Commerce

KS - Senator Robert Olson (R)

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Chair

KS - Senator Steffen (R)

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Vice Chair

KS - Senator Holland (D)

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Ranking Minority Member

KS - Senator John Doll (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Cindy Holscher (D)

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Member

KS - Senator Kristen O'Shea (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Virgil Peck (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Alicia Straub (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Caryn Tyson (R)

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Member

KS - SB10 Enacting the right to earn a living act to minimize unnecessary occupational licensing and regulation.

KS - HB2045 Revising the Kansas angel investor tax credit act with respect to the definition of qualified securities, tax credit limitations and amounts, investor requirements and extending the date that credits may be allowed.

KS - HB2097 Decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs from the high performance incentive fund program.

KS - 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.

KS - SB65 Decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs from the high performance incentive fund program.

KS - SB66 Amending the angel investor tax credit with respect to the definition of qualified securities, tax credit limitations and amounts, investor requirements and extending the date that credits may be allowed.

KS - SB90 Amending the Kansas rural housing incentive district act to permit bond funding for vertical residential renovation of older buildings in central business districts.

KS - SB91 Providing for the transferability of high performance incentive fund tax credits.

KS - SB124 Amending STAR bonds by adding rural redevelopment projects and major business facilities, changing certain project financing, investment and sales provisions, adding a visitor tracking plan requirement and additional feasibility study requirements with oversight by the secretary, requiring approval by the secretary for real estate transfers, requiring district contiguity, making other amendments and extending the sunset date.

KS - SB126 Authorizing the sale of alcoholic liquor by class A clubs at special events under the club and drinking establishment act.

KS - SB137 Expanding the military spouse and service member’s expedited licensure law to all applicants who have established or intend to establish residency in Kansas, providing for licenses in an emergency declared by the legislature, allowing telemedicine by out-of-state healthcare providers and permitting the use of electronic credentials.

KS - SB161 Providing for the use of personal package delivery devices on sidewalks and crosswalks, exempting such devices from motor vehicle regulation and limiting additional municipal regulation.

KS - SB162 Providing for an emergency expansion of the employment security board of review with a sunset of June 30, 2024.

KS - SB163 Amending unemployment insurance disqualification provisions relating to dates disqualification begins, recovery from illness or injury and part-time employment for an educational institution.

KS - SB164 Concerning an employer's maximum liability for permanent total disability compensation and requiring an employer to pay such disabled employee during the continuance of such disability from the date of maximum medical improvement for the lifetime of the employee at the weekly rate of the compensation in effect on the date of injury for which compensation is being made.

KS - SB176 Enacting the Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act and providing for registration for home inspectors with oversight by the attorney general.

KS - SB177 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, cre...

KS - SB189 Requiring use of the fourth edition of the AMA medical guide to determine impairment for awarding workers compensation benefits.

KS - SB193 Expanding the definition of compensable personal injury in workers compensation law to include mental injuries suffered from physical injury, emotional shock or after a series of work-related events.

KS - SB194 Removing an employment security law restriction on leasing of certain employees by client lessees of lessor employing units.

KS - SB203 Allowing injured employees to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.

KS - SB213 Prohibiting an employer from taking any adverse employment against against an employee because of the employee's vaccination status.

KS - SB219 Changing law pertaining to real estate brokers and salespersons including the definition of broker, licensure, actions that require licensing, exemptions, application of licensure provisions to trusts, Kansas real estate commission administrative fines, cease and desist orders and subpoena authority.

KS - SB236 Establishing the Kansas commission for the United States semiquincentennial.

KS - SB259 Providing that the testimony of an examining healthcare provider may be submitted in evidence by the provider's medical report in workers compensation cases.

KS - SB281 Changing unemployment insurance disqualification provisions for fraud, part-time employment for educational institutions and receipt of pensions.