51st District Representative Ron Highland Kansas Legislature photo
With the veto session beginning Monday, 51st District Representative Ron Highland of Wamego is looking at tax policy and the Kansas Department of Labor s response to COVID-19 jobless benefits as action items for lawmakers.
Highland joined KVOE s Morning Show this week for his perspective on successes, concerns and what lies ahead. He says one highlight was a bill to transfer oversight of the Kansas Department of Labor s unemployment insurance program to an outside agency because of ongoing concerns about the Labor Department. Highland is not happy with the department s response, and part of that goes into a bill on tax policy changes recently vetoed by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.