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Senate Committee on Commerce

  • Committee Assistant: Connie Burns 785-296-7476
  • Connie.Burns@Senate.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 10:30 am Location: 546-S

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB10 - Enacting the right to earn a living act to minimize unnecessary occupational licensing and regulation.
    SB137 - Expanding the military spouse and service member’s expedited licensure law to all applicants who have established or intend to establish residency in Kansas, providing for licenses in an emergency declared by the legislature, allowing telemedicine by out-of-state healthcare providers and permitting the use of electronic credentials.
    SB162 - Providing for an emergency expansion of the employment security board of review with a sunset of June 30, 2024.
    SB163 - Amending unemployment insurance disqualification provisions relating to dates disqualification begins, recovery from illness or injury and part-time employment for an educational institution.
    SB164 - Concerning an employer's maximum liability for permanent total disability compensation and requiring an employer to pay such disabled employee during the continuance of such disability from the date of maximum medical improvement for the lifetime of the employee at the weekly rate of the compensation in effect on the date of injury for which compensation is being made.
    SB176 - Enacting the Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act and providing for registration for home inspectors with oversight by the attorney general.
    SB177 - Changing provisions of the employment security law including creation of the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council, development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system, provision of tax information to claimants, publication of trust fund data, the maximum benefit period, the charging of employer accounts for benefits paid, employer contribution rate determination and schedules, abolishment of the employment security interest assessment fund, crediting of employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments, transfers from the state general fund to the unemployment insurance trust fund for improper benefit payments, changes to the shared work compensation program and other unemployment trust fund provisions.
    SB189 - Requiring use of the fourth edition of the AMA medical guide to determine impairment for awarding workers compensation benefits.
    SB193 - Expanding the definition of compensable personal injury in workers compensation law to include mental injuries suffered from physical injury, emotional shock or after a series of work-related events.
    SB194 - Removing an employment security law restriction on leasing of certain employees by client lessees of lessor employing units.
    SB203 - Allowing injured employees to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.
    SB213 - Prohibiting an employer from taking any adverse employment against against an employee because of the employee's vaccination status.
    SB219 - Changing law pertaining to real estate brokers and salespersons including the definition of broker, licensure, actions that require licensing, exemptions, application of licensure provisions to trusts, Kansas real estate commission administrative fines, cease and desist orders and subpoena authority.
    SB236 - Establishing the Kansas commission for the United States semiquincentennial.
    SB259 - Providing that the testimony of an examining healthcare provider may be submitted in evidence by the provider's medical report in workers compensation cases.
    SB281 - Changing unemployment insurance disqualification provisions for fraud, part-time employment for educational institutions and receipt of pensions.
    SB291 - Increasing the minimum wage by $1 per year to $15 an hour by 2027.
    SB361 - Concerning an employer's maximum liability for permanent total disability compensation and requiring an employer to pay such disabled employee during the continuance of such disability from the date of maximum medical improvement for the lifetime of the employee at the weekly rate of the compensation in effect on the date of injury for which compensation is being made.
    SB461 - Enacting the delivery service liability act and assigning liability when delivery drivers cause damage to the property of others while carrying out their duties.
    SB467 - Enacting the making work pay act to increase the Kansas minimum wage.
    SB470 - Requiring a prevailing wage for state public works construction contracts by state agencies and permitting cities and counties to require a prevailing for such contracts.
    SB491 - Permitting workers compensation benefits for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
    SB504 - Providing that worker's compensation benefit reductions due to retirement benefits funded by the employer shall apply to retirement benefits that the employee begins receiving after the injury to reduce permanent disability benefits and exempting benefits under the federal social security act.
    SB505 - Enacting the protect home-based work act prohibiting the enactment or enforcement of zoning regulations that are barriers to home-based work.
    SB511 - Providing public employees and professional employees certain rights with respect to withholding of public employee organization and professional employee organization dues.
    HB2045 - Revising two tax credits - first by updating the Kansas angel investor tax credit act with respect to the definition of qualified securities, tax credit limitations and amounts, investor requirements and extending the date that credits may be allowed, and second by increasing the tax credit for expenses incurred to make a residence accessible to persons with a disability.
    HB2097 - Decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs from the high performance incentive fund program.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB65 - Enhancing the high performance incentive program by decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs and by providing for the transferability of the tax credit.
    SB66 - Amending the angel investor tax credit with respect to the definition of qualified securities, tax credit limitations and amounts, investor requirements and extending the date that credits may be allowed, and also amending the tax credit for expenses incurred to make a residence accessible to persons with a disability by increasing the credit.
    SB90 - Amending the Kansas rural housing incentive district act to permit bond funding for vertical residential renovation of older buildings in central business districts and by changing the definitions of an eligible city or county.
    SB91 - Providing for the transferability of high performance incentive fund tax credits.
    SB92 - Creating the Kansas equal access act to authorize the use of medical marijuana.
    SB124 - Amending STAR bonds by adding rural redevelopment projects and major business facilities, changing certain project financing, investment and sales provisions, adding a visitor tracking plan requirement and additional feasibility study requirements with oversight by the secretary, requiring approval by the secretary for real estate transfers, requiring district contiguity, making other amendments and extending the sunset date.
    SB126 - Authorizing the sale of alcoholic liquor by class A clubs at special events under the club and drinking establishment act.
    SB137 - Expanding the military spouse and service member’s expedited licensure law to all applicants who have established or intend to establish residency in Kansas, providing for licenses in an emergency declared by the legislature, allowing telemedicine by out-of-state healthcare providers and permitting the use of electronic credentials.
    SB161 - Providing for the use of personal package delivery devices on sidewalks and crosswalks, exempting such devices from motor vehicle regulation and limiting additional municipal regulation.
    SB162 - Providing for an emergency expansion of the employment security board of review with a sunset of June 30, 2024.
    SB163 - Amending unemployment insurance disqualification provisions relating to dates disqualification begins, recovery from illness or injury and part-time employment for an educational institution.
    SB176 - Enacting the Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act and providing for registration for home inspectors with oversight by the attorney general.
    SB177 - Changing provisions of the employment security law including creation of the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council, development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system, provision of tax information to claimants, publication of trust fund data, the maximum benefit period, the charging of employer accounts for benefits paid, employer contribution rate determination and schedules, abolishment of the employment security interest assessment fund, crediting of employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments, transfers from the state general fund to the unemployment insurance trust fund for improper benefit payments, changes to the shared work compensation program and other unemployment trust fund provisions.
    SB194 - Removing an employment security law restriction on leasing of certain employees by client lessees of lessor employing units.
    SB219 - Changing law pertaining to real estate brokers and salespersons including the definition of broker, licensure, actions that require licensing, exemptions, application of licensure provisions to trusts, Kansas real estate commission administrative fines, cease and desist orders and subpoena authority.
    SB347 - Enacting the attracting powerful economic expansion act to provide for tax and other incentives for projects in specified industries, or for national corporate headquarters, that involve a significant capital investment, including a refundable tax credit for a portion of the investment, reimbursement of certain payroll costs and training costs, retention of certain payroll withholding taxes, a sales tax exemption for project construction and a property tax incentive for projects located in a foreign trade zone.
    HB2196 - Senate Substitute for Substitute HB 2196 by Committee on Commerce - Changing provisions of the employment security law including creation of the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council, development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system, provision of tax information to claimants, publication of trust fund data, the maximum benefit period, the charging of employer accounts for benefits paid, employer contribution rate determination and schedules, crediting of employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments, transfer of federal COVID-19 moneys to the unemployment insurance trust fund, emergency expansion of the employment security board of review, providing for the my reemployment plan program and workforce training program availability to claimants, changes to the shared work compensation program and other unemployment trust fund provisions.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2021 Legislative Session
    SR1709 - Approving Executive Reorganization Order No. 48, transferring the division of tourism and the office of the director of tourism from the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism to the department of commerce.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2022 Legislative Session
    SR1709 - Approving Executive Reorganization Order No. 48, transferring the division of tourism and the office of the director of tourism from the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism to the department of commerce.
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