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Committee staff reviews 2024 commerce-related bill activity, flags audit-rule change and several vetoes
Summary
Committee staff presented an overview of commerce-related bills from the 2024 session, noting ten enacted bills affecting economic-development programs and an adjustment to audit timing for new programs; several bills were vetoed or left in conference.
A committee staff member presented a table summarizing commerce-related bill activity from the 2024 legislative session to the joint House and Senate Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
The staff overview identified 10 bills enacted in 2024 that related to commerce committee jurisdiction, including provisions tied to a special session bill (HB 2001) addressing professional sports-team relocation incentives and star-bond modifications. The staff noted enactment of SB 430 (Workers' Compensation Act modifications) and HB 2483, which altered audit timing requirements for certain economic-development programs.
Under the amended audit timeline in HB 2483, the automatic audit window for newly implemented economic-development programs changed from an earlier 1–2 year requirement to a later 4–5 year window unless a member or committee requests an earlier audit from Legislative Post Audit. The staff explained the change was intended to allow programs time to produce measurable results before being audited.
Other enacted measures referenced in the staff’s summary included changes to the Elevator Safety Act (SB 143), hiring preferences for persons with disabilities (SB 333, sometimes referred to in committee discussion as “Kathy’s law”), modifications to the Self-Service Storage Act, and transfers of oversight for professional employer organizations from the Insurance Department to the Secretary of State (HB 2790). The staff also listed bills that were vetoed and sustained (for example, measures related to the Kansas Land and Military Installation Protection Act and certain drone-technology restrictions) and bills that remained in conference at session end (including SB 96 on childcare licensing and SB 467 on travel-and-tourism matching grants and creation of the Wyandotte County Port Authority).
The presenter closed by directing members to the full table for hearing dates, committee actions and final vote counts.
The committee took no formal vote on the summary itself during the meeting record.
