All Roll Calls
Yes: 318 • No: 4
KansasSB 582025–2026 Regular SessionSenate
Modifying the requirements and allocations for multi-year flex accounts.
Sponsored By: Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Signed by Governor
house committee on watersenate committee on agriculture and natural resources
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Groundwater users can carry unused water
Groundwater-right holders can carry unused flex-account water into a later account. The right must join the next account during the calendar year the old account expires. Carryover cannot exceed the smallest of unused water, annual irrigation need for authorized acres, or the right’s authorized annual amount. The next account’s total allocation cannot exceed the authorized annual amount multiplied by its number of years.
Water caps limit groundwater flex accounts
Kansas limits how much water groundwater-right holders can put into a flex account. The cap is the lower of 5.5 times annual irrigation need for authorized acres or five times the right’s maximum annual amount. Overlapping water rights, flex accounts, and term permits face another limit based on irrigation need for the shared land. Together, these limits restrict the water available through an account.
Groundwater users gain flexible water permits
Eligible Kansas groundwater-right holders can use a flex account lasting up to five years instead of annual water limits. Rights must be vested or certified, not abandoned, and comply with chief engineer orders. Certain other allocation programs and water-bank accounts bar participation; the chief engineer must also find no public-interest conflict. Applicants must file by December 31 of the first account year, separately for each diversion point, and pay existing term-permit fees. Accounts retain the base right’s pumping rate and locations; approved location changes carry over automatically. The law removes proper metering as an express account-opening condition, but the chief engineer retains rulemaking authority.
Kansas funds water account administration
Kansas pays flex-account administration costs from the Water Appropriation Certification Fund when money is available. Money provided by another fund must be repaid to that source fund. The law sets no dollar amount. The chief engineer must report on implementation by January 15, 2029, and every four years afterward to legislative agriculture committees.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 119 Nay: 2
Yes: 119 • No: 2
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 40 Nay: 0
Yes: 40 • No: 0
House vote • 3/18/2025
Emergency Final Action - Passed
Yes: 119 • No: 2
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 40 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Approved by Governor on Wednesday, March 26, 2025
3/26/2025SenateEnrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 21, 2025
3/21/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole - Be passed
3/18/2025HouseMotion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
3/18/2025HouseEmergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 119, Nay 2, Absent 4
3/18/2025HouseCommittee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Water
3/6/2025HouseHearing: Thursday, March 6, 2025, 9:00 AM — Room 218-N
3/6/2025HouseReceived and Introduced
2/25/2025HouseReferred to House Committee on Water
2/25/2025HouseFinal Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0
2/19/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
2/18/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
2/18/2025SenateCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
2/11/2025SenateHearing: Thursday, January 30, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 144-S
1/30/2025SenateReferred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
1/23/2025SenateIntroduced
1/22/2025Senate
Bill Text
As Amended by Senate Committee
As Introduced
Enrolled
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