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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	HOUSE BILL No. 2214
3	3	By Committee on Veterans and Military
4	4	Requested by Larrie Ann Brown on behalf of Veteran Benefits Guide
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6	6	AN ACT concerning veterans and military; relating to veterans benefits;
7	7	enacting the safeguarding American veteran empowerment (SAVE) act
8	8	to limit compensation for assisting in veterans benefits matters.
9	9	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
10	10	Section 1. (a) As used in this section:
11	11	(1) "Compensation" means a payment of any moneys, a thing of
12	12	value or financial benefit conferred on or received by any person in return
13	13	for services rendered or to be rendered.
14	14	(2) "Veterans benefits matter" means the preparation, presentation or
15	15	prosecution of any claim affecting any person who has filed or expressed
16	16	an intent to file a claim for any benefit, program, service, commodity,
17	17	function, status or entitlement that veterans, their dependents, their
18	18	survivors or any other person who is eligible under the laws and
19	19	regulations administered by the United States department of veterans
20	20	affairs or the Kansas office of veterans services.
21	21	(3) "Person" means any natural person, corporation, trust, partnership,
22	22	incorporated or unincorporated association, or any other legal entity.
23	23	(b) (1) No person may receive compensation for:
24	24	(A) Referring any veteran to another person for advice or assistance
25	25	in such veteran's benefits matter; or
26	26	(B) any services rendered in connection with any claim filed within
27	27	the one-year presumptive period of active-duty release, unless the veteran
28	28	acknowledges by signing a waiver that such veteran's active-duty release is
29	29	within the one-year period but is choosing to deny the free services
30	30	available to such veteran.
31	31	(2) A person seeking to receive compensation for advising, assisting
32	32	or consulting with any veterans benefits matter shall, before rendering any
33	33	services, memorialize the specific terms that specify the amount to be paid
34	34	will be determined in a written agreement signed by both parties.
35	35	Compensation shall be contingent upon an increase in the awarded
36	36	benefits and, if successful, such compensation shall not exceed five times
37	37	the amount of the monthly increase in benefits awarded based on the
38	38	claim. No initial or nonrefundable fee may be charged by a person
39	39	advising, assisting or consulting an individual on a veterans benefits
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76	76	(3) A person seeking to receive compensation for advising, assisting
77	77	or consulting in connection with any veterans benefits matter shall, before
78	78	rendering any services, memorialize the specific terms under which the
79	79	amount to be paid will be determined in a written agreement signed by
80	80	both parties. Compensation shall be contingent upon an increase in
81	81	benefits awarded and, if successful, such compensation shall not exceed
82	82	five times the amount of the monthly increase in benefits awarded based
83	83	on the claim. No initial or nonrefundable fee may be charged by a person
84	84	advising, assisting or consulting an individual on a veterans benefits
85	85	matter.
86	86	(4) No person shall guarantee, either directly or by implication, a
87	87	successful outcome or that any person is certain to receive specific
88	88	veterans benefits or a specific level, percentage or amount of veterans
89	89	benefits.
90	90	(5) (A) Any person advising, assisting or consulting on veterans
91	91	benefits matters for compensation shall provide the following disclosure at
92	92	the outset of the business relationship: "This business is not sponsored by
93	93	or affiliated with the United States department of veterans affairs or the
94	94	Kansas office of veterans services, or any other federally chartered
95	95	veterans service organization. Other organizations, including, but not
96	96	limited to, the Kansas office of veterans services, a local veterans service
97	97	organization and other federally chartered veterans service organizations
98	98	may be able to provide you with this service free of charge. Products or
99	99	services offered by this business are not necessarily endorsed by any of
100	100	these organizations. You may qualify for other veterans benefits beyond
101	101	the benefits for which you are receiving services here."
102	102	(B) The written disclosure shall appear in at least 12-point font
103	103	in an easily identifiable place in the person's agreement with the individual
104	104	seeking services. The person shall sign the document in which the written
105	105	disclosure appears to represent understanding of these provisions. The
106	106	person offering services shall retain a copy of the written disclosure while
107	107	providing veterans benefits services for compensation and for at least one
108	108	year after the date on which the service relations terminate.
109	109	(6) Businesses advising, assisting or consulting on veterans' benefits
110	110	matters for a fee shall:
111	111	(A) Not utilize international call centers or data centers for processing
112	112	veterans' personal information;
113	113	(B) not use a veteran's personal login, username or password
114	114	information to access such veteran's medical, financial or government
115	115	benefits information; and
116	116	(C) ensure that any person who has access to veterans' medical or
117	117	financial information undergoes a criminal history record check prior to
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161	161	having access to that information. The criminal history record check shall
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164	164	(c) (1) A violation of this section constitutes an unfair, false,
165	165	misleading or deceptive act or practice in the conduct of trade or
166	166	commerce under K.S.A. 50-623 et seq., and amendments thereto.
167	167	(2) Civil penalties shall be in an amount ordered by the district court
168	168	in an action brought by the attorney general.
169	169	(3) Each day that a violation continues is a separate violation.
170	170	(4) Nothing in this section is to be construed as applying to or
171	171	limiting or expanding the
172	172	requirements imposed on agents, attorneys or other representatives
173	173	accredited by the United States department of veterans affairs and
174	174	regulated by such agency.
175	175	Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
176	176	publication in the statute book.
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