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Committee on Welfare Reform approves technical reorganization of public assistance statute in HB 2027
Summary
The Committee on Welfare Reform voted to amend and pass House Bill 2027 out of committee after members approved technical drafting changes that standardize terminology and paragraphing in the public assistance statute. The committee recorded four no votes on the final passage and one recorded abstention on the amendment.
The Committee on Welfare Reform approved an amendment and voted to advance House Bill 2027, a technical reorganization of the public assistance statute, to the full House.
Jenna Moyer of the Revisor’s Office told the committee, "House Bill 2027 proposes a reorganization of the public assistance statute section which is KSA 39-709. The bill would have the statute be organized by each public assistance program, which would be subsections now A through D and then, E would be, subsection E would be fraud investigations, F drug screening and convictions, G would now be assignment of support rights, and H would be the electronic benefits card. And these are non substantive changes they would all be, technical and clerical in nature."
Representative Riley, who sponsored the amendment and later moved the bill to the floor, said the changes were intended to improve consistency and readability. "I asked the revisers to go through and put in paragraphs and change things so it looked better. Again, this is all technical," Riley said during the amendment discussion.
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