Division of the Budget
Landon State Office Building Phone: (785) 296-2436
900 SW Jackson Street, Room 504 larry.campbell@ks.gov
Topeka, KS 66612 Division of the Budget http://budget.kansas.gov
Larry L. Campbell, Director Laura Kelly, Governor


February 22, 2019
REVISED

The Honorable Joe Seiwert, Chairperson
House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Statehouse, Room 481-W
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Representative Seiwert:
SUBJECT: Revised Fiscal Note for HB 2109 by House Committee on Energy, Utilities
and Telecommunications
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following revised fiscal note concerning HB 2109
is respectfully submitted to your committee.
Current law gives an electric utility the option to begin site preparation or construction of
an electric transmission line or exercise the right of eminent domain to acquire an interest in land
in connection with the site preparation for construction. HB 2109 would amend the law to require
the electric utility to acquire a siting permit prior to beginning site preparation or construction or
exercising the right of eminent domain. The bill would also require that prior to an electric utility
upgrading an existing line or siting an electric transmission line on land acquired through eminent
domain and originally not intended for an electric transmission the utility must acquire a siting
permit from the Kansas Corporation Commission.

Estimated State Fiscal Effect
FY 2019 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2020
SGF All Funds SGF All Funds
Revenue -- -- -- $140,000
Expenditure -- -- -- $140,000
FTE Pos. -- -- -- 1.00
The Honorable Joe Seiwert, Chairperson
Page 2—HB 2109

According to the KCC, enactment of HB 2109 would require the KCC Utilities Division
to add 1.00 FTE at an estimated cost of $84,500 annually for salary and benefits to process an
average of seven permit requests/dockets per year. Expenditures related to processing permit
requests, including those for salaries and wages, would be approximately $20,000 each, for an
average yearly amount of $140,000. The KCC bills the utilities for the costs of each docket and
those amounts are then recovered by the utilities from their ratepayers. Any fiscal effect associated
with HB 2109 is not reflected in The FY 2020 Governor’s Budget Report.


Sincerely,

Larry L. Campbell
Director of the Budget


cc: Jake Fisher, KCC


Statutes affected:
As introduced: 66-1