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HB2491 • 2026

Requiring state agencies to make quarterly reports to the secretary of state with the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving public benefits.

Requiring state agencies to make quarterly reports to the secretary of state with the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving public benefits.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action
2026-04-10
Official status
Died in Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requiring state agencies to make quarterly reports to the secretary of state with the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving public benefits.

Requiring state agencies to make quarterly reports to the secretary of state with the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving public benefits.

What This Bill Does

  • Requiring state agencies to make quarterly reports to the secretary of state with the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving public benefits.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-10 Senate

    Died in Senate Committee

  2. 2026-02-19 Senate

    Referred to Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs

  3. 2026-02-18 Senate

    Received and Introduced

  4. 2026-02-18 House

    Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 87, Nay 37, Absent 1

  5. 2026-02-18 House

    Engrossed on Tuesday, February 17, 2026

  6. 2026-02-17 House

    Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended

  7. 2026-02-17 House

    Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted

  8. 2026-02-16 House

    Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Elections

  9. 2026-02-05 House

    Hearing: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 3:30 PM — Room 218-N event

  10. 2026-01-21 House

    Referred to House Committee on Elections

Official Summary Text

Requiring state agencies to make quarterly reports to the secretary of state with the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving public benefits.

Current Bill Text

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As Amended by House Committee
Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2491
By Committee on Elections
Requested by Representative Proctor
1-21
AN ACT concerning state agencies; requiring quarterly reports to the
secretary of state of the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving
public-funded benefits.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. Every state agency as defined in K.S.A. 75-3701, and
amendments thereto, that provides public funds, scholarships or other
public-funded benefits to noncitizens is designated as a voter
registration agency pursuant to the national voter registration act of
1993, 52 U.S.C. § 20506, and provides public assistance benefits shall
report the name and address first and last name, the middle name or
initial, if any, residence address, date of birth, alien registration
number, last four digits of the social security number, if any, and
driver's license number or nondriver's identification card number, if
any, of each noncitizen recipient of such public assistance benefits on a
quarterly basis to the secretary of state.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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