Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas SB173: Providing that any lease or easement involving commercial wind or solar electric generation resources shall not be in force and effect until the board of county commissioners of the affected county approves the commercial wind or solar electric generation project
Status: In committee, April 10, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning energy; relating to the development of certain wind and solar electric generation resources; establishing requirements for the conveyance of leases and easements relating thereto; requiring a county to approve the development of a commercial wind or solar energy facility before the conveyance of any such lease or easement; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 58-2272 and repealing the existing section.
From the introduced text, February 3, 2025:
AN ACT concerning energy; relating to the development of certain wind and solar electric generation resources; establishing requirements for the conveyance of leases and easements relating thereto; requiring a county to approve the development of a commercial wind or solar energy facility before the conveyance of any such lease or easement; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 58-2272 and repealing the existing section. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 58-2272 is hereby amended to read as follows: 58-2272. (a) Every instrument that conveys any estate or interest created by any lease or easement involving wind or solar resources and technologies to produce and generate electricity shall include: (1) A description of the real property subject to the easement and a description of the real property benefitting from the wind or solar lease or easement; (2) a description of the vertical and horizontal angles, expressed in degrees, and distances from the site of the wind or solar power system in which an obstruction to the wind or solar system is prohibited or limited; (3) all terms or conditions under which the lease or easement is granted or may be terminated, except that if the instrument is recorded under K.S.A. 58-2221, and amendments thereto, any compensation received by the owner of the real property …