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Enacting the utility railroad crossing act and establishing a process and limitations for utilities to interact with railroad right-of-way.
Enacting the utility railroad crossing act and establishing a process and limitations for utilities to interact with railroad right-of-way.
Requiring retail electric suppliers to provide nondiscriminatory rates and services to entities that provide electric vehicle charging services and prohibiting any costs and expenses associated with a retail electric supplier's electric vehicle charging stations from being recovered in electric rates.
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.
Prohibiting the development or operation of any new large load data center in a county that has had a drought emergency declared for such county pursuant to the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three years.
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.
Authorizing the state 911 board to establish a statewide program for emergency medical dispatch and telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation, medical direction and quality assurance services.
Establishing requirements for the development, construction, modification, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of certain industrial energy facilities and providing jurisdiction to the state corporation commission to control and permit such development, construction, modification, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of such facilities.
Establishing requirements for the development, construction, modification, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of certain industrial energy facilities and providing jurisdiction to the state corporation commission to control and permit such development, construction, modification, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of such facilities.
Requiring data centers to use closed-loop cooling systems to mitigate water consumption.
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.
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.
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.
Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application.
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.
Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application.
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.
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.
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.
Requiring the state corporation commission to engage a consulting firm to conduct a technical and legal feasibility study on new nuclear energy generation.
Requiring legislative approval to construct high-impact electric transmission lines.
Authorizing the state corporation commission to make recommendations regarding energy efficiency standards for buildings.
Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.
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.
Prohibiting large facilities receiving certain tariffs or failing to meet workforce and electric demand requirements from qualifying for economic development electric rates.
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.
Establishing requirements for decommissioning of commercial solar and wind energy facilities.
Limiting the amount of fees, taxes and other charges on a utility bill assessed by a board of public utilities.
Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.
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.
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.
Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission.
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.
Requiring the state 911 board to establish requirements for 911 telecommunicators to receive training and continuous education in telecommunicator-cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Authorizing certain telecommunications and video service providers to operate in county public right-of-way and limiting the fees and costs that a county may impose upon such providers for such activities.
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.
Prohibiting the closure of an electric generation facility without a reliable and readily dispatchable replacement and notification of such closure.
Authorizing counties to contract with other counties to share 911 public safety answering point services and authorizing the distribution of 911 fee moneys to counties for such purposes.
Establishing a rebuttable presumption against retirement of fossil fuel-fired electric generating units, requiring the state corporation commission to report on such retirements and extending the timelines for the commission to make a determination regarding rate-making treatment for generating or transmission facilities.
Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar facilities.
Requiring landowners whose land is taken by eminent domain for electric transmission lines to be compensated at not less than fair market value multiplied by 150%.
Increasing the capacity limitation for the total amount of facilities subject to net metering that may operate within the service territory of investor-owned electric utilities, requiring facilities to be appropriately sized based on the customer's average load and establishing requirements for exporting power to a utility from a facility subject to net metering.
Requiring public disclosure of an application for a transmission line siting permit under the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.
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.
Requiring public utilities to report information regarding customer assistance programs, account delinquencies and disconnections.
Prohibiting public utilities from recovering any dues, donations or contributions to any charitable or social organization or entity through customer rates.
Requiring public disclosure of an application for a transmission line siting permit under the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.
Limiting the amount of fees, taxes and other charges on a utility bill assessed by a board of public utilities.
Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission, establishing the utilities regulation division in the office of the attorney general, requiring such division to represent and protect the collective interests of utility customers in utility rate-related proceedings and exempting the state corporation commission from the open meetings act.
Requiring the state corporation commission to review the regional rate competitiveness of an electric utility's rates in electric utility rate proceedings.
Providing incumbent electric transmission owners a right of first refusal for the construction of certain electric transmission lines.
Requiring existing wind energy conversion systems to install light-mitigating technology systems.
Authorizing electric public utilities to recover certain depreciation and construction work in progress expenses and limiting the time that such recovery may be implemented, authorizing the provision of economic development electric rates for certain large electric customers and limiting the time that such rates may be implemented, extending the timeline for the state corporation commission to issue an order in ratemaking treatment proceedings, authorizing electric public utilities to retain certain generating facilities in the utilty's rate base, prohibiting the commission from authorizing the retirement of certain generating facilities unless certain requirements are met, increasing the capacity limitation for the total amount of net metering facilities that may operate in the service territory of an investor-owned electric public utility, requiring net metering facilities to be appropriately sized based on the customer's average load and establishing requirements for exporting power from a net metering system to a utility.
Abolishing the 911 coordinating council and establishing the state 911 board; abolishing the 911 operations fund, 911 state fund and 911 state grant fund outside of the state treasury and establishing the state 911 operations fund, state 911 fund and state 911 grant fund in the state treasury; increasing the minimum county distribution of 911 moneys; and authorizing counties to contract with other counties for the provision of 911 PSAP services.
Authorizing certain telecommunications and video service providers to operate in county public right-of-way and limiting the fees and costs that a county may impose upon such providers for such activities.
Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar generation facilities.
Updating the maximum penalties that may be imposed by the state corporation commission for pipeline safety violations to comply with requirements of the federal pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration.
Limiting cost recovery for certain electric public utilities' transmission-related costs.
Extending the time period for notice of excavations and permitting use of virtual whitelining for excavations.
Exempting satellite service and video programming services accessed over the internet from the video competition act.
Requiring installation of light-mitigating technology systems on new and existing wind energy conversion systems subject to certain conditions.
Establishing requirements for wind energy conversion system obstruction lighting to mitigate the visual impact of such lighting systems.
Establishing construction, notification and health and safety requirements for commercial-scale and limited-scale solar energy conversion systems.
Restricting the amount of fees on a utility bill for a board of public utilities.
Establishing requirements for wind energy conversion system obstruction lighting to mitigate the visual impact of such lighting systems.
Requiring the state corporation commission to provide certain information upon request to customers of a board of public utilities.
Prohibiting public utilities from recovering any dues, donations or contributions to any charitable or social organization or entity through customer rates.
Denouncing price gouging and market manipulation in the natural gas marketplace and supporting investigations into the extraordinary price increases of wholesale natural gas during the extreme cold weather event of February 2021.
Establishing the Kansas property value protection act to provide for compensation to nonparticipating landowners near wind and solar farms for diminution of real property value under certain conditions.
Establishing certain setback and construction requirements for wind energy facilities and certain operating conditions for existing wind energy facilities.
Allowing rate recovery by electric public utilities for certain electric generating facilities.
Limiting increases on electric retail rates and providing certain exceptions.
Establishing procedures that may be used to void or terminate leases or easements for electricity generation using wind or solar energy resources.
Establishing requirements for instruments that convey a wind or solar lease or easement and requiring that certain disclosures be provided to landowners.
Establishing the wind generation permit and property protection act and imposing certain requirements on the siting of wind turbines.
Allowing the exercise of eminent domain for the purpose of conducting carbon dioxide in pipes.
Exempting the retail sale of electricity by public utilities for electric vehicle charging stations from the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.
Requiring changes to electric rates for transmission costs to be approved through an electric utility's general rate case proceedings.
Requiring the state corporation commission to provide the legislature with an annual report of the electric rates of electric public utilities in the region.
Updating the entities who are subject to the pipeline safety program of the state corporation commission.
Authorizing the state corporation commission to regulate certain transmission line wire stringing activities.
Exempting the retail sale of electricity by public utilities for electric vehicle charging stations from the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.
Creating the crimes of trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility and eliminating the crime of tampering with a pipeline.
Prohibiting municipalities from imposing restrictions on customer's use of energy based upon source of energy.
Requiring electric public utilities to notify cities prior to construction of urban electric transmission lines.
Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Utilities - Restricting cities and counties from imposing certain regulations and fees on a video service provider for the provision of communications service through a micro wireless facility.
Allowing public utilities to implement demand-side programs to increase energy efficiency.
Requiring senate confirmation of the director of the Kansas energy office established pursuant to executive reorganization order no. 46.
Establishing a state broadband grant program under the department of commerce to encourage the deployment of broadband in the state.
Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from amending or adopting rules and regulations that would create new or increase air quality control fees.
Senate Substitute for HB 2585 by Committee on Utilities - Exempting certain public utilities from Kansas income taxation and allowing the state corporation commission to approve certain contract and reduced electric rates and associated cost recovery from all rate classes.
Limiting the amount of charges on a utility bill for a customer of a board of public utilities.
Requiring the state corporation commission to provide certain information to customers of a board of public utilities.
Allowing public utilities to implement demand-side programs to increase energy efficiency.
Enacting the Kansas electricity bill reduction bonds act and authorizing the state corporation commission to issue securitized ratepayer-backed KEBRA bonds for electric utility property.
Changing customer-generator rates in the net metering and easy connection act.
Allowing the exercise of eminent domain for the purpose of conducting carbon dioxide in pipes.
Restricting cities and counties from imposing certain regulations and fees on a video service provider for the provision of communications service through a micro wireless facility.
Allowing the state corporation commission to approve certain electric contract rates and associated cost recovery from all rate classes.
Electric utilities and recovery of transmission costs.
Authorizing the state corporation commission to issue securitized ratepayer-backed bonds for electric generation facilities.
Creating the Kansas energy policy task force to study electric utility services and energy policy issues in Kansas.
Requirements for Kansas public water supply loans and lead level limitations for installation or repair to public water supply systems.
Requiring deposit in the water program management fee fund of certain moneys received by the Kansas department of health and environment.
Requiring the fees and civil penalties collected by the Kansas department of health and environment under the asbestos control program to be deposited in the air quality fee fund.
Allowing the state corporation commission to regulate the rates of boards of public utilities after a customer petition.
Prohibiting the state corporation commission from authorizing certain charges for electric service.
Prohibiting certain utilities to recover income tax expenses through base rates approved by the state corporation commission.
Substitute for SB 126 by Committee on Utilities - Exempting certain public utilities from Kansas income taxation and requiring the filing of new retail electric rates in certain circumstances.
Electric utilities and recovery of transmission costs.
Amending the Kansas 911 act.
Limiting the fees and agreements cities can require a wireless services provider to enter for the provision of wireless telecommunications service.
Substitute for SB 69 by Committee on Utilities - Requiring an electric rate study of certain electric utilities.
Urging the State Corporation Commission and rate-regulated utility companies to provide timely relief to Kansans by setting new rates and refunding excess funds collected.
Requirements for the state corporation in establishing rates.
Amending the Kansas 911 act.
Prohibiting electric utilities from including amounts in excess of applicable tax rates in electric rates.
Requiring the state corporation commission to provide for public comment concerning regional transmission organizations.
Requiring the state corporation commission to include all public comments in the record.
Utilities and electric cooperatives.
State corporation commission reporting requirements and electric and gas rate increases.
Utilities and demand-side programs.
Utilities and the net metering act.
Municipal energy agencies and the state corporation commission.
Relating to the citizens' utility ratepayer board and the powers of the consumer counsel.
Kansas 911 act; audits by legislative post audit.
Kansas no-call act; restrictions on use of automatic dialing-announcing devices.
Electric utilities and billing standards.
Electric utilities and billing standards.
Requiring the state corporation commission to study certain issues relating to electric utilities.
Requiring the state corporation commission to implement retail electric choice.
Kansas universal service fund and Kansas lifeline support.
Allowing petitions for a protection from abuse order to include a request for transfer of rights to a wireless telephone number.
Concerning the gas safety and reliability surcharge.
Kansas 911 act; audits by legislative post audit.
Substitute for SB 323 by Committee on Utilities - Concerning the Kansas retail electric suppliers act and the regulation of electric cooperatives and municipal energy agencies.
Concerning utilities and the department of health and environment.
Vehicle tire tax and abolishing the solid waste grants advisory committee.
Utilities and electric transmission lines.
Telecommunications and wireless communications equipment.
Telecommunications and universal service support.
Utilities and state entities.
Electric utilities and carbon dioxide emissions.
Renewable energy standards act sunset.
Exempting certain state leases from energy audit requirements.
Electric utilities and carbon dioxide emissions.
Distance prohibitions and spacing requirements for wells.
Senate Substitute for HB 2131 by Committee on Utilities - Concerning telecommunications.
Water district No. 1 of Johnson County and purposes of property easement.
Electric utilities and carbon dioxide emissions.
House Substitute for SB 91 by Committee on Energy and Environment - Renewable energy standards act and property tax exemptions for renewable energy resources.
Reliable, affordable and safe power act.
Licensing of oil and gas well operators and extension of the abandoned oil and gas well fund.
Emergencies and disasters and the Kansas disaster utilities response act.
Substitute for HB 2661 by Committee on Energy and Environment - Siting of electric transmission lines; notice and hearing requirements.
Ten-year limit on property tax exemption for renewable energy resources or technologies.
Repealing the renewable energy standards act.
Capping the franchise fee at 5%.
Repealing the review of TeleKansas I.
Relating to the powers and duties of the state corporation commission; construction of electric transmission lines and certificates of public convenience and necessity.
Enacting the energy efficiency investment act.
Allowing retail sale of electric generation.
Enacting the energy efficiency investment act.
Requiring the corporation commission to study the SPP's integrated market program.
Electric utility uniform billing standards.
Providing for IP interconnection.
Requiring the corporation commission to study the SPP's integrated market program.
Excavator liability under the underground utilities damage prevention act.
Kansas electric transmission authority; composition of authority and advisory council.
Net metering excess energy credit and fixed charge.
Right of first refusal for incumbent electric transmission owners.
Allowing the board of regents to charge KAN-ED program user fees.
State corporation commission; relating to the promulgation of rules and regulations concerning horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
Amending the expiration date of net excess generation credit.
Electric cooperative refund to members on death.
Senate Substitute for HB 2482 by Committee on Utilities - Creating the energy efficiency investment act.
Secretary of health and environment and air quality standards.
Senate Substitute for HB 2101 by Committee on Utilities - Renewable energy; excess energy credits.
Kansas electric transmission authority and the purpose and composition of the authority.
Updating the Kansas no-call act.
Senate Substitute for HB 2014 by Committee on Utilities - Repealing the renewable energy act.
Amending the Kansas 911 act.
Urging approval of the Presidential Permit application allowing the construction and operation of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline.
Telecommunications; regulation by the state corporation commission and distributions from the Kansas universal service fund.
Making gas pipeline safety terminology consistent with federal regulations.
Renewable energy portfolio standards.
Amending the KAN-ED act.
Renewable energy resources.
Requiring the KCC to annually determine the cumulative retail rate impact of nonrenewable alternative sources of electricity supply and report to the legislature.
Oil and gas; Kansas corporation commission; unitization; horizontal drilling.
Amending the KAN-ED act.
Increasing the net metering allowance for non-residential customer generators.
Prohibiting default proxy appointment to board.
Concerning public utilities and issuance of a certificate of public convenience.
Senate Substitute for HB 2390 by committee on Utilities -- Amending the Kan-Ed act.
Senate Subsitute for HB 2267 by Committee on Local Government -- Uniform common interest owners bill of rights act; changes.
Concerning property; requiring wind and solar agreements to run with surface estate.
Urging adoption of federal regulations or policies permitting Kansas to regulate the underground storage of natural gas in interstate transportation.
Urging Congress to permit the Kansas Corporation Commission to regulate hydraulic fracturing.
Urging the United States Department of Transportation to adopt regulations permitting the State Corporation Commission to regulate natural gas storage fields in Kansas.
Concerning 911 emergency services; prepaid wireless fees, collection and distribution.
Concerning property; requiring wind and solar agreements to run with surface estate.
Senate Subsitute for HB 2267 by Committee on Local Government -- Uniform common interest owners bill of rights act; changes.
Telecommunications and price regulation.
Concerning 911 emergency services; prepaid wireless fees, collection and distribution.
Deregulation of natural gas public utilities cooperatives.
Senate Substitute for HB 2526 by Committee on Utilities -- Utilities; relating to energy.
Concerning utilities; Kansas corporation commission; rules and regulations; penalties; fees.
Concerning the Kansas 911 act.
Substitute for SB 50 by Committee on Utilities -- Emergency communications service; relating to fees, charges, collection and distribution.
Requiring anemometer towers to be marked or flagged so as to be identifiable in clear air during daylight hours.
Utilities; report on electric supply and demand for electric utilities; gas safety and reliability surcharge, extension of time for filing rate schedule.
Agricultural ethyl alcohol producer incentive fund; extension.
Substitute for SB 72 by Committee on Utilities -- Telecommunications.
Substitute for SB 72 by Committee on Utilities -- Telecommunications.
Urging the EPA to develop regulations that minimize adverse impacts.