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Senate Judiciary Committee adopts amendment to transparency bill for consumer legal funding
Summary
The committee adopted an amendment to Senate Bill 426 that tightens definitions, removes a private cause of action and vests enforcement with the attorney general, and then recommended the bill favorably for passage.
Senate Judiciary Committee members adopted an amendment to Senate Bill 426 and recommended the bill favorably for passage. The bill, titled the Kansas Transparency and Consumer Legal Funding Act, would impose disclosure and contract requirements on consumer legal funding companies and set enforcement mechanisms.
The revision adopted narrowed the definition of "consumer" and removed a private right of…
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