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IntroducedFeb 06, 2025
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Passed SenateMar 20, 2025
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Passed HouseMar 11, 2026
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Became Law
Kansas Senate Bill
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.
Last Action See all actions
House • Mar 16, 2026: Motion to accede adopted; Representative Tarwater, Representative Ward and Representative Sawyer Clayton appointed as conferees
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on SB 229
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Developmentsponsor
- Committee on CommerceOriginal Sponsor
Votes
YES: 83
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Barrett
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Brunk
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Caiharr
- B. Carpenter
- W. Carpenter
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Hawkins
- Helwig
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- McNorton
- Minnix
- Moser
- Neelly
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Samantha Poetter Parshall
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- Sanders
- Sappington
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- A. Smith
- C. Smith
- Steele
- Stiens
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Turk
- Turner
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K. Williams
- L. Williams
- Wilson
NO: 36
Actions
- Mar 16, 2026 | House
- Motion to accede adopted; Representative Tarwater, Representative Ward and Representative Sawyer Clayton appointed as conferees
- Mar 12, 2026 | Senate
- Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Senator Alley , Senator Owens and Senator Faust Goudeau as conferees
- Mar 12, 2026 | House
- Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea: 83 Nay: 36
- Mar 11, 2026 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Tarwater
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Tarwater was adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended
- Mar 03, 2026 | House
- Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
- Mar 24, 2025 | House
- Received and Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
- Mar 20, 2025 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 31 Nay: 9
- Mar 18, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Commerce
- Mar 12, 2025 | Senate
- Withdrawn from Committee on Ways and Means; Rereferred to Committee on Commerce
- Feb 14, 2025 | Senate
- Withdrawn from Committee on Commerce; Referred to Committee on Ways and Means
- Feb 12, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 1:30 PM Room 159-S
- Feb 07, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Commerce
- Feb 06, 2025 | Senate
- Introduced
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary Note
- H Sub for - Supplementary Note
- {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} - Supplementary Note
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by att 12 SB229 Bill Brief, (att 12)
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by att 8 SB229 neutral KSSO, (att 8)
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by att 7 SB229 writ opp Stookey, (att 7)
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by att 6 SB229 pro United WE, (att 6)
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by att 5 SB229 pro AFP, (att 5)
- Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Commerce
