AN ACT relating to public utilities. [HB-180]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to create winter and summer temperature standards for disconnection of service by retail electric and gas utilities; allow resumption of disconnection only after a 72-hour period during which the temperature standard is exceeded; establish a certificate of need for persons who are at risk if utility service is disconnected that can be provided by a physician, physician assistant, community-based service organization, or faith-based service organization; prohibit disconnection of service on holidays and weekends
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HB-180: AN ACT relating to public utilities.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Introduced In House on 01/08/2024
HB-114: AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
You have voted HB-114: AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities..
AN ACT relating to water and wastewater systems. [HB-40]
Creates a combined Kentucky Board of Certification of Water and Wastewater System Operators; provides for board duties and membership; requires that on or before December 31, 2024, the board, in conjunction with the Drinking Water Advisory Workgroup and the Clean Water Advisory Workgroup, make recommendations for the establishment of a voluntary certification program for supervisors of certified operators of water or sewage treatment plant systems; requires that the recommendations include suggestions for the establishment of a voluntary shared
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HB-40: AN ACT relating to water and wastewater systems.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bobby McCool
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 206) on 04/18/2024
Utilities: Renewable Portfolio Standard [HB-121]
An Act relating to a renewable portfolio standard; relating to electrical energy transmission; relating to distributed energy systems; relating to power cost equalization; relating to the Alaska Energy Authority; and providing for an effective date.
HB-121: Utilities: Renewable Portfolio Standard
Sponsored by: Rep. Genevieve Mina
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 05/10/2024
You have voted HR-91: A RESOLUTION honoring the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on its 90th anniversary and declaring May 18 to 24, 2023, as TVA Appreciation Week..
Refuse Utility Regulations [SB-102]
An Act relating to refuse utility rates and Regulatory Commission of Alaska regulations regarding refuse utilities; and providing for an effective date.
SB-102: Refuse Utility Regulations
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Myers
L&c Rpt Recd Await Transmittal Nxt on 04/10/2024
Utilities: Renewable Portfolio Standard [SB-101]
An Act relating to a renewable portfolio standard; relating to electrical energy transmission; relating to distributed energy systems; relating to power cost equalization; relating to the Alaska Energy Authority; and providing for an effective date.
SB-101: Utilities: Renewable Portfolio Standard
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Kawasaki
Read The First Time - Referrals on 03/15/2023
You have voted SR-230: A RESOLUTION honoring the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on its 90th anniversary and declaring May 18 to 24, 2023, as TVA Appreciation Week..
AN ACT relating to economic relief for local communities of the Commonwealth and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-9]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 147A to enable the Department for Local Government to enter a partnership with the Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts for create and administer the Government Resources Accelerating Needed Transformation Program; define terms; require the Department for Local Government in partnership with the Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts to create and administer the program; establish the duties of the Department for Local Government and the Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts in the implementation
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HB-9: AN ACT relating to economic relief for local communities of the Commonwealth and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 186) on 04/07/2023
AN ACT relating to electric utilities. [HB-532]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 96 to require electric utilities that own and operate a municipal electric utility to establish a utility board to administer the functions of the utility; require utility rates, terms of service and customer service to be administered through rules of the board; require rates be fair, just, and reasonable and predicated on the utility cost of service; prohibit commingling of funds between the utility and other local government functions; prohibit the expenditure of utility revenues on any function other than
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HB-532: AN ACT relating to electric utilities.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023
AN ACT relating to vegetation maintenance. [HB-422]
Create new sections of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to establish definitions; require electric utilities regulated by the Public Service Commission to have a vegetation management plan approved by the commission; require vegetation maintenance to be performed in conformance with ANSI standards endorsed by the International Society of Arboriculture; make exception for standards under declared emergency or in situation of cleanup from storm damage; require different notice requirements to the public and property owners; impose penalty for failure of a utility
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HB-422: AN ACT relating to vegetation maintenance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Killian Timoney
Introduced In House on 02/21/2023
AN ACT relating to affordable and reliable energy for Kentucky. [SB-245]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; allow an investor-owned electric utility to apply for a financing order to securitize deferred costs associated with retired or abandoned electric generating facilities and extraordinary storm costs; clarify that the electric utility may retire and replace the electric generation facility without matching the capacity or the technology of the retired or abandoned unit; establish the contents of an application for a financing order; exclude accumulated depreciation from the rate base; require
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SB-245: AN ACT relating to affordable and reliable energy for Kentucky.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jay Williams
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 02/23/2023
AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities. [SB-192]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; give permissive authorization to an investor-owned electric utility to apply to the Public Service Commission to finance though securitization both extraordinary costs and costs associated with the retirement of electric generation of more than $200 million dollars for a single regulatory asset or more than $275 million for multiple regulatory assets; prescribe the contents of an application for a financing order; prescribe the way proceedings of the commission will handle applications for
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SB-192: AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 72) on 03/23/2023