Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2411 |
HB2411 - Reducing the required waiting period for employment of KPERS retirants hired by a school district for a covered position that requires a teaching license or certificate. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Kevin Schwertfeger |
| 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 | Rep. Susan Ruiz |
| HB 2650 |
HB2650 - Requiring that noncompete agreements be reasonable and providing that such agreements are null and void upon the sale or change in ownership or control of an employer. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Steven K. Howe |
| HB 2597 |
HB2597 - Establishing a right to paid sick leave for Kansas employees and setting forth minimum requirements and rules for the provision of such sick leave. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Dan Osman |
| HB 2598 |
HB2598 - Enacting the Kansas paid family leave act. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Dan Osman |
| HB 2134 |
HB2134 - Amending the Kansas open records act by limiting certain charges for furnishing records and employee time required to make records available and exempting certain records from disclosure and amending the Kansas open meetings act by providing for the membership calculation of subordinate groups and requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe. 2025-2026 | House
|
enacted | House Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2092 |
HB2092 - Setting the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the secretary of state, limiting the method of providing surety for professional employer organizations with insufficient working capital to bonds and eliminating a market value measure of the sufficiency of such bonds. 2025-2026 | House
|
enacted | House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development |
| HB 2160 |
HB2160 - Enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct. 2025-2026 | House
|
enacted | House Committee on Local Government |
| SB 166 |
SB166 - Enacting the fostering competitive career opportunities act to remove postsecondary degree requirements from state employment considerations. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
enacted | Senate Committee on Commerce |
| HB 2392 |
HB2392 - Facilitating nursing workforce development by setting education levels for instructors at nursing schools as a requirement for state approval. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Appropriations |
| HB 2308 |
HB2308 - Enacting the aviation and innovative manufacturing in Kansas act to attract businesses establishing a headquarters or engaged in aircraft assembly, electric or hydrogen-powered motor vehicle production, and other specified industries to Kansas by offering companies meeting certain employment and investment requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development |
| HB 2090 |
HB2090 - Establishing the Kansas employee emergency savings account (KEESA) program to allow eligible employers to establish employee savings accounts, providing an income and privilege tax credit for certain eligible employer deposits to such employee savings accounts and providing a subtraction modification for certain employee deposits to such savings accounts. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Mari-Lynn Poskin |
| HB 2348 |
HB2348 - Providing that tenure at postsecondary educational institutions shall not be defined, awarded or recognized as an entitlement, right or property interest in a faculty member's current, ongoing or future employment by an institution. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2264 |
HB2264 - Restoring local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Pam Curtis |
| HB 2194 |
HB2194 - Providing a KPERS working after retirement exemption from the employer contribution rate for retirants who are employed as teachers by a school district in a position for which a certificate to teach is required. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Cyndi Howerton |
| HB 2339 |
HB2339 - Enhancing adult care home services by providing for adult care home workforce development through scholarships for part-time nursing students and setting minimum education levels for instructors at nursing schools, establishing an intergenerational child care program to enhance the adult care home environment by supporting adult care homes offering child care services through the awarding of grants by the secretary of health and environment and creating the intergenerational child care fund and authorizing the secretary to administer the fund. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development |
| HB 2303 |
HB2303 - Enacting the longitudinal data act, establishing the division of longitudinal data in the legislative research department, authorizing the appointment of a director of the division by the legislative coordinating council and providing for the development and management of the Kansas longitudinal data system for the purpose of tracking and analyzing education, workforce and related data. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on K-12 Education Budget |
| HB 2310 |
HB2310 - Enacting the career advancement, resources, employment and supports for the disability workforce act, providing for career education programs for students and career enhancement programs for professionals, requiring performance-based contracting for disability services providers, facilitating choice in services by individuals with disabilities, mandating rate parity across all state waiver programs, providing for an online data portal system for waitlist management and services-related communications, requiring the secretary of labor to publish information regarding the disability service provider workforce and providing that direct support workers may be covered by the state health plan. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development |
| HB 2358 |
HB2358 - Requiring able-bodied adults and work registrants without dependents under six years of age to participate in an employment training program as a condition of receiving food assistance. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Welfare Reform |
| HB 2287 |
HB2287 - Eliminating certain restrictions for eligibility for public assistance, including removing the requirement to cooperate with child support services, restrictions on persons convicted of drug felonies, requirements for employment and training programs, photograph requirements for benefits cards and legislative action required for expansion of medical assistance, permitting the secretary from granting categorical eligibility standards, extending the lifetime limitation on benefits, providing for hardship extensions and exempting parents providing care for a child less than one year of age. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Welfare Reform |
| HB 2298 |
HB2298 - Transferring $1,000,000,000 from the budget stabilization fund to the liability reduction fund of KPERS, using a portion of the interest earnings of the liability reduction fund to provide a 2% COLA for retirants who have been retired for more than 5 years, transferring annually certain amounts from the state general fund to the budget stabilization fund and establishing requirements for the expenditure or transfer of moneys from the budget stabilization fund. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Virgil Weigel |
| HB 2239 |
HB2239 - Requiring every employer to provide each employee with meal periods and rest periods. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development |
| HB 2251 |
HB2251 - Requiring the state board of healing arts to grant provisional licensure to certain international physicians with offers of employment at healthcare providers operating in Kansas. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2151 |
HB2151 - Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $15 an hour. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Brandon Woodard |
| HB 2123 |
HB2123 - Increasing the minimum wage for employees that receive tips and gratuities. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Rep. Stephanie Sawyer Clayton |