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KansasHB 22552025–2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Amending definitions concerning weights and measurers increasing minimum invoice fees, requiring licenses and education for service company operators and mandating annual device inspections, except for devices with a nominal capacity of 250 pounds or greater used in grain elevators; increasing the CREP acreage cap to 60,000 acres, clarifying eligibility and criteria, allowing exceptions for specific conditions and modifying reporting requirements to cover the last five years.
Sponsored By: Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Signed by Governor
senate committee on agriculture and natural resourceshouse committee on agriculture and natural resources
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
12 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 3 costs, 4 mixed.
Online shoppers keep lower-cost product choices
Businesses using covered online or electronic ordering systems cannot block access to generic, store-brand, or lower-cost product versions. The rule does not cover products that are out of stock or unavailable for in-store purchase. The law does not set prices or guarantee savings.
Grain elevators get longer testing approval
Qualifying test weights and equipment can use approval and sealing from the three calendar years before a scale test. The former approval window was 365 days. This applies only to equipment with nominal capacity of at least 250 pounds, housed in grain elevators or similar structures. The equipment must be used to test scales at those facilities.
Farms gain flexible water conservation contracts
With USDA approval, Kansas conservation contracts can allow native grasses, routine grazing, dryland farming, or limited irrigation to meet water-quantity goals. State and federal governments can also buy or retire government-owned water rights through the program. The Division of Conservation administers the program, which can use cost-share contracts and federal, state, county, and private funding. Spending requires appropriations, and the program fund carries unused balances forward. Annual legislative reports cover the previous five years; recurring five-year economic reports include water-right retirements, groundwater levels, and water use for water-quantity programs.
More conservation land gets eligibility flexibility
Kansas removes the eligibility formula based on half the federal conservation acres whose contracts expired the previous year. The secretary can also grant exceptions to specified acreage tests after consulting the commission and Kansas Farm Service Agency office. Eligible grounds include designated high-priority water areas, high-flow-capacity wells, and listed water conservation programs, allocations, or management areas. Bankruptcy, probate, or other legal matters preventing required irrigation use can also qualify, but specified enforcement sanctions cannot.
Buyers get stronger scale ticket protections
The law bans making or changing scale tickets, weight records, or entries with intent to defraud. Tickets for vehicles weighed for hire at attended public scales must show the date, time, and place. The person doing the weighing must sign the record.
Higher fees for measurement service customers
The minimum invoice fee for covered state weights-and-measures services rises from $50 to $70, a $20 increase. Charges can be higher based on the service, instrument capacity, and calibration class. Nonroutine work, including cleaning or repairing testing standards and special calibration procedures, costs $120 per hour.
Measurement service businesses need state licenses
Covered service businesses include companies that test, repair, or adjust dispensing devices and electric vehicle charging equipment. Companies need a separate, nontransferable license for each Kansas location; application and renewal fees cannot exceed $200 per location. Licenses expire June 30 after issuance; authorized state and qualifying local representatives are exempt, and nonresident companies need a Kansas agent. The secretary can accept qualifying laboratory calibration certificates showing testing within the prior 365 days and set workmanship, contract, and reporting rules. After notice and a hearing opportunity, the secretary can deny, suspend, revoke, or refuse renewal for listed violations.
Irrigated conservation land must meet tests
Conservation acreage must qualify under federal law. Land tied to an irrigation water right must be an authorized place of use for that right. It must have received at least 0.5 acre-foot per acre each year in three of the five years before the offer. At the offer date, the water right cannot have active sanctions or penalties, or any pending determination. Required annual water-use reports must have been submitted for each of the most recent 10 years.
Scale technicians face licensing and training
Service-company inspections of commercial weighing or measuring devices require a licensed technician employed by a licensed company. Technical representatives generally need annual licenses, yearly exams, and required continuing education. After 10 continuous licensed years without an adjudicated administrative enforcement action, representatives may qualify for five-year licenses costing no more than $500. For five-year license holders, required continuing education cannot occur more than once per five-year period. Seminar fees cannot exceed delivery costs, and an adjudicated violation can trigger annual renewal again.
More conservation acres with county limits
Kansas raises its Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program acreage cap from 40,000 to 60,000 acres across all programs. Each county's share falls from 25% to 20% of the statewide cap, making the new county limit 12,000 acres. The last eligible offer can be approved even when it crosses the statewide or county total limit. Counties generally can enroll only 1,600 acres per calendar year. After consulting the chief water engineer, the secretary can approve more to address a certified water impairment or land less than five miles from an aquifer portion with under 10 years of usable life.
Businesses face testing and repair rules
Most commercial weighing and measuring devices need annual testing; commercial dispensing devices need testing at least every 18 months. Devices overdue for the 18-month test must leave service; farm and ranch dispensing devices used in private treaty transactions are exempt. Service companies and local departments cannot independently reject or condemn devices, but can remove state rejection tags for testing or repairs. Repaired devices can return to service; unrepairable devices need replacement rejection tags, and the secretary must receive notice on the state's schedule. Outside tests and inspections must be reported within 10 days; dispensing-device installation, repair, calibration, and failure reports follow state rules, and the secretary can retest repaired devices.
Measurement enforcement brings penalties and limits
The agriculture secretary can enter covered premises or vehicles during normal business hours, inspect equipment, and access required records. People must produce covered equipment on demand; each chapter violation is a separate class A, nonperson misdemeanor. The law removes the older standalone misdemeanor provision for obstruction or failure to produce equipment, but retains the chapter-wide penalty. Civil fines remain $100 to $5,000 per violation, with each continuing day counted separately. The civil penalty section drops its express reference to agency-rule violations and instead names violations of the chapter.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 120 Nay: 2
Yes: 120 • No: 2
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 116 Nay: 8
Yes: 116 • No: 8
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 40 Nay: 0
Yes: 40 • No: 0
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 39 Nay: 1
Yes: 39 • No: 1
House vote • 3/27/2025
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 116 • No: 8
Senate vote • 3/26/2025
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 40 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/20/2025
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 39 • No: 1
House vote • 2/20/2025
Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 120 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Reengrossed on Saturday, March 29, 2025
4/10/2025HouseEnrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025
4/10/2025HouseApproved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025
4/8/2025HouseConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 116, Nay 8, Absent 1
3/27/2025HouseConference committee report now available
3/26/2025SenateConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0
3/26/2025SenateNonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Ken Rahjes, Rep. Lance W. Neelly and Rep. Linda Featherston
3/24/2025HouseMotion to accede adopted; Sen. Virgil Peck, Sen. Larry Alley and Sen. Mary Ware appointed as conferees
3/24/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
3/20/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
3/20/2025SenateEmergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 39, Nay 1
3/20/2025SenateCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
3/19/2025SenateHearing: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 144-S
3/11/2025SenateReferred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
2/26/2025SenateEngrossed on Thursday, February 20, 2025
2/26/2025HouseReceived and Introduced
2/25/2025SenateFinal Action - Passed as amended; Yea 120, Nay 2, Absent 3
2/20/2025HouseCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
2/19/2025HouseCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
2/19/2025HouseCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
2/18/2025HouseHearing: Monday, February 10, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 112-N
2/10/2025HouseIntroduced
2/4/2025HouseReferred to House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
2/4/2025House
Bill Text
As Amended by House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
As Amended by Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
As Introduced
Enrolled
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