Kansas Social Security Bills

Creating the Kansas public employees retirement system cost-of-living adjustment commission, prescribing powers and duties of the commission and establishing procedures of the legislature relating to the annual cost-of-living adjustment rate recommended by the commission.

Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees and requiring mandatory counseling concerning the benefit claims process.

Repealing the prohibition on municipal establishment of guaranteed income programs.

Requiring the department of administration to report identifying information of persons who claim Kansas lottery or gambling prize winnings in excess of $5,000 to the department of health and environment.

Providing a postretirement cost-of-living adjustment to certain KPERS retirants who are 85 years of age or older.

Establishing the business enterprise program oversight task force to review state administration of priority placement for blind vendors on state property, allowing audits on the administration of such program, abolishing the vending facilities account outside the state treasury, establishing the business enterprise program fund in the Kansas department for children and families in the state treasury and transferring moneys from the vending facilities account to the business enterprise progra...

Transferring $1,000,000,000 from the budget stabilization fund to the liability reduction fund of KPERS, using a portion of the interest earnings of the liability reduction fund to provide a 2% COLA for retirants who have been retired for more than 5 years, transferring annually certain amounts from the state general fund to the budget stabilization fund and establishing requirements for the expenditure or transfer of moneys from the budget stabilization fund.

Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare workers platforms by the secretary for aging and disability services.

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 fo...

Providing a KPERS working after retirement exemption from the employer contribution rate for retirants who are employed as teachers by a school district in a position for which a certificate to teach is required.

Directing the secretary for children and families to review and compare data for public assistance program eligibility.

Urging Congress to give state insurance regulators authority over Medicare Advantage plans.

Removing the state fire marshal from the adult care home licensure act and the providers of disability services act and requiring the state fire marshal to complete training in person-centered care and responding to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Enacting the Kansas retirement investment and savings plan (KRISP) act and establishing terms, conditions, requirements, membership elections, accounts, benefits, contributions and distributions related to such plan.

Requiring the department of health and environment (KDHE) to seek federal approval for continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, directing state agencies to report to certain legislative committees on Kansans losing public assistance program eligibility, requiring the Kansas department for children and families and KDHE to enter into data-matching agreements wit...

Authorizing the KPERS board of trustees to invest in bitcoin exchange-traded products and providing requirements, limitations and definitions regarding such investments.

Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act.

Increasing the annual limit on transfers from the lottery operating fund to the community crisis stabilization centers fund and the clubhouse model program fund.

Authorizing comprehensive wellness programs for the Kansas highway patrol and Kansas bureau of investigation, permitting law enforcement personnel of other state agencies to participate in such programs and making annual transfers from the state highway fund and the state general fund for the purpose of financing the implementation of such programs.

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 and comply with data requests from such federal agencies.