Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: 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.
AN ACT concerning electric public utilities; relating to electric vehicle charging services; prohibiting electric public utilities from recovering from ratepayers the costs associated with electric vehicle charging stations; requiring electric public utilities that provide electric vehicle charging services to offer such services under a nonregulated private enterprise and on an equitable and nondiscriminatory basis just as such utility offers to private entities providing such services; requiring electric public utilities to establish electric vehicle charging rate schedules for the provision of electric vehicle charging services by private entities.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-03 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2025-02-25 | Status | in_committee |
| 2025-02-25 | Latest Action | Withdrawn from Committee on Ways and Means; Rereferred to Committee on Utilities |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2793 | HB2793 - Enacting the Kansas sports authority act to establish a sports authority to provide for the construction, financing and management of certain sports facilities and sports facility infrastructure and create venues for professional sports and other events. | unknown |
| HB 2798 | HB2798 - Substitute for HB 2798 by Committee on Higher Education Budget - Granting authority to state educational institutions regarding transactions involving contracts, easements and the procurement of goods and services, exempting the state educational institutions from statutes governing such transactions and authorizing legislators to request copies of certain documents. | in_committee |
| HB 2435 | HB2435 - 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. | passed_lower |
| HB 2647 | HB2647 - Authorizing the Kansas department of transportation to establish a statewide conduit system for fiber optic transmissions of broadband connections. | in_committee |
| SB 380 | SB380 - 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. | passed_lower |
| SB 478 | SB478 - Creating a maximum length of time for an agreement between a utility and law enforcement to install law enforcement equipment on a utility pole or structure and increasing the criminal penalties for assault or battery of a utility or communications employee. | in_committee |
| SB 439 | SB439 - Enacting the utility railroad crossing act and establishing a process and limitations for utilities to interact with railroad right-of-way. | in_committee |
| SB 348 | SB348 - 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. | enrolled |