Kansas Statutes
Article 57 - Department Of Labor
75-5742 State directory of new hires; collection, deletion, confidentiality and transmission of information.

75-5742. State directory of new hires; collection, deletion, confidentiality and transmission of information. (a) The department of labor is hereby designated as the agency to collect the new hires information required by the personal responsibility and work opportunity act of 1996. The secretary of labor shall contract with the secretary for children and families to provide the information needed to be in compliance with the personal responsibility and work opportunity act of 1996.
(b) The state directory of new hires shall receive, retain and, to the extent permitted by federal law, make information reported to the directory available pursuant to subsection (c).
(c) Except as otherwise permitted by federal law, any agency receiving information from the state directory of new hires shall handle the information as confidential information for use in administering the programs for which it was received. The state directory of new hires shall make information available:
(1) Upon implementation of the national directory of new hires, to the national directory; and
(2) to the secretary for children and families for use in administering an eligibility verification system and, not later than May 1, 1998, the title IV-D program.
(d) Any employer who reports electronically or magnetically and is required to report newly hired employees to more than one state may elect to transmit all such reports to one state by complying with the requirements of title IV-D.
(e) Beginning July 1, 1999, the secretary of labor shall annually delete information about individuals contained in the new hires directory if the information is at least two years old. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring the secretary of labor to delete information needed to administer the employment security or workers compensation programs.
History: L. 1997, ch. 182, § 1; L. 1999, ch. 21, § 1; L. 2004, ch. 179, § 139; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 379; July 1.

Structure Kansas Statutes

Kansas Statutes

Chapter 75 - State Departments; Public Officers And Employees

Article 57 - Department Of Labor

75-5701 Establishment and administration of department; secretary of labor; appointment, confirmation, salary; application of K-GOAL.

75-5701a Department and secretary renamed department and secretary of labor; division of employment and training abolished; powers, duties and functions transferred to department and secretary of commerce; continuation of ex officio memberships on co...

75-5701b Successors and continuation of department and secretary of human resources; force and effect of actions performed in exercise of duties; application of documentary references and designations; rules and regulations, orders and directives con...

75-5702 Appointment of subordinate officers and employees; compensation; powers, duties and functions; investigations.

75-5705 Division of employment and security, establishment and administration.

75-5708 Division of workers compensation, establishment and administration; director of workers compensation, assistant directors, administrative law judges; appointment, compensation, qualifications; dismissal or suspension of appointees, grounds.

75-5712 Agricultural labor relations board; administration of management functions; rules and regulations.

75-5713 Public employee relations board; administration of management functions; rules and regulations.

75-5722 Chief attorney and additional attorneys for department; appointment and salaries.

75-5723 Organization of department.

75-5724 Creation of advisory boards, commissions or committees within department; allowances and expenses of members.

75-5727 Custody of records, memoranda, writings of departmental transactions.

75-5730 Location of offices of secretary and department.

75-5731 Seal of secretary.

75-5733 Special projects; acceptance, receipt and expenditure of moneys; special projects fund; personnel, employment and compensation.

75-5734 Salary of secretary for administration of federal acts and programs.

75-5740 Accident problems of state; understanding, reduction, prevention; safety education.

75-5741 Older Kansans employment programs; design of program; annual report; definition.

75-5742 State directory of new hires; collection, deletion, confidentiality and transmission of information.

75-5743 Same; duty to submit information.

75-5744 State enforcement of federal occupational safety and health standards, study of; report to legislature.

75-5745 Federal coronavirus relief fund appropriations for fiscal years 2021 and 2022; transfers to the employment security fund and legislature employment security fund; amounts; procedure; determination of improper payments; report by unemployment...

75-5746 Expenditure of fiscal year 2021 and 2022 moneys appropriated for unemployment compensation modernization project; review and report by legislative coordinating council required.