AN ACT concerning public utilities; relating to the state corporation commission; authorizing public utilities to defer to a regulatory asset and recover depreciation expenses relating to certain rate base additions; establishing a cap on such cost recovery and limiting the time that such cost recovery may be implemented by a public utility; authorizing new economic development electric rates for large facilities; limiting the time that such economic development rates for large facilities may be implemented by a public utility; prohibiting any revenue lost through the implementation of economic development rates from being imputed into the electric public utility's revenue requirement; authorizing a rate adjustment mechanism for the construction of new gas-fired electric generating facilities; limiting the time that such rate adjustment mechanism may be implemented by a public utility; extending the timeline for the commission to make a determination of ratemaking principles and treatment prior to a public utility constructing or acquiring a stake in an electric generation or transmission facility; establishing procedural requirements to support the timely completion of such proceedings; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 66-101j and 66-1239 and repealing the existing sections.