Employment laws and bills in Kansas

Every bill in the Kansas Legislature that falls inside the Employment and Labor Legislation Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.

Bills in scope
28bills in scope
Past committee
4past committee
Most recent action
10 April 2026most recent action

Employment laws enacted in Kansas in 2026

1 Employment bill was enacted in Kansas this year, the latest with a last action on 9 April 2026. They lead the list below.

Employment bills in Kansas

3Enacted

1Cleared both chambers

24Introduced or inactive

28 bills in scope

Enacted

3

HB 2602Establishing requirements for a portable benefit plan for independent contractors, determining types of contributions to such plans and providing a subtraction modification for Kansas income tax purposes.EnactedHB 2092Setting 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.EnactedSB 241Providing that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances.Enacted

Cleared both chambers

1

HB 2626Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a registry kiosk of Kansas military forces killed in action or who died of wounds incurred during active duty to be placed within the state capitol, enacting the safeguarding American veteran empowerment (SAVE) act to limit compensation for assisting in veterans benefits matters, establishing the Kansas military affairs commission and prescribing the powers and duties thereof, expanding veterans preference in government employment to include current members of the national guard and such members' eligible spouses and permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and such members’ eligible spouses.Vetoed

Introduced or inactive

21 of 24 shown

HB 2066Requiring business entities and public employers to register and use the e-verify program for employment purposes and prohibiting income tax deductions for wages and remuneration paid to unauthorized aliens.DeadHB 2123Increasing the minimum wage for employees that receive tips and gratuities.DeadHB 2151Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $15 an hour.DeadHB 2239Requiring every employer to provide each employee with meal periods and rest periods.DeadHB 2264Restoring local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.DeadHB 2310Enacting 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 communications, requiring the secretary of labor to publish information regarding the disability service provider workforce and providing that direct support workers may be covered by the state health plan.DeadHB 2432Providing an excise tax on large employers for certain federal benefits paid to employees.DeadHB 2597Establishing a right to paid sick leave for Kansas employees and setting forth minimum requirements and rules for the provision of such sick leave.DeadHB 2598Enacting the Kansas paid family leave act.DeadHB 2627Expanding permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and eligible spouses.DeadHB 2649Establishing the Kansas empowerment savings program, authorizing certain employees to contribute to individual retirement accounts through an automatic payroll deduction and providing powers, duties, functions and responsibilities of the Kansas empowerment savings program board of trustees within the state treasurer's office concerning such program.DeadHB 2650Requiring that noncompete agreements be reasonable and providing that such agreements are null and void upon the sale or change in ownership or control of an employer.DeadHB 2689Enacting the Kansas tri-share child care act for the sharing of child care costs among employers, employees and the state, establishing the Kansas tri-share child care matching program to be administered by the director of the Kansas office of early childhood and creating the Kansas tri-share child care matching program fund.DeadHB 2764Prohibiting amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions through budget provisos, appropriations bills or temporary fiscal measures without following specified review procedures, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria, reorganizing sections for improved readability and compliance, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines and updating the criteria for determining suitable work and disqualification conditions for unemployment benefits.DeadSB 153Establishing the Kansas paid prenatal personal leave act requiring employers to provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave.DeadSB 189Providing injured employees the freedom of choice to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.DeadSB 216Establishing the Kansas paid sick time act, setting accrual, usage and employer obligations regarding earned paid sick time and making it unlawful for employers to retaliate against employees exercising rights under the act.DeadSB 218Increasing the Kansas minimum wage of employees.DeadSB 228Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare workers platforms by the secretary for aging and disability services.DeadSB 229House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law.DeadSB 297Providing for local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.Dead

Showing the 25 furthest along of 28. Subscribers see all of them, filtered and searchable. Bill titles link to the Kansas Legislature's own page.

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What counts as Employment and Labor Legislation legislation

In scope is any bill governing the employment relationship: minimum, prevailing and overtime wages, wage theft, worker classification and gig work, paid sick, family and medical leave, unemployment and workers' compensation, discrimination, harassment, pay equity and pay range disclosure, unions and public sector bargaining, workplace safety and heat standards, electronic monitoring and automated hiring tools, and noncompete and nondisclosure agreements.

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