Kentucky Senate Bill 89 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 2 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-03 - to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Amend KRS 278.600 to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means of permanent disposal and to add definitions of "storage," "low-level nuclear waste," and "mixed nuclear waste"; amend KRS 278.610 to allow certification if the facility and its plans for waste storage are approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; eliminate requirement that facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; eliminate requirement that cost of waste disposal be known; eliminate requirement that facility have adequate capacity to contain waste; give the Public Service Commission authority to hire consultant to perform duties relating to nuclear facility certification; prohibit construction of low-level nuclear waste disposal sites in Kentucky except as provided in KRS 211.852; direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to review regulations required for permitting nuclear facilities and report to LRC; repeal KRS 278.605, relating to construction of nuclear power facilities.

AN ACT relating to nuclear power.

Sen. Danny Carroll [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-03	House	to Tourism Development & Energy (H)
2016-03-02	House	received in House
2016-03-01	Senate	3rd reading, passed 28-6-1
2016-02-29	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 1, 2016
2016-02-25	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2016-02-24	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2016-01-13	Senate	to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2016-01-11	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB89.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB89/bill.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB89/vote_history.pdf