Kentucky Senate Bill 261 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 11 2021 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-03-11 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 150 to define "compensatory mitigation," "compensatory mitigation project," "compensatory mitigation site," "DA permit," "mitigation credit," " in-lieu fee program," "in-lieu fee program instrument," "mitigation bank," "mitigation credit," "service area," and "mitigation liability"; re-establish the Kentucky wetland and stream mitigation fund in a newly created section; require funds representing an unsatisfied liability under the 2008 Mitigation Rule issued by the Department of Army to be put out for contract under KRS Chapter 45A; require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to make a report to the LRC that describes the in-lieu fee program and unsatisfied liabilities in service areas by December 1 of each year; allow the state to hold a permanent easement in lands acquired by it or proposed to it by a mitigation bank; require entities to have financial surety; amend KRS 150.255 to specify how governmental and non-governmental agencies satisfy compensatory mitigation; stipulate that when the unsatisfied mitigation liability reaches 2 million dollars the in-lieu fee program shall purchase credits or issue an RFP for a commodity purchase; specify the procurement for full-delivery and the actions for mitigation on the site under the full-delivery approach; allow for compensatory mitigation to be a capital construction project with the Commonwealth holding a conservation easement or some other environmental covenant or restriction; identify requirements for responsive bidders; APPROPRIATION.

AN ACT relating to stream and wetland mitigation.

Sen. Jimmy Higdon [R]

2021-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RSN# 1654 (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-03-11	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2021-03-11	House	received in House
2021-03-05	Senate	3rd reading, passed 36-0 with Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title)
2021-03-04	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 5, 2021
2021-03-04	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2021-03-03	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title)
2021-02-24	Senate	to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2021-02-22	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2021-02-22	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/sb261.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb261/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb261/bill.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/sb261/vote_history.pdf