Kentucky Senate Bill 11 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Passed on March 27 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-27 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 118)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Amend KRS 278.600 to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means of permanent disposal and to add definitions of "storage," "low-level nuclear waste," and "mixed nuclear waste"; amend KRS 278.610 to allow certification if the facility and its plans for waste storage are approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; eliminate the requirement that the facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; eliminate the requirement that cost of waste disposal be known; eliminate the requirement that the facility have adequate capacity to contain waste; give the Public Service Commission authority to hire a consultant to perform duties relating to nuclear facility certification; prohibit construction of low-level nuclear waste disposal sites in Kentucky except as provided in KRS 211.852; direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to review regulations required for permitting nuclear facilities and report to LRC; repeal KRS 278.605, relating to construction of nuclear power facilities.

AN ACT relating to nuclear power.

Sen. Danny Carroll [R]

Sen. Stan Humphries [R]

Sen. Steve West [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-27	Senate	signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 118)
2017-03-15	Senate	delivered to Governor
2017-03-15	Senate	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2017-03-15	Senate	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2017-03-15	Senate	received in Senate
2017-03-15	House	3rd reading, passed 65-28
2017-03-08	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 14, 2017
2017-03-08	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2017-03-07	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2017-03-06	House	posted in committee
2017-03-03	House	to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
2017-03-02	House	received in House
2017-03-01	Senate	3rd reading, passed 27-8 with Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1)
2017-03-01	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 1, 2017
2017-02-21	Senate	floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2017-02-16	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2017-02-15	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
2017-01-07	Senate	to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2017-01-03	Senate	introduced in Senate
2016-09-19	Senate	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/SB11.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB11/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB11/SCS1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB11/SFA1.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/SB11/vote_history.pdf