Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	HOUSE BILL No. 2360
3	3	By Committee on Welfare Reform
4	4	Requested by Representative Awerkamp
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6	6	AN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to the secretary for
7	7	children and families and the secretary of health and environment;
8	8	directing the secretaries to enter into agreements with commercial
9	9	entities and state agencies for the continuous review and comparison of
10	10	data for public assistance eligibility; requiring the secretary for children
11	11	and families to review federal sources to verify such eligibility.
12	12	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13	13	Section 1. (a) (1) To verify eligibility for the food assistance program
14	14	pursuant to K.S.A. 39-709, and amendments thereto, the secretary for
15	15	children and families and the secretary of health and environment shall:
16	16	(A) Enter into data matching agreements to compare data related to
17	17	households enrolled in food assistance, child support services, medicaid
18	18	and other public assistance programs with commercial entities that collect
19	19	or maintain data regarding employment and wages as a "payroll data
20	20	provider" as defined by the fair credit reporting act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et
21	21	seq., as in effect on July 1, 2025, to obtain real-time employment and
22	22	income data, including up-to-date, non- modeled employment and income
23	23	data provided by employers or payroll providers; or
24	24	(B) present to the legislative coordinating council prior to November
25	25	1, 2025, commercial, state and federal agency options to compare data
26	26	options. Upon receipt and review of such options from the secretary for
27	27	children and families and the secretary of health and environment, the
28	28	legislative coordinating council shall make the determination of approval
29	29	of the data matching agreement.
30	30	(2) The appropriate secretary shall receive and review data
31	31	concerning individuals or households enrolled in food assistance, child
32	32	support services, medicaid and other public assistance programs that
33	33	indicates a change in circumstances that may affect eligibility for a public
34	34	assistance program on at least a:
35	35	(A) Monthly basis, from the office of vital statistics, including, but
36	36	not limited to, death records;
37	37	(B) quarterly basis, from the department of labor, including, but not
38	38	limited to, changes in employment or wages;
39	39	(C) monthly basis, including, but not limited to, potential changes in
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75	75	residency as identified by out-of-state electronic benefit transfer
76	76	transactions;
77	77	(D) quarterly basis, from the department of revenue, including, but
78	78	not limited to, potential changes in income, wages or residency as
79	79	identified by tax records;
80	80	(E) monthly basis, from the department of corrections, including, but
81	81	not limited to, incarceration status;
82	82	(F) semi-monthly basis, from the department of labor, including, but
83	83	not limited to, potential changes in employment, income or assets; and
84	84	(G) monthly basis, from the Kansas lottery and the Kansas racing and
85	85	gaming commission, to identify households with lottery or gambling
86	86	winnings of $3,000 or greater and, to the extent permissible under federal
87	87	law, deem the data verified upon receipt, and if such data is not verified
88	88	upon receipt, the department shall make referrals for further investigation
89	89	to identify households with winnings equal to or greater than the resource
90	90	limit for elderly or disabled households as defined in 7 C.F.R. § 273.8(b).
91	91	(b) On at least a monthly basis, to assess continued eligibility and act
92	92	on findings, the secretary for children and families shall review and act on
93	93	the following data from federal sources:
94	94	(1) Earned income information, death records, incarceration records,
95	95	supplemental security income information, beneficiary records, earnings
96	96	information and pension information maintained by the United States
97	97	social security administration;
98	98	(2) income and employment information maintained in the national
99	99	directory of new hires and child support enforcement data maintained by
100	100	the United States department of health and human services;
101	101	(3) payment and earnings information maintained by the United
102	102	States department of housing and urban development; and
103	103	(4) fleeing felon information maintained by the United States federal
104	104	bureau of investigation.
105	105	(c) On at least a quarterly basis, the secretary shall make available to
106	106	the public on the Kansas department for children and families website data
107	107	from findings of noncompliance and fraud investigations in food
108	108	assistance for the following aggregate, nonconfidential and non-
109	109	personally identifying information:
110	110	(1) Number of households investigated for intentional program
111	111	violations or fraud;
112	112	(2) total number of households referred to the attorney general's
113	113	office for prosecution;
114	114	(3) improper payments and expenditures;
115	115	(4) moneys recovered;
116	116	(5) data concerning improper payments and ineligible recipients as a
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161	161	(6) amount of funds expended by electronic benefit card transactions
162	162	in each state outside of Kansas.
163	163	Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
164	164	publication in the statute book.
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