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type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2149"
citation: "Kansas HB 2149 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/772f5b6b-35ea-4406-ab0d-984154adcb44"
source_url: "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/HB2149/"
source_hash: "e480dd63815d24c7066f424fc2785c71455b3eb6db9aa976e12e2e55a11635e0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ks"]
---
# Kansas HB 2149 (2025-2026) — 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.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year1/ready_for_publication/hb_2149/hb2149_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by Senate Committee on Utilities** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year1/ready_for_publication/hb_2149/hb2149_03_0000.pdf)
3. **Sub** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year1/ready_for_publication/hb_2149/hb2149_01_0000.pdf)
4. **{As Amended by House Committee of the Whole}** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year1/ready_for_publication/hb_2149/hb2149_02_0000.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year1/ready_for_publication/hb_2149/hb2149_enrolled.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-04-11** Law effective May 1, 2025
- **2025-04-10** Approved by Governor on Monday, April 7, 2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-10** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 31, 2025
- **2025-04-10** Reengrossed on Thursday, March 27, 2025
- **2025-03-24** Concurred with amendments; Yea 122, Nay 0, Absent 3
- **2025-03-20** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted `passage`
- **2025-03-18** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Utilities `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Engrossed on Friday, March 14, 2025
- **2025-03-13** Referred to Senate Committee on Utilities `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea 123, Nay 0, Absent 2 `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
- **2025-03-13** Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. John Carmichael was adopted `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. John Carmichael
- **2025-03-13** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Withdrawn from House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications; Rereferred to House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Withdrawn from House Committee on Federal and State Affairs; Referred to House Committee on Federal and State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Referred to House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Introduced `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/772f5b6b-35ea-4406-ab0d-984154adcb44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).