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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	HOUSE BILL No. 2225
3	3	By Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications
4	4	Requested by Nathanial Blank on behalf of Ideatek
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6	6	AN ACT concerning residential rentals and leases; relating to the mobile
7	7	home parks residential landlord and tenant act; prohibiting landlords
8	8	from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services;
9	9	amending K.S.A. 58-25,111 and repealing the existing section.
10	10	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
11	11	Section 1. K.S.A. 58-25,111 is hereby amended to read as follows:
12	12	58-25,111. (a) Except as provided in subsections (c) and (d), when
13	13	prevented by an act of God, the failure of public utility services or other
14	14	conditions beyond the landlord's control, the landlord shall:
15	15	(1) Comply with the requirements of all applicable city, county and
16	16	state codes materially affecting health and safety which are primarily
17	17	imposed upon the landlord. If the duty imposed by this paragraph is
18	18	greater than any duty imposed by any other paragraph of this subsection,
19	19	the landlord's duty shall be determined in accordance with the provisions
20	20	of this paragraph.;
21	21	(2) make all repairs and do whatever is necessary to put and keep the
22	22	mobile home space in a fit and habitable condition.;
23	23	(3) keep all common areas of the mobile home park in a clean and
24	24	safe condition.;
25	25	(4) maintain in good and safe working order and condition all
26	26	facilities supplied or required to be supplied by the landlord.;
27	27	(5) provide for removal of garbage, rubbish, and other waste from the
28	28	mobile home park.; and
29	29	(6) furnish outlets for electric, water and sewer services and provide
30	30	to such outlets an adequate, safe and sanitary supply of such services.
31	31	(b) A landlord shall not impose any conditions of rental or occupancy
32	32	which that restrict the tenant in the choice of, or from access to, a seller or
33	33	provider of fuel, furnishings, goods, services, including cable television,
34	34	communications, broadband and telecommunications services, or mobile
35	35	homes connected with the rental or occupancy of a mobile home space
36	36	unless such condition is reasonably necessary to protect the health, safety
37	37	or welfare of mobile home tenants in the park. The landlord may impose
38	38	reasonable requirements designed to standardize methods of utility
39	39	connection and hookup. If any such conditions are imposed which that
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75	75	result in charges for such goods or services, the charges shall not exceed
76	76	the actual cost incurred in providing the tenant with such goods or
77	77	services.
78	78	(c) The landlord and tenant may agree in writing that the tenant is to
79	79	perform the landlord's duties specified in subsection (a)(5) and (6) and also
80	80	specified repairs, maintenance tasks, alterations or remodeling, but only if
81	81	the transaction is entered into in good faith and not for the purpose of
82	82	evading the obligations of the landlord.
83	83	(d) The landlord and tenant may agree that the tenant is to perform
84	84	specified repairs, maintenance tasks, alterations or remodeling only if:
85	85	(1) The agreement of the parties is entered into in good faith, and not
86	86	to evade the obligations of the landlord, and is. Such agreement shall be
87	87	set forth in a separate written agreement signed by the parties and
88	88	supported by adequate consideration;
89	89	(2) the work is not necessary to cure noncompliance with subsection
90	90	(a)(1); and
91	91	(3) the agreement does not diminish or affect the obligation of the
92	92	landlord to other tenants.
93	93	Sec. 2. K.S.A. 58-25,111 is hereby repealed.
94	94	Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
95	95	publication in the statute book.
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