Kentucky Senate Bill 4 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: Passed on March 29 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-29 - became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 118)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; prohibit the Public Service Commission from approving a request by a utility to retire a coal-fired electric generator unless the utility demonstrates that the retirement will not have a negative impact on the reliability or the resilience of the electric grid or the affordability of the customer's electric utility rate; require the Public Service Commission to submit an annual report on retirements of electric generating units by December 1 to the Legislative Research Commission; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to the retirement of fossil fuel-fired electric generating units and declaring an emergency.

Sen. Robert Mills [R]	Sen. Phillip Wheeler [R]	Sen. Gary Boswell [R]	Sen. Jared Carpenter [R]
Sen. Rick Girdler [R]	Sen. Jason Howell [R]	Sen. Brandon Storm [R]	Sen. Lindsey Tichenor [R]
Sen. Johnnie Turner [R]	Sen. Steve West [R]	Sen. Whitney Westerfield [R]	Sen. Gex Williams [R]
Sen. George Wise [R]

2023-03-16 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 286 (Y: 66 N: 28 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2023-03-02 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 sfa2 RSN# 2535 (Y: 25 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-29	Senate	became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 118)
2023-03-24	Senate	filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
2023-03-16	Senate	delivered to Governor
2023-03-16	Senate	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2023-03-16	Senate	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2023-03-16	Senate	received in Senate
2023-03-16	House	3rd reading, passed 66-28
2023-03-15	House	placed in the Orders of the Day
2023-03-15	House	taken from Rules
2023-03-15	House	reported favorably, to Rules
2023-03-14	House	returned to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
2023-03-14	House	2nd reading
2023-03-14	House	taken from Natural Resources & Energy (H)
2023-03-13	House	returned to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
2023-03-13	House	1st reading
2023-03-13	House	taken from Natural Resources & Energy (H)
2023-03-08	House	to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
2023-03-03	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-03	House	received in House
2023-03-02	Senate	passed 25-8 with Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (2)
2023-03-02	Senate	Floor Amendment (1) withdrawn
2023-03-02	Senate	3rd reading
2023-03-01	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 02, 2023
2023-02-28	Senate	floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute
2023-02-24	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2023-02-23	Senate	floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2023-02-23	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
2023-02-09	Senate	to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2023-02-07	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2023-02-07	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb4.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/sb4/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/sb4/bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/23RS/documents/0118.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/SB4/SCS1.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/SB4/SFA1.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/SB4/SFA2.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb4/vote_history.pdf