Kentucky Senate Bill 198

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 12 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-12 - delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 169)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Creates a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require that the Cabinet for Economic Development create and implement a financial assistance program to support the nuclear energy ecosystem; provides for the staggering of initial appointments; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Authority conduct a study to identify the workforce needs to develop and support the nuclear ecosystem and submit its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2024; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority contract for services to produce a site suitability study to identify the best potential locations for nuclear facility sites in the Commonwealth and report its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2025; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority contract for services to develop and implement a nuclear marketing and education plan; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; declares that the mission of the authority is to serve as the nonregulatory, trusted state government agency on nuclear energy issues and to support and facilitate the development of the nuclear energy ecosystem; establishes the membership and responsibilities of the advisory board to govern the authority; requires that the advisory board hire a director of the authority; establishes the purposes of the authority, which are to assist interested communities in understanding advanced nuclear opportunities, provide information to the public, develop the capacity for nuclear energy development in the Commonwealth, seek clarity on early nuclear site permitting, work with energy communities that have hosted nuclear-related or fossil fuel activities to assist in exploring nuclear energy opportunities, strengthen engagement with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, build the organizational capacity to convene a consortium of nuclear stakeholders to share best practices, engage with United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and private companies to develop technologies to reprocess or recycle spent nuclear fuel, and maintain awareness of potential events that could initiate or accelerate the development of new nuclear technologies in the Commonwealth; requires that the authority, with the approval of the advisory board, propose and adopt bylaws for the management and operation of the authority, develop and adopt a strategic plan for carrying out the purposes of the authority, create and update at least once every two years a nuclear energy economic impact analysis, and beginning December 1, 2025, and every December 1 thereafter, submit a report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission; and requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority develop criteria for a nuclear-ready community designation.

AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development.

Sen. Danny Carroll [R]

2024-04-12 - House - House: Veto Override RCS# 455 (Y: 80 N: 16 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-04-12 - Senate - Senate: Veto Override RSN# 3205 (Y: 30 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-03-22 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 328 (Y: 92 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2024-02-26 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 sfa2 RSN# 2936 (Y: 34 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-04-12	House	delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 169)
2024-04-12	House	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2024-04-12	House	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2024-04-12	House	received in Senate
2024-04-12	Senate	passed 80-16
2024-04-12	Senate	veto overridden
2024-04-12	Senate	posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
2024-04-12	Senate	taken from Rules
2024-04-12	Senate	to Rules (H)
2024-04-12	Senate	received in House
2024-04-12	House	passed 30-7
2024-04-12	House	veto overridden
2024-04-12	House	posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
2024-04-12	House	to Rules (S)
2024-04-12	House	received in Senate
2024-04-04	Senate	Vetoed
2024-03-25	Senate	delivered to Governor
2024-03-25	Senate	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2024-03-25	Senate	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2024-03-25	Senate	received in Senate
2024-03-22	House	3rd reading, passed 92-0
2024-03-21	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024
2024-03-15	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2024-03-14	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2024-03-06	House	to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
2024-02-27	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2024-02-27	House	received in House
2024-02-26	Senate	passed 34-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (2)
2024-02-26	Senate	floor amendment withdrawn Floor Amendment (1)
2024-02-26	Senate	3rd reading
2024-02-22	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 26, 2024
2024-02-22	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2024-02-22	Senate	Floor Amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute
2024-02-21	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
2024-02-14	Senate	to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2024-02-12	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2024-02-12	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb198.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb198/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb198/bill.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB198/SCS1.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB198/SFA1.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB198/SFA2.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb198/vote_history.pdf