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HB 2401

AN ACT concerning employment security law; relating to the definition of "benefit year" and "temporary unemployment"; requiring electronic filing of wage reports, contribution returns and payments and interest assessments for employers with 25 or more employees; permitting the exercise of discretion in the number of appointments and length of terms with respect to the temporarily expanded employment security board of review members; extending when the mandatory combination of rates and the establishment of a new account due to a business acquisition must occur from the beginning of the following quarter to the beginning of the following year; requiring the secretary to create an audit process within the new unemployment insurance information technology system to permit employers to submit reports regarding work search, the my reemployment plan and claimants who do not provide notification or appear for scheduled interviews; providing for notices by the secretary to active employers regarding work search noncompliance reporting options; authorizing the legislative coordinating council to extend the new unemployment insurance information technology system implementation date as often as deemed appropriate by the council, requiring the secretary to notify the council of the need for an extension and permitting retroactive extension if necessary; authorizing the secretary to extend temporary unemployment up to four weeks upon request by employers; amending K.S.A. 44-705, 44-709, 44-717 and 44-772 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 44-703, 44-710a and 44-775 and repealing the existing sections.

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House - Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; - 03/27/2023

On roll call the vote was:

Yea - (119):

Alcala, Amyx, Anderson, Awerkamp, Ballard, Barth, Bergkamp, Bergquist, Blew, Blex, Bloom, Borjon, Boyd, Bryce, Buehler, Butler, Carlin, Carmichael, B. Carpenter, W. Carpenter, Clifford, Collins, Concannon, Corbet, Croft, Curtis, Dodson, Donohoe, Droge, Ellis, Eplee, Essex, Estes, Fairchild, Featherston, Francis, Gardner, Goddard, Goetz, Haskins, Haswood, Hawkins, Helgerson, Highberger, Hill, Hoffman, Hoheisel, Hougland, Houser, Howe, Howell, Howerton, Hoye, Humphries, Johnson, Kessler, Landwehr, Lewis, Martinez, Mason, Maughan, Melton, Meyer, D. Miller, S. Miller, V. Miller, Minnix, Moser, Murphy, Neelly, Neighbor, Ohaebosim, Oropeza, Osman, Ousley, Owens, Patton, Penn, Pickert, Poskin, Probst, Proctor, Rahjes, Resman, Robinson, Roth, L. Ruiz, S. Ruiz, Sanders, Sawyer, Sawyer Clayton, Schlingensiepen, Schmoe, Schreiber, Seiwert, A. Smith, C. Smith, E. Smith, Stogsdill, Sutton, Tarwater, Thomas, Thompson, Titus, Turk, Turner, Underhill, Vaughn, Waggoner, Wasinger, Waymaster, Weigel, White, K. Williams, L. Williams, Winn, Woodard, Xu, Younger,

Nay - (4):

Carr, Garber, Jacobs, Rhiley,

Present but not Voting - (0):

Absent and Not Voting - (2):

Delperdang, Poetter Parshall,

Not Voting - (0):