{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-44-132","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 44-132","heading":"Employee status of motor carrier not altered due to deployment, implementation or use of motor carrier safety improvements.","body":"(a) The deployment, implementation or use of a motor carrier safety improvement by, or as required by, a motor carrier or such motor carrier's related entity, including by contract, shall not, in whole or in part, affect, impact or change the worker status of a driver.\n(b) For purposes of this section:\n(1) \"Motor carrier safety improvement\" means any device, equipment, software, technology, procedure, training, policy, program or operational practice intended and primarily used to improve or facilitate:\n(A) Compliance with traffic safety or motor carrier safety laws;\n(B) motor vehicle safety;\n(C) the safety of the operator of a motor vehicle; or\n(D) the safety of a third-party public roadway user.\n(2) \"Worker status\" means the classification under any state law of a motor vehicle driver who engages in the transportation of property for compensation as an agent, employee, jointly employed employee, borrowed servant or independent contractor for a motor carrier.\n(c) This section shall be deemed to be supplemental to existing laws relating to conditions of employment and related matters.","path":["Chapter 44.—LABOR AND INDUSTRIES","Article 1.—PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch44/044_001_0032.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-10-15T06:16:41Z","sha256":"6a302b051c85cef66183c1be72fc783163f72db16d45ec2104f40fe60e0abfd0","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-44-131","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-44-312"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}