Kentucky Senate Bill 8

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 18 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-21 - returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
Pending: Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to establish the membership of the Public Service Commission; provide for the appointment, confirmation, and replacement of commissioners; establish the qualifications of the commissioners; set the terms and term limits for commissioners; amend KRS 278.040 to provide that the commission is an independent department of state government that is administratively attached to the Energy and Environment Cabinet only for the limited functions and purposes that the commission requests; allow the commission, in its sole discretion, to identify and determine the compensation for categories of its professional employees; prohibit the commission from being reorganized under KRS Chapter 12; amend KRS 278.060 to prohibit the immediate family members of commissioners from having any official relationship to any utility; allow for a commissioner or an immediate family member to have a pension or a retirement savings account with utility as long as no contributions have been made to it for at least one year prior to the commissioner's appointment; amend KRS 278.070 to allow the officer who appointed a commissioner to remove the commissioner for cause; amend KRS 278.120 to allow the commission to have sole discretion in fixing the compensation of the executive director; amend KRS 278.702, 64.640, and 160.617 to conform; repeal KRS 278.050, relating to membership of the Public Service Commission; require the Auditor of Public Accounts to make initial appointments to the commission on or before July 1, 2025, and provide for the staggering of the appointments; allow current members of the commission to serve out the remainders of their terms provided that they meet the qualification requirements of the Act; terminate the terms of current commissioners who do not meet the qualification requirements of the Act and provide for their replacement; direct the transfer of all records, files, or documents associated with functions previously performed by the Energy and Environment Cabinet to the Public Service Commission.

AN ACT relating to the Public Service Commission.

Sen. Robert Stivers [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-21	Senate	returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2025-02-21	Senate	2nd reading
2025-02-21	Senate	taken from Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2025-02-20	Senate	returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2025-02-20	Senate	1st reading
2025-02-20	Senate	taken from Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2025-02-20	Senate	to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2025-02-18	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2025-02-18	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb8.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb8/orig_bill.pdf