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House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

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    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 1:30 pm Location: 346-S

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    SB91 - House Substitute for SB 91 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing liability protection for businesses, municipalities and educational institutions that participate in high school work-based learning programs and providing that schools are responsible for injuries to students participating in such programs.
    SB124 - House Substitute for SB 124 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Expanding STAR bonds by adding rural redevelopment projects and major business facilities, prohibiting public officials from employment with a developer, providing for public notice of hearings on city or county websites, posting of certain documents and links on websites, disclosure of names of developer, disclosure of state, federal and local tax incentives within a STAR bond district, changing certain project financing, investment and sales provisions, adding visitor tracking plan requirements and additional feasibility study requirements with oversight by the secretary, requiring approval by the secretary for real estate transfers, requiring district contiguity and extending the sunset date.
    SB347 - House Substitute for SB 347 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Enacting the attracting powerful economic expansion act to provide for tax and other incentives to attract projects in specified industries, or for national corporate headquarters, that involve a capital investment of at least $1,000,000,000, providing for a reduction in the Kansas corporate income rate triggered by the first agreement under the act, limiting the number of agreements and requiring state finance council approval of agreements.
    HB2066 - Substitute for HB 2066 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Expanding the military spouse and service members expedited licensure law to all applicants who have established or intend to establish residency in Kansas.
    HB2097 - Decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs from the high performance incentive fund program.
    HB2112 - Permitting online advertisement and sales of abandoned property by self-storage rental unit operators; providing for the designation by occupants of an alternate contact and limiting claims for loss or damage of stored property to the property value limit provided in the rental agreement.
    HB2170 - Amending the Kansas rural housing incentive district act to permit bond funding for vertical residential renovation of older buildings in central business districts.
    HB2171 - Providing for the transferability of high performance incentive fund tax credits.
    HB2182 - Establishing the Kansas promise scholarship act to provide scholarships for students who attend postsecondary educational programs that correspond to high-need career fields, authorizing payment of tuition for students who are dually or concurrently enrolled in high school and postsecondary school and requiring school districts to insure against injury or loss during work-based learning programs.
    HB2196 - Substitute for HB 2196 by Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Changing provisions of the employment security law including creation of the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council, development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system, provision of tax information to claimants, publication of trust fund data, the maximum benefit period, the charging of employer accounts for benefits paid, employer contribution rate determination and schedules, abolishment of the employment security interest assessment fund, crediting of employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments, appropriation of federal COVID-19 moneys to the unemployment insurance trust fund, transfers from the state general fund to the unemployment insurance trust fund for improper benefit payments, emergency expansion of the employment security board of review, providing for the my reemployment plan program and workforce training program availability to claimants, changes to the shared work compensation program and other unemployment trust fund provisions.
    HB2219 - Enacting the Kansas targeted employment act to provide tax credits for the employment of persons with developmental disabilities.
    HB2220 - Providing an employment preference for persons with a disability for state government positions.
    HB2221 - Amending STAR bonds law by adding rural redevelopment projects and major business facilities, increasing certain project investment and sales requirements, adding a return on investment analysis and other requirements and approvals by the secretary and extending the sunset date.
    HB2231 - Amending the definition of the crime of conducting a pyramid promotional scheme, providing for an exemption and defining key terms.
    HB2293 - Creating the taxpayer empowerment, accountability and transparency in state contracting act; relating to private service contracts; requiring the department of administration to create a database of private service contract information and to analyze the potential impacts of such contracts; requiring contracting state agencies to obtain the resources needed to monitor the performance of private service contracts before finalizing such contracts.
    HB2297 - Concerning requirements of publication of certain documents by the secretary of state; relating to session laws, the Kansas register, proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas, and Kansas administrative rules and regulations and guidance documents.
    HB2298 - Changing requirements for service of process on nonresident drivers and clarifying service of process on certain business entities.
    HB2370 - Prohibiting a criminal conviction from acting as a sole disqualification for occupational licensure and creating guidelines to follow when considering criminal convictions of an applicant for occupational licensure.
    HB2391 - Changing the secretary of state's business filings provisions, including instituting biennial business report filings, authorizing the secretary of state to contract with private entities for printing and binding services, changing publication and price requirements for publications of the secretary of state and repealing certain obsolete statutes including blanket music license filing provisions.
    HB2497 - Enacting the attracting powerful economic expansion act to provide for tax and other incentives for projects in specified industries, or for national corporate headquarters, that involve a significant capital investment, including a refundable tax credit for a portion of the investment, reimbursement of certain payroll costs and training costs, retention of certain payroll withholding taxes, a sales tax exemption for project construction and a property tax incentive for projects located and active in a foreign trade zone program.
    HB2526 - Enacting the Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act and providing for registration for home inspectors with oversight by the attorney general.
    HB2688 - Requiring that licensed farm wineries be issued a cereal malt beverage retailer license if the statutory requirements for such retailer license are satisfied.
    HB2691 - Prohibiting any restriction on access to any service or facility related to the selling or renting of property based on certain lawful expressions of personal beliefs in nonprofessional settings.
    HB2701 - Allowing the use of bond proceeds under the Kansas rural housing incentive district act for residential development of certain buildings within economically distressed urban areas.
    HB2702 - Making privately contracted school bus drivers eligible for benefits under the employment security law.
    HB2703 - Changing law relating to employment including employment security law provisions regarding the employment security fund status and employer contribution rates and the definition of employment to conform with federal law, making revisions to the department of labor’s my reemployment plan program and enacting the Kansas targeted employment act to facilitate employment of persons with developmental disabilities through a tax credit incentive for employers.
    HB2704 - Making notification to an injured employee by an employer or insurance carrier of any change to workers compensation benefits discretionary, providing that employees seeking workers compensation benefits waive the patient privilege preventing access to medical information, prohibiting infringement of the employer's right to direct medical treatment, requiring that questions by the director of workers compensation to a healthcare provider for an examination ordered by the director be in writing, providing that partial work weeks be counted as full weeks for purposes of computing average wages and excluding expert witness costs from court costs that may be awarded a claimant.
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