Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: SB220 - Increasing the penalty for unlawful employment under child labor laws.
AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to child labor; increasing the penalty for unlawful employment of any person or child; amending K.S.A. 38-612 and repealing the existing section.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-05 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-02-11 | Status | in_committee |
| 2025-02-11 | Latest Action | Withdrawn from Committee on Public Health and Welfare; Referred to Committee on Judiciary |
| 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 2596 | HB2596 - Permitting the secretary of corrections to enter into certain contracts for the production of manufactured or modular homes for a pilot program at the Hutchinson correctional facility under the prison-made goods act. | in_committee |
| HB 2627 | HB2627 - Expanding permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and eligible spouses. | in_committee |