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Read. Follow. Verify.Kansas requires retail electric suppliers to offer fair rates to EV charging providers and bars station cost recovery from general utility rates
Last action · April 9, 2026: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
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What This Bill Does
Retail electric suppliers in Kansas are required to offer fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory rates to independent electric vehicle charging providers starting July 1, 2026. The legislation prohibits utilities from recovering the costs of their own public fast-charging stations through general customer rates, with exceptions for standard retail electric service connections. Legislative committees are mandated to review the law in 2031, and the statute expires on July 1, 2036.
Independent electric vehicle charging businesses gain legal protection against anti-competitive pricing from local electric utilities, while regular utility ratepayers are shielded from funding utility-owned charging infrastructure.
- Retail electric suppliers and utilities are regulated entities that deliver electricity to end-use customers within defined service territories. context
- State corporation commissions oversee utility rates, service standards, and investments to ensure costs charged to consumers are reasonable and prudent. context
Who It Affects
Groups the bill's text affects, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Retail electric suppliers
Must offer nondiscriminatory rates to competing charging providers and are barred from including fast-charging station costs in their rate base.
Entities providing electric vehicle charging services
Guaranteed fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory rates and services from retail electric suppliers operating public charging stations.
Retail electric customers
Protected from having utility-owned fast-charging station capital and operational costs added to their general electric bills.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can electric utilities pass the cost of building EV charging stations onto regular ratepayers?
Are all utility-owned EV charging stations subject to these new rules?
What is defined as a fast charging station under this law?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Current status: Signed into law.
Procedural history
24 actions- Apr 9, 2026SenateEnrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
- Apr 9, 2026SenateEnrolledApproved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026
- Mar 27, 2026SenateFloorConference Committee Report was adopted
- Mar 26, 2026HouseConference committee report now available
- Mar 26, 2026HouseFloorConference Committee Report was adopted
- Mar 23, 2026SenateNonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed , and
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- Mar 23, 2026HouseFloorMotion to accede adopted; Representative Delperdang, Representative Wilborn, Representative Ohaebosim, , appointed as conferees
- Mar 18, 2026HouseCommittee of the Whole - Now working on
- Mar 18, 2026HouseFloorCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Mar 18, 2026HouseFloorCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Mar 18, 2026HouseFloorMotion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
- Mar 18, 2026HouseFloorEmergency Final Action - Passed as amended
- Mar 12, 2026HouseFloorCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by
- Feb 26, 2026HouseHearing: Thursday, February 26, 2026, 9:00 AM — Room 582-N
- Feb 24, 2026HouseIntroducedReceived and Introduced
- Feb 24, 2026HouseCommitteeReferred to House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
- Feb 18, 2026SenateFloorFinal Action - Passed as amended
- Feb 17, 2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Now working on
- Feb 17, 2026SenateFloorCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Feb 17, 2026SenateFloorCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Feb 12, 2026SenateFloorCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by
- Feb 5, 2026SenateHearing: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 1:30 PM — Room 548-S
- Jan 27, 2026SenateCommitteeReferred to Senate Committee on Utilities
- Jan 26, 2026SenateIntroducedIntroduced
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Prohibition of Ratepayer Subsidy for Utility EV Chargers
The legislation creates a strict separation between traditional utility rate bases and utility-operated fast-charging infrastructure investments.
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Sources
www.kslegislature.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance75How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz45Current news / social attention level
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