Kansas unemployment rate

EO 26-05 rescinds EO 20-02 and establishes an Early Childhood Advisory Council chaired by the Office of Early Childhood director. It directs statewide needs assessment, funded-program coordination, participation and data recommendations, educator development, learning standards and a public statewide strategic plan. Paragraph 9 makes the council purely advisory with no administrative authority over public funding. Recommendations address development and career advancement for early-childhood educators and training institutions. They do not establish new positions, changed wages or delivered jobs. Issued July 1, 2026 and immediately effective until rescinded. The order permits consolidation of nonstatutory bodies, not abolition of statutory councils. It references the Office created under 2025 HB 2045; this order does not itself create that Office. The earlier order, referenced state and federal law, strategic-plan submission, appointments and subsequent implementation require independent review. The signed order establishes historical policy context. Advice, report deadlines, forecasts and authorizations do not establish implementation, delivered benefits, spending, jobs or a measured change in this chart. Later amendments and present operation require separate evidence.

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statewide professional development and career advancement plans

These describe the original enacted law provisions selected for this topic. Later amendments and current implementation require separate evidence.

• Section 1: Directors/lead teachers must be 18, have a high-school credential and one of four qualifying paths, including experience. Assistants must be 16 and capable; no educational qualification may be required. Waivers are case-specific.
• Section 2: Home-provider training is capped at 10 hours with specified components and an infant-specific condition. Limited licensure exceptions apply. The October 1, 2025 ratio-rule deadline does not prove adoption.
• Section 4: A child-care home licensee need not reside in that home. This changes facility licensing, not general housing eligibility or tenancy.
• Section 5: A licensee may request a time-limited statutory waiver. Granting is discretionary; from July 1, 2026 the director acts on a deputy recommendation. No blanket waiver is established.
• Section 6: Capacity pilots may receive funding subject to appropriations and alternative safety terms. Licenses cannot endanger children. Pilot duration and extension conditions do not prove a pilot actually operated.
• Section 8: Creates the Office and governor-appointed director, with Senate confirmation subject to statutory exceptions, budget duties and staggered 2025/2026 organizational dates. DCF authority under 75-3084 through 75-3089 is preserved.
• Section 11: Director appoints Office personnel under civil-service law. Existing accrued and vested employee rights are protected; no inferred layoffs or savings.
• Section 12: Establishes licensure/finance, home-visitation and Cabinet deputies, and a provider ombudsman. Existing Cabinet remains statutory; subsidy agreements and appropriations remain conditional.
• Section 13: Rules continue until lawfully revised; funds transfer for original appropriated purposes. Existing court/criminal proceedings survive reorganization. Classified status, retirement, leave and continuous service are protected; payroll and later layoffs follow stated rules.
• Section 16: Defines the transferred licensing regime; employee includes regular volunteers and residents. Infant and school-age definitions have precise age/development conditions.
• Section 17: Director licensing includes inspections, temporary permits, refusal/revocation hearings and judicial review. Repeat serious violations/death or serious harm can permanently bar licensure and employment under another license. Continuing protections are not all newly invented in 2025.
• Section 18: The 2026 day-care framework specifies no annual day-care fee, referral fees capped at 150 dollars, late/amendment fees and a restricted licensing fund. Fees immediately before July 1, 2026 continue until replacement rules; this clause is distinct from the deleted carryover in section 43.
• Section 23: Annual, complaint and other specified inspections apply; parent consent is required for child interviews. Surveyors require certification and annual continuing education, with improvement/termination procedures.
• Section 27: Specified convictions, registry findings and other conditions disqualify workers; fingerprint processing has a restricted fund and notice/due-process provisions. Preserve printed cross-reference anomalies in(a)(3)/(j) and 72-4215 in(f)(2); do not silently repair the source. Existing extraordinary/grandfather educational exceptions apply.
• Section 33: Existing licenses/permits continue until expiration unless earlier suspended or revoked.
• Section 39: Adds the Office to licensing reciprocity from July 1, 2026 and removes obsolete 2025 portal dates. Existing military-spouse fee protections and reciprocity qualifications largely continue; do not present them all as new benefits. The source reports bodies 1–22 while listing 23.
• Section 41: Reorganizes definitions and excludes day-care/referral facilities from KDHE child-care-facility definition from July 1, 2026; the transitional day-care subsection expires. KDHE retains other residential/placement/maternity responsibilities.
• Section 42: From July 1, 2026 remaining KDHE facilities retain inspection, safety, temporary-permit, due-process and serious-violation protections. Day-care expiration-sticker language is deleted here because the transferred framework is separate.
• Section 43: Removes the 75-dollar-plus-child-count annual fee for other facilities, preserving stated 150-dollar categories, foster-home exemption and late/amendment fees. The old until-replacement-rules fee-carryover sentence is struck. This historical 2025 provision must not be conflated with new section 18. Restricted fund/nonoffset protections remain.
• Section 45: Adds contracted certified surveyors and annual training/improvement provisions; removes obsolete 2011/2012 inspection-grace language and narrows the child-interview consent rule.
• Section 46: Updates offense/employee references and fingerprint processes while retaining the then-existing conditional juvenile foster-home exception. That exception is later replaced in 2026; this ledger does not claim the 2025 wording is current. Transitional educational-qualification language expires June 30, 2026.

Gov. Laura Kelly signed HB 2045 on April 24, 2025. The law creates the Kansas Office of Early Childhood and changes child-care staffing, licensing, safety, fees and program administration. Its general effective date is July 1, 2025, with many transfers and replacement licensing provisions beginning July 1, 2026. Child-care center directors/lead teachers must be at least 18, have a high-school diploma or equivalent and meet one of at least four educational/experience paths, including a nonacademic experience option. Assistant teachers must be at least 16 and have necessary skills; the director cannot require an educational credential for them. Waivers are case-specific, not a universal employment exemption. Home-provider professional development is capped at 10 hours per licensure year and includes specified training components and an infant-specific condition for a sole provider caring for four infants. Licensing exceptions, facility-space rules, nonresident home-provider licensure and conditional capacity pilots affect child-care operations. The law does not prove more jobs, lower unemployment or any particular licensed provider’s eligibility. Transferred classified workers retain classified status, accrued/vested retirement and leave rights and continuous service; payroll transfers follow the specified payroll-period rule. Later layoffs and position changes remain subject to civil-service law. New Office personnel and deputy appointments have their own statutory service classifications. The Office is added to occupational-licensing reciprocity from July 1, 2026; existing reciprocity qualifications, public-safety limits and military-spouse fee protections largely continue. No new blanket military-spouse benefit is inferred. Annual day-care licensing fees and the separate 2026 carryover rule must be distinguished from other fees, late charges, amendment charges and background-check requirements. This entry describes the original enacted law and its conditions. Some safeguards are continued or transferred rather than first created by this act. Later amendments, current rules, individual eligibility, actual grants, expenditures and outcomes need separate evidence. The governor reported the Office opening and program consolidation on July 1, 2026; that report does not establish every legal transition, deadline or service outcome. The chart does not isolate the law’s effect on state readings.

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The director shall not require assistant teachers to meet educational requirements.

EO 23-05 establishes an advisory panel to gather local input and recommend a psychiatric hospital location, care model, staffing and statutory changes. Its recommendations are expressly nonbinding. The panel recommends psychiatric staffing and training; no hiring total is established. The original final report deadline of June 30, 2024 was changed by EO 24-04 to September 30, 2024. Both orders specify March 31, 2025 expiration. Report submission, extensions, construction and an operating hospital are not established here. Issuance is verified policy context. A deadline, recommendation, forecast or authorization does not prove implementation, payments, benefits, jobs or a change in the chart. Later amendments and actual results require separate evidence.

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training programs, talent pipelines, and recruitment and retention strategies

EO 23-02 allows the governor to make additional appointments to the Early Childhood Transition Task Force; the other EO 23-01 provisions remain in effect. The task force reviews provider workforce development, licensing and workforce pipelines. Recommendations are not verified jobs. This amendment changes appointment authority, not the advisory status of recommendations, report delivery or creation of a new agency. Issuance is verified policy context. A deadline, recommendation, forecast or authorization does not prove implementation, payments, benefits, jobs or a change in the chart. Later amendments and actual results require separate evidence.

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workforce development and support

EO 23-01 creates an unpaid task force to analyze early-childhood governance, healthcare, provider workforce and funding, consult families and providers, draft a transition plan and propose legislation for a single agency. The task force reviews provider workforce development, licensing and workforce pipelines. Recommendations are not verified jobs. Recommendations are expressly nonbinding and are not official agency policy. An interim report was due July 1, 2023 and a final report January 1, 2024; submission and subsequent legislation are not established by this original. EO 23-02 later permits additional appointments. Issuance is verified policy context. A deadline, recommendation, forecast or authorization does not prove implementation, payments, benefits, jobs or a change in the chart. Later amendments and actual results require separate evidence.

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workforce development and support

EO 21-23 rescinds seven listed pandemic orders on separate dates: adult-care licensing, the unemployment waiting week, out-of-state withholding and tuberculin testing on June 15, 2021; driver identification and rural-water meetings on June 30; remote notaries and witnesses on July 15. The emergency waiver of the unemployment waiting week is rescinded June 15; benefit totals and subsequent eligibility require separate evidence. The rescission order is dated June 14, 2021. Each rescission takes effect at 11:59 p.m. on its specified date. The seven earlier originals and replacement statutory rules require separate review; this is not proof that all pandemic rules ended on June 14. Issuance is verified policy context. A deadline, recommendation, forecast or authorization does not prove implementation, payments, benefits, jobs or a change in the chart. Later amendments and actual results require separate evidence.

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waiting week requirement for unemployment insurance benefits