Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2287 - 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.
AN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to the secretary for children and families; eliminating certain restrictions for eligibility for public assistance; removing the requirement to cooperate with child support services for eligibility; extending the lifetime limitation of temporary assistance for needy families to 60 months; providing for hardship extensions to be granted by the secretary for children and families; exempting parents providing care for a child less than one year of age from work participation activities; eliminating restrictions on persons convicted of drug felonies from receiving food assistance; permitting the secretary to grant categorical eligibility standards; eliminating photograph requirements on benefits cards; eliminating requirements for employment and training programs for certain individuals to be eligible for food assistance; eliminating legislative action to be required for expansion of the medical assistance program; amending K.S.A. 39-702 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 39-709 and repealing the existing sections.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-05 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-02-06 | Status | in_committee |
| 2025-02-06 | Latest Action | Referred to Committee on Welfare Reform |