Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: 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.
AN ACT concerning labor and employment; relating to the employment security law; providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by legislative committees of both houses; authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria, including compliance with federal guidance and being employer funded; ensuring that supplemental unemployment benefit plans do not disqualify employees from state unemployment benefits; requiring the secretary to maintain a registry of authorized plans and monitor the impact of such plans on the employment security trust fund; updating terminology and reorganizing sections for improved readability and compliance; enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines; integrating supplemental unemployment benefit plans into the current statutory framework; authorizing the secretary to adopt rules and regulations for supplemental unemployment benefits; updating provisions pertaining to temporary unemployment benefits and benefit exhaustion; providing that such benefits may extend for up to eight weeks; refining rate table and experience-rating provisions; discontinuing certain debt-relief provisions for negative balance employers; updating provisions for determining suitable work and disqualification conditions for unemployment benefits; enhancing electronic filing provisions; updating and clarifying certain definitions; providing for certain publication and data reporting duties of the secretary; clarifying criminal provisions and penalties for fraud; consolidating provisions of the employment security insurance act for domestic violence survivors and repealing redundant sections; amending K.S.A. 44-701, 44-702, 44-704a, 44-704b, 44-710d, 44-710e, 44-710f, 44-710i, 44-711, 44-712, 44-713, 44-713a, 44-714, 44-715, 44-716, 44-716a, 44-718, 44-719, 44-720, 44-721, 44-722, 44-723, 44-724, 44-725, 44-727, 44-758, 44-760, 44-765, 44-766, 44-767, 44-768, 44-769, 44-770, 44-773 and 44-777 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 44-703, 44-704, 44-705, 44-706, 44-710, 44-710a, 44-710b, 44-717, 44-772, 44-774, 44-775 and 79-3234 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 44-706a, 44-761, 44-762, 44-763 and 44-764.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-06 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-03-27 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-03-27 | Latest Action | Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 88 Nay: 34 |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2042 | HB2042 - Requiring title agents to make their audit reports available for inspection instead of submitting such reports annually, requiring the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance to be $100,000, eliminating the controlled business exemption in certain counties. | enrolled |
| HB 2346 | HB2346 - 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. | enrolled |
| HB 2466 | HB2466 - Extending the sunset for the angel investor tax credit to 2029 and providing for a minimum amount of credits for investors in qualified Kansas businesses located in counties with a population of 50,000 or fewer. | 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. | enrolled |
| SB 23 | SB23 - Requiring agents and insurers to respond to inquiries from the commissioner of insurance within 14 calendar days and authorizing certain rebate pilot programs to exceed one year in duration. | enrolled |
| SB 403 | SB403 - Providing for the pheasants forever, quail forever and delta waterfowl distinctive license plates. | enrolled |
| SB 92 | SB92 - Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application. | enrolled |
| HB 2018 | HB2018 - Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providing criminal penalties therefor and providing for a civil cause of action for damages. | enrolled |