Kansas bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas SB 229
House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law.
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became law
Sponsors
- Committee on Commerce
Cosponsors (1)
- Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Summary
No official summary is available for this bill.
Latest action(Feb 6, 2025): Introduced
Text versions
- As Introduced
- As Amended by Senate Committee on Commerce
- H Sub for
- {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole}
Roll-call votes
No recorded votes on this bill.
Actions
- Feb 6, 2025 · Senate
Introduced - Feb 7, 2025 · Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce - Feb 14, 2025 · Senate
Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Ways and Means; Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means - Mar 12, 2025 · Senate
Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Commerce; Rereferred to Senate Committee on Commerce - Mar 18, 2025 · Senate
Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Commerce - Mar 20, 2025 · Senate
Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted - Mar 20, 2025 · Senate
Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended - Mar 20, 2025 · Senate
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 31, Nay 9 - Mar 24, 2025 · House
Received and Introduced - Mar 24, 2025 · House
Referred to House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Mar 3, 2026 · House
Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Mar 11, 2026 · House
Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed - Mar 11, 2026 · House
Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Sean Tarwater - Mar 11, 2026 · House
Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Sean Tarwater was adopted - Mar 11, 2026 · House
Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended - Mar 12, 2026 · House
Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea 83, Nay 36, Absent 5 - Mar 12, 2026 · Senate
Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Larry Alley, Sen. Stephen Owens and Sen. Oletha Faust Goudeau - Mar 16, 2026 · House
Motion to accede adopted; Rep. Sean Tarwater, Rep. Jill Ward and Rep. Stephanie Sawyer Clayton appointed as conferees - Mar 25, 2026 · Senate
Sen. Silas Miller is appointed to replace Sen. Oletha Faust Goudeau on the Conference Committee - Mar 27, 2026 · House
Conference committee report now available - Mar 27, 2026 · House
Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Rep. Sean Tarwater, Rep. Jill Ward and Rep. Stephanie Sawyer Clayton appointed as second conferees - Mar 27, 2026 · Senate
Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Sen. Larry Alley, Sen. Stephen Owens and Sen. Silas Miller appointed as second conferees - Mar 27, 2026 · House
Conference committee report now available - Mar 27, 2026 · House
Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 88, Nay 34, Absent 3 - Apr 10, 2026 · Senate
Died in Conference