TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas has a new landscape for credit union growth, and the affected are still fretting over the outlook.

"I do agree that we got a law that is not the best but not the worst either–we could have had new Kansas taxes and CRA," declared Lee Williams, CEO of Central Star CU in Wichita.

As it turned out, Williams, a member of the state's Credit Union Council, had one of the ringside seats to the legislative drama that played out the last three months in the Kansas legislature, climaxing in the enactment of the restrictive field of membership-merger law by Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

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