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Read. Follow. Verify.Kansas Applies Financial Cybersecurity Standards to Earned Wage Access Services
Last action · April 10, 2026: Died in Conference
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What This Bill Proposed
AN ACT concerning financial institutions; relating to cybersecurity; providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the provisions of the Kansas financial institutions information security act; amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 9-551 and repealing the existing section.
Companies that provide early access to earned wages must comply with state cybersecurity rules and consumer data protection standards originally designed for traditional financial institutions.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Earned wage access service registrants
Registrants must comply with the information security standards established by the Kansas financial institutions information security act.
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What standards must covered entities follow for information security?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died in committee.
Procedural history
19 actions- Apr 10, 2026SenateDied in Conference
- Mar 12, 2026HouseFloorMotion to accede adopted; Representative Hoheisel, Representative Stiens, Representative Xu, , appointed as conferees
- Mar 11, 2026HouseFloorFinal Action - Passed as amended
- Mar 11, 2026SenateNonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed , and
- Mar 10, 2026HouseCommittee of the Whole - Now working on
- Mar 10, 2026HouseFloorCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
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- Mar 10, 2026HouseFloorCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Mar 5, 2026HouseFloorCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by
- Mar 2, 2026HouseHearing: Monday, March 2, 2026, 9:00 AM — Room 582-N
- Feb 19, 2026HouseIntroducedReceived and Introduced
- Feb 19, 2026HouseCommitteeReferred to House Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions
- Feb 18, 2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Now working on
- Feb 18, 2026SenateFloorCommittee of the Whole - Be passed
- Feb 18, 2026Senatefa_fabc_912
- Feb 18, 2026SenateFloorEmergency Final Action - Passed
- Feb 16, 2026SenateFloorCommittee Report recommending bill be passed by
- Feb 11, 2026SenateHearing: Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 9:30 AM — Room 546-S
- Jan 29, 2026SenateCommitteeReferred to Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
- Jan 28, 2026SenateIntroducedIntroduced
Version history
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Sources
www.kslegislature.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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