Kansas Lawmakers Look to Extend COVID-19 Liability Shield for Businesses By John Hanna and Andy Tsubasa Field | March 4, 2021
Kansas lawmakers moved on March 2 to extend protections for businesses from lawsuits over COVID-19.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would give businesses an extra year of protection, until March 31, 2022, from lawsuits from customers or employees who contract COVID-19 if those businesses were “in substantial compliance” with public health orders.
The measure is one of several rising out of the pandemic or Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s response to it that the Republican-controlled Legislature is considering.
The liability shield legislation goes next to the Senate, which also was debating a bill to require all of the state’s local school districts to offer in-person classes to all of their students by March 26. Only a handful of the state’s 286 districts don’t plan to have a majority of th
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