Topeka — The Kansas House has sent Gov. Mark Parkinson a bill adjusting the taxes paid by businesses into the state’s unemployment trust fund.
Wednesday’s vote in the House was 122-0. The Senate passed the measure last week.
The bill is aimed at shoring up the unemployment trust fund.
The measure rewrites a state law that otherwise would force a $209 million increase this year in taxes paid into a state trust fund that finances unemployment benefits. Record claims last year depleted the fund, and Kansas must borrow from the federal government to pay all this year’s claims.
Business owners and groups complained to legislators because companies with little or no history of claims from former workers faced the highest percentage tax increases.
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ralphralph (anonymous) says…
What does it adjust? How? On what basis?
thefisherman (anonymous) says…
Good story, LJWorld. This would be equally as useful if it said "state legislature did something today, it affected some people, and they sent it to a committee for approval"
down_the_river (anonymous) says…
The press corps at the Statehouse has been decimated due to the cuts in media businesses. As a result, the few reporters that remain can't keep track of the details, and this is the type of wire story that is released. At least a simple reference to the bill number (SB 55 for example) would help lead people to the details if they wished to do more research. Earlier in the session there was a significant error in reporting about proposals for beer and wine sales in grocery stores, and since there was nobody writing an alternative story, the sole report was copied across the state. It's certainly a sad state of affairs in newspaper world.