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Division of the Budget
Landon State Office Building                                                                              Phone: (785) 296-2436
900 SW Jackson Street, Room 504                                                                          adam.c.proffitt@ks.gov
Topeka, KS 66612                                 Division of the Budget                                 http://budget.kansas.gov
Adam Proffitt, Director                                                                                Laura Kelly, Governor


                                                    February 1, 2023


          The Honorable Leo Delperdang, Chairperson
          House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
          300 SW 10th Avenue, Room 582-N
          Topeka, Kansas 66612
          Dear Representative Delperdang:
                    SUBJECT:      Fiscal Note for HB 2155 by House Committee on Energy, Utilities and
                                  Telecommunications
                  In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2155 is
          respectfully submitted to your committee.
                   HB 2155 would require the Kansas Corporation Commission to evaluate three additional
          criteria during electric utility rate case proceedings: regional competitiveness of the utility’s rates,
          rate affordability, and the impact of such rates upon the state’s economic development efforts.

                                            Estimated State Fiscal Effect
                                       FY 2023         FY 2023            FY 2024                FY 2024
                                        SGF            All Funds           SGF                   All Funds
             Revenue                            --                 --             --                        --
             Expenditure                        --          $25,000               --                  $25,000
             FTE Pos.                           --                 --             --                        --
                   Electric utility rate cases are filed approximately every three years. The Citizens’ Utility
          Ratepayer Board anticipates that two cases would be filed in FY 2023 and that these cases would
          last into FY 2024. The agency estimates that enactment of HB 2155 would result in $25,000 of
          additional expenditures from the agency fee fund in FY 2023 and FY 2024 and $25,000 of
          additional expenditures per rate case in future years. These expenditures would be used to retain
          expert consultants to evaluate rate cases on the new criteria relating to rate competitiveness. Fee
          fund assessments would be made to the pertinent electric utility to recover those expenses.
The Honorable Leo Delperdang, Chairperson
Page 2—HB 2155

         The Kansas Corporation Commission indicates that enactment of HB 2155 would not have
a fiscal effect on the agency. Any fiscal effect associated with HB 2155 is not reflected in The FY
2024 Governor’s Budget Report.


                                                     Sincerely,

                                                     Adam Proffitt
                                                     Director of the Budget

cc: Peter Barstad, Kansas Corporation Commission
    Shonda Rabb, Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board
Statutes affected: 
As introduced: 66-101b