Monthly Program: Legislative Update

Join HRMN for our monthly chapter meeting and program. K-State Student SHRM Chapter Members attend free!

Speaker: Natalie Bright, Bright & Carpenter Consulting

Topic: 2024 Kansas Legislative Update

Sponsor: Learning Quest - Today is a good day to plan for tomorrow!

Summary: Recap of the 2024 Kansas Legislative Session with an emphasis on issues impacting the business community with an emphasis on the HR professional as well as a review of the upcoming 2024 Elections.

3 goals:

1. Gain overall knowledge of the issues considered by the 2024 KS Legislature.
2. Better understand legislation passed during the 2024 legislative session which specifically impact the HR profession.
3. Learn about the upcoming 2024 Elections and how to become more aware of candidates who support the HR profession.

Speaker Bio: Natalie Bright has 29 years of experience lobbying on behalf of Kansas business and state associations at the state and federal levels. Her expertise is in lobbying business issues, specifically in the areas of taxation, human resources, insurance, judicial reform and transportation. 

Bright has a joint degree in business administration and political science from the University of California-Riverside. She received her law degree from Washburn School of Law in 1998 and began lobbying for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry during the 1998 Legislative Session. In 1999, Bright left the Chamber to work as a contract lobbyist. In 2008, Bright joined her law school classmate, Marlee Carpenter, and opened her current firm.

Bright is active in a variety of statewide business coalitions and has been part of several reform efforts including recent workers’ compensation, immigration, unemployment compensation and health care reform efforts. During her career, she has worked on several key pieces of legislation including the 2012 Workers Compensation Reforms, which passed unanimously and the most recent Kansas Unemployment Insurance Compensation Reforms. Bright is licensed to practice law in state of Kansas and resides in Shawnee, Kan. with her husband Kevin and four children.