Kansas Legislature

HB 2001

AN ACT concerning employer COVID-19 vaccine requirements; requiring exemptions; providing for waiver requests; authorizing a complaint and investigation process with the secretary of labor for violations related to exemptions and civil penalties by the attorney general for such violations; relating to employment security law; providing exceptions to benefit eligibility conditions and disqualification conditions based on refusal to comply with COVID-19 vaccine requirements; retroactive provision of benefits when denied on the basis of discharge or suspension for misconduct as the result of refusal to comply with COVID-19 vaccine requirements.

Senate - Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; - 11/22/2021

On roll call the vote was:

Yea - (25):

Alley, Baumgardner, Billinger, Bowers, Claeys, Erickson, Fagg, Faust-Goudeau, Gossage, Hilderbrand, Kerschen, Kloos, Masterson, Olson, Peck, Petersen, Pittman, Pyle, Ryckman, Steffen, Straub, Thompson, Tyson, Warren, Wilborn,

Nay - (13):

Corson, Dietrich, Doll, Francisco, Haley, Hawk, Holland, Holscher, Longbine, McGinn, Suellentrop, Sykes, Ware,

Present and Passing - (0):

Absent and Not Voting - (2):

O'Shea, Pettey,