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Minutes for HB2507 - Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Short Title
Liability protection for businesses that participate in high school work-based learning programs.
Minutes Content for Thu, Jan 30, 2020
Chairperson Tarwater opened the hearing on HB2507 and introduced Charles Reimer, Assistant Revisor, Office of Revisor of Statutes, who gave an overview of the bill. The Revisor answered questions.
Oral proponent testimony was given by the following conferees:
Randy Stookey, Senior Vice President, testimony submitted jointly on behalf of Kansas Grain and Feed Association (KGFA), Kansas Agribusiness Retailers Association (KARA), and Renew Kansas Biofuels Association (Renew Kansas) (Attachment 1)
Kristi Brown, Sr. Director of Government Affairs, Kansas Chamber (Attachment 2)
Natalie Bright on behalf of the Kansas Society for Human Resource Management (KS SHRM) (Attachment 3)
Doug Jorgensen, State Fire Marshal, Kansas Office of the State Fire Marshal (Attachment 4)
John Jenks, Director, Public Policy, The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce (Attachment 5)
Written-only proponents were:
Jason P. Watkins, Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce (Attachment 6)
Kevin Walker, Senior Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy, Overland Park Chamber of Commerce (Attachment 7)
Torree Pederson, President, Aligned (Attachment 8)
Shahira Stafford, Kansas Cooperative Council (Attachment 9)
Oral opponent testimony was given by:
Callie Jill Denton, Executive Director, Kansas Trial Lawyers Association (Attachment 10)
There was no written-only opponent testimony.
Oral neutral testimony was given by:
G.A. Buie, Executive Director, USA-Kansas and Kansas School Superintendents Association; Rod Spangler, Asst. Ex. Director for Risk Management--KASB; Angie Stallbaumer, Asst. Ex. Director Legal Services--KASB on behalf of the USA--Kansas and KASB (Attachment 11)
There was no written-only neutral testimony.
All conferees stood for questions from Committee members.
Chairperson Tarwater closed the hearing on HB 2507.
