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KS HB2342

Bill

Status

Passed

4/10/2025

Primary Sponsor

Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Secretary of Commerce may conduct state and national criminal history record checks on final applicants and employees in sensitive positions, including division directors, assistant secretaries, deputy secretaries, IT managers, chief counsel, and grant/loan program managers handling funds

  • Persons in Department of Commerce sensitive positions cannot have any misdemeanor conviction for theft, fraud, forgery, or other financial crimes, nor any felony conviction under state or federal law

  • Secretary of Labor must require criminal history record checks for employees with access to federal tax information received directly from the IRS

  • Kansas Bureau of Investigation authorized to release expanded criminal history records to the attorney general and state gaming agency, including adult convictions, non-convictions, diversions, expunged records, and juvenile records for specified licensing purposes

  • Updates Kansas Money Transmission Act definitions to add "applicant in control of a licensee" and renumber existing definitions; removes redundant criminal history record check language from state bank commissioner provisions by consolidating under K.S.A. 22-4714

Legislative Description

Authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updating criminal history record language related to the state bank commissioner, requiring the secretary of labor to conduct criminal history record checks on employees who have access to federal tax information and authorizing the secretary of commerce to conduct such checks on final applicants for and employees in certain sensitive positions.

Last Action

House Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025

4/10/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/26/2025
Commerce, Labor and Economic Development2/7/2025

Full Bill Text

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