Kentucky House Bill 245 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-03-08 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (2-title) filed
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 186 to define "clean transportation fuel," "conversion," and other terms associated with the retrofitting of vehicles to operate on compressed or liquefied natural gas; require safety inspections of such vehicles; require some portion of vehicle fleets to be converted to use clean transportation fuels if the Division for Air Quality determines it is necessary; amend sections of KRS Chapter 152 to include natural gas in the definition of "alternative transportation fuels" and to include Kentucky's public and private colleges in the state strategy relating to those fuels; amend sections of subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to include local government entities in the definition of "eligible company" for the alternative fuel and renewable energy program; create and amend sections of KRS Chapter 141 to establish income tax credits for persons who convert vehicles to burn natural gas or buy new vehicles that do so; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to direct the Kentucky Department for Education to consider school buses powered by natural gas if it determines that it is safe to do so; amend KRS 234.321 to require compliance with federal regulations rather than state standards; repeal KRS 224.10-192.

AN ACT relating to clean and alternative transportation fuels.

Rep. Keith Hall [D]

Rep. Richard Henderson [D]

Rep. Steven Riggs [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-08		floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (2-title) filed
2012-03-07		recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2012-03-07		2nd reading, to Rules
2012-03-06		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2012-02-23		posted in committee
2012-01-12		to Transportation (H)
2012-01-11		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB245.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB245/bill.doc