The bill mandates the Secretary for Children and Families in Kansas to establish data-matching agreements with various state agencies to enhance the verification of eligibility for the food assistance program. This includes regular reviews of data from multiple sources, such as the office of vital statistics, the department of labor, and the department of revenue, to monitor changes in circumstances that may affect a household's eligibility. The bill specifies the frequency of data collection, including monthly and quarterly intervals, and emphasizes the importance of identifying households with significant lottery or gambling winnings.
Additionally, the bill updates the types of federal data that the Secretary must review to assess continued eligibility for food assistance. It replaces certain deleted terms related to income and records with new categories of information, such as payment and earnings data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and fleeing felon information from the FBI. Furthermore, the bill requires the Secretary to publicly report on noncompliance and fraud investigations related to food assistance on a quarterly basis, providing aggregate data that does not identify individuals.