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Kansas Senate Utilities Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB2040 | Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/18/2025 |
| HB2107 | 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. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/28/2025 |
| HB2109 | 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. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/18/2025 |
| HB2110 | 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. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/20/2025 |
| HB2149 | 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 ener | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/13/2025 |
| SB11 | Requiring the state 911 board to establish requirements for 911 telecommunicators to receive training and continuous education in telecommunicator-cardiopulmonary resuscitation. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SB46 | Establishing the blind information access act to require the state library to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB57 | Requiring certain state agencies, counties, cities and political subdivisions to reimburse the owner or operator of communications or video service facilities for the costs to modify or relocate such facilities for certain road and highway projects. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SB81 | Prohibiting large facilities receiving certain tariffs or failing to meet workforce and electric demand requirements from qualifying for economic development electric rates. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SB92 | Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application. | Crossed Over | 01/29/2025 |
| SB93 | Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| SB131 | 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. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| SB167 | 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. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB168 | Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB169 | Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB170 | Authorizing the state corporation commission to make recommendations regarding energy efficiency standards for buildings. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB171 | Authorizing the secretary of health and environment to license nuclear fusion systems, establishing such licensure fee and authorizing the secretary to impose late fees for any expired radiation protection and control license. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB173 | Providing that any lease or easement involving commercial wind or solar electric generation resources shall not be in force and effect until the board of county commissioners of the affected county approves the commercial wind or solar electric generation project. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SB191 | Limiting the amount of fees, taxes and other charges on a utility bill assessed by a board of public utilities. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SB233 | Establishing requirements for decommissioning of commercial solar and wind energy facilities. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| SB266 | Requiring legislative approval to construct high-impact electric transmission lines. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| SB274 | Requiring the state corporation commission to engage a consulting firm to conduct a technical and legal feasibility study on new nuclear energy generation. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| SB289 | Requiring economic development electric rate discounts offered by public utilities to cover the incremental and variable costs to serve customers that receive such a discount. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |