KY SB90 | 2015 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 3 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-11 - to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
Pending: House Tourism Development and Energy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Summary

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 of 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 disposal of nuclear waste to 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 one constructed by an entity 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 waste disposal sites in the Commonwealth; repeal KRS 278.605, relating to construction of nuclear power facilities.

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Title

AN ACT relating to nuclear power.

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History

DateChamberAction
2015-03-11Houseto Tourism Development & Energy (H)
2015-03-03Housereceived in House
2015-03-03Senate3rd reading, passed 30-7 with Committee Substitute
2015-03-02Senateposted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 3, 2015
2015-02-26Senate2nd reading, to Rules
2015-02-25Senatereported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2015-02-05Senateto Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2015-02-03Senateintroduced in Senate

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