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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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Senate - Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; - 03/31/2021
On roll call the vote was:
Yea - (40):
Alley,
Baumgardner,
Billinger,
Bowers,
Claeys,
Corson,
Dietrich,
Doll,
Erickson,
Fagg,
Faust-Goudeau,
Francisco,
Gossage,
Haley,
Hawk,
Hilderbrand,
Holland,
Holscher,
Kerschen,
Kloos,
Longbine,
Masterson,
McGinn,
O'Shea,
Olson,
Peck,
Petersen,
Pettey,
Pittman,
Pyle,
Ryckman,
Steffen,
Straub,
Suellentrop,
Sykes,
Thompson,
Tyson,
Ware,
Warren,
Wilborn,
Nay - (0):
Present and Passing - (0):
Absent and Not Voting - (0):
Not Voting - (0):
