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Senate committee approves reviser's cleanup of public assistance statutes
Summary
House Bill 2027 reorganizes and consolidates provisions in the public assistance statutes (KSA 39 series) to improve statutory organization; the revisers presented the bill and the committee reported it favorably.
House Bill 2027, a revisers’ bill to reorganize statutory subsections related to public assistance (including TANF, SNAP, child-care subsidy and fraud provisions), was reported favorably by the Committee of the Whole after the revisers’ explanation.
Senator Gossage explained the revisers had reorganized material in KSA 39 series to make related information easier to locate; the floor explanation noted that the revisers provided a crosswalk showing where each item was moved. The sponsor characterized the measure as a technical cleanup with no policy change intended; there were no proponents or opponents at committee.
The committee adopted the report and moved the bill forward by voice vote.
