Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2148

Introduced
1/29/25  

Caption

Prohibiting the permitting and siting of electric transmission lines within any area designated by the United States department of energy as a national interest electric transmission corridor.

Impact

If enacted, HB 2148 would significantly alter the regulatory landscape for electric utilities operating in Kansas. By prohibiting permits and limiting the use of eminent domain within designated national interest corridors, the bill would minimize the ability of utilities to expand their infrastructure in these vital areas. This change is intended to curb potential conflicts between federal mandates and state regulations, as well as alleviate concerns among landowners regarding the involuntary acquisition of their properties for electric transmission development.

Summary

House Bill 2148 aims to prohibit the permitting and siting of electric transmission lines within any areas designated by the United States Department of Energy as national interest electric transmission corridors. The bill seeks to amend existing regulations surrounding electric utilities, specifically preventing them from obtaining transmission line siting permits within these federally designated regions. The primary goal of the bill is to maintain control over land use in these critical areas while also ensuring that the expansion of electric infrastructure aligns with state priorities.

Contention

The bill faces potential contention from various stakeholders, including electric utilities and environmental advocacy groups. Proponents argue that the bill is necessary to protect local communities from unwanted infrastructure developments and to preserve agricultural and natural resources in these regions. However, opponents highlight the risk of limiting the infrastructure necessary to meet growing energy demands. The debate may center around finding a balance between local control over land use and ensuring adequate electric service provision, particularly as the energy sector undergoes significant transitions.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

KS SB4

Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

KS HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

Similar Bills

NJ S3193

Requires electric public utilities to submit transmission project proposal to BPU for approval.

NJ A4518

Requires electric public utilities to submit transmission project proposal to BPU for approval.

NM HB295

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NJ A2707

"Restore Local Offshore Wind Control Act"; prohibits construction of certain offshore wind project infrastructure without local governmental approval.

NJ A1551

Requires BPU to study potential deployment of advanced transmission technologies in NJ.

OR HB3628

Relating to the Oregon Electric Transmission Authority; prescribing an effective date.

NM SM16

Opposition To Eminent Domain For Transmission

SC H5525

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