Kentucky Senate Bill 26 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on January 21 2010 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-26 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Pending: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 278.600 to define "storage" and amend a definition to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means for permanent disposal; amend KRS 278.610 to delete the requirement that the Public Service Commission certify the facility as having a means for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; change all references to the disposal of nuclear waste to the storage of nuclear waste; prohibit construction of low-level waste disposal sites in the Commonwealth except as provided in KRS 211.852; require the Public Service Commission to determine whether the construction or operation of a nuclear power facility, including ones constructed by entities regulated under KRS Chapter 96, would create low-level nuclear waste or mixed wastes that would be required to be disposed of in low-level nuclear waste disposal sites in the Commonwealth; repeal KRS 278.605.

AN ACT relating to nuclear power.

Sen. Robert Leeper [I]

Sen. Kenneth Winters [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-26		to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2010-01-21		received in House
2010-01-20		3rd reading, passed 27-10
2010-01-20		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 20, 2010
2010-01-14		2nd reading, to Rules
2010-01-13		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2010-01-06		to Natural Resources and Energy (S)
2010-01-05		introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB26.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB26/bill.doc