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House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

  • Committee Assistant: Susan McClacherty 785-296-6588
  • susan.mcclacherty@house.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Tue/Thu Time: 9:00 am Location: 582-N

    Room 582-N Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    HB2180 - Requiring changes to electric rates for transmission costs to be approved through an electric utility's general rate case proceedings.
    HB2181 - Requiring the state corporation commission to provide the legislature with an annual report of the electric rates of electric public utilities in the region.
    HB2281 - Substitute for HB 2281 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Implementing the 988 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in Kansas and imposing a 988 fee on telecommunications and other voice services.
    HB2290 - Requiring the secretary of health and environment to assess carbon content fees upon certain fuel sales and the secretary of the department of revenue to distribute carbon content dividend payments to Kansans.
    HB2291 - Applying the net metering and easy connection act to electric cooperatives and municipal utilities, increasing compensation to customer-generators, authorizing larger renewable energy systems and increasing the total net metered facility cap.
    HB2330 - Authorizing solar power purchase agreements with renewable energy suppliers and exempting the sales of electricity pursuant to power purchase agreements from public utility regulation.
    HB2689 - Limiting cost recovery of replacing coal-fired electric generation facilities in rates, requiring public utilities to purchase certain electricity generated from coal-fired facilities and exempting certain coal-fired electric generation facilities from regulation.
    HB2696 - Establishing electric generation requirements for certain renewable energy resources that provide baseload generation supply to public utilities.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB19 - House Substitute for SB 19 by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications - Implementing the 988 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in Kansas.
    HB2145 - Exempting the retail sale of electricity by public utilities for electric vehicle charging stations from the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.
    HB2180 - Requiring changes to electric rates for transmission costs to be approved through an electric utility's general rate case proceedings.
    HB2181 - Requiring the state corporation commission to provide the legislature with an annual report of the electric rates of electric public utilities in the region.
    HB2205 - Authorizing publication of legal notices by a city, county, school district or other board or entity on a designated official website.
    HB2329 - Updating the entities who are subject to the pipeline safety program of the state corporation commission.
    HB2330 - Authorizing solar power purchase agreements with renewable energy suppliers and exempting the sales of electricity pursuant to power purchase agreements from public utility regulation.
    HB2367 - Authorizing the state corporation commission to regulate certain transmission line wire stringing activities.
    HB2381 - Establishing the state energy plan task force to develop a comprehensive state energy plan.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2022 Legislative Session
    HCR5023 - 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.
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