Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
|
passed_lower | Committee on Appropriations |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
|
passed_lower | Sweely |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
|
passed_lower | Committee on Insurance |
| HB 2626 |
HB2626 - Expanding veterans preference in government employment to include current members of the national guard and such members' eligible spouses. 2025-2026 | House
|
passed_lower | Committee on Veterans |
| HB 2627 |
HB2627 - Expanding permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and eligible spouses. 2025-2026 | House
|
passed_lower | Committee on Veterans |
| HB 2653 |
HB2653 - Requiring the secretary of corrections to assist inmates with obtaining identification and employment-related documentation prior to release from custody. 2025-2026 | House
|
passed_lower | Committee on Corrections |
| SB 521 |
SB521 - Providing for credits for payment of employee's child care and contributions to a third party for increased child care options. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
passed_lower | Committee on Assessment |
| SB 334 |
SB334 - Facilitating nursing workforce development by providing education levels for instructors at nursing schools as a requirement for state approval. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
passed_lower | Committee on Commerce |
| 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
|
in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 478 |
SB478 - Creating a maximum length of time for an agreement between a utility and law enforcement to install law enforcement equipment on a utility pole or structure and increasing the criminal penalties for assault or battery of a utility or communications employee. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Corson |
| 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
|
unknown | Committee on Commerce |
| SB 410 |
SB410 - Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
unknown | Committee on Financial Institutions |
| SB 498 |
SB498 - Providing an income tax credit for the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel and discontinuing the income tax credit for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee on Assessment |
| SB 512 |
SB512 - Removing the eight-week return to work expectation from the definition of temporary unemployment, excluding payments under compliant employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans from the definition of wages and removing the negative debt write-off and forgiveness mechanism that conditionally moved employers to rate groups N11 for three years and the related option to avoid a negative debt write-off through voluntary contributions. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee on Assessment |
| HB 2757 |
HB2757 - Repealing or discontinuing certain income tax credit incentives, extending the income tax credit for angel investors and aviation-related employment and providing expanded options in the high performance tax credit program for tax credit transfers and wage requirements for rural businesses. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Committee on Commerce |
| 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
|
in_committee | Blasi |
| 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
|
in_committee | Committee on Federal |
| 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
|
in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 436 |
SB436 - Increasing the cost threshold for when a county shall use the public bidding process in awarding a construction contract. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
passed_lower | Committee on Local Government |
| SB 504 |
SB504 - Enacting the Kansas healthcare professional employment mobility and patient access act to prohibit post-employment noncompete agreements. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee on Federal |
| HB 2746 |
HB2746 - Providing that tenure at postsecondary educational institutions is not a right to or property interest in continued employment. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2764 |
HB2764 - Prohibiting amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions through budget provisos, appropriations bills or temporary fiscal measures without following specified review procedures, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria, reorganizing sections for improved readability and compliance, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines and updating the criteria for determining suitable work and disqualification conditions for unemployment benefits. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Committee on Commerce |
| HB 2686 |
HB2686 - Prohibiting certain agents of the United States immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) from being employed as a law enforcement officer in Kansas. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Ruiz |
| HB 2385 |
HB2385 - 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 | House
|
in_committee | Committee on Taxation |
| HB 2421 |
HB2421 - 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 and requiring school districts to report on the amount of screen time that certain students experience during a typical school day. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Brantley |