SB 229

Kansas Senate bill in Session 2025-2026.

Status: failed. Latest action: April 10, 2026.

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.

Bill ID KS-2025-2026-SB-229

Session 2025-2026

Status failed

Committee Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Senate failed 2026-04-10

Business / Commerce Criminal Justice Family / Children Insurance / Consumer Protection Labor / Employment

Summary

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.

Sponsor

Senate Committee on Commerce

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Actions Timeline

Date	Event	Detail
2025-02-06	Introduced	Bill introduced
2026-04-10	Status	failed
2026-04-10	Latest Action	Died in Conference

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