Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2245 |
HB2245 - Transferring officers, employees, powers, duties and functions relating to the state health care benefits program from the division of the state employee health benefits plan of the department of administration to the insurance department, establishing the commissioner of insurance as the chairperson of the Kansas state employees health care commission, providing that all management functions of such commission be administered by the commissioner of insurance and eliminating a pilot program regarding employer contributions for certain children. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Insurance |
| SB 103 |
SB103 - Authorizing cities and counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question and to levy such tax if approved by the electors of a city or county, requiring resubmission of the question, if approved, to the electors every 10 years, allowing certain credits and exemptions against the tax, providing for deductions by public and private employers of the tax from employee earnings and providing that revenue from any such tax be pledged for certain purposes. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
failed | Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation |
| SB 120 |
SB120 - Enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Tim Shallenburger |
| SB 134 |
SB134 - Authorizing school districts to request and receive an applicant teacher’s employment files from another school district if such teacher was previously employed by such other school district and establishing which school district is responsible for and the custodian of teacher employment files that are records under the Kansas open records act. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Education |
| SB 153 |
SB153 - Establishing the Kansas paid prenatal personal leave act requiring employers to provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Patrick Schmidt |
| SB 163 |
SB163 - Prohibiting school employment contracts from excluding documentation of disciplinary actions or behavioral corrective actions taken with regard to an employee. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Education |
| SB 189 |
SB189 - 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. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Dinah Sykes |
| SB 196 |
SB196 - Requiring business entities and public employers to register and use the e-verify program for employment purposes and prohibiting income tax deductions for wages and remuneration paid to unauthorized aliens. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 216 |
SB216 - 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. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Ethan Corson |
| SB 218 |
SB218 - Increasing the Kansas minimum wage of employees. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Ethan Corson |
| SB 220 |
SB220 - Increasing the penalty for unlawful employment under child labor laws. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Dinah Sykes |
| SB 248 |
SB248 - Requiring criminal history record check information relating to hemp producers to be sent to the state fire marshal, updating the fingerprinting language for the state banking commissioner for money transmitters and earned wage access services providers and authorizing the state gaming agency and attorney general to have access to more criminal history record information. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
failed | Senate Committee on Judiciary |
| SB 281 |
SB281 - House Substitute for Substitute for SB 281 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Ways and Means |
| SB 282 |
SB282 - Enacting the Kansas retirement investment and savings plan (KRISP) act and establishing terms, conditions, requirements, membership elections, accounts, benefits, contributions and distributions related to such plan. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation |
| SB 283 |
SB283 - Decreasing individual income tax rates, discontinuing tax credits of the high performance incentive program and the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act, discontinuing payroll withholding tax benefits of the promoting employment across Kansas act, discontinuing the crediting of certain amounts to the job creation program fund and repealing certain tax credits. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
failed | Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation |
| 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. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Commerce |
| SB 297 |
SB297 - Providing for local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 302 |
SB302 - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during instructional time and prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Chase Blasi |
| SB 311 |
SB311 - Eliminating state income tax on certain qualified overtime compensation. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Ethan Corson |
| SB 323 |
SB323 - Modifying the definition of earnings to include paid compensation for wage garnishment exemption purposes. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Judiciary |
| SB 399 |
SB399 - Providing an exception to unauthorized practice of law under the Kansas consumer protection act for an employee of the judicial branch or a district court providing a standard form to a member of the public. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Judiciary |
| SB 406 |
SB406 - Directing the governor to approve eligible programs for workforce Pell grants and providing requirements for the state workforce development board with regard to eligibility, approval and financing of such programs. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Education |
| SB 410 |
SB410 - Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance |
| SB 450 |
SB450 - Authorizing the secretary of administration to grant a monetary award to a state employee who reports activity that constitutes fraud, waste or abuse of funds in any program administered by a state agency. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 471 |
SB471 - 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. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Sen. Cindy Holscher |