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Read. Follow. Verify.Kansas requires welfare and health agencies to sign data-sharing agreements with federal departments
Last action · April 10, 2026: Died in Committee
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What This Bill Proposed
AN ACT concerning public assistance; requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding, data use agreement or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services; requiring such secretaries to comply with written data requests from such federal agencies made pursuant to such memorandum of understanding, data use agreement or written data-sharing instrument; amending K.S.A. 39-760 and repealing the existing section.
State welfare and health agencies face mandatory deadlines to hand over recipient data upon federal request, altering how state-held public assistance records are shared with federal authorities.
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.
Secretary for Children and Families
Must execute data-sharing instruments and release requested data to the United States Department of Agriculture within 30 days.
Secretary of Health and Environment
Must execute data-sharing instruments and release requested data to the United States Department of Health and Human Services within 30 days.
United States Department of Agriculture
Authorized to submit written requests for data-sharing instruments and obtain state public assistance data.
United States Department of Health and Human Services
Authorized to submit written requests for data-sharing instruments and obtain state medical assistance data.
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This bill did not become law - Died in committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Apr 10, 2026SenateDied in Committee
- Feb 3, 2026SenateHearing: Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 9:30 AM — Room 144-S
- Jan 30, 2026SenateCommitteeReferred to Senate Committee on Government Efficiency
- Jan 29, 2026SenateIntroducedIntroduced
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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