Committee
Kansas House Commerce, Labor and Economic Development Committee
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committee members
Jesse Borjon (R)
Ranking Member
Stephanie Clayton (D)
Ken Corbet (R)
Tom Kessler (R)
Mike King (R)
Lynn Melton (D)
Dan Osman (D)
Mari-Lynn Poskin (D)
Bill Sutton (R)
Chair
Sean Tarwater (R)
Vice Chair
Adam Turk (R)
Jill Ward (R)
Barb Wasinger (R)
Sean Willcott (R)
Kristey Williams (R)
Laura Williams (R)
Rui Xu (D)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB2035 | Amending the definition of land devoted to agricultural use for property tax purposes to include trail rides as a ranching activity to qualify as an agritourism activity. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| HB2037 | Increasing the membership of the council on travel and tourism, updating the house legislative committee assignment required for council members appointed from the house, and removing provisions requiring allocation of funds from the matching grant program for the promotion of tourism for private, public and nonprofit entities and limiting the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/21/2025 |
| HB2088 | Requiring local governments to meet specified deadlines for issuing building permits and requiring the department of health and environment to issue a response to an applicant's submitted notice of intent to discharge stormwater runoff from construction activities within 45 days of submission. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/27/2025 |
| HB2090 | Establishing the Kansas employee emergency savings account (KEESA) program to allow eligible employers to establish employee savings accounts, providing an income and privilege tax credit for certain eligible employer deposits to such employee savings accounts and providing a subtraction modification for certain employee deposits to such savings accounts. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| HB2092 | Setting the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the secretary of state, limiting the method of providing surety for professional employer organizations with insufficient working capital to bonds and eliminating a market value measure of the sufficiency of such bonds. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/24/2025 |
| HB2117 | Modifying certain business filing and fee requirements for business trusts, foreign corporations and limited partnerships; authorizing professional corporations or limited liability companies formed or organized to render a professional service to participate in transactions under the business entity transactions act; and making certain information provided by registered agents a public record. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/28/2025 |
| HB2118 | Requiring any person who solicits a fee for filing or retrieving certain documents from the federal government, the state, a state agency or a local government to give certain notices to consumers and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/28/2025 |
| HB2119 | Discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit for qualified developments receiving a 4% federal tax credit. | Crossed Over | 01/28/2025 |
| HB2123 | Increasing the minimum wage for employees that receive tips and gratuities. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| HB2151 | Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $15 an hour. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| HB2158 | Permitting beekeepers who meet certain requirements to sell packaged honey and honeycombs without holding a food establishment or food processing plant license under the Kansas food, drug and cosmetic act. | Crossed Over | 01/29/2025 |
| HB2229 | Amending the Kansas amusement ride act relating to inspections of amusement rides and inflatable devices, training regarding the operation of amusement rides and inflatable devices and establishing an annual permit fee for inflatable devices. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| HB2239 | Requiring every employer to provide each employee with meal periods and rest periods. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| HB2290 | Enacting the Kansas land and military installation protection act to prohibit foreign principals from countries of concern from acquiring any interest in certain real property in this state. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| HB2291 | Creating the regulatory relief division within the office of the attorney general and establishing the general regulatory sandbox program to waive or suspend rules and regulations for program participants. | Veto Overridden | 02/05/2025 |
| HB2292 | Providing for food sales tax revenue replacement for STAR bond districts established prior to December 31, 2022, establishing the STAR bonds food sales tax revenue replacement fund, providing for transfers from the state general fund to such revenue replacement fund and transfers from such revenue replacement fund in the amount of food sales tax revenues lost to the applicable cities or counties and extending the sunset date of the STAR bonds financing act to July 1, 2031. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| HB2293 | Prohibiting the acquisition of critical components of drone technology from countries of concern and the procurement of final or finished goods or services from countries of concern. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| HB2294 | Substitute for HB 2294 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and | Crossed Over | 02/17/2025 |
| HB2304 | Requiring local governments to report certain local economic development incentive program information to the secretary of commerce, defining such programs, requiring the secretary of commerce to post such information on the economic development incentive program database maintained by the secretary and requiring certain search result presentation and report formats. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| HB2308 | Enacting the aviation and innovative manufacturing in Kansas act to attract businesses establishing a headquarters or engaged in aircraft assembly, electric or hydrogen-powered motor vehicle production, and other specified industries to Kansas by offering companies meeting certain employment and investment requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construc | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| HB2310 | Enacting the career advancement, resources, employment and supports for the disability workforce act, providing for career education programs for students and career enhancement programs for professionals, requiring performance-based contracting for disability services providers, facilitating choice in services by individuals with disabilities, mandating rate parity across all state waiver programs, providing for an online data portal system for waitlist management and services-related communica | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| HB2338 | Authorizing the board of cosmetology to issue temporary location and temporary guest artist permits and establishing criteria therefor. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| HB2339 | Enhancing adult care home services by providing for adult care home workforce development through scholarships for part-time nursing students and setting minimum education levels for instructors at nursing schools, establishing an intergenerational child care program to enhance the adult care home environment by supporting adult care homes offering child care services through the awarding of grants by the secretary of health and environment and creating the intergenerational child care fund and | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| HB2340 | Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army for owners of certain property located in Johnson county. | Crossed Over | 02/07/2025 |
| HB2342 | Authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updating criminal history record language related to the state bank commissioner, requiring the secretary of labor to conduct criminal history record checks on employees who have access to federal tax information and authorizing the secretary of commerce to conduct such checks on final applicants for and employees in certain sensitive positions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| HB2343 | Creating the no-impact home-based business fairness act, supporting the development and growth of such businesses by limiting the regulatory power of municipalities. | Crossed Over | 02/07/2025 |
| HB2344 | Establishing the Kansas-Ireland trade commission to advance, promote and encourage business and other mutually beneficial activities between Kansas and Ireland and creating the Kansas-Ireland trade commission fund. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| HB2346 | Substitute for HB 2346 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Establishing the Kansas sports tourism grant program administered by the secretary of commerce to provide matching grants to communities for developing and continuing sporting events, providing for funding of such grants from the state economic development initiatives fund or from the state general fund if funds are not available therefrom. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| HB2392 | Facilitating nursing workforce development by setting education levels for instructors at nursing schools as a requirement for state approval. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| HB2400 | Amending the definition of land devoted to agricultural use to include trail rides as a ranching activity to qualify as an agritourism activity. | Crossed Over | 03/05/2025 |
| SB9 | House Substitute for SB 9 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Prohibiting foreign principals from acquiring interests in real estate in proximity to military installations, state agencies and local government from purchasing drones or critical components of drones from foreign principals or that are manufactured in countries of concern and foreign principals from receiving benefits from economic development programs. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/05/2025 |
| SB166 | Enacting the fostering competitive career opportunities act to remove postsecondary degree requirements from state employment considerations. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/25/2025 |
| SB197 | House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Furthering economic development by providing for authorization of a port authority by the unified government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, authorizing redevelopment of mall facilities as STAR bond projects, allowing vertical construction for certain STAR bond projects, facilitating such projects in less-populated counties in the Wichita and Kansas City metropolitan statistical are | Crossed Over | 02/25/2025 |
| SB199 | Designating the existing fallen firefighters memorial within the Kansas firefighters museum in Wichita as the official fallen firefighters memorial of the state of Kansas and replacing the Kansas firefighters memorial advisory committee with the Kansas firefighter memorial council; defining the fireworks sales season for seasonal retailers of consumer fireworks, providing for year-round sales by permanent retailers of consumer fireworks, requiring permanent retailers to register with the state f | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/25/2025 |
| SB229 | Providing for occupational licensing annual reports to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations and requiring that adoption of new occupational licenses and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by joint resolution of the legislature. | Crossed Over | 03/24/2025 |