Kansas HB2148: Prohibiting the permitting and siting of electric transmission lines within any area designated by the United States department of energy as a national interest electric transmission corridor

What the bill says

An act concerning electric transmission lines; relating to the state corporation commission; prohibiting the permitting of transmission lines located within any territory designated by the United States department of energy as a national interest electric transmission corridor; prohibiting the exercise of eminent domain in any such territory except under limited circumstances; amending K.S.A. 661,178 and repealing the existing section.

From the introduced text, January 29, 2025:

AN ACT concerning electric transmission lines; relating to the state corporation commission; prohibiting the permitting of transmission lines located within any territory designated by the United States department of energy as a national interest electric transmission corridor; prohibiting the exercise of eminent domain in any such territory except under limited circumstances; amending K.S.A. 661,178 and repealing the existing section. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: New Section 1. (a) The state corporation commission shall not authorize any electric public utility to apply for or obtain a transmission line siting permit pursuant to K.S.A. 66-1,177 et seq., and amendments thereto, if the proposed electric transmission lines would be located in a national interest electric transmission corridor. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), no electric public utility shall exercise the power of eminent domain pursuant to K.S.A. 17-618, and amendments thereto, or section 216(e) of the federal power act, for the purpose of constructing electric transmission lines in a national interest electric transmission corridor. (c) This section shall not prohibit an electric public utility from exercising the power of eminent domain for the construction of electric transmission lines in a national interest electric transmission corridor if such electric transmission lines were authorized pursuant to a transmission line siting permit that was approved by the state corporation …

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