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IntroducedJan 29, 2025
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Passed HouseMar 13, 2025
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Passed SenateMar 20, 2025
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Signed into LawApr 10, 2025
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.
Last Action See all actions
House • Apr 10, 2025: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 7, 2025
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary/Bill Text
Comments on HB 2149
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Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunicationssponsor
Votes
YES: 123
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Brownlee
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B.
- W.
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Miller
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Poetter
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L.
- S.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- A.
- C.
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 0
YES: 122
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Brownlee
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B.
- W.
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Miller
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roth
- L.
- S.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A.
- C.
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 0
Actions
- Apr 10, 2025 | House
- Reengrossed on Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 31, 2025
- Approved by Governor on Monday, April 7, 2025
- Mar 24, 2025 | House
- Concurred with amendments; Yea: 122 Nay: 0
- Mar 20, 2025 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Mar 18, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Utilities
- Mar 17, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Monday, March 17, 2025, 1:30 PM Room 548-S
- Mar 17, 2025 | House
- Engrossed on Friday, March 14, 2025
- Mar 13, 2025 | Senate
- Received and Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Utilities
- Mar 13, 2025 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Carmichael
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Carmichael was adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea: 123 Nay: 0
- Mar 12, 2025 | House
- Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
- Mar 06, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Thursday, March 6, 2025, 9:00 AM Room 582-N
- Feb 20, 2025 | House
- Withdrawn from Committee on Federal and State Affairs; Rereferred to Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
- Feb 17, 2025 | House
- Withdrawn from Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications; Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
- Jan 29, 2025 | House
- Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- Sub - Supplementary Note
- {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} - Supplementary Note
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary Note
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Paul Snider, Kansas Industrial Consumers Group & Kansans for Lower Electric Rates (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Laura Lutz, Evergy (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Reagan McCloud, Kansas Electric Cooperatives (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Kimberly Gencur Svaty, Kansas Municipal Utilities (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Mike Morley, Midwest Energy (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Jessica Lucas, Clean Energy Business Council (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Jason Nisly, King Solar (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Nick Myers, Office of Revisor of Statutes (Overview)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Tue, Mar 11, 2025: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Tue, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Nick Myers, Revisor of Statutes (HB2149- Balloon Amendment)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Jessica Lucas, on Behalf of Clean Energy Business Council (HB2149 - Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Mark Horst, King Solar (HB2149 - Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Kirk Kreisel, Artisun Solar (HB2149 - Proponent- Written Only)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Jeff Hohnbaum, Hutton Energy Service (HB2149 - Proponent- Written Only)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Paul Snider, on Behalf of Kansans for Lower Electric Rates and Kansas Industrial Consumers Group (HB2149 - Proponent- Written Only)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Kimberly Gencur Svaty, on Behalf of Kansas Municipal Utilities (HB2149 - Opponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Terri Pemberton, Kansas Municipal Energy Agency (HB2149 - Opponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Mike Morley, Midwest Energy, Inc. (HB2149 - Opponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Reagan McCloud, Kansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (HB2149 - Opponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Mark Scheibe, Heartland Rural Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (HB2149 - Opponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Laura Lutz, Evergy (HB2149 - Opponent)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Lindsay Campbell, Pioneer Electric Cooperatives, Inc., Southern Pioneer Electric Company on behalf of Prairieland Electric Cooperatives, Inc., Wheatland Electric Cooperative, Inc., Western Cooperative Electric Associat (HB2149 - Opponent- Written Only)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Eric Stafford, Kansas Chamber (HB2149 - Neutral)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Nick Myers, Revisor of Statutes (Net Metering vs Parallel Generation)
- Senate Committee on Utilities, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Nick Myers, Revisor of Statutes (HB2149 - Bill Brief)
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Utilities
- Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
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