Earned wage access services providers must register with the commissioner, file a registration application and fee, and renew before expiry.
9-2403. Registration; application; fee. (a) No person shall engage in or hold such person out as willing to engage in any earned wage access services business with a consumer without registering with the commissioner. Any person required to be registered as an earned wage access services provider shall submit to the commissioner an application for registration on forms prescribed and provided by the commissioner. Such application for registration shall include: (1) The applicant's name, business address, telephone number and, if any, website address; (2) the name and address of each owner, officer, director, member, partner or principal of the applicant; (3) a description of the ownership interest of any officer, director, member, partner, agent or employee of the applicant in any affiliate or subsidiary of the applicant or in any other entity that provides any service to the applicant or any consumer relating to the applicant's earned wage access services business; and (4) any other information the commissioner may deem necessary to evaluate the financial responsibility, financial condition, character, qualifications and fitness of the applicant. (b) Each application for registration shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee. (c) The commissioner shall approve an application and shall issue a nontransferable and nonassignable registration to the applicant when the commissioner: (1) Receives the complete application and fee required by this section; and (2) determines the financial responsibility, financial condition, character, qualifications and fitness warrants a belief that the business of the applicant will be conducted competently, honestly, fairly and in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws. (d) Each earned wage access services registration issued under this section shall expire on December 31 of each year. A registration shall be renewed by filing a complete renewal application with the commissioner at least 30 calendar days prior to the expiration of the registration. Such renewal application shall contain all information the commissioner requires to determine the existence and effect of any material change from the information contained in the applicant's original application, annual reports or prior renewal applications. Each renewal application shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable renewal fee. (e) If the commissioner fails to issue a registration within 60 calendar days after a filed application is deemed complete by the commissioner, the applicant may make written request for a hearing. Upon receipt of such written request for a hearing, the commissioner shall conduct a hearing in accordance with the Kansas administrative procedure act. (f) Not later than the first day of the sixth month beginning after the effective date of this act, the commissioner shall prescribe the form and content of an application for registration to provide earned wage access services pursuant to this act. (g) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), a person who, as of January 1, 2024, was engaged in the business of providing earned wage access services in this state may, until the commissioner has processed the person's application for registration, continue to engage in the business of providing earned wage access services in this state without registering if the person has submitted an application for registration within three months after the commissioner has prescribed the form and content of an application pursuant to subsection (f) and otherwise complies with this act. (h) The registration requirements of this act shall not apply to individuals acting as employees or independent contractors of business entities required to register. History: L. 2024, ch. 64, § 45; July 1.