Kentucky House Bill 52 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-03-24 - returned to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
Pending: House Tourism Development and Energy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 278.600 to define "storage" and require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means for permanent disposal; amend KRS 278.610 to delete the requirement that the Public Service Commission certify the facility as having a means for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; change all references to the disposal of nuclear waste to the storage of nuclear waste; prohibit construction of low-level waste disposal sites in the Commonwealth, except as provided in KRS 211.852; require the Public Service Commission to determine whether the construction or operation of a nuclear power facility, including one constructed by entities regulated under KRS Chapter 96, would create low-level nuclear waste or mixed wastes that would be required to be disposed of in low-level waste disposal sites in the Commonwealth; repeal KRS 278.605.

AN ACT relating to nuclear power.

Rep. Gerald Watkins [D]

Rep. Will Coursey [D]

Rep. Richard Heath [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-24	House	returned to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
2014-03-24	House	2nd reading
2014-03-24	House	taken from Tourism Development & Energy (H)
2014-03-21	House	returned to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
2014-03-21	House	1st reading
2014-03-21	House	taken from Tourism Development & Energy (H)
2014-01-07	House	to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
2014-01-07	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB52.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB52/bill.doc