 by Committee on Legislative Modernization - Authorizing the chief information security officer to receive audit reports, updating statutes related to services provided by the chief information technology officer and authorizing the office of information technology services to provide certain services to political subdivisions and hospitals.
Establishing the Kansas military affairs commission and prescribing the powers and duties thereof.
Permitting the secretary of corrections to enter into certain contracts for the production of manufactured or modular homes under the prison-made goods act.
Prohibiting cities and counties from restricting the discretion of landlords not to rent residential or commercial property on grounds including prospective tenants receipt of housing assistance or eviction or criminal history, and permitting cities and counties to prohibit discrimination by landlords on the basis of receipt of veterans benefits.
Enacting the by-right housing development act to provide a streamlined permit approval process for by-right housing developments, allowing third-party review of new residential construction development documents and inspection of improvements, requiring political subdivisions to allow certain building provisions for single-family residences of a certain size, excluding owner initiated rezoning to a single-family residential district from protest petition provisions and providing for all land within the corporate limits of a city to be considered zoned for single-family residential use.
Prohibiting the development or operation of any new large load data center in a county that has had a drought emergency declared for such county pursuant to the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three years.
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.
Providing an exception to the rules and regulations filing act for technical amendments, creating a process for certain rules and regulations to receive priority status in the adoption process, removing references to revival of rules and regulations, clarifying that the department of the budget is not required to approve proposed rules and regulations mandated by the federal government and adding references to department of corrections rules and regulations that are not subject to the act.
Facilitating nursing workforce development by providing education levels for instructors at nursing schools as a requirement for state approval.
Substitute for HB 2346 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Establishing the Kansas sports tourism grant program administered by the secretary of commerce to provide matching grants to communities for developing and continuing sporting events, providing for funding of such grants from the state economic development initiatives fund or from the state general fund if funds are not available therefrom.
Extending the sunset for the angel investor tax credit to 2031.
Establishing requirements for a portable benefit plan for independent contractors, determining types of contributions to such plans and providing a subtraction modification for Kansas income tax purposes.
Establishing the Kansas right-to-repair act to provide the right for persons who purchase or lease digital electronic equipment to obtain the legal authorization and necessary documentation and parts from original equipment manufacturers to diagnose, maintain and repair such equipment.
Requiring data centers to be located on land that was zoned for industrial or manufacturing uses or was not zoned on July 1, 2025, to qualify for the sales tax exemption for qualified data centers.
Authorizing the state historical society to convey certain real property located in Johnson county to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.
Providing that fire sprinkler systems shall not be required in this state for multi-family dwellings of four attached units or fewer, prohibiting municipal fire sprinkler requirements for multi-family dwellings of four or fewer attached living units and defining apartment buildings for purposes of the fire code.
Creating the no-impact home-based business fairness act, supporting the development and growth of such businesses by limiting the regulatory power of municipalities.
House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Furthering economic development by providing for authorization of a port authority by the unified government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, authorizing redevelopment of mall facilities as STAR bond projects, allowing vertical construction for certain STAR bond projects, facilitating such projects in less-populated counties in the Wichita and Kansas City metropolitan statistical areas, setting visitor origin requirements for such projects and providing for enforcement of such requirements, expanding transparency of such projects, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for such projects, making certain other changes and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act.
Authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the duration of the FIFA 2026 world cup.
Extending the sunset for the angel investor tax credit to 2031.
Requiring certain disclosures to be made to prospective tenants and providing restrictions on fees for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.
Enacting the motor vehicle right to repair act.
Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $16 an hour and making such minimum wage applicable to employers and employees covered under the provisions of the federal fair labor standards act.
Setting a maximum fee for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.
Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army for owners of certain property located in Johnson county.
Modifying how a rental agreement terminates in the case of material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement.
Requiring landlords to offer to sell certain rental properties to the tenants of such properties before offering such properties for sale to the public.
Discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit for qualified developments receiving a 4% federal tax credit.
Discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit for qualified developments receiving a 4% federal tax credit.
Creating the regulatory relief division within the office of the attorney general and establishing the general regulatory sandbox program to waive or suspend rules and regulations for program participants.
Requiring local governments to meet specified deadlines for issuing building permits and requiring the department of health and environment to issue a response to an applicant's submitted notice of intent to discharge stormwater runoff from construction activities within 45 days of submission.
Authorizing the board of cosmetology to issue temporary location and temporary guest artist permits and establishing criteria therefor.
Modifying certain business filing and fee requirements for business trusts, foreign corporations and limited partnerships; authorizing professional corporations or limited liability companies formed or organized to render a professional service to participate in transactions under the business entity transactions act; and making certain information provided by registered agents a public record.
Setting the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the secretary of state, limiting the method of providing surety for professional employer organizations with insufficient working capital to bonds and eliminating a market value measure of the sufficiency of such bonds.
Providing for different credit percentages for the tax credit for expenditures for the restoration and preservation of historic structures based on city populations and the amount of the expenditures.
Designating the existing fallen firefighters memorial within the Kansas firefighters museum in Wichita as the official fallen firefighters memorial of the state of Kansas and replacing the Kansas firefighters memorial advisory committee with the Kansas firefighter memorial council; defining the fireworks sales season for seasonal retailers of consumer fireworks, providing for year-round sales by permanent retailers of consumer fireworks, requiring permanent retailers to register with the state fire marshal.
Increasing the membership of the council on travel and tourism, updating the house legislative committee assignment required for council members appointed from the house, and removing provisions requiring allocation of funds from the matching grant program for the promotion of tourism for private, public and nonprofit entities and limiting the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity.
Enacting the fostering competitive career opportunities act to remove postsecondary degree requirements from state employment considerations.
Expanding the property tax exemption for Strother field airport property.
Increasing the Kansas minimum wage of employees.
Establishing the Kansas paid sick time act, setting accrual, usage and employer obligations regarding earned paid sick time and making it unlawful for employers to retaliate against employees exercising rights under the act.
Proposing to amend the Kansas Constitution to repeal section 12 of article 15, regarding membership and nonmembership in labor organizations.
Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit and sales tax exemption to incentivize film, video and digital media production in Kansas, establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas and requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports to the legislature regarding the program.
Providing for local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.
Amending the definition of land devoted to agricultural use to include trail rides as a ranching activity to qualify as an agritourism activity.
Approving the creation of a port authority in Wyandotte County Kansas.
Providing injured employees the freedom of choice to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.
Establishing the Kansas paid prenatal personal leave act requiring employers to provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave.
Providing that the legislature may approve the creation of port authorities by enactment of a bill and authorizing the governing body of the unified government of Wyandotte county and Kansas City, Kansas, to create a port authority.
Preserving child labor protections by requiring a legislative review process when considering bills proposing to reduce or eliminate child labor protections, providing that the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations review such bills and that the secretary of labor provide a report to the legislature to assist the legislature’s consideration of such bills.
Providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas and the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs, electricity and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of at least $600,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements.
Creation of a port authority in Wyandotte County Kansas
Changing the fee charged by the department of commerce for applications for certain economic development programs from a flat fee to a certain percentage of the total economic development incentive program package as determined by the secretary of commerce within a specified percentage range.
Defining benefit year, temporary unemployment and other terms in the employment security law, requiring electronic filing for certain employers, establishing qualifications for employment security board of review candidates, extending the deadline for new accounts following business acquisitions, making certain changes to the employer rate schedules, enabling employers to report claimant work search issues, confirming legislative coordinating council oversight for the new unemployment insurance information technology system implementation, authorizing the secretary to grant temporary unemployment, requiring the secretary to annually publish certain data and abolishing the employment security interest assessment fund.
Increasing the membership appointed by the governor on the council on travel and tourism and updating the house committee assignment required for house members from the committee on agriculture and natural resources to the committee on commerce, labor and economic development;reducing the required allocation of funds from the department of commerce's matching grant program for the promotion of tourism by public and nonprofit entities and removing the restriction on the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity.
Creating the Kansas small, minority, woman, disadvantaged and service-disabled veteran business enterprise development act, providing for development of such business enterprises through greater participation in providing goods and services to state agencies and postsecondary educational institutions and requiring development of plans and goals for such participation, establishing the office of minority and women business development within the department of commerce and providing for an advisory committee on certified small business enterprises.
Eliminating the requirement to conduct a recurring 911 implementation audit, a recurring KPERS audit and certain economic development incentive audits.
Discontinuing the angel investor tax credit program after 2024.
Establishing the transformation of passenger and freight vehicle industry program to attract businesses engaged in electric motor vehicle and hydrogen-powered vehicle production by offering qualified companies that meet certain requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of a percentage of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs of the qualified company’s qualified business facility.
Increasing the maximum amount of yearly income tax credits available for purchases under the disability employment act from qualified vendors, continuing in existence such credits beyond tax year 2023 of eligible purchases available for such credit and further defining qualifying vendors and employees eligible for the credit, establishing a grant program to facilitate transitions by employers to minimum wage employment for persons with disabilities and creating the Kansas sheltered workshop transition fund.
Substitute for HB 2414 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Developing postsecondary engineering programs, providing scholarships for engineering students at certain public and private institutions of higher education by establishing a matching grant program to be administered by the secretary of commerce and creating the engineering graduate incentive fund.
Prohibiting cities and counties from regulating plastic and other containers designed for the consumption, transportation or protection of merchandise, food or beverages.
Defining "benefit year" and "temporary unemployment" in the employment security law, allowing the extension of temporary unemployment; requiring electronic report filing by certain employers, permitting discretion in appointments and terms for the temporary employment security board of review, delaying new account formation after certain business acquisitions, requiring the new unemployment insurance system to allow employer reports regarding claimant compliance and authorizing the legislative coordinating council to extend new system implementation deadlines.
Requiring that licensing bodies provide paper-based and verified electronic credentials to credential holders, including military servicemembers and others receiving Kansas credentials based on their credentials from other jurisdictions, that the secretary of administration develop and implement an electronic license verification system, that centralized electronic credential data management systems be established with instant verification systems operated by licensing bodies and excepting the certification of law enforcement officers from all provisions of the amended section.
Designating Lehigh Portland state park.
Enacting the Kansas adult learner grant act to facilitate workforce development by providing grants and workforce retention incentive tax credits to adults who pursue baccalaureate degrees from eligible postsecondary educational institutions in certain fields of study.
Providing funding for STAR bond districts to replace lost food sales tax revenue, authorizing renovation and construction costs for historic theaters and major amusement parks, including amusement rides, as eligible STAR bond project costs, extending the deadline for the STAR bond report to certain legislative committees, and increasing the financing limit for pay-as-you-go funding for rural redevelopment projects.
Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, permitting a 16 year-old staff member to staff a unit with children at least 12 months old without supervision, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase day care facility availability or capacity.
Increasing and changing the measure of the cost threshold when state construction projects require a negotiating committee and the selection of professional services from a list of qualified firms.
Permitting workers compensation benefits for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Creating the Kansas rural grocery store development incentive act to provide tax incentives for the development of grocery businesses in rural areas of the state.
Allowing cites, counties or other local units of government to raise the minimum wage by ordinance, resolution or law.
Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit, sales tax exemption and loans and grants to incentivize film, video and digital media production in Kansas, establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas and requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports on the economic impact of the act.
Enacting the making work pay act to increase the Kansas minimum wage.
Prohibiting cities and counties from regulating consumer merchandise and auxiliary containers for the consumption, transportation or protection of consumer merchandise.
Increasing the maximum compensation benefits payable by an employer for permanent total disability suffered by an injured employee.
Expanding the use of bond proceeds under the Kansas rural housing incentive district act, the transferability of income, privilege and premium tax credits issued under the Kansas housing investor tax credit act and enacting the Kansas urban housing incentive district act.
Requiring the director of the budget to independently determine costs of compliance and implementation for all proposed rules and regulations and authorizing the director of the budget to disapprove proposed rules and regulations.
Transferring registration requirements and related compliance oversight and enforcement authority for professional employer organizations from the commissioner of insurance to the secretary of state effective January 1, 2025, granting the secretary responsibility over the professional employer organization fee fund and ensuring that welfare benefit plans offered by professional employer organizations to employees and covered employees are treated as a single employer welfare benefit plan for purposes of state law.
Substitute for HB 2570 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Defining benefit year, temporary unemployment, wages and other terms in the employment security law, requiring electronic filing for certain employers, establishing qualifications for employment security board of review candidates, extending the deadline for new accounts following business acquisitions, making certain changes to the employer rate schedules and lowering rates for new employers, enabling employers to report claimant work search issues, confirming legislative coordinating council oversight for the new unemployment insurance information technology system implementation, authorizing the secretary to grant additional temporary unemployment in certain circumstances, requiring the secretary to publish certain information, abolishing the employment security interest assessment fund and providing relief for negative account balance employers.
Eliminating the requirement to conduct a recurring 911 implementation audit, a recurring KPERS audit and certain economic development incentive audits.
Providing for the sale of property not retrieved by an occupant after notice, allowing electronic signatures and delivery for rental agreements, defining property that has no commercial value, providing for the deemed effectiveness of rental agreements not signed or delivered by an owner or occupant and specifying custody of abandoned or towed property under the self-service storage act.
Providing workers compensation act coverage for the Kansas national guard, limiting benefit reductions for retirement benefits, increasing dependents death benefits, reducing certain functional impairment requirements, increasing compensation for certain disability categories and for treatment without authorization, raising the evidentiary standard for future medical treatment, limiting certain procedures for post-award medical benefit claims, allowing benefit payment by funds transfer or payment cards, establishing procedures for neutral healthcare examinations, exchanges and admission of medical reports, extending employee injury notification deadlines, eliminating the deadline for motions to avoid dismissal for lack of prosecution, providing for expedited settlement and digital recording of hearings and other changes to the workers compensation act.
Providing hiring, promotion and retention preferences for persons with disabilities for certain state executive branch positions and extending the expiration provision for the state use law committee.
Providing that military spouses of active military servicemembers shall be exempted from all occupational licensing, registration and certification fees.
Senate Substitute for HB 2344 by Committee on Commerce - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for a temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity.
Promoting Kansas workforce development by enacting the Kansas apprenticeship act to expand apprenticeships with businesses, healthcare organizations and nonprofit organizations through tax credits and grants and to develop teaching apprenticeships with public schools through scholarships for professional teaching degrees and by establishing a program to provide matching grants to public and private professional engineering schools for engineering scholarships and program development costs.
Ensuring that refrigerants that are approved for use under federal law may be used in Kansas.
Increasing bonding authority and simplifying the approval process for public airport construction and improvement projects under the surplus property and public airport authority act and increasing the cost threshold for state construction projects when the convening of a negotiating committee to obtain professional services is required.
Authorizing towing by self-storage unit operators of motor vehicles, watercraft or trailers for nonpayment of rent or abandonment and providing for notice to occupants, a right of redemption prior to towing and liability protection for operators.
Creating definitions for "advanced recycling" and related terms and separating advanced recycling from the current solid waste management system.
Providing public employees and professional employees certain rights with respect to withholding of public employee organization and professional employee organization dues.
Providing that worker's compensation benefit reductions due to retirement benefits funded by the employer shall apply to retirement benefits that the employee begins receiving after the injury to reduce permanent disability benefits and exempting benefits under the federal social security act.
Enacting the protect home-based work act prohibiting the enactment or enforcement of zoning regulations that are barriers to home-based work.
Permitting workers compensation benefits for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Requiring a prevailing wage for state public works construction contracts by state agencies and permitting cities and counties to require a prevailing for such contracts.
Enacting the making work pay act to increase the Kansas minimum wage.
Enacting the delivery service liability act and assigning liability when delivery drivers cause damage to the property of others while carrying out their duties.
Applying licensure provisions for real estate brokers and salespersons to trusts and authorizing the Kansas real estate commission to issue cease and desist orders.
Concerning an employer's maximum liability for permanent total disability compensation and requiring an employer to pay such disabled employee during the continuance of such disability from the date of maximum medical improvement for the lifetime of the employee at the weekly rate of the compensation in effect on the date of injury for which compensation is being made.
Enacting the Kansas targeted employment act to provide tax credits for the employment of persons with developmental disabilities.
Increasing the minimum wage by $1 per year to $15 an hour by 2027.
Changing provisions of the employment security law including creation of the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council, development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system, provision of tax information to claimants, publication of trust fund data, the maximum benefit period, the charging of employer accounts for benefits paid, employer contribution rate determination and schedules, abolishment of the employment security interest assessment fund, crediting of employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments, transfers from the state general fund to the unemployment insurance trust fund for improper benefit payments, changes to the shared work compensation program and other unemployment trust fund provisions.
Prohibiting an employer from taking any adverse employment against against an employee because of the employee's vaccination status.
Revising two tax credits - first by updating the Kansas angel investor tax credit act with respect to the definition of qualified securities, tax credit limitations and amounts, investor requirements and extending the date that credits may be allowed, and second by increasing the tax credit for expenses incurred to make a residence accessible to persons with a disability.
Decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs from the high performance incentive fund program.
Changing law pertaining to real estate brokers and salespersons including the definition of broker, licensure, actions that require licensing, exemptions, application of licensure provisions to trusts, Kansas real estate commission administrative fines, cease and desist orders and subpoena authority.
Changing unemployment insurance disqualification provisions for fraud, part-time employment for educational institutions and receipt of pensions.
Providing that the testimony of an examining healthcare provider may be submitted in evidence by the provider's medical report in workers compensation cases.
Establishing the Kansas commission for the United States semiquincentennial.
Changing law pertaining to real estate brokers and salespersons including the definition of broker, licensure, actions that require licensing, exemptions, application of licensure provisions to trusts, Kansas real estate commission administrative fines, cease and desist orders and subpoena authority.
Prohibiting an employer from taking any adverse employment against against an employee because of the employee's vaccination status.
Allowing injured employees to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.
Changing provisions of the employment security law including creation of the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council, development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system, provision of tax information to claimants, publication of trust fund data, the maximum benefit period, the charging of employer accounts for benefits paid, employer contribution rate determination and schedules, abolishment of the employment security interest assessment fund, crediting of employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments, transfers from the state general fund to the unemployment insurance trust fund for improper benefit payments, changes to the shared work compensation program and other unemployment trust fund provisions.
Requiring use of the fourth edition of the AMA medical guide to determine impairment for awarding workers compensation benefits.
Removing an employment security law restriction on leasing of certain employees by client lessees of lessor employing units.
Enacting the Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act and providing for registration for home inspectors with oversight by the attorney general.
Expanding the definition of compensable personal injury in workers compensation law to include mental injuries suffered from physical injury, emotional shock or after a series of work-related events.
Concerning an employer's maximum liability for permanent total disability compensation and requiring an employer to pay such disabled employee during the continuance of such disability from the date of maximum medical improvement for the lifetime of the employee at the weekly rate of the compensation in effect on the date of injury for which compensation is being made.
Providing for an emergency expansion of the employment security board of review with a sunset of June 30, 2024.
Amending unemployment insurance disqualification provisions relating to dates disqualification begins, recovery from illness or injury and part-time employment for an educational institution.
Expanding the military spouse and service member’s expedited licensure law to all applicants who have established or intend to establish residency in Kansas, providing for licenses in an emergency declared by the legislature, allowing telemedicine by out-of-state healthcare providers and permitting the use of electronic credentials.
Authorizing the sale of alcoholic liquor by class A clubs at special events under the club and drinking establishment act.
Enacting the right to earn a living act to minimize unnecessary occupational licensing and regulation.
Prohibiting cities and counties from regulating plastic and other containers designed for the consumption, transportation or protection of merchandise, food or beverages.
Providing for the use of personal package delivery devices on sidewalks and crosswalks, exempting such devices from motor vehicle regulation and limiting additional municipal regulation.
Providing for the use of personal package delivery devices on sidewalks and crosswalks, exempting such devices from motor vehicle regulation and limiting additional municipal regulation.
Changing law relating to employment including employment security law provisions regarding the employment security fund status and employer contribution rates and the definition of employment to conform with federal law, making revisions to the department of labor’s my reemployment plan program and enacting the Kansas targeted employment act to facilitate employment of persons with developmental disabilities through a tax credit incentive for employers.
House Substitute for SB 91 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing liability protection for businesses, municipalities and educational institutions that participate in high school work-based learning programs and providing that schools are responsible for injuries to students participating in such programs.
Regulating the retail sale of fireworks all year and extending the time period for seasonal retail sale of fireworks.
House Substitute for SB 347 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Enacting the attracting powerful economic expansion act to provide for tax and other incentives to attract projects in specified industries, or for national corporate headquarters, that involve a capital investment of at least $1,000,000,000, providing for a reduction in the Kansas corporate income rate triggered by the first agreement under the act, limiting the number of agreements and requiring state finance council approval of agreements.
Senate Substitute for Substitute HB 2196 by Committee on Commerce - Changing provisions of the employment security law including creation of the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council, development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system, provision of tax information to claimants, publication of trust fund data, the maximum benefit period, the charging of employer accounts for benefits paid, employer contribution rate determination and schedules, crediting of employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments, transfer of federal COVID-19 moneys to the unemployment insurance trust fund, emergency expansion of the employment security board of review, providing for the my reemployment plan program and workforce training program availability to claimants, changes to the shared work compensation program and other unemployment trust fund provisions.
House Substitute for SB 124 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Expanding STAR bonds by adding rural redevelopment projects and major business facilities, prohibiting public officials from employment with a developer, providing for public notice of hearings on city or county websites, posting of certain documents and links on websites, disclosure of names of developer, disclosure of state, federal and local tax incentives within a STAR bond district, changing certain project financing, investment and sales provisions, adding visitor tracking plan requirements and additional feasibility study requirements with oversight by the secretary, requiring approval by the secretary for real estate transfers, requiring district contiguity and extending the sunset date.
Amending the Kansas rural housing incentive district act to permit bond funding for vertical residential renovation of older buildings in central business districts and by changing the definitions of an eligible city or county.
Amending the angel investor tax credit with respect to the definition of qualified securities, tax credit limitations and amounts, investor requirements and extending the date that credits may be allowed, and also amending the tax credit for expenses incurred to make a residence accessible to persons with a disability by increasing the credit.
Enhancing the high performance incentive program by decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs and by providing for the transferability of the tax credit.
Permitting online advertisement and sales of abandoned property by self-storage rental unit operators; providing for the designation by occupants of an alternate contact and limiting claims for loss or damage of stored property to the property value limit provided in the rental agreement.
Amending workers compensation law regarding occupational diseases to provide certain presumptions for compensation for COVID-19 with respect to all employers.
Extending the period for unemployment insurance benefit eligibility to 26 weeks for the next two years.
Amending employer contribution rates.
Amending the angel investor tax credit with respect to the definition of qualified securities, tax credit limitations and amounts, investor requirements and extending the date that credits may be allowed.
Extending the STAR bonds financing act sunset to July 1, 2021.
Providing for the use of personal package delivery devices on sidewalks and crosswalks, exempting such devices from motor vehicle regulation and preempting additional municipal regulation.
Exempting certain plans or operations from the crime of conducting a pyramid promotional scheme.
Enacting the Kansas taxpayer protection act; establishing notice and public hearing requirements prior to approval by a governing body to exceed its revenue neutral rate for the imposition of property tax and discontinuing the city and county tax lid; providing a waiver of interest and fees on certain delinquent property taxes for a period of time and delaying preparation of delinquent real estate tax list and notice; prohibiting valuation increase for real property solely as the result of normal repair, replacement or maintenance of existing structure; providing for county treasurers to establish a payment plan for the payment of delinquent or nondelinquent taxes; requiring the state board of tax appeals to serve orders and notices by electronic means if requested by the party; prohibiting county appraisers and the state board of tax appeals from increasing the valuation of county appraised property in valuation appeals
Requiring the board of technical professions to adopt license fee amounts by rules and regulations.
Substitute for HB 2506 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Expanding the military spouse and service member's expedited licensure law to all applicants who have established or intend to establish residency in Kansas.
Liability protection for businesses that participate in high school work-based learning programs.
Permitting student athletes to receive compensation for the use of their name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation when 15 other states adopt similar legislation.
Self-storage unit rentals; sales and towing of property for nonpayment of rent or abandonment; contractual value of property.
Amending certain provisions regarding business entities and business filings with the secretary of state, including business name, certain addresses, making revisions to certain statutory citations and extending the effective date of certain provisions pertaining to series of a limited liability company.
Enhancing employment security law penalties for employee misclassification and providing for an order enjoining further business until an employer complies with the law.
Setting the number of weeks a claimant is eligible to receive unemployment benefits.
Creating eligibility requirements for compensation of the unemployment benefit waiting week.
Enacting the right to earn a living act to minimize unnecessary occupational licensing and regulation.
Extending the period for unemployment insurance benefit eligibility to 26 weeks for the next two years.
Changing the filing schedule for business entity information reports with the secretary of state from an annual to a biennial basis effective July 1, 2022.
Senate Substitute for HB 2154 by Committee on Commerce - Amending employment security law with respect to benefit eligibility, contribution rates, shared work program requirements and other matters to address COVID-19 and to comply with federal COVID-19 employment security law emergency administrative grant and reimbursement funding requirements.
Increasing bond maturity limitations in the Kansas rural housing incentive district act.
Economic development program evaluations and disclosure of certain data; development incentives for rural housing shortage and rural housing incentive district bonds.
Enacting the Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act.
Establishing the legislative post audit economic development incentive review subcommittee.
Requiring the department of commerce to create a database of economic development incentive program information.
Enacting the Kansas buy American act.
Enacting the Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act.
Enacting the public employee right to choose act, providing public employees with the right of relief from the obligation to pay union dues through withholding of their wages.
Increasing the limit of healthcare expenses allowed as a workers compensation benefit for injured employees prior to formal authorization of a claim.
Allowing injured workers who receive social security to keep the full amount of their workers compensation benefits.
Increasing the minimum wage.
Workers compensation impairment determination; use of AMA guidelines.
Amending the meaning of the terms "rebate" and "interest" as used in the real estate brokers' and salespersons' license act.
Unemployment benefits for privately contracted school bus drivers.
Income tax credit for certain purchases of goods and services by a taxpayer from qualified vendors that provide employment to individuals who are blind or disabled.
Enacting the Kansas reinvestment act.
House Substitute for SB 27 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing for a maximum of 26 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits and compensation for the pre-payment waiting period.
Affording public employees and professional employees certain rights with respect to withholding of public employee organization and professional employee organization dues.
Substitute for SB 366 by Committee on Commerce - Expanding the expedited occupational licensure provisions for military servicemembers and spouses to all applicants; reports by licensing bodies.
Senate Substitute for HB 2167 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Establishing a commercial industrial hemp program.
Amending Kansas real estate commission licensing provisions for brokers and sales persons.
Extending the tax credit under the center for entrepreneurship act to financial institutions and increasing the annual tax credit limit for all contributors.
Extending the sunset date of the state use law for five years.
Income tax credit for taxpayer purchases of certain goods and services from qualified vendors providing employment for blind or disabled individuals.
Substitute for HB 2572 by Committee on Taxation - Requiring the department of commerce to create a database of economic development incentive program information.
Establishing the economic development incentive review program to be evaluated by the legislature’s commerce committees and requiring reports by the post auditor.
Permitting real estate brokers and salespersons to give clients or customers rebates if disclosed in the purchase contract or listing agreement.
Amending STAR bonds by limiting financing to tourist attractions, limiting the state revenue contribution and limiting benefits for certain businesses.
Urging the state corporation commission to lower retail electric rates to regionally competitive levels.
Transparency, project financial viability requirements and other reforms to the STAR bond financing act.
Extending the high performance incentive program tax credit carry forward period from 16 to 25 years.
Unemployment benefits for privately contracted school bus drivers
Allowing workers with injuries to choose their doctors.
Urging the state corporation commission to take all action to set rates for electric service at regionally competitive levels.
Making workers compensation death benefits adequate and equivalent with respect to recent benefit limit changes.
Extending the time that taxpayers may carry forward the high performance incentive program tax credit.
Enacting the ad astra rural jobs act.
Authorizing growth of Kansas agribusiness through development of an industrial hemp industry; enacting the Kansas agricultural industry growth act.
Promoting the employment across Kansas act; moratorium on the award of benefits.
Enacting the ad astra rural jobs act.
High performance incentive program, moratorium on income tax credits and sales tax exemptions.
Directing the secretary of labor to submit a plan and negotiate an agreement for state enforcement of OSHA standards.
Hiring Kansans first.
Kansas buy American act.
Enhancing the penalty for misclassification of employees for purposes of evading taxes or unemployment insurance contributions.
Requiring e-verify for certain public contracts, enacting the Kansas employer e-verify accountability act.
Workers compensation impairment determination.
Clarifying how to enforce an order for support against a person's workers compensation benefits.
Providing for fair consideration for employment to persons with records of conviction.
Including volunteer members of regional search and rescue teams within workers compensation coverage under the state workers compensation self-insurance fund.
Enacting the Kansas reinvestment act.
Eliminating consumer reporting agencies' authority to charge certain fees related to consumer report security freezes.
Concerning restrictions of state contracts with businesses engaged in anti-Israel boycotts.
Senate Substitute for HB 2184 by Committee on Commerce - Amending workers compensation death benefits.
Authorizing redevelopment districts encompassing federal enclaves to impose utility franchise fees, incur debt, issue bonds and enter into lease-purchase agreements.
Amending certain employment security benefit provisions relating to receipt of separation pay.
Public construction contracts and performance and payment bonds.
City and county inspections of rental properties; limitations.
Prohibiting cities or counties from adopting employee scheduling policies for private employers.
Reserving regulation of consumer incentive items and nutrition labeling for food menu items in restaurants and vending machines to the legislature.
Senate Substitute for HB 2509 - Concerning administrative fees for economic development programs administered by the department of commerce.
Workers compensation; medical administrator; electronic filing; records disclosure.
Kansas ideas festival by state employees for efficiency savings in state government.
Establishing a non-discretionary performance based bonus program for state employees.
Providing for community finance fees and other administrative cost recovery fees for the department of commerce.
Utility franchises in redevelopment districts that encompass federal enclaves.
Recertification of professional employees' organizations under the professional negotiations act.
Employment security law: reinstating waiting week and trailing spouse benefit provisions.
Concerning local governmental regulatory authority; price controls on real estate transactions; food labeling, distribution, production; residential property inspections; employee scheduling.
Enacting the Kansas reinvestment act to assist small business and community development in low income areas.
Senate Substitute for HB 2096 by Committee on Commerce - Public employees concerning public employer-employee relations act and deductions from wages.
Redefining tenant and rental agreement under the residential landlord and tenant act.
Allowing businesses to pass on credit surcharge to consumers.
Strengthening protection of public employee paychecks.
Prohibiting retaliation or discrimination by an employer against a parent for taking time off to attend certain court proceedings involving children.
Repealing the prohibition against agencies and municipalities requiring contractors to enter into certain labor agreements for public works construction projects.
Requiring employment of Kansas workers for certain state contracts and tax incentives.
State directory of new hires; contractors.
Directing the secretary of administration to study whether public employers engage in wage discrimination on the basis of sex.
Limiting negotiations under the public employer-employee relations act.
Workers compensation use of American medical association guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment.
Public entities expenditures for energy projects intended to reduce energy costs.
Enacting the Kansas working families pay raise act.
Unemployment benefits for privately contracted school bus drivers.
Rehabilitation of abandoned property by cities.
Allowing students early access to the CPA examination.
Enacting the contaminated property redevelopment act.
Amending nonresident real estate broker and salesperson license requirements.
House Substitute for SB 106 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development-Enacting the alternative crop research act.
STAR bonds; economic impact study; base year for additions of area to project districts; financing in excess of approved amounts.
Integrating certain statutes pertaining to business filings and limited liability companies.
Amending unemployment insurance benefits determination; employer classification and contribution rates.
Cities; rehabilitation of abandoned property; definitions, other.
State employees; classified positions converted to unclassified positions.
Exempting certain general contractors from the roofing contractor registration act.
Real estate brokers and salespersons; license fees; education; applicants; prohibited acts; transaction representation.
Alternative project delivery; notice requirements and selection procedures.
Substitute for HB 2615 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Workers compensation assigned risk pool.
State contracts; access to negotiated bid contracts by certified businesses; preference for business owned by disabled veterans.
Enabling active business recruitment through PEAK.
Substitute for Substitute for HB 2721 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Enacting the business entity standard treatment act.
Enacting the Kansas employee credit consideration act.
Economic development financing; eligible project costs for certain TIF and CID districts; bond repayment requirements; clarifying tax status of certain property.
Substitute for HB 2430 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Promoting employment across Kansas act; benefits.
Senate Substitute for HB 2616 by Committee on Commerce - Secretary of labor directed to study state enforcement of OSHA standards.
Emerging industry investment act; treatment of certain bioscience companies.
State use law; extending the committee for 5 years; allowing municipalities to use the products and services.
Promoting employment across Kansas act; benefits.
Substitute for HB 2246 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Peer review for certain licensed technical professions.
State use law; extending the committee for 5 years; allowing municipalities to use the products and services.
Enacting the public service protection act.
Enacting the Kansas reinvestment program act.
War on Poverty, 50th Anniversary.
Enacting the municipal communication's network and private telecommunications investment safeguards act.
Municipalities; solid waste collection; limitations
Emerging industry investment act; treatment of certain bioscience companies.
Promoting employment across Kansas act; benefits.
Economic development financing; eligible project costs for certain TIF and CID districts; bond repayment requirements; clarifying tax status of certain property.
House Substitute for SB 231 - Concerning valuation and appeals; renaming the state court of tax appeals; timing of decisions.
Removing the secretary of labor's role of taking assignment of wage claims.
Regulated entities and activities including cemeteries and agreements relating thereto and certain city and county licenses.
Real estate brokers and salespersons; licensing requirements; sales transaction requirements.
Kansas expanded lottery act; south central Kansas gaming zone restrictions.
Cities; experience requirements for plumbers, electricians and certain mechanical contractors.
Kansas Buy American Act.
Kansas employment first initiative act amendments.
Requiring employment of Kansas workers for certain state contracts and tax benefits.
Prohibiting referral fees between realtors
Requiring radon testing for residential home sales.
Constitutional amendment adding the economic freedom amendment prohibiting the transfer to the federal government of ownership interests in entities formed under Kansas law.
Civil procedure, commercial property liens; state construction registry, notice of commencement and notice of furnishings.
Prohibiting employers from requiring employees to divulge social media content.
Kansas employer e-verify accountability act.
Certain deductions from wages authorized.
Business entities; restricting the use of an acquired entity's name by an acquiring entity.
Employment security law; creation of "new employer rate."
Amending the shared work unemployment compensation program; layoff aversion.
Kansas expanded lottery act; southeast Kansas gaming zone; privilege fee and investment threshold amount reduced.
Senate Substitute for HB 2023 by Committee on Commerce - enacting the public service benefits protection act.
Emerging industry investment act; treatment of certain bioscience companies.
Amending employment security law regarding disposition of penalty funds and disclosure of confidential information.
Property tax exemption for levees.
Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act.
Substitute for HB 2105 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development- Employment security law.
Public policy; certain city ordinances and county resolutions declared void.
Substitute for HB 2024 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development- Kansas roofing registration act.
Public employees relations board; assessment of certain costs.
VoIP and IP enabled services.
Senate Substitute for HB 2150 by Committee on Commerce – Concerning the Kansas employment first oversight commission.
Establishing the workers compensation and employment security boards nominating committee; administrative law judges; appeals board; duties of secretary of health and environment; filing claims; AMA guide; workplace health and safety program.
Drug screening for recipients of cash assistance and unemployment benefits.
Prison-made goods act; prohibiting prisoner production of manufactured or modular homes.
Record requirements and civil penalties relating to sales of plastic bulk merchandise containers.
Senate Substitute for HB 2022 by Committee on Commerce concerning employees -- relating to certain employee organizations; political activities; certain deductions from wages.
Workers compensation: administration; administrative judge disqualification; notice; workplace health and safety program.
Secretary of labor; powers and duties; employment standards; accident prevention programs; wage claim assignment fee fund.
Employment security law; eligibility for certain benefits, abolish Employment Security Advisory Council, notice requirements.
Certain deductions from wages authorized.
Use of credit report for employment decisions.
Workers in shared arrangements; professional employer organization registration act; multiple coordinate policies for workers compensation insurance.
Workers compensation and employment security boards nominating commission.
Information submitted to department of labor for state directory of new hires.
Prison-made goods act; prohibition against production of manufactured or modular homes.
Enacting the Kansas financial incentive protection act.
Workers compensation and employment security boards nominating commission.
Employment security law; reversing waiting week and trailing spouse benefit amendments in 2011 SB 77.
Amendments to labor and employment standards pertaining to accident prevention and the powers and duties of the secretary of labor regarding wage claims, labor disputes and workplace inspection.
Employment Security Law.
Requiring employment of Kansas workers for certain state contracts and tax benefits.
Discrimination based on employment status prohibited.
Enacting the Kansas small and disadvantages business development act.
Enforcement of employee misclassification by the attorney general.
Employment security law; benefits for school bus drivers.
Wage payment act; additional penalties for employers who repeatedly fail to pay wages.
Establishing the Kansas employment initiative act and the Kansas employment first oversight commission.
Kansas Bioscience Authority; additional voting members.
Reinstatement of prevailing wage for state construction projects.
Enforcement of employee misclassification by the attorney general.
Kansas small and disadvantaged business development program act.
Employment security law; benefits for school bus drivers.
Transferring KTEC appointment authority to governor.
Transferring KTEC appointment authority to Governor.
House Substitute for SB 416 by Committee on Commerce and Economic Development -- Secretary of Labor, employment security law; workplace safety program, employment standards, labor and wage dispute.
Trailer bill for 2011 ERO 37.
Abolishing KTEC: transferring duties to department of commerce and board of regents.
Subsitute HB 2135 by Committee on Commerce and Economic Development -- Misclassification of employees to avoid tax withholding, contributions and reporting requirements.
Employment security law; interest payment assessment; duties of secretary.
Substitute HB 2134 by Committee on Commerce and Economic Development - Amending the workers compensation act.