SB229 — 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.

Summary

AN ACT concerning labor and employment; relating to the employment security law; providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by legislative committees of both houses; authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria, including compliance with federal guidance and being employer funded; ensuring that supplemental unemployment benefit plans do not disqualify employees from state unemployment benefits; requiring the secretary to maintain a registry of authorized plans and monitor the impact of such plans on the employment security trust fund; updating terminology and reorganizing sections for improved readability and compliance; enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines; integrating supplemental unemployment benefit plans into the current statutory framework; authorizing the secretary to adopt rules and regulations for supplemental unemployment benefits; updating provisions pertaining to temporary unemployment benefits and benefit exhaustion; providing that such benefits may extend for up to eight weeks; refining rate table and experience-rating provisions; discontinuing certain debt-relief provisions for negative balance employers; updating provisions for determining suitable work and disqualification conditions for unemployment benefits; enhancing electronic filing provisions; updating and clarifying certain definitions; providing for certain publication and data reporting duties of the secretary; clarifying criminal provisions and penalties for fraud; consolidating provisions of the employment security insurance act for domestic violence survivors and repealing redundant sections; amending K.S.A. 44-701, 44-702, 44-704a, 44-704b, 44-710d, 44-710e, 44-710f, 44-710i, 44-711, 44-712, 44-713, 44-713a, 44-714, 44-715, 44-716, 44-716a, 44-718, 44-719, 44-720, 44-721, 44-722, 44-723, 44-724, 44-725, 44-727, 44-758, 44-760, 44-765, 44-766, 44-767, 44-768, 44-769, 44-770, 44-773 and 44-777 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 44-703, 44-704, 44-705, 44-706, 44-710, 44-710a, 44-710b, 44-717, 44-772, 44-774, 44-775 and 79-3234 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 44-706a, 44-761, 44-762, 44-763 and 44-764.

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Action History

1. April 29, 2026

   Died in Conference

2. March 27, 2026

   Conference Committee Report was adopted

3. March 27, 2026

   Conference committee report now available

4. March 27, 2026

   Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Senator Alley, Senator Owens, Senator Miller, , appointed as second conferees

5. March 27, 2026

   Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Representative Tarwater, Representative Ward, Representative Sawyer Clayton, , appointed as second conferees

6. March 27, 2026

   Conference committee report now available

7. March 25, 2026

   Senator Miller is appointed to replace Senator Faust Goudeau on the Conference Committee

8. March 16, 2026

   Motion to accede adopted; Representative Tarwater, Representative Ward, Representative Sawyer Clayton, , appointed as conferees

9. March 12, 2026

   Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed , and

10. March 12, 2026

    Final Action - Substitute passed as amended

11. March 11, 2026

    Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended

12. March 11, 2026

    Committee of the Whole - Amendment by was adopted

13. March 11, 2026

    Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by

14. March 11, 2026

    Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed

15. March 11, 2026

    Committee of the Whole - Now working on

16. March 03, 2026

    Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by

17. March 25, 2025

    Referred to House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

18. March 24, 2025

    Received and Introduced

19. March 20, 2025

    Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended

20. March 20, 2025

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21. March 20, 2025

    Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended

22. March 20, 2025

    Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted

23. March 20, 2025

    Committee of the Whole - Now working on

24. March 18, 2025

    Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by

25. March 12, 2025

    Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Commerce; Rereferred to Senate Committee on Commerce

26. February 14, 2025

    Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Ways and Means; Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means

27. February 07, 2025

    Hearing: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 159-S

28. February 07, 2025

    Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce

29. February 06, 2025

    Introduced

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• Labor and Economic Development House Committee on Commerce · Primary

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