Waste Management
Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to notice of environmental incidents. [SB-28]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Energy ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS 224.46-505 to 224.46-590 to require the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet to send a copy of a notice of violation for a hazardous waste site or facility to the county/judge executive of the county or the chief executive officer of the urban-county government within which the site or facility is located; amend KRS 224.10-212 to specify that notices of violation for hazardous waste sites or facilities are not prohibited from disclosure due to confidentiality.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 078) on 03/25/2019
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AN ACT relating to waste management. [HB-222]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
Amend KRS 224.43-010 to include in legislative finding the need for complete and accurate information about complaints, investigations, and actions against solid waste disposal facilities located in the solid waste management area; amend KRS 224.43-310 to require the cabinet to make quarterly reports to the solid waste coordinator for a solid waste management area on complaints, investigations, and actions; require the enforcement officer to submit a copy of the report to the county fiscal court of every county located in the solid waste management
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Posted In Committee on 02/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to plastic waste. [HB-183]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 224.50-545 to establish definitions; prohibit the intentional release of more than 25 plastic balloons; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2024; establish a ban the provision of single-use plastic straws by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2022; establish civil penalty of $100 per day for violation of bans.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Lou Marzian
Posted In Committee on 02/13/2019
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to solid waste and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-164]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
[Crime ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 30A.190 to designate 100% of a new open dumping fine be paid to the county where the violation occurred; KRS 65.8808 to expressly include littering and open dumping as crimes subject to enforcement by code enforcement; amend KRS 224.40-100 to allow local governments to impose a civil fine between $250 and $500 for open dumping and prescribe funds to be used for abatement, cleanup and restoration of the illegal dump site; amend KRS 224.99-010 to direct penalties from littering to counties where the offense occurred; amend KRS 431.100 to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/14/2020
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To Waste Management. [HB-2442]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Public Safety ]
[Public Health ]
[Environmental ]
Prohibits any waste or disposal facility from being located in a conservation district except in emergency circumstances to mitigate significant risks to public safety and health. Requires no less than a one-half mile buffer zone for the construction, operation, modification, or expansion of a municipal solid waste landfill unit.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joy A. San Buenaventura
Referred To Wlh/eep, Fin, Referral Sheet 5 on 01/27/2020
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Hawaii 2020 Regular Session
Relating To Waste Management. [SB-2386]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
[Environmental ]
Prohibits any waste or disposal facility from being located in a conservation district except in emergency circumstances to mitigate significant risks to public safety and health. Requires no less than a one-half mile buffer zone around residences, schools, and hospitals for the construction, modification, or expansion of a waste or disposal facility. Specifies that "waste or disposal facility" excludes individual, state certified, non-industrial redemption centers. (HD2)
Sponsored by: Sen. Laura Thielen
Enrolled To Governor. on 07/13/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to solid waste. [SB-22]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
Amend KRS KRS 68.178 to delete incidental or residual waste facilities from the exclusion in the description of waste management facilities; allow fiscal courts to license solid waste landfills and residual landfills and assess increased fees for accepting wastes outside of the waste planning area; amend KRS 224.40-315 to delete the exclusions from the definition of "municipal solid waste disposal facility."
Sponsored by: Sen. C.B. Embry
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 01/08/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to plastic waste. [SB-68]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Amend KRS 224.50-585 to establish definitions; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2025; establish a ban the provision of single-use plastic straws and Styrofoam food and beverage containers by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2023; establish civil penalty of $100 per day for violation of bans.
Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 01/08/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to plastic waste. [HB-85]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 224.50-545 to establish definitions; prohibit the intentional release of more than 25 plastic balloons; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2025; establish a ban the provision of single-use plastic straws and Styrofoam food and beverage containers by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2023; establish civil penalty of $100 per day for violation of bans.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to solid waste. [SB-16]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
Amend KRS 224.40-310 to modify the definition of "waste disposal facility" to specify that all residual landfills are included in the process of local determination and remove the exception for private facilities that dispose of waste on their own private property; amend KRS 224.40-315 to remove the exception for private facilities that dispose of their own waste on their own property from the requirements to obtain approval from local governing body when a municipal solid waste disposal facility seeks to expand or construct a facility.
Sponsored by: Sen. C.B. Embry
Introduced In Senate on 01/07/2020