Bill
HB 2225
Prohibits mobile home park landlords from restricting tenants’ choice or access to cable, broadband, and other communications services.
Status snapshot
- Bill number: HB 2225 (Kansas; amends K.S.A. 58-25,111)
- Introduced: January 29, 2025 (requested by Nathanial Blank on behalf of Ideatek)
- Hearing: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 — 9:00 AM, Room 582‑N (House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications)
- Fiscal note issued: February 10, 2025 (Kansas Division of the Budget)
- Companion: SB 1883 (listed)
- Effective date: “from and after its publication in the statute book” (per bill text)
Purpose and intent
- To ensure tenants in mobile home parks cannot be contractually restricted by landlords from choosing or accessing communications and video service providers (including cable, broadband, telecommunications and related services). The change promotes tenant choice and competition among service providers.
Key provisions and changes
- Amends K.S.A. 58‑25,111 (part of the Mobile Home Parks Residential Landlord and Tenant Act).
- Adds an explicit prohibition (subsection (b)): a landlord may not impose rental/occupancy conditions that restrict a tenant’s choice of—or access to—a seller or provider of fuel, furnishings, goods or services, specifically including cable television, communications, broadband and telecommunications services, except where reasonably necessary to protect health, safety or welfare of park tenants.
- Permits landlords to impose reasonable requirements to standardize utility connection/hookup methods.
- If landlord‑imposed conditions result in charges to tenants for goods or services, those charges cannot exceed the landlord’s actual cost.
- Retains existing provisions allowing written agreements for tenants to perform certain landlord duties (repairs, garbage removal, utility outlet responsibilities) so long as such agreements are good‑faith, separate, and do not evade landlord obligations.
Who would be affected
- Mobile home park tenants: gain statutory protection to select their own communications and video providers.
- Mobile home park landlords/operators: prohibited from requiring exclusive provider arrangements or other contractual restrictions that block tenant access; may still set reasonable hookup standards.
- Communications/video service providers (ISPs, cable companies, telecoms): likely to benefit from broader access to customers in mobile home parks.
- Local/state agencies: Kansas agencies contacted in the fiscal note (Kansas Corporation Commission, Citizens’ Utility Ratepayer Board, Attorney General, Office of Judicial Administration) indicated no fiscal effect.
Fiscal and enforcement notes
- Kansas Division of the Budget fiscal note (Feb 10, 2025) reports no fiscal effect on several state agencies and on the Kansas Association of Counties and League of Kansas Municipalities.
- The bill does not create a new enforcement agency; enforcement would proceed under existing landlord‑tenant law and remedies in the Mobile Home Parks Act (no new enforcement mechanism specified in the text).
Practical impact (likely)
- Increases tenant choice for broadband, cable and other communications services and may reduce exclusive or bundled service arrangements imposed by park landlords.
- Could encourage competition and potentially lower consumer costs; may reduce any landlord revenue streams tied to exclusive provider contracts.
- Minimal to no direct state budgetary impact per the fiscal note.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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