Does Section 6 (social security numbers on license applications) violate Section 15 of the Kansas Bill of Rights?
Section 6 of 1997 Senate Bill No. 140 requires that the social security numbers of individuals applying for professional licenses, occupational licenses or marriage licenses be recorded on the license application. Kansas statutes are replete with the requirement that a person disclose a social security number. See, e.g., K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 65-2409a(f) (parents required to furnish social security number when birth certificate is filed unless an exemption applies); K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 8-240(c) (application for commercial driver’s license must include applicant’s social security number); K.S.A. 17-2256 (an agent of a guarantee corporation who writes contracts guaranteeing shares of credit union members must provide social security number to the credit union administrator); K.S.A. 23-4,108 (payor in an income withholding procedure is obligated to supply the social security number of an obligor); K.S.A. 40-2508 (a person desiring to register with the state insurance commissioner as an automobi
