Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB410

Filed/Introduced
8/8/26  
Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/29/26  
Report Pass
2/16/26  
Engrossed
2/19/26  
Refer
2/19/26  

Caption

Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act.

Impact

The introduction of SB410 is expected to have significant implications on existing state laws governing financial institutions. By explicitly including earned wage access service registrants within the purview of the Kansas Financial Institutions Information Security Act, the law will create a standardized approach to handling customer information across various financial service providers. This amendment will help ensure that all entities dealing with sensitive customer data must implement adequate cybersecurity practices, therefore bolstering consumer protection and improving trust in financial institutions.

Summary

Senate Bill 410 is a legislative proposal addressing the regulation of earned wage access services under the Kansas Financial Institutions Information Security Act. The bill mandates that all registrants providing earned wage access services must adhere to specific information security standards outlined in the Act. This measure aims to enhance the protection of customer information handled by various financial entities, including credit services organizations, mortgage companies, and supervised lenders. By integrating earned wage access services into the existing regulatory framework, the bill seeks to improve data security measures in the financial sector.

Contention

While the bill aims to strengthen cybersecurity for financial institutions, it may also face scrutiny regarding the implications for earned wage access services. Advocates of the bill argue that the increased security measures are necessary to protect consumers, particularly in an age where data breaches are prevalent. However, opponents could raise concerns about the potential burdens placed on smaller service providers and the operational challenges that may arise from compliance with these new regulations. Balancing consumer protection with the ability of businesses to operate effectively will likely be a key point of discussion among stakeholders.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS SCR1602

Approving the creation of a port authority in Wyandotte County Kansas.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

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