republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/sb-174.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to underground facility damage prevention.	Amend KRS 367.4903 to add definitions for "communications network," "communications service provider," and "communications terminal"; amend KRS 367.4909 to require that if damage is done to an underground gas or hazardous liquid facility and no attempt to locate the underground facility was made, the operator shall include in its report to the Public Service Commission the distance from the communications terminal that the damage occurred; require the Public Service Commission to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2025, detailing the number of damage reports from communications service providers that occurred in the area where they are allowed to use nonintrusive excavation; amend KRS 367.4915 to exempt from the underground facility damage prevention requirements nonintrusive excavating of a depth not greater than 12 inches and within 12 inches of a communication service provider's own communications network.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	SB 174	Kentucky SB 174 (2024RS)	bill	Communications Information Technology Public Protection Reports Mandated State Agencies Telecommunications	enacted	J. Carpenter M. Deneen R. Girdler	3	22	2	2024-02-05T05:00:00+00:00	2024-03-29T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7306b97a-7588-432c-82a5-d6b67e031d6d	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb174.html	d8c49ea1dbd80d1561d0ed8ce5f9202cd0ec6c8384a3afd7636a0cdc544f1000	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky SB 174 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to underground facility damage prevention.

Amend KRS 367.4903 to add definitions for "communications network," "communications service provider," and "communications terminal"; amend KRS 367.4909 to require that if damage is done to an underground gas or hazardous liquid facility and no attempt to locate the underground facility was made, the operator shall include in its report to the Public Service Commission the distance from the communications terminal that the damage occurred; require the Public Service Commission to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2025, detailing the number of damage reports from communications service providers that occurred in the area where they are allowed to use nonintrusive excavation; amend KRS 367.4915 to exempt from the underground facility damage prevention requirements nonintrusive excavating of a depth not greater than 12 inches and within 12 inches of a communication service provider's own communications network.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 21 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Final Passage — pass (pass) · upper
• PASS SB 174 — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• J. Carpenter — primary (person)
• M. Deneen — primary (person)
• R. Girdler — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2024-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-02-16T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 22, 2024
• 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 37-0 passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 to Small Business & Information Technology (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 25, 2024
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 92-0 passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2024-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch.21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7306b97a-7588-432c-82a5-d6b67e031d6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).