Kan. Admin. Regs. § 110-6-11 - Certification period (CP)

(a) After establishing the measurement period at the worksite, the applicant shall establish a certification period as follows:

(1) For a worksite that has been fully operational for at least four calendar quarters, a 12-month certification period shall begin, at the option of the applicant, on any date during the calendar quarter following the end of the MP.

(2) For a new worksite with a new workforce, the certification period shall begin at the onset of the eligible qualified capital investment to establish this worksite and shall continue for 12 months after the end of the MP. There may be two exceptions as follows:

(A) If, at the commencement of full operations, the new worksite is staffed with a workforce comprised of at least 85 percent of employees who have been relocated from other Kansas worksites of the company and if compliance with all other HPIP requirements is documented to the satisfaction of the secretary for the four calendar quarters immediately preceding the start of full operations, the applicant shall have the option to use the four calendar quarters before the start of full operations at the new location as its measurement period with a certification period starting at the onset of qualified capital investment to establish this new worksite. The certification period shall continue through the first four quarters of operations.

(B) A firm that is relocating from outside of Kansas shall have the option to use the four previous quarters before the start of full operations at the new worksite as its measurement period with a certification period starting at the onset of eligible capital investment to establish this new worksite and shall continue through the first four quarters of operations, if all of the following conditions are met:

(i) The new worksite is not subject to the HPIP source-of-revenue requirement and is using participation in KIT or KIR to satisfy the HPIP training requirement.

(ii) At the commencement of full operations, the new worksite is staffed with a workforce comprised of at least 85 percent of employees who have been relocated from non-Kansas facilities of the firm or from a combination of Kansas and non-Kansas facilities.

(iii) Wage costs for those relocated employees are documented to the satisfaction of the secretary for the four calendar quarters immediately preceding the start of full operations.

(b) If a company chooses to combine worksites for HPIP certification, then each worksite shall establish as its measurement period four combined calendar quarters of operations that do not overlap any other measurement period for any participating worksites. Certification shall begin on any date of the applicant's choosing during the quarter that follows the end of the measurement period and shall extend for a 12-month period.

(c) If worksites are combined in a single application to receive aggregate HPIP certification, then the applicable set of requirements shall consist of the most restrictive requirement for any of the individual worksites that are participating in the combined application, according to the following requirements:

(1) If any individual participating worksite is subject to the HPIP source-of-revenue requirement, then the combined worksite application as a whole shall be subject to the HPIP source-of-revenue requirement.

(2) If participating worksites come from more than one HPIP wage region, then the highest wage threshold from those wage regions shall apply for the participating worksites.

(3) If a headquarters or back-office operation is not required to satisfy the HPIP source-of-revenue requirement while another worksite is so required, then each participating worksite shall be required to satisfy this requirement.

(4) If worksites in the same wage area fall into different size categories, the most restrictive wage standard shall apply to each of the combined worksites.

(5) If each of the combined worksites has 500 or fewer employees but in aggregate the number of employees is greater than 500, then the higher wage threshold shall apply.

(d) Certification of a worksite for the sole purpose of obtaining training and education tax credits or a sales tax exemption certificate shall be allowed if both of the following conditions are met:

(1) All other program requirements are satisfied.

(2) The applicant demonstrates prior knowledge of the program by submitting the project description form. This form shall be received by the department before the start of the certification period.

Notes

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 110-6-11

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 74-50,115 and K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 74-50,131; effective Sept. 13, 2013.