Directing the secretary for children and families to review and compare data for public assistance program eligibility.
SB 85 requires Kansas' Department for Children and Families to regularly verify eligibility for food assistance programs by comparing household data from state and federal agencies. It mandates monthly checks of death records, employment changes, residency, and lottery winnings over $3,000, plus quarterly reviews of tax and income data. The department must publicly report on fraud investigations, improper payments, and recovered funds quarterly. This directly affects households receiving food assistance in Kansas by ensuring ongoing eligibility verification through data matching. The bill focuses on administrative processes to prevent benefit overpayments without creating new program requirements.
Bill status
died
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 28, 2025
Last action Apr 10, 2026
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As Introduced
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As Amended by Senate Committee on Government Efficiency
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3 edits
MINOR
The bill underwent formatting corrections and a significant reorganization of data sources used for eligibility checks. The committee fixed the session year header and corrected capitalization errors in the text. Most notably, the list of federal databases the department must review was renumbered and expanded to include 'fleeing felon information' from the FBI, ensuring the department can cross-reference applicants against this specific security database.
Scope change
The scope of data sources reviewed by the department was expanded to include FBI fleeing felon records.
TECHNICAL
Corrected the session header from 'Session of 2025' to 'As Amended by Senate Committee Session of 2025' and fixed capitalization on 'Income' and 'United States'.
Reordered the numbering of the data source list from (2), (3), (4) to (2), (3)(2), (4)(3) to accommodate the new FBI data source.
ENFORCEMENT
Added 'fleeing felon information maintained by the United States federal bureau of investigation' to the list of data sources the department must review to identify households with winnings above the resource limit.
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
9
Key actions
4
Committee
3
Feb 25, 2025
Committee
Referred to House Committee on Welfare Reform
lower
Feb 25, 2025
Introduced
Received and Introduced
lower
Feb 19, 2025
Upper · Passed
Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 30, Nay 10
upper
Feb 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
upper
Feb 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
upper
Feb 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Government Efficiency
upper
Jan 29, 2025
Committee
Referred to Senate Committee on Government Efficiency
upper
Jan 28, 2025
Introduced
Introduced
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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