Topeka — The House approved a bill intended to improve operation of the state's child support processing center.
The 122-0 vote Friday sent the bill to the Senate.
The bill would give the Legislature's official endorsement to the center, but would shut it down in two years unless lawmakers acted again. It also would create an oversight committee.
The Kansas Payment Center opened last Sept. 29 as the state ended its county-by-county child support system to comply with a federal law mandating centralization.
The Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services hired Tier Technologies Inc. of California to process child support checks at the center.
Some parents have complained that the center has failed to process checks in a timely way. SRS estimates that since the center's inception, about 6,000 checks were not processed on time.
Legislators have never endorsed creation of the processing center, which was established under an order from the Kansas Supreme Court.
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