Kansas Pending Telecom Legislation
Active bills that could change your compliance requirements in Kansas
Last updated
Apr 17, 2026
Active Bills (15)
Enacting the kratom consumer protection act, defining kratom as a food product, prohibiting the distribution and sale of kratom that is adulterated, requiring persons to be at least 21 years of age to purchase such product, establishing civil fines for violations of the act and requiring the secretary of agriculture to adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the act.
Sponsor: Allen Reavis
Establishing limitations for land transactions for wind and solar energy projects and allowing a consumer to revoke such land transaction under the Kansas consumer protection act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Requiring revenues received by telecommunications service providers for the provision of broadband services to be calculated when determining gross receipts under a city franchise.
Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Requiring a competitive bid process for the permitting of electric transmission lines.
Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Requiring the state corporation commission to establish and enforce a code of conduct and agricultural mitigation protocol for the development, operation and decommissioning of certain large energy facilities.
Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Prohibiting the permitting and siting of electric transmission lines within any area designated by the United States department of energy as a national interest electric transmission corridor.
Sponsor: Troy Waymaster
Providing incumbent electric transmission owners a right of first refusal for the construction of certain electric transmission lines.
Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Establishing requirements for the development, construction, modification, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of certain industrial energy facilities and providing jurisdiction to the state corporation commission to control and permit such development, construction, modification, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of such facilities.
Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Establishing the private energy campus and industrial host-site electric generation act to authorize the provision of energy services to private enterprises located on a private energy campus.
Sponsor: Lance Neelly
Enacting the social media and telecommunications fraud accountability act, requiring social media platforms to exercise reasonable care in preventing the dissemination of fraudulent advertisements, prohibiting falsely identifying names or numbers on telephone caller ID systems and the unauthorized use of a bank name in electronic advertisements or solicitations and making violations of the act an unconscionable act or practice under the Kansas consumer protection act.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions
Prohibiting video streaming services from transmitting commercial advertisements with the audio louder than that of the main video streaming content in which such advertisement is placed.
Sponsor: Angel Roeser
Requiring the state corporation commission to establish uniform siting and permitting standards for certain energy facilities and limiting local governmental actions relating thereto
Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Providing an exception to unauthorized practice of law under the Kansas consumer protection act for an employee of the judicial branch or a district court providing a standard form to a member of the public.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Prohibiting certain conduct in connection with the sale or resale of entertainment tickets and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Establishing the Kansas community harmed by AI technology act, mandating user accounts and age verification for AI chatbot access, classifying users by age, requiring parental consent for minors, blocking explicit content, protecting age information confidentiality, monitoring for suicidal ideation, informing users of AI interaction, requiring compliance guidance by 2027, outlining enforcement under consumer protection laws and providing safe harbor for compliant entities.
Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget
Historical Bills (8)
| Bill | Title | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB2061 | Including aboveground and belowground lines, cables and wires in the definition of a critical infrastructure facility used for telecommunications or video services for the crimes of trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility. | Passed | — |
| HB2118 | Requiring any person who solicits a fee for filing or retrieving certain documents from the federal government, the state, a state agency or a local government to give certain notices to consumers and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act. | Passed | — |
| HB2149 | 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. | Passed | — |
| HB2246 | Enacting the consumer protection related to hospital price transparency act. | Engrossed | — |
| HB2435 | Substitute for HB 2435 by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications - Authorizing natural gas public utilities to recover certain growth-related investments in the gas system reliability surcharge, increasing the cap on the amount that the monthly fixed charge may be increased for residential customers and reducing the time for the state corporation commission to act on gas system reliability surcharge filings. | Passed | — |
| HB2591 | Authorizing financial institutions to report suspected financial exploitation of an adult account holder to a designated agency, notify any adult designated as a trusted contact by such account holder of suspected financial exploitation and place a temporary hold on certain transactions or disbursements. Enacting the virtual currency kiosk consumer protection act, providing definitions, and establishing requirements for virtual currency kiosk operators. Prohibiting the office of the state bank commissioner or any other state agency from becoming a receiver for a technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution that becomes insolvent or declares bankruptcy. Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act, and eliminating certain stipulations relating to the payment of negotiable instruments on Saturday afternoons or holidays. | Passed | — |
| SB372 | Enacting the app store accountability act to regulate app store and developer operations with respect to minors, create requirements for age verification and parental consent and provide for enforcement under the Kansas consumer protection act and through a private cause of action. | Engrossed | — |
| SB415 | Making certain violations of the residential landlord and tenant act subject to the remedies and enforcement provisions of the Kansas consumer protection act. | Engrossed | — |
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