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AN ACT concerning employment security; creating the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council; providing for an audit to be conducted by the council; providing for development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system; claimant tax information; website publication of trust fund data; maximum benefit period; charging of employer accounts for benefits paid; employment security board of review and emergency expansion thereof; employer contribution rate determination and schedules; crediting employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments; services performed by petroleum landmen; lessor employment unit employee leasing restrictions; disclosure of information; shared work compensation program; establishing the my reemployment plan providing job search and job matching assistance to claimants and employers; providing for workforce training program availability for claimants; providing for the transfer of certain federal coronavirus relief funds received by the state to the employment security fund; changing the benefit disqualification period for fraud; making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2021, and June 30, 2022; authorizing certain transfers and imposing certain limitations; establishing a new crime of unemployment insurance fraud with an enhanced penalty; amending K.S.A. 44-758 and K.S.A. 2020 Supp. 44-703, 44-704, 44-705, 44-706, 44-709, 44-710, 44-710a, 44-710b, 44-714, 44-719 and 44-757 and repealing the existing sections.
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House - Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Miller was rejected - 03/03/2021
On roll call the vote was:
Yea - (40):
Alcala,
Amyx,
Ballard,
Bishop,
Burroughs,
Byers,
Carlin,
Carmichael,
Clayton,
Coleman,
Curtis,
Day,
Featherston,
Finney,
Gartner,
Haswood,
Helgerson,
Henderson,
Highberger,
Hoye,
Kuether,
Miller,
Neighbor,
Ohaebosim,
Ousley,
Parker,
Poskin,
Probst,
L. Ruiz,
S. Ruiz,
Sawyer,
Stogsdill,
Toplikar,
Vaughn,
Victors,
Weigel,
Winn,
Wolfe Moore,
Woodard,
Xu,
Nay - (80):
Anderson,
Arnberger,
Awerkamp,
Baker,
Barker,
Bergkamp,
Bergquist,
Blex,
Borjon,
Burris,
Carlson,
B. Carpenter,
W. Carpenter,
Clark,
Collins,
Concannon,
Corbet,
Croft,
Delperdang,
Dodson,
Donohoe,
Ellis,
Eplee,
Esau,
Estes,
Fairchild,
Finch,
Francis,
French,
Garber,
Hawkins,
Helmer,
Highland,
Hoffman,
Hoheisel,
Houser,
Howe,
Huebert,
Humphries,
Jacobs,
Jennings,
S. Johnson,
T. Johnson,
Kelly,
Kessler,
Landwehr,
Lee,
Long,
Lynn,
Mason,
Minnix,
Moser,
Murphy,
Neelly,
Newland,
Orr,
Owens,
Patton,
Penn,
Poetter Parshall,
Proctor,
Proehl,
Rahjes,
Ralph,
Rhiley,
Ryckman,
Sanders,
Schreiber,
A. Smith,
C. Smith,
E. Smith,
Sutton,
Tarwater,
Thomas,
Turner,
Waggoner,
Wasinger,
Waymaster,
Wheeler,
Williams,
Present but not Voting - (0):
Absent and Not Voting - (5):
Howard,
Resman,
Samsel,
Seiwert,
Thompson,
Not Voting - (0):
