Kentucky House Bill 303 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: Passed on March 23 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-03-23 - signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 80)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Amend KRS 367.4903 to redefine "operator," "Kentucky Contact Center," "approximate location," and "working day"; define "person," "positive response," "unique identification number" or "locate request number," "locator," "second notice," "tolerance zone," "untonable facility," and "work site contact"; amend KRS 367.4909 to require a positive response from operators of underground facilities; establish the timing of operator responses; amend KRS 367.4911 to provide excavator start dates, to include entities engaged in exempt activities to notify operators immediately upon discovery of damage to an underground facility, and to provide when mechanized equipment can be used in the tolerance zone; amend KRS 367.4913 to require contact centers to maintain certain locate request information for five years and to change the composition of the Kentucky Contact Center board of directors; amend KRS 369.4915 to require entities engaging in exempt activities to cease activity and notify an operator when an underground facility is damaged and to exempt certain noninvasive inspection and maintenance excavating for an existing utility pole; amend KRS 367.4917 to impose penalties on the employer if the violation is committed in the scope of employment and to provide that the Public Service Commission shall establish a written agreement form to deviate from the locate request dates provided for in the Underground Facility Damage Prevention Act of 1994; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2022.

AN ACT relating to underground facility protection.

Rep. Sal Santoro [R]	Rep. Tina Bojanowski [D]	Rep. Kevin Bratcher [R]	Rep. Jonathan Dixon [R]
Rep. Patrick Flannery [R]	Rep. Richard Heath [R]	Rep. Ed Massey [R]	Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]

2021-03-15 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 313 (Y: 92 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 8) [PASS]
2021-03-12 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/sfa2 RSN# 1709 (Y: 32 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2021-03-12 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/sfa1 sfa2 RSN# 1704 (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2021-02-25 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 125 (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-03-23	House	signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 80)
2021-03-15	House	delivered to Governor
2021-03-15	House	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2021-03-15	House	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2021-03-15	House	passed 92-0
2021-03-15	House	House concurred in Senate floor amendment (2)
2021-03-15	House	posted for passage for concurrence in Senate floor amendment (2)
2021-03-15	House	taken from Rules
2021-03-12	House	to Rules (H)
2021-03-12	House	received in House
2021-03-12	Senate	passed 31-0 with floor amendment (2)
2021-03-12	Senate	floor amendment (1) withdrawn
2021-03-12	Senate	bill reconsidered
2021-03-12	Senate	3rd reading, passed 35-0 with floor amendments (1) and (2)
2021-03-11	Senate	passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
2021-03-11	Senate	floor amendment (2) filed
2021-03-05	Senate	passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
2021-03-04	Senate	floor amendment (1) filed
2021-03-04	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 5, 2021
2021-03-04	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2021-03-03	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2021-03-01	Senate	to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2021-02-26	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2021-02-26	Senate	received in Senate
2021-02-25	House	3rd reading, passed 94-0 with floor amendments (2) and (5)
2021-02-24	House	floor amendment (5) filed
2021-02-23	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 24, 2021
2021-02-22	House	floor amendments (1), (2), (3) and (4) filed
2021-02-22	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2021-02-11	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2021-02-09	House	posted in committee
2021-02-04	House	to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
2021-02-02	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2021-02-02	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/hb303.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/hb303/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/hb303/bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/21RS/hb303/LM.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/hb303/vote_history.pdf