Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB153

Introduced
2/3/25  

Caption

Establishing the Kansas paid prenatal personal leave act requiring employers to provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave.

Impact

The enactment of SB153 will significantly alter the landscape of employee benefits in Kansas. By requiring employers to provide paid prenatal leave, the bill enhances the support available to pregnant employees, therefore addressing an essential aspect of workplace equity and health. Additionally, it may encourage a more inclusive work environment for expecting parents, as the leave can be utilized for various prenatal healthcare services. The push for this legislation reflects a growing recognition of the importance of prenatal care in promoting healthier outcomes for both parents and children.

Summary

Senate Bill 153, titled the Kansas Paid Prenatal Personal Leave Act, mandates that starting January 1, 2026, all employers within Kansas provide their employees with a minimum of 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave. This leave is specifically designed for employees to attend necessary healthcare services related to pregnancy, including medical appointments and consultations. The bill outlines that this leave must be compensated at the employee's regular pay rate or the applicable minimum wage, ensuring that financial barriers do not prevent access to necessary prenatal care.

Contention

While the bill is generally viewed as a positive move towards supporting maternal health and employee rights, there may be some resistance from employer groups who are concerned about the financial implications of implementing paid leave policies. Some critics might argue that the requirement could place a financial burden on small businesses. However, the bill does allow for employers to offer more generous paid leave policies, which could help mitigate potential backlash by encouraging voluntary enhancement of benefits beyond the statutory minimum.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SCR1604

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property mobile homes.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS SCR1602

Approving the creation of a port authority in Wyandotte County Kansas.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS SR1702

A resolution honoring the life, career and trailblazing achievements of Kansas icon Ed Dwight.

KS SCR1603

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for residential property.

Similar Bills

No similar bills found.