Brief ⁽¹⁾

HB 2304 amends the Wage Payment Act to do the following:

• Eliminate the distinction between claims that are less than $10,000 from those that are more than $10,000;
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• Eliminate the $10,000 cap on mandatory collections;
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• Prohibit the Kansas Department of Human Resources (KDHR) from accepting a collection assignment from a wage claimant until the wage claim order is final and all appeals are exhausted;
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• Eliminate the requirement that the wage claimant pay an assignment fee of $25 per claim; and
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• Allow KDHR to cease collection efforts if the debt is uncollectible, the claim cannot be collected at reasonable cost, or the claimant does not cooperate in reasonable efforts to collect the claim.

The bill is placed on the consent calendar.

Background

An official with KDHR testified in support of the bill.

The fiscal note indicates no fiscal effect.

1. *Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at http://www.ink.org/public/legislative/fulltext.cgi