Kansas HB2004: Senate Substitute for HB 2004 by Committee on Government Efficiency - .Requiring the secretary for children and families and the office of inspector general to exchange information and documents related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance fraud investigations and requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services and comply with data requests from such federal agencies

What the bill says

An act concerning public assistance; requiring the secretary for children and families and the office of inspector general to exchange information and documents related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance fraud investigations; requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services…

From the enrolled text, April 9, 2026:

AN ACT concerning public assistance; requiring the secretary for children and families and the office of inspector general to exchange information and documents related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance fraud investigations; requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services; requiring such secretaries to comply with written data requests from such federal agencies made pursuant to such memorandum of understanding or written data-sharing instrument; amending K.S.A. 39-760 and repealing the existing section. New Section 1. (a) To facilitate in the detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud in the cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance programs, the secretary for children and families and the office of the inspector general shall exchange: (1) Documents and information related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance applicants or recipients; (2) documents and information related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance eligibility determinations; (3) electronic benefit card transaction data or documents; and (4) any other materials received, compiled or created by either agency related to an audit, inquiry or investigation of a cash assistance, childcare assistance or food assistance applicant, recipient, authorized …