# Kansas HB 2255: 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.

Kansas HB 2255, 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., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources; status signed, last action 2025-04-10 (Reengrossed on Saturday, March 29, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas HB 2255
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: 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.
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-02-04
- Last action: 2025-04-10, Reengrossed on Saturday, March 29, 2025
- Sponsor: Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: senate committee on agriculture and natural resources, house committee on agriculture and natural resources
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 8 (630 yes, 22 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 12

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Online shoppers keep lower-cost product choices: benefit, low. 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: benefit, low. 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…
- Farms gain flexible water conservation contracts: benefit, low. 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 admi…
- More conservation land gets eligibility flexibility: benefit, low. 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 designate…
- Buyers get stronger scale ticket protections: benefit, low. 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: cost, low. 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 procedure…
- Measurement service businesses need state licenses: cost, low. 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 af…
- Irrigated conservation land must meet tests: cost, low. 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…
- Scale technicians face licensing and training: mixed, low. 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…
- More conservation acres with county limits: mixed, low. 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 statewid…
- Businesses face testing and repair rules: mixed, low. 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…
- Measurement enforcement brings penalties and limits: mixed, low. 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 m…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 120 Nay: 2 | pass | 120 | 2 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 116 Nay: 8 | pass | 116 | 8 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 39 Nay: 1 | pass | 39 | 1 |   |
| 2025-03-27 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 116 | 8 |   |
| 2025-03-26 | Senate | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-20 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 39 | 1 |   |
| 2025-02-20 | House | Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 120 | 2 |   |

## Actions (23)

- 2025-04-10: Reengrossed on Saturday, March 29, 2025 (House)
- 2025-04-10: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025 (House)
- 2025-04-08: Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 (House)
- 2025-03-27: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 116, Nay 8, Absent 1 (House)
- 2025-03-26: Conference committee report now available (Senate)
- 2025-03-26: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate)
- 2025-03-24: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Ken Rahjes, Rep. Lance W. Neelly and Rep. Linda Featherston (House)
- 2025-03-24: Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Virgil Peck, Sen. Larry Alley and Sen. Mary Ware appointed as conferees (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 39, Nay 1 (Senate)
- 2025-03-19: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senate)
- 2025-03-11: Hearing: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 144-S (Senate)
- 2025-02-26: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senate)
- 2025-02-26: Engrossed on Thursday, February 20, 2025 (House)
- 2025-02-25: Received and Introduced (Senate)
- 2025-02-20: Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 120, Nay 2, Absent 3 (House)
- 2025-02-19: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House)
- 2025-02-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House)
- 2025-02-18: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (House)
- 2025-02-10: Hearing: Monday, February 10, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 112-N (House)
- 2025-02-04: Introduced (House)
- 2025-02-04: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (House)

## Bill text

- As Amended by House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2255/hb2255_01_0000.pdf)
- As Amended by Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2255/hb2255_02_0000.pdf)
- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2255/hb2255_00_0000.pdf)
- Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2255/hb2255_enrolled.pdf)

## Related bills

- SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. (signed)
- SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax cred… (signed)
- SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a… (signed)
- HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (signed)
- HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providin… (became law)
- HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces. (failed)

## Sources
- [As Amended by House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2255/hb2255_01_0000.pdf)
- [As Amended by Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2255/hb2255_02_0000.pdf)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2255/hb2255_00_0000.pdf)
- [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2255/hb2255_enrolled.pdf)

## Related
- [SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and r…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB430-2025-2026)
- [SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB82-2025-2026)
- [SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholi…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB300-2025-2026)
- [HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2029-2025-2026)
- [HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2018-2025-2026)
- [HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts rece…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2036-2025-2026)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2255-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).