# Kansas SB 229: House 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.

Kansas SB 229, House 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., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Commerce; status failed, last action 2026-04-10 (Died in Conference); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas SB 229
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: House 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.
- Status: failed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-02-06
- Last action: 2026-04-10, Died in Conference
- Sponsor: Committee on Commerce
- Cosponsors: 1
- Subjects: house committee on commerce, senate committee on commerce, senate committee on ways and means
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 6 (404 yes, 158 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Commerce
- Cosponsor: Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 88 Nay: 34 | pass | 88 | 34 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 83 Nay: 36 | pass | 83 | 36 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | pass | 31 | 9 |   |
| 2026-03-27 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 88 | 34 |   |
| 2026-03-12 | House | Final Action - Substitute passed as amended | pass | 83 | 36 |   |
| 2025-03-20 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 31 | 9 |   |

## Actions (26)

- 2026-04-10: Died in Conference (Senate)
- 2026-03-27: Conference committee report now available (House)
- 2026-03-27: Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Rep. Sean Tarwater, Rep. Jill Ward and Rep. Stephanie Sawyer Clayton appointed as second conferees (House)
- 2026-03-27: Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Sen. Larry Alley, Sen. Stephen Owens and Sen. Silas Miller appointed as second conferees (Senate)
- 2026-03-27: Conference committee report now available (House)
- 2026-03-27: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 88, Nay 34, Absent 3 (House)
- 2026-03-25: Sen. Silas Miller is appointed to replace Sen. Oletha Faust Goudeau on the Conference Committee (Senate)
- 2026-03-16: Motion to accede adopted; Rep. Sean Tarwater, Rep. Jill Ward and Rep. Stephanie Sawyer Clayton appointed as conferees (House)
- 2026-03-12: Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea 83, Nay 36, Absent 5 (House)
- 2026-03-12: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Larry Alley, Sen. Stephen Owens and Sen. Oletha Faust Goudeau (Senate)
- 2026-03-11: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed (House)
- 2026-03-11: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Sean Tarwater (House)
- 2026-03-11: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Sean Tarwater was adopted (House)
- 2026-03-11: Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended (House)
- 2026-03-03: Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development (House)
- 2025-03-24: Received and Introduced (House)
- 2025-03-24: Referred to House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development (House)
- 2025-03-20: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 31, Nay 9 (Senate)
- 2025-03-18: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Commerce (Senate)
- 2025-03-12: Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Commerce; Rereferred to Senate Committee on Commerce (Senate)
- 2025-02-14: Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Ways and Means; Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means (Senate)
- 2025-02-12: Hearing: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 159-S (Senate)
- 2025-02-07: Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce (Senate)
- 2025-02-06: Introduced (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Amended by Senate Committee on Commerce: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_229/sb229_01_0000.pdf)
- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_229/sb229_00_0000.pdf)
- H Sub for: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_229/sb229_02_0000.pdf)
- {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole}: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb229_03_0000.pdf)

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- SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. (signed)
- SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax cred… (signed)
- SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a… (signed)
- HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (signed)
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## Sources
- [As Amended by Senate Committee on Commerce (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_229/sb229_01_0000.pdf)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_229/sb229_00_0000.pdf)
- [H Sub for (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_229/sb229_02_0000.pdf)
- [{As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb229_03_0000.pdf)

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- [HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2029-2025-2026)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB229-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).