Kentucky House Bill 461 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Introduced on February 22 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-10 - recommitted to Natural Resources & Environment (H)
Pending: House Natural Resources and Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Create a new section of subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 224 to allocate ten percent of carbon dioxide emmissions allocated to the Commonwealth of Kentucky under 42 U.S.C. sec. 7411 (the Clean Air Act) to certain counties; establish the criteria by which counties with a coal-fired electric generating unit that retires after 2010 and before 2026 shall receive a percentage of the emission allowances; require that 50 percent of the emission allowances allocated to the utilities in the Commonwealth be returned to their ratepayers if their allowances equal their emissions; require that if the utilities sell the allowances that all proceeds of the sale be returned to the ratepayers.

AN ACT relating the electric generating units.

Rep. John Short [D]	Rep. Fitz Steele [D]	Rep. Rocky Adkins [D]	Rep. Chris Harris [D]
Rep. Kevin Sinnette [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-10	House	recommitted to Natural Resources & Environment (H)
2016-03-08	House	floor amendment (1) filed
2016-03-04	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2016-03-03	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2016-03-01	House	posted in committee
2016-02-23	House	to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
2016-02-22	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB461.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB461/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB461/HFA1.pdf