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KS HB2287
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/5/2025
Primary Sponsor
Welfare Reform
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AI Summary
- Extends the TANF lifetime limit from 24 months to 36 months, with hardship extensions available up to 60 months for circumstances including disability, domestic violence, involvement with child protective services, or other extreme hardships determined by executive review
- Removes the requirement for TANF and food assistance applicants to cooperate with child support services as a condition of eligibility, eliminating associated non-cooperation penalties
- Eliminates the permanent ban on food assistance for persons convicted of drug felonies, allowing eligibility regardless of controlled substance convictions
- Exempts single custodial parents caring for a child under one year of age from work participation requirements, expanded from the previous three-month exemption
- Removes the requirement for photographs on Kansas benefits cards and eliminates the statutory prohibition on Medicaid expansion, allowing the secretary to implement expansion without additional legislative action
Legislative Description
Eliminating certain restrictions for eligibility for public assistance, including removing the requirement to cooperate with child support services, restrictions on persons convicted of drug felonies, requirements for employment and training programs, photograph requirements for benefits cards and legislative action required for expansion of medical assistance, permitting the secretary from granting categorical eligibility standards, extending the lifetime limitation on benefits, providing for hardship extensions and exempting parents providing care for a child less than one year of age.
Last Action
House Referred to Committee on Welfare Reform
2/5/2025
Committee Referrals
Welfare Reform2/5/2025
Full Bill Text
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