Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Utilities Committee Bills & Legislation

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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2107

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/27/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
3/17/25  
Enrolled
3/27/25  
Providing for claims to recover economic damages from fire events caused by electric public utilities, establishing a statute of limitations for such claims and requiring the state corporation commission to convene a workshop on utility wildfire risk and mitigation.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2109

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Engrossed
2/17/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Report Pass
3/13/25  
Enrolled
3/27/25  
Exempting public utilities from civil liability relating to the attachment, access, operation, maintenance or removal of law enforcement equipment on any utility pole or other structure that is owned or operated by the public utility.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2110

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Report Pass
3/6/25  
Enrolled
3/25/25  
Eliminating the requirement that the state 911 board shall contract with a local collection point administrator for services, rescheduling the date on which the state 911 operations fund, state 911 grant fund and state 911 fund shall be established, requiring certain transfers to be made to the state 911 operations fund and rescheduling the date for transferring all 911 fee moneys currently held outside the state treasury to the state treasury.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2149

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Refer
2/17/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
3/18/25  
Enrolled
4/10/25  
Substitute for HB 2149 by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications - Requiring distributed energy retailers to disclose certain information to residential customers who are offered or seeking to install a distributed energy system, requiring the attorney general to convene an advisory group to develop, approve and periodically revise a standard form for such disclosures and requiring publication thereof, establishing requirements for interconnection and operation of distributed energy systems, increasing the total capacity limitation for an electric public utility's provision of parallel generation service and a formula to determine appropriate system size.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2435

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
2/16/26  
Engrossed
2/24/26  
Refer
2/25/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Enrolled
3/26/26  
Substitute for HB 2435 by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications - Authorizing natural gas public utilities to recover certain growth-related investments in the gas system reliability surcharge, increasing the cap on the amount that the monthly fixed charge may be increased for residential customers and reducing the time for the state corporation commission to act on gas system reliability surcharge filings.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2040

Filed/Introduced
 
Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/21/25  
Report Pass
2/4/25  
Engrossed
2/17/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Report Pass
3/6/25  
Enrolled
3/27/25  
Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB131

Filed/Introduced
8/8/26  
Introduced
1/30/25  
Requiring the state corporation commission to establish and enforce a code of conduct and agricultural mitigation protocol for the development, operation and decommissioning of certain large energy facilities.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB167

Filed/Introduced
8/8/26  
Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Prohibiting electric public utilities from recovering from ratepayers the costs associated with electric vehicle charging stations and requiring electric public utilities to establish electric vehicle charging service rate schedules.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB169

Filed/Introduced
8/8/26  
Introduced
2/3/25  
Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB168

Filed/Introduced
8/8/26  
Introduced
2/3/25  
Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB170

Filed/Introduced
8/8/26  
Introduced
2/3/25  
Authorizing the state corporation commission to make recommendations regarding energy efficiency standards for buildings.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB348

Filed/Introduced
 
Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Report Pass
1/27/26  
Engrossed
2/9/26  
Refer
2/9/26  
Report Pass
2/25/26  
Enrolled
3/6/26  
Exempting any electric public utility that is a not-for-profit wholly owned subsidiary of an electric cooperative public utility from the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB379

Filed/Introduced
8/8/26  
Introduced
1/26/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Report Pass
2/5/26  
Engrossed
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Authorizing the state 911 board to establish a statewide program for emergency medical dispatch and telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation, medical direction and quality assurance services.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB380

Filed/Introduced
 
Introduced
1/26/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Report Pass
2/12/26  
Engrossed
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Report Pass
3/12/26  
Enrolled
4/9/26  
Requiring retail electric suppliers to provide fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates and services to entities that provide electric vehicle charging services.
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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB400

Filed/Introduced
8/8/26  
Introduced
1/27/26  
Requiring data centers to use closed-loop cooling systems to mitigate water consumption.