HR-163: Urging The Department Of Health To Prioritize Testing And Research Of Beach Sand Contamination Levels At Pokai Bay And Requesting The City And County Of Honolulu Department Of Parks And Recreation To Prioritize Renovations Of The Restroom Facilities At Pokai Bay.
Sponsored by: Rep. Cedric Asuega Gates
Referred To Wal, Fin, Referral Sheet 27 on 03/14/2022
You have voted HR-163: Urging The Department Of Health To Prioritize Testing And Research Of Beach Sand Contamination Levels At Pokai Bay And Requesting The City And County Of Honolulu Department Of Parks And Recreation To Prioritize Renovations Of The Restroom Facilities At Pokai Bay..
SR-136: Urging The Department Of Health To Prioritize Testing And Research Of Beach Sand Contamination Levels At Pokai Bay And Requesting The City And County Of Honolulu Department Of Parks And Recreation To Prioritize Renovations Of The Restroom Facilities At Pokai Bay.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joy A. San Buenaventura
Referred To Hth/wtl. on 03/16/2022
You have voted SR-136: Urging The Department Of Health To Prioritize Testing And Research Of Beach Sand Contamination Levels At Pokai Bay And Requesting The City And County Of Honolulu Department Of Parks And Recreation To Prioritize Renovations Of The Restroom Facilities At Pokai Bay..
AN ACT relating to financial assistance and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-343]
[Water ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Finance ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 224A to make findings and declarations of the General Assembly regarding the need for funding for public funding for drinking water and wastewater systems; establish a water management assistance fund which is administered by the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to provide assistance for both capital and non-capital expenses of governmental entities that provide public drinking water and wastewater services to the public; describe the various non-capital expenses that the fund can provide funding for; amend KRS
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SB-343: AN ACT relating to financial assistance and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
Recommitted To State & Local Government (s) on 03/23/2022
AN ACT relating to a tax credit for stillage management. [SB-325]
[Taxes ]
[Agriculture ]
[Energy ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish a stillage management tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027; establish the Stillage Management Board consisting of 13 voting and two nonvoting members; provide that the board is responsible for approval of the applications from stillage managers and reporting this to the Department of Revenue for processing of the return and tax credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the stillage management tax credit
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SB-325: AN ACT relating to a tax credit for stillage management.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robin L. Webb
Withdrawn on 03/09/2022
AN ACT relating to biosolids. [SB-301]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Water ]
Create a new section of Subchapter 50 of KRS Chapter 224 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to promulgate new administrative regulations to regulate biosolids from wastewater treatment at a publicly owned treatment works in conformity with and no more stringent than federal standards under 40 C.F.R. pt. 530.
SB-301: AN ACT relating to biosolids.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Withdrawn on 03/16/2022
State Finance and Procurement - Chesapeake Bay Watershed States - Expenses and Contracts (Quit Polluting My Bay Act of 2022) [HB-1470]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Standard State Travel Regulations adopted under certain provisions of law to prohibit the reimbursement for travel expenses related to travel to a certain state for which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified two or more pollution source sectors at a backstop actions level of oversight; and prohibiting a certain public body from awarding a certain procurement contract for goods or services to a certain business from a certain state under certain circumstances.
HB-1470: State Finance and Procurement - Chesapeake Bay Watershed States - Expenses and Contracts (Quit Polluting My Bay Act of 2022)
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar P Barve
Rereferred To Environment And Transportation on 03/11/2022
AN ACT relating to trichloroethylene. [HB-717]
[Air Quality ]
[Environmental ]
[Small Business ]
[Public Health ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Water ]
[Energy ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Create a new section of subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 224 to define terms; require that beginning June 1, 2023, owners or operators of facilities permitted as air contaminant sources shall not use trichloroethylene (TCE) subject to exceptions and time extensions for small businesses; allow the permitting agency to require additional information and impose additional restrictions based on impacts from nearby sources or background concentrations; require that any replacement chemical for TCE be less toxic to human health, as approved by the secretary
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HB-717: AN ACT relating to trichloroethylene.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
Introduced In House on 03/01/2022
AN ACT relating to financial assistance and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-758]
[Water ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
[Environmental ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 224A to making findings and declarations of the General Assembly regarding the need for funding for public funding for drinking water and wastewater systems; establish a water management assistance fund which is administered by the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to provide assistance for both capital and non-capital expenses of governmental entities that provide public drinking water and wastewater services to the public; describe the various non-capital expenses that the fund can provide funding for; amend
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HB-758: AN ACT relating to financial assistance and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 177) on 04/08/2022
AN ACT relating to renewable energy. [SB-225]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to express the intent of the General Assembly with respect to rooftop solar power and the significance of renewable energy; define "renewable energy," "renewable energy portfolio," "renewable energy requirement," "retail electric supplier," and "solar energy target"; require retail electric suppliers to comply with a tiered renewable portfolio requirement beginning in fiscal year 2023-2024; require retail electric suppliers to submit integrated resource plans to the Public Service Commission for approval that
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SB-225: AN ACT relating to renewable energy.
Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 03/01/2022
AN ACT relating to a tax credit for stillage management. [HB-627]
[Taxes ]
[Agriculture ]
[Energy ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Small Business ]
[Manufacturing ]
Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish a stillage management tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027; establish the Stillage Management Board consisting of 13 voting and two nonvoting members; provide that the board is responsible for approval of the applications from stillage managers and reporting this to the Department of Revenue for processing of the return and tax credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the stillage management tax credit
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HB-627: AN ACT relating to a tax credit for stillage management.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
Introduced In House on 02/28/2022
Environment – Office on Climate Change – Establishment [HB-1263]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Energy ]
[Science ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing the Office on Climate Change in the Office of the Governor to coordinate with the Commission on Climate Change to ensure certain recommendations are implemented, ensure that each State agency addresses ways the agency can mitigate the causes of climate change and certain impacts of climate change, initiate and oversee certain climate change research and investigations, and work with local governments on the development and implementation of local climate change plans.
HB-1263: Environment – Office on Climate Change – Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric G Luedtke
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 04/11/2022
Environment and Energy - Investment in Overburdened Communities [HB-1033]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Poverty ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment, on or before December 1, 2022, to develop certain policies and recommendations to require at least 40% of overall spending on certain programs, projects, or investments to benefit certain overburdened communities, starting with fiscal year 2024; defining an "overburdened community" as any census tract where the median house hold income is not more than 75% of the statewide median household income and certain environmental indicators are above the 75th percentile; etc.
HB-1033: Environment and Energy - Investment in Overburdened Communities
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Hearing 3/15 At 1:00 P.m. (appropriations) on 02/18/2022
Property Tax - Community Solar Energy Generating Systems - Agrivoltaics [HB-1039]
[Property Tax ]
[Energy ]
[Taxes ]
[Agriculture ]
[Community Development ]
Exempting certain community solar energy generating systems from personal property taxes; requiring the Department of Assessments and Taxation to assess certain land used by a community solar energy generating system in a certain manner; requiring the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to grant a tax credit against the property tax imposed on real property on which a certain community solar energy generating system is installed; establishing a tax credit against the State property tax imposed on certain real property; etc.
HB-1039: Property Tax - Community Solar Energy Generating Systems - Agrivoltaics
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric G Luedtke
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 658 on 05/29/2022
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the environment. [HB-471]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Water ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Climate Change ]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky establishing a right of the people to have a healthy environment, including a right to clean air, pure water, and ecologically healthy habitats; declare the Commonwealth's natural resources, among them its air, water, flora, fauna, climate, and public lands, are the common property of all people, including generations yet to come; establish that as trustee of the environment and its natural resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all people; provide
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HB-471: AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the environment.
Sponsored by: Rep. McKenzie Cantrell
Introduced In House on 02/09/2022
Property Tax - Community Solar Energy Generating Systems - Agrivoltaics [SB-860]
[Property Tax ]
[Energy ]
[Taxes ]
[Agriculture ]
[Community Development ]
Exempting certain community solar energy generating systems from personal property taxes; requiring the Department of Assessments and Taxation to assess certain land used by a community solar energy generating system in a certain manner; requiring the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to grant a tax credit against the property tax imposed on real property on which a certain community solar energy generating system is installed; establishing a tax credit against the State property tax imposed on certain real property; etc.
SB-860: Property Tax - Community Solar Energy Generating Systems - Agrivoltaics
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 659 on 05/29/2022