Kansas HB 2636: Prohibiting the possession of large capacity ammunition magazines and the carrying of handguns with large capacity ammunition magazines.

Bill Text

Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2636
By Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
Requested by Allie Devine on behalf of Kansas Farm Bureau and Kansas
Livestock Association
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AN ACT concerning energy; relating to certain electric generation and
energy storage facilities; establishing requirements for the
development, construction, modification, operation, maintenance and
decommissioning of industrial wind and solar energy conversion
systems and industrial battery energy storage systems; authorizing the
board of county commissioners of a county to permit or deny the
construction of such industrial energy facilities; establishing a protest
petition and election process to contest such county action; providing
jurisdiction to the state corporation commission to control and permit
the development, construction, modification, operation, maintenance
and decommissioning of such facilities; requiring the commission to
approve and issue a permit prior to the new construction or expansion
of any such facility; requiring owners of existing industrial energy
facilities to register with the commission; establishing minimum
setback distances for such facilities; requiring the commission to adopt
a code of conduct and agricultural mitigation protocols; requiring a
facility owner to establish and maintain a decommission plan and
provide adequate financial assurance for the decommissioning;
authorizing the commission to issue certain orders and impose civil
penalties for violations; authorizing the commission to adopt rules and
regulations.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. The legislature hereby finds and declares that:
(a) The development of industrial energy facilities in Kansas
significantly affects the welfare of the population, the environmental
quality, the aesthetic quality, the location and growth of agricultural,
industrial and commercial activities and the use of the state's natural
resources;
(b) the development of industrial energy facilities within the state
should be regulated to promote the reasonable, orderly and effective
development of such facilities; and
(c) the development, construction, modification, maintenance,
operation and decommissioning of industrial energy facilities are matters
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of both statewide and local concern and interest.
Sec. 2. As used in sections 1 through 13, and amendments thereto:
(a) "Cessation of operations" means an industrial energy facility or
generating or storage unit thereof has not produced or discharged electrical
energy for a period of 12 months, except that such 12-month period shall
not include any period in which the: (1) Project fails to produce or
discharge electrical energy due to an event of force majeure; or (2) owner
of the industrial energy facility has retained legal control of the project's
footprint and has commenced rebuilding the facility.
(b) "Commission" means the state corporation commission.
(c) "Expansion" means any:
(1) New addition to an existing industrial energy facility that
increases the site area or physical footprint of such facility or, in the case
of an industrial wind energy conversion system:
(A) Construction of a new wind turbine; or
(B) activity that increases to the total tower height of a wind turbine
as measured from ground level to the blade tip; or
(2) repowering of an existing industrial energy facility.
(d) "Full and complete decommissioning" means, commencing upon
the cessation of operations of an industrial energy facility:
(1) The removal and proper disposal of all generating units or energy
storage units and all appurtenant facilities and equipment of the industrial
energy facility, including, but not limited to, the foundations, support
structures, electric lines, electric and electronic devices, energy storage
facilities and fencing; and
(2) the return and restoration of any land disturbed or changed as a
result of the construction and operation of the industrial energy facility to
the useful condition that existed prior to the construction and operation of
the facility.
(e) "Industrial battery energy storage system" means an
electrochemical or thermal device or system of devices that are capable of
absorbing and storing electrical or thermal energy and discharging such
energy at a later time to provide for the discharge or production of one
megawatt-hour or more of electrical energy. "Industrial battery energy
storage system" includes any appurtenant facilities and equipment of an
industrial battery energy storage system.
(f) "Industrial energy facility" means any:
(1) Industrial battery energy storage system;
(2) industrial solar energy conversion system; or
(3) industrial wind energy conversion system.
(g) "Industrial energy facility owner" means any person or entity that:
(1) Has a direct ownership interest in an industrial energy facility
regardless of whether the person o