republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2023-2024/sb-455.md

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Bill	Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar generation facilities.	Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar generation facilities.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2023-2024	SB 455	Kansas SB 455 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted		4	23	0	2024-02-06	2024-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/3ab77cb8-108c-4e67-a157-72d34cf01662	http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/sb455/	cab89689fb416a3586d4fe4ac4349656dab487a0e2f3e99be9cfd320e0f83000	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas SB 455 (2023-2024) — Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar generation facilities.

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 House Committee (committee substitute) — source
3. As Amended by Senate Committee (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Committee on Utilities — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-06 Introduced introduction
• 2024-02-07 Referred to Committee on Utilities referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 Hearing: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 1:30 PM Room 548-S
• 2024-02-20 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Utilities committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2024-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2024-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2024-02-22 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 29 Nay: 8 passage
• 2024-02-28 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications referral-committee
• 2024-03-12 Hearing: Thursday, March 14, 2024, 9:00 AM Room 582-N
• 2024-03-20 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-25 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2024-03-25 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2024-03-25 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2024-03-26 Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 107 Nay: 16 passage
• 2024-04-01 Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
• 2024-04-01 Motion to accede adopted; Representative Delperdang, Representative Turner and Representative Ohaebosim appointed as conferees
• 2024-04-03 Conference committee report now available
• 2024-04-03 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 121 Nay: 0 passage
• 2024-04-04 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 36 Nay: 0 passage
• 2024-04-25 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-25 Approved by Governor on Monday, April 22, 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3ab77cb8-108c-4e67-a157-72d34cf01662. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).