republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2017-2018/sb-279.md

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Bill	Concerning the gas safety and reliability surcharge.	Concerning the gas safety and reliability surcharge.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2017-2018	SB 279	Kansas SB 279 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted		3	20	2	2018-01-16	2018-04-06	openstates	ocd-bill/2af28b8d-8e1b-4117-a09a-9c613d964cac	http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb279	280ba26ffb80505c09122a40735c6406b806f49ed2d8518cc658f361666a45a9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas SB 279 (2017-2018) — Concerning the gas safety and reliability surcharge.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As introduced (filed) — source
2. As Amended by Senate Committee (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled - Law effective July 01, 2018 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — 32–6 (pass) · legislature
• Final Action - Passed; — 99–25 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Committee on Utilities — primary (organization)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2018-01-16 Introduced introduction
• 2018-01-17 Referred to Committee on Utilities referral-committee
• 2018-01-25 Hearing: Thursday, February 01, 2018, 01:30 PM Room 548-S
• 2018-02-12 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Utilities committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Denning amendment-introduction
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Denning was rejected amendment-failure
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2018-02-22 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 32 Nay: 6 passage
• 2018-02-28 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications referral-committee
• 2018-03-07 Hearing: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 09:00 AM Room 582-N
• 2018-03-21 Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-28 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2018-03-28 Committee of the Whole - Be passed passage
• 2018-03-29 Final Action - Passed; Yea: 99 Nay: 25 passage
• 2018-04-03 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, April 03, 2018 executive-receipt
• 2018-04-06 Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 5, 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2af28b8d-8e1b-4117-a09a-9c613d964cac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).