KY SB89 | 2016 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 2 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-03 - to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on March 2 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-03 - to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]
Summary
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 requirement that facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; eliminate requirement that cost of waste disposal be known; eliminate requirement that facility have adequate capacity to contain waste; give the Public Service Commission authority to hire 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.
Title
AN ACT relating to nuclear power.
Sponsors
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2016-03-03 | House | to Tourism Development & Energy (H) |
2016-03-02 | House | received in House |
2016-03-01 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 28-6-1 |
2016-02-29 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 1, 2016 |
2016-02-25 | Senate | 2nd reading, to Rules |
2016-02-24 | Senate | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
2016-01-13 | Senate | to Natural Resources & Energy (S) |
2016-01-11 | Senate | introduced in Senate |
Kentucky State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB89.htm |
Text | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB89/bill.pdf |
Supplement | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB89/vote_history.pdf |