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HB 2300

Creates provisions relating to professional licensing

2026 Regular Session Introduced by Philip Oehlerking

HB 2300 shields vulnerable residents from door-to-door solicitations, requires prior written consent, restricts talks with diminished capacity, and extends protections to wind/sola

Referred: Rules - Administrative(H)
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Bill Summary · HB 2300

Summary — HB 2300 (Kansas)

Establishing limitations on door‑to‑door solicitations (including certain revocable land deals for wind/solar projects) and strengthening consumer protections and enforcement under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act

Status and procedural history
- Introduced: January 31, 2025
- Referred to: House Committee on Judiciary
- Amends: K.S.A. 50-632, 50-634 and 50-640 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 50-624 (Kansas Consumer Protection Act)

Purpose / intent
- Protect vulnerable consumers from unwanted or exploitative door‑to‑door solicitation when they are receiving inpatient care or living in congregate care settings, and to regulate solicitation and contract formation for certain land transactions related to wind and solar energy projects.
- Preserve consumer rights to individual or class litigation and strengthen enforcement tools for the Attorney General and local prosecutors.

Key provisions
1. Limits on door‑to‑door solicitations to certain residents
- Suppliers may not initiate door‑to‑door sales communications with consumers who are inpatient hospital patients or residents of nursing homes, adult care homes, assisted living facilities, or residential healthcare facilities unless the supplier first:
- Sends written information via certified mail (return receipt requested) seeking the consumer’s consent to door‑to‑door contact; and
- Obtains the consumer’s affirmative consent.
- A supplier is limited to sending no more than two such certified‑mail communications to a given consumer in a calendar year.

  1. Diminished capacity and representatives

    • If the supplier knows or is informed a consumer has diminished capacity, the supplier must cease communications unless it verifies the consumer’s legal capacity to contract.
    • A consumer with diminished capacity may appoint a representative who must (a) be present for all oral communications between the supplier and consumer, and (b) receive copies of written/electronic communications from the supplier.

  2. Contracts — recording and disclosure

    • Contract provisions that prohibit or restrict recording/video of negotiations, or prohibit disclosure of contract contents, negotiation or performance communications, or sound/video recordings to government agencies or in court testimony/filings, are unenforceable.
    • Exception: confidentiality provisions remain enforceable to the extent they prohibit disclosure of the compensation amount paid to the consumer.
    • These consumer protections may not be waived by the parties.

  3. Expansion to include wind/solar land transactions

    • “Consumer” and “consumer transaction” definitions are expanded to explicitly include individuals (and certain trustees) who have the right to convey estates or interests in land (by lease, option, easement or other contractual obligation) for:
      • Building/operating meteorological towers or sodar units; and
      • Commercial production or transmission of electricity via wind or solar generation resources.
    • The bill permits a consumer to revoke a lease or contract entered under these circumstances (text references revocation rights for such land transactions).

  4. Enforcement and litigation

    • Preserves consumers’ rights to bring individual or class actions under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act.
    • Authorizes the Attorney General and county/district attorneys or courts to take action to enforce the bill’s provisions and to seek orders (including revoking leases/contracts as applicable).

Who is affected
- Consumers: especially those hospitalized or residing in long‑term care/assisted living settings, and landowners/lessors (including trustees) faced with offers or contracts for meteorological equipment or commercial wind/solar projects.
- Suppliers: defined to include suppliers’ affiliates and representatives (directors, officers, employees, agents, consultants, counsel).
- State government: Attorney General’s Office and Judicial Branch (increased enforcement and litigation workload).
- Counties: possibly affected if the bill leads to breach‑of‑contract litigation involving county interests.

Fiscal impact (per fiscal note dated March 4, 2025)
- Attorney General: estimated increase in State General Fund expenditures beginning FY2026 of $538,322 to hire 5.00 positions (2 Assistant Attorneys General, 2 investigators, 1 legal assistant) plus $85,080 for incidental start‑up items; additional litigation expenditures projected in excess of $500,000 in FY2026 and FY2027.
- Judicial Branch: expected increase in caseloads and staff time; fiscal effect not precisely estimated.
- Other state agencies (Kansas Corporation Commission, Department of Agriculture, Department of Education, Kansas State Fair Board), League of Kansas Municipalities: no fiscal effect reported. Kansas Association of Counties notes potential impacts if breach‑of‑contract actions arise.

Bottom line
HB 2300 creates procedural protections that require suppliers to obtain prior written consent (via certified mail) before door‑to‑door solicitation of certain vulnerable residents, restricts communications when diminished capacity is present, makes specific land transactions for wind/solar projects subject to consumer protections (including possible revocation), invalidates contract clauses that block recording/disclosure in many circumstances, and expands enforcement authority — all with a measurable fiscal cost to the Attorney General and likely increased court activity.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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