Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2298 - Transferring $1,000,000,000 from the budget stabilization fund to the liability reduction fund of KPERS, using a portion of the interest earnings of the liability reduction fund to provide a 2% COLA for retirants who have been retired for more than 5 years, transferring annually certain amounts from the state general fund to the budget stabilization fund and establishing requirements for the expenditure or transfer of moneys from the budget stabilization fund.
AN ACT concerning state moneys; creating the liability reduction fund of the Kansas public employees retirement system and transferring $1,000,000,000 from the budget stabilization fund to such fund; using a portion of the interest earnings of the liability reduction fund to provide a cost-of-living adjustment to certain retirants of Kansas public employees retirement system and systems thereunder; authorizing certain transfers of such employer contribution savings from the state general fund to the budget stabilization fund; establishing requirements for the expenditure or transfer of moneys from the budget stabilization fund; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 75-6706 and repealing the existing section.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-05 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-02-06 | Status | in_committee |
| 2025-02-06 | Latest Action | Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2237 | HB2237 - Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses. | enrolled |
| HB 2602 | HB2602 - 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. | enrolled |
| HB 2626 | HB2626 - Expanding veterans preference in government employment to include current members of the national guard and such members' eligible spouses. | in_committee |
| HB 2653 | HB2653 - Requiring the secretary of corrections to assist inmates with obtaining identification and employment-related documentation prior to release from custody. | unknown |
| SB 229 | SB229 - 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. | in_committee |
| SB 30 | SB30 - Requiring that adoption of new occupational licensing requirements and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by joint resolution of the legislature unless otherwise ratified by the legislature by the enactment of a bill and providing for notice to agencies and the legislature and a procedure for legislative review of such occupational licensing requirements. | enrolled |
| HB 2114 | HB2114 - Substitute for HB 2114 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Clarifying which structures shall be considered water obstructions and not a dam, increasing application fees for a permit to construct, modify or add to a dam, requiring preconstruction permit fees and requiring any licensed professional engineer who conducts inspections required by the act to be approved by the chief engineer or a certified intern engineer who is under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer. | in_committee |
| HB 2396 | HB2396 - Senate Substitute for HB 2396 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Authorizing the use of a protest petition to limit funding of a taxing jurisdiction by property tax revenues exceeding a certain amount, providing for a protest petition notice to be sent to taxpayers and modifying the content requirements of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice. | in_committee |