# Kansas SB 58: Modifying the requirements and allocations for multi-year flex accounts. Kansas SB 58, Modifying the requirements and allocations for multi-year flex accounts., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources; status signed, last action 2025-03-26 (Approved by Governor on Wednesday, March 26, 2025) (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB58-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas SB 58 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Modifying the requirements and allocations for multi-year flex accounts. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-22 - Last action: 2025-03-26, Approved by Governor on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - Sponsor: Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: house committee on water, senate committee on agriculture and natural resources - Touches household money: no - Roll calls: 4 (318 yes, 4 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 4 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Groundwater users can carry unused water: benefit, low. 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 ann… - Water caps limit groundwater flex accounts: cost, low. 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 ir… - Groundwater users gain flexible water permits: mixed, low. 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… - Kansas funds water account administration: mixed, low. 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 fo… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 119 Nay: 2 | pass | 119 | 2 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2025-03-18 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed | pass | 119 | 2 | | | 2025-02-19 | Senate | Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 40 | 0 | | ## Actions (16) - 2025-03-26: Approved by Governor on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-03-21: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 21, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-03-18: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (House) - 2025-03-18: Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted (House) - 2025-03-18: Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 119, Nay 2, Absent 4 (House) - 2025-03-06: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Water (House) - 2025-03-06: Hearing: Thursday, March 6, 2025, 9:00 AM — Room 218-N (House) - 2025-02-25: Received and Introduced (House) - 2025-02-25: Referred to House Committee on Water (House) - 2025-02-19: Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2025-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (Senate) - 2025-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (Senate) - 2025-02-11: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senate) - 2025-01-30: Hearing: Thursday, January 30, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 144-S (Senate) - 2025-01-23: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senate) - 2025-01-22: Introduced (Senate) ## Bill text - As Amended by Senate Committee: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_58/sb58_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_58/sb58_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_58/sb58_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 2530: Substitute for HB 2530 by Committee on Education - Providing for the transferability of credentials earned through ACT workkeys career readiness assessments to… (failed) ## Sources - [As Amended by Senate Committee (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_58/sb58_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_58/sb58_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_58/sb58_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 2530: Substitute for HB 2530 by Committee on Education - Providing for the transferab…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2530-2025-2026) - [Kansas bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas/bills) - [Kansas state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB58-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).