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Sept. 13, 2024
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House Status:
Adjourned until Monday, January 13, 2025 at 02:00 p.m.
Senate Status:
Adjourned until Monday, January 13, 2025 at 02:00 p.m.
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Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
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HB2154 - 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.
HB2155 - Requiring the state corporation commission to review the regional rate competitiveness of an electric utility's rates in electric utility rate proceedings.
HB2156 - Authorizing public utilities subject to the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission to establish rates that benefit low-income residential customers.
HB2225 - Limiting cost recovery for certain electric public utilities' transmission-related costs.
HB2226 - Extending the time period for notice of excavations and permitting use of virtual whitelining for excavations.
HB2227 - Authorizing certain power purchase agreements with renewable energy suppliers, exempting the sales of electricity pursuant to power purchase agreements from public utility regulation and requiring electric public utilities to enter into parallel generation contracts with certain customers of the utility.
HB2228 - Applying the requirements of net metering to electric cooperatives and municipal electric utilities, increasing the utility system-wide capacity limitation of net-metered systems, removing the load-size limitations on net-metered systems and requiring such systems to be appropriately sized based on a customer's load.
HB2309 - Making the 911 coordinating council subject to the Kansas governmental operations accountability law and reducing the fees imposed on telecommunications services and prepaid wireless services under the Kansas 911 act.
HB2310 - Increasing the number of commissioners on the state corporation commission subject to gubernatorial appointment and senate confirmation and prohibiting the appointment and confirmation of any person who has a conflict of interest.
HB2527 - 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.
HB2588 - 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.
HB2589 - Authorizing public utilities and law enforcement agencies to enter into utility pole attachment agreements to allow for the installation of law enforcement equipment on structures located within the public right-of-way and exempting public utilities from civil liability relating thereto.
HB2590 - 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.
HB2591 - Exempting the state corporation commission from the open meetings act and prohibiting ex parte communications in all commission proceedings.
HB2597 - Extending the timelines for the state corporation commission to make a determination regarding rate-making treatment for electric generating or transmission facilities.
HB2620 - 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.
HB2621 - Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar facilities.
HB2690 - 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.
HB2767 - Requiring agencies and other entities subject to the administrative procedure act to confirm receipt of service of an order or notice prior to the imposition of fines or penalties.
HB2768 - Providing a property tax exemption for certain new electric generation facilities and sunsetting current property tax exemptions for such facilities removing certain requirements relating to the state corporation commission's determinations of cost recovery and prudent investments.
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Chair
Rep. Leo Delperdang
Vice Chair
Rep. Carl Turner
Ranking Minority Member
Rep. KC Ohaebosim
Members
House
Rep. Francis Awerkamp
Rep. Emil Bergquist
Rep. Jesse Borjon
Rep. John Carmichael
Rep. Nick Hoheisel
Rep. Lynn Melton
Rep. Cindy Neighbor
Rep. Patrick Penn
Rep. Pat Proctor
Rep. Webster T. Roth
Rep. Tobias Schlingensiepen
Rep. Mark Schreiber
Rep. Chuck Smith
Rep. Laura Williams
Staff
Mindy Sieve - Committee Assistant
James Fisher - Legislative Research
Nicole Fielder - Legislative Research
Nathan Grey - Legislative Research
Nick Myers - Office of Revisor of Statutes
Jessie Pringle - Office of Revisor of Statutes
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