GeoLawWatch Still in play 10

Kansas

2025-2026 Regular Session

2 bills ยท Adjourned 10 Apr 2026
HB2439 Sine dir

Enacting the Kansas geoengineering and weather modification prohibition act, prohibiting geoengieering and weather modification activities, providing criminal penalties for violations of the act and assigning enforcement and reporting authority to the department of health and environment.

Kansas HB 2439 would impose felony charges and fines up to $100,000 for geoengineering activities while creating a unique airport surveillance network, requiring all public-use airports to file monthly reports on aircraft equipped with potential weather-modification equipment or risk losing state funding.

Remained in initial Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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SB449 Sine die

Enacting the clean air preservation act to prohibit solar radiation modification, geoengineering, weather modification, cloud seeding and other polluting atmospheric experiments or interventions and creating a crime for violation thereof.

Kansas SB 449 goes beyond standard geoengineering prohibitions by authorising the Air National Guard to intercept violating aircraft and by making artificial intelligence systems criminally liable. The bill also includes unusual limits on radiofrequency signal strength for communications facilities and completely dismantles the state's 50-year-old weather modification regulatory framework.

Remained in initial Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Last action