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SB144 • 2026

Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

Energy
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action
2026-04-10
Official status
Died in Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

What This Bill Does

  • Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-10 Senate

    Died in Committee

  2. 2026-01-28 Senate

    Hearing: Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 9:30 AM — Room 142-S event

  3. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Referred to Senate Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics

  4. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Introduced

Official Summary Text

Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

Current Bill Text

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Session of 2025
SENATE BILL No. 144
By Senator Holscher
2-3
AN ACT concerning real property; declaring current restrictive covenants
that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels on the rooftops of
residential properties to be void and unenforceable; allowing
homeowners associations to adopt reasonable rules concerning solar
panels that do not prohibit rooftop installation.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) On July 1, 2025, any provision of a restrictive
covenant that limits or prohibits the installation of solar panels on the
rooftop of any residential property is hereby declared to be void and
unenforceable.
(b) After July 1, 2025, a homeowners association may adopt
reasonable rules concerning solar panels, except that such rules shall not
prohibit the installation of solar panels on the rooftop of a residential
property.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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