Kansas House bill in Session 2025-2026.
Status: in_committee. Latest action: February 5, 2025.
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.
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.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-05 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-02-05 | Status | in_committee |
| 2025-02-05 | Latest Action | Referred to House Committee on Welfare Reform |