---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhancing the high performance incentive program by decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs and by providing for the transferability of the tax credit."
description: "Enhancing the high performance incentive program by decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs and by providing for the transferability of the tax credit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "SB 65"
citation: "Kansas SB 65 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-25"
last_action: "2021-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/886594ed-a37b-4a21-ac17-5eb7062d3b81"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb65"
source_hash: "b02ce6cbbf18379a80fb43be5df831ae80b0fdf1c4000c1409fa27165c4ddbea"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ks"]
---

# Kansas SB 65 (2021-2022) — Enhancing the high performance incentive program by decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs and by providing for the transferability of the tax credit.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb65_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb65_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2021** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb65_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **121–1** (pass) · lower
- Concurred with amendments; — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- Emergency Final Action - Passed; — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Commerce — primary (organization)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-25** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-01-26** Referred to Committee on Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** Hearing: Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 10:30 AM Room 546-S
- **2021-02-08** Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Committee on Commerce `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-11** Withdrawn from Consent Calendar and placed on General Orders
- **2021-02-18** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-02-18** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2021-02-18** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 38 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2021-02-19** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-02-22** Referred to Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Hearing: Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 1:30 PM Room 346-S
- **2021-03-23** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-03-25** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2021-03-25** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 121 Nay: 1 `passage`
- **2021-03-29** Concurred with amendments; Yea: 38 Nay: 1
- **2021-04-06** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, April 6, 2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-03** Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 15, 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/886594ed-a37b-4a21-ac17-5eb7062d3b81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).