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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to energy. [SB-341]
[Energy ]
Amend KRS 224.10-225 to make grammatical correction and gender conformity.
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Gettr Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to energy. [SB-318]
[Energy ]
Amend KRS 224.10-225 to make technical correction.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to natural resources. [SB-330]
[Environmental ]
[Mining ]
Amend KRS 350.028 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to energy. [SB-272]
[Energy ]
Amend KRS 224.10-225 to make technical correction.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to natural resources. [HB-728]
[Environmental ]
Amend KRS 350.028 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to natural resources. [HB-690]
[Environmental ]
[Mining ]
Amend KRS 350.028 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products [SB-1122]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the owner or operator of a coal combustion by-products unit to submit certain reports and plans to the Department of the Environment and the Power Plant Research Program in the Department of Natural Resources on or before certain dates; requiring the owner or operator of a coal combustion by-products unit to conduct a drinking water survey by September 30, 2025, and submit a report of the survey to the Department of the Environment and the Power Plant Research Program by December 31, 2025; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Responding to Emergency Needs From Extreme Weather (RENEW) Act of 2024 [HB-1438]
[Climate Change ]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue for State efforts to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change and to address the health impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations; establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Fund to support efforts to mitigate climate change; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products [HB-1193]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the owner or operator of a coal combustion by-products unit to submit certain reports and plans to the Department of the Environment and the Power Plant Research Program in the Department of Natural Resources on or before certain dates; requiring the owner or operator of a coal combustion by-products unit to conduct a drinking water survey by September 30, 2025, and submit a report of the survey to the Department of the Environment and the Power Plant Research Program by December 31, 2025; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Responding to Emergency Needs From Extreme Weather (RENEW) Act of 2024 [SB-958]
[Climate Change ]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Public Health ]
[Taxes ]
Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue for State efforts to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change and to address the health impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations; establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Fund to support efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change; etc.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the retirement of fossil fuel-fired electric generating units. [HB-445]
[Energy ]
[Retirement ]
Amend KRS 278.264 to prohibit the Public Service Commission from approving the retirement of a fossil fuel-fired electric generating unit unless the commission finds that the utility has no undepreciated investment in the unit and that the costs to operate the unit are greater than the revenue that it generates.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state symbols. [HB-378]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Mining ]
Amends KRS 2.091 to designate coal as the official rock of Kentucky; amends KRS 2.092 to designate Kentucky agate as the official gemstone of Kentucky; and amends KRS 2.094 to designate calcite as the official mineral of Kentucky.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mine subsidence insurance. [HB-371]
[Insurance ]
[Housing ]
Amends KRS 304.44-030 to increase the maximum total insured value to be reinsured by the administrator per structure from $300,000 to $500,000, to allow the administrator to establish a different maximum total insured value reinsured per structure when certain requirements are met, to allow an insurer to implement a the maximum total insured value established by the administrator any time after receiving notice, to require that the commissioner of insurance promulgate a regulation to establish a process for notice to insurers, and to increase the
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mining licenses and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-283]
[Mining ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Energy ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 351 to require any owner, operator, lessee, or licensee of a coal mine holding a license under KRS 337.200 that has been doing business in the Commonwealth for fewer than five consecutive years to submit a certification from the commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards that the licensee is compliant with or exempt from the performance bonding requirements of KRS 337.200; amend KRS 351.175 to require any coal mine licensee applicant to submit a certification from the commissioner of the Department
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To The Employees' Retirement System. [SB-423]
[Energy ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Climate Change ]
[Environmental ]
Requires the employees' retirement system to divest its investment portfolio of coal, oil, and gas companies within an unspecified number of years and to report certain information to the legislature.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-210]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists;
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational disease claims. [HB-209]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 342.125 to remove the requirement that an affected employee previously diagnosed with occupational pneumoconiosis resulting from exposure to coal dust must have an additional two years of employment in the Commonwealth wherein the employee was continuously exposed to the hazards of the disease in order to reopen a claim.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the United States Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to adopt its proposed rule on permissible exposure limits of silica dust. [HR-34]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Mining ]
[Public Health ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Urge the United States Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration to adopt its proposed rule on permissible exposure limits of silica dust consistent with existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation [HB-245]
[Environmental ]
[Funding ]
[Water ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site sewage disposal permits and individual well construction permits under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to establish by regulation a fee for the Responsible Personnel Training Program Certification; requiring a holder of a license to transfer oil into the State to pay a certain fee when oil owned by the licensee is first transferred into the State; establishing the Private Dam Repair Fund; etc.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coal mining. [HB-85]
[Mining ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 351.127 to change the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required to be on shift from two to one, if the number of employees on the shift is 10 or less.