AN ACT concerning labor and employment; relating to professional employer organizations; transferring registration requirements, related compliance oversight and enforcement authority for such organizations from the commissioner of insurance to the secretary of state, effective January 1, 2025; requiring the filing of initial and renewal registration applications, reports, financial statements and other assurance documents with the secretary; providing for fees to be submitted to the secretary and granting the secretary responsibility over the professional employer organization fee fund; ensuring that welfare benefit plans offered by professional employer organizations to employees and covered employees are treated as a single employer welfare benefit plan for purposes of state law; amending K.S.A. 44-1702, 44-1704, 44-1705, 44-1706, 44-1708, 44-1709 and 44-1710 and repealing the existing sections.