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Adjourned until Monday, January 13, 2025 at 02:00 p.m.
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Senate Committee on Commerce
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2023 Action Index
Bills, Resolutions and Appointments
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Bills In Committee
SB38 - Increasing the maximum compensation benefits payable by an employer for permanent total disability suffered by an injured employee.
SB47 - Prohibiting cities and counties from regulating consumer merchandise and auxiliary containers for the consumption, transportation or protection of consumer merchandise.
SB70 - Enacting the making work pay act to increase the Kansas minimum wage.
SB140 - Allowing cites, counties or other local units of government to raise the minimum wage by ordinance, resolution or law.
SB159 - Creating the Kansas rural grocery store development incentive act to provide tax incentives for the development of grocery businesses in rural areas of the state.
SB165 - Permitting workers compensation benefits for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
SB282 - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, permitting a 16 year-old staff member to staff a unit with children at least 12 months old without supervision, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase day care facility availability or capacity.
SB325 - Establishing the transformation of passenger and freight vehicle industry program to attract businesses engaged in electric motor vehicle and hydrogen-powered vehicle production by offering qualified companies that meet certain requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of a percentage of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs of the qualified company’s qualified business facility.
SB329 - Discontinuing the angel investor tax credit program after 2024.
SB330 - Eliminating the requirement to conduct a recurring 911 implementation audit, a recurring KPERS audit and certain economic development incentive audits.
SB464 - Creating the Kansas small, minority, woman, disadvantaged and service-disabled veteran business enterprise development act, providing for development of such business enterprises through greater participation in providing goods and services to state agencies and postsecondary educational institutions and requiring development of plans and goals for such participation, establishing the office of minority and women business development within the department of commerce and providing for an advisory committee on certified small business enterprises.
SB478 - Defining benefit year, temporary unemployment and other terms in the employment security law, requiring electronic filing for certain employers, establishing qualifications for employment security board of review candidates, extending the deadline for new accounts following business acquisitions, making certain changes to the employer rate schedules, enabling employers to report claimant work search issues, confirming legislative coordinating council oversight for the new unemployment insurance information technology system implementation, authorizing the secretary to grant temporary unemployment, requiring the secretary to annually publish certain data and abolishing the employment security interest assessment fund.
SB486 - Changing the fee charged by the department of commerce for applications for certain economic development programs from a flat fee to a certain percentage of the total economic development incentive program package as determined by the secretary of commerce within a specified percentage range.
SB559 - Preserving child labor protections by requiring a legislative review process when considering bills proposing to reduce or eliminate child labor protections, providing that the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations review such bills and that the secretary of labor provide a report to the legislature to assist the legislature’s consideration of such bills.
HB2275 - Increasing the maximum amount of yearly income tax credits available for purchases under the disability employment act from qualified vendors, continuing in existence such credits beyond tax year 2023 of eligible purchases available for such credit and further defining qualifying vendors and employees eligible for the credit, establishing a grant program to facilitate transitions by employers to minimum wage employment for persons with disabilities and creating the Kansas sheltered workshop transition fund.
HB2331 - Designating Lehigh Portland state park.
HB2387 - Providing funding for STAR bond districts to replace lost food sales tax revenue, authorizing renovation and construction costs for historic theaters and major amusement parks, including amusement rides, as eligible STAR bond project costs, extending the deadline for the STAR bond report to certain legislative committees, and increasing the financing limit for pay-as-you-go funding for rural redevelopment projects.
HB2388 - Requiring that licensing bodies provide paper-based and verified electronic credentials to credential holders, including military servicemembers and others receiving Kansas credentials based on their credentials from other jurisdictions, that the secretary of administration develop and implement an electronic license verification system, that centralized electronic credential data management systems be established with instant verification systems operated by licensing bodies and excepting the certification of law enforcement officers from all provisions of the amended section.
HB2400 - Enacting the Kansas adult learner grant act to facilitate workforce development by providing grants and workforce retention incentive tax credits to adults who pursue baccalaureate degrees from eligible postsecondary educational institutions in certain fields of study.
HB2401 - Defining "benefit year" and "temporary unemployment" in the employment security law, allowing the extension of temporary unemployment; requiring electronic report filing by certain employers, permitting discretion in appointments and terms for the temporary employment security board of review, delaying new account formation after certain business acquisitions, requiring the new unemployment insurance system to allow employer reports regarding claimant compliance and authorizing the legislative coordinating council to extend new system implementation deadlines.
HB2414 - Substitute for HB 2414 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Developing postsecondary engineering programs, providing scholarships for engineering students at certain public and private institutions of higher education by establishing a matching grant program to be administered by the secretary of commerce and creating the engineering graduate incentive fund.
Sponsored Bills
SB47 - Prohibiting cities and counties from regulating consumer merchandise and auxiliary containers for the consumption, transportation or protection of consumer merchandise.
SB91 - Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit, sales tax exemption and loans and grants to incentivize film, video and digital media production in Kansas, establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas and requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports on the economic impact of the act.
SB114 - Creating definitions for "advanced recycling" and related terms and separating advanced recycling from the current solid waste management system.
SB136 - Providing a tax credit for the installation of certain water conservation systems in newly constructed houses.
SB164 - Providing a $2,000 tax credit for qualified employees of licensed child care facilities.
SB165 - Permitting workers compensation benefits for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
SB229 - Providing for the city of Topeka distinctive license plates.
SB430 - Providing workers compensation act coverage for the Kansas national guard, limiting benefit reductions for retirement benefits, increasing dependents death benefits, reducing certain functional impairment requirements, increasing compensation for certain disability categories and for treatment without authorization, raising the evidentiary standard for future medical treatment, limiting certain procedures for post-award medical benefit claims, allowing benefit payment by funds transfer or payment cards, establishing procedures for neutral healthcare examinations, exchanges and admission of medical reports, extending employee injury notification deadlines, eliminating the deadline for motions to avoid dismissal for lack of prosecution, providing for expedited settlement and digital recording of hearings and other changes to the workers compensation act.
SB467 - Increasing the membership appointed by the governor on the council on travel and tourism and updating the house committee assignment required for house members from the committee on agriculture and natural resources to the committee on commerce, labor and economic development;reducing the required allocation of funds from the department of commerce's matching grant program for the promotion of tourism by public and nonprofit entities and removing the restriction on the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity.
SB478 - Defining benefit year, temporary unemployment and other terms in the employment security law, requiring electronic filing for certain employers, establishing qualifications for employment security board of review candidates, extending the deadline for new accounts following business acquisitions, making certain changes to the employer rate schedules, enabling employers to report claimant work search issues, confirming legislative coordinating council oversight for the new unemployment insurance information technology system implementation, authorizing the secretary to grant temporary unemployment, requiring the secretary to annually publish certain data and abolishing the employment security interest assessment fund.
SB486 - Changing the fee charged by the department of commerce for applications for certain economic development programs from a flat fee to a certain percentage of the total economic development incentive program package as determined by the secretary of commerce within a specified percentage range.
HB2344 - Senate Substitute for HB 2344 by Committee on Commerce - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for a temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity.
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Chair
Sen. Renee Erickson
Vice Chair
Sen. Brenda Dietrich
Ranking Minority Member
Sen. Usha Reddi
Members
Senate
Sen. John Doll
Sen. Kristen O'Shea
Sen. Virgil Peck
Sen. Tim Shallenburger
Sen. Caryn Tyson
Sen. Mary Ware
Staff
Connie Burns - Committee Assistant
Eric Adell - Legislative Research
Chardae Caine - Legislative Research
Matthew Willis - Legislative Research
Charles Reimer - Office of Revisor of Statutes
Kyle Hamilton - Office of Revisor of Statutes
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