Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB169

Introduced
2/3/25  

Caption

Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.

Impact

The introduction of SB169 could lead to significant changes in how mobile home parks operate in Kansas. By safeguarding tenants' rights to access communication services, the bill supports the broader goal of ensuring residents can stay connected and informed. This could have positive implications for tenant satisfaction and community engagement within mobile home parks. Furthermore, the bill aligns with ongoing efforts to modernize housing regulations and ensure that residents have the same access to services that are commonly available to those in traditional housing.

Summary

Senate Bill 169 aims to enhance tenant rights within mobile home parks by explicitly prohibiting landlords from restricting tenants' access to various communication services, including cable television and broadband. This legislation amends the mobile home parks residential landlord and tenant act, providing a legal basis for residents to access essential services without undue restrictions imposed by landlords. The bill mandates that landlords must comply with this provision, thereby opening up more options for tenants and potentially improving their living conditions.

Contention

While the bill is expected to have positive ramifications for tenants, there may be concerns among landlords regarding the potential financial implications. The stipulation that they cannot impose additional charges for communication services, unless justified, could limit their ability to monetize these offerings. It is possible that landlords may argue this erodes their control over property management and could lead to disputes over what constitutes reasonable restrictions and violations of tenant rights. Overall, the balance between tenant protection and landlord management rights will be a point of discussion as this bill progresses.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SB533

Limiting the use of past evictions and rental arrears to deny applicants from renting a home.

KS SB144

Exempting satellite service and video programming services accessed over the internet from the video competition act.

KS HB2636

Including homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims.

KS HB2324

Removing the publication of notice requirement before a landlord can sell a tenant's property that has been abandoned.

KS HB2106

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of property and services used in the provision of communications services and a deduction from sales or compensating use tax when selling and buying different motor vehicles within 90 days.

KS HB2492

Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition.

KS SB286

Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition.

KS HB2823

Creating an expedited process for the eviction of unauthorized persons occupying a rental dwelling unit and amending the residential landlord tenant act to require rental agreements to include a list of all persons who will occupy the rental dwelling unit.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS SB8

Reducing penalties for the late filing of and the failure to file personal property renditions and the discovery of escaped personal property, requiring filing only an initial statement with county appraiser for personal property, decreasing the penalties for failing to timely remit withholding income taxes of employees by employers, extending reimbursement from the taxpayer notification costs fund for printing and postage costs for county clerks for calendar year 2024, modifying and prescribing the contents of the revenue neutral rate public hearing notice, providing two prior years' values on the annual valuation notice, allowing for filing of an appraisal by a certified residential real property appraiser for appeal purposes, discontinuing the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal, accounting for adverse influences in the valuation of agricultural land, including properties used for registered agritourism activities as land devoted to agricultural use for purposes of classification, providing a property tax exemption for certain business property operated in competition with property owned or operated by a governmental entity, providing income tax subtraction modifications to permit the carryforward of certain net operating losses for individuals and for the federal work opportunity tax credit and the employee retention credit disallowances, increasing the tax credit amount for adoption expenses and making the credit refundable, increasing the amount of income tax credits available for purchases under the disability employment act from qualified vendors, continuing in existence such credits beyond tax year 2023 and defining qualifying vendors and eligible employees, establishing a tax credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities, clarifying the determination of taxable income of an electing pass-through entity and providing for the passing through of tax credits to electing pass-through entity owners for purposes of the salt parity act, excluding social security payments from household income and expanding eligibility for seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax homestead refund claims, providing a sales tax exemption for sales of property and services used in the provision of communications services and excluding manufacturers' coupons from the sales or selling price.

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