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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
    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.
    HB2331 - Designating Lehigh Portland state park.
    HB2336 - Increasing bonding authority to $10,000,000 under the surplus property and public airport authority act.
    HB2344 - Expanding the membership of the council on travel and tourism, updating the committee assignment required for members appointed from the house of representatives and modifying the department of commerce's grant program for tourism promotion by reducing the allocation of grants for public entities and removing the limitation on grant amounts to any single entity.
    HB2387 - Providing funding for STAR bond districts to replace lost food sales tax revenue, authorizing renovation and construction costs for historic theaters as eligible STAR bond project costs and extending the deadline for the STAR bond report to certain legislative committees.
    HB2400 - Enacting the Kansas adult learner grant act to facilitate workforce development by providing grants and workforce retention incentive payments to adults who pursue baccalaureate degrees from eligible postsecondary educational institutions in certain fields of study.
    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 and establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas.
    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.
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