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Committee advances bill to require certain agencies to report noncitizen benefit recipients to secretary of state

Committee on Elections · February 13, 2026

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Summary

The Elections Committee amended and advanced HB 24‑91, narrowing reporting to agencies designated as voter‑registration agencies and adding required identifiers (date of birth, last 4 of SSN, driver’s license number, alien number) after hearing from the secretary of state’s counsel about matching needs. Several members recorded no votes over privacy and fiscal concerns.

The Committee on Elections on Wednesday voted to advance House Bill 24‑91, which— as amended—would require only those state agencies designated as voter‑registration agencies to report recipients of public funds or benefits who are noncitizens to the secretary of state, and to provide additional identifying information to allow one‑to‑one comparisons with voter rolls.

The committee first adopted an amendment narrowing the bill’s scope to the voter‑registration agencies identified in testimony before the panel. Clay Barker, general counsel for the Kansas secretary of state, told the committee those agencies would include KDHE, DCF and possibly KDADS and said that to “scrub” the voter rolls the office needs more than names and addresses: “date of birth, last 4 social if the person has 1, alien ID number,” and similar identifiers to make an absolute one‑to‑one comparison.

Chair and proponents then moved and the committee adopted a second amendment requiring agencies to provide date of birth, the last four digits of Social Security numbers when available, driver’s license numbers and alien numbers where present. Representative Meyer raised fiscal and operational concerns, noting KDHE’s fiscal note said the agency could not estimate the fiscal effect because some sharing is prohibited; Meyer asked the committee to be cautious about imposing uncosted operational requirements on critical agencies.

Vice Chairman closed debate urging the committee to advance the bill as amended. The committee voice‑voted in favor of passing HB 24‑91; Representative Simmons, Representative Meyer, Representative Moseley and the ranking minority member asked their votes be recorded in the negative.

The bill will move out of committee as amended to the next stage of consideration.