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Senate efficiency committee hears SB13 to remove legacy filing requirements at secretary of state
Summary
The Kansas Senate Efficiency Committee held a hearing on SB13, Secretary of State Schwab's package to remove a set of legacy filing requirements. Proponents said the changes would save IT programming time and staff hours and that the records would remain available at the issuing agencies.
The Kansas Senate Efficiency Committee held a hearing on SB13, a bill sponsored by the Secretary of State’s office that would eliminate a variety of legacy filing requirements currently directed to the Secretary of State’s office.
Supporters told the committee the bill would amend 12 statutes and repeal 11 statutory filing requirements that they say are redundant or unused. Clay Barker, general counsel for the Kansas Secretary of State, described the measure as Secretary Schwab’s top legislative priority for the year and said the removals would save the office both IT and staff time.
Barker said the change would free about 400 hours of one-time IT programming time and roughly 50 staff hours per year by removing low-value filings from the Secretary of State’s processing and database requirements. He told the committee that many of the filings exist for historical reasons from a pre-internet era when the…
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