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Bill	AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development.	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; declare that the mission of the authority is to serve as the nonregulatory, trusted state government agency on nuclear energy issues and to support and facilitate the development of the nuclear energy ecosystem across the Commonwealth; establish the membership and responsibilities of the advisory board to govern the authority; require the advisory board to hire a director of the authority; establish that the purposes of the authority are to assist interested communities in understanding advanced nuclear opportunities, provide information to the public, develop the capacity for nuclear energy development in the Commonwealth, seek clarity on early nuclear site permitting, work with energy communities that have hosted nuclear-related or fossil fuel activities to assist in exploring nuclear energy opportunities, strengthen engagement with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, build the organizational capacity to convene a consortium of nuclear stakeholders to share best practices, engage with United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and private companies to develop technologies to reprocess or recycle spent nuclear fuel, and maintain awareness of potential events that could initiate or accelerate the development of new nuclear technologies in the Commonwealth; require the authority, with the approval of the advisory board, to propose and adopt bylaws for the management and operation of the authority, develop and adopt a strategic plan for carrying out the purposes of the authority, create and update at least once every two years a nuclear energy economic impact analysis, and beginning December 1, 2025, and every December 1 thereafter, submit a report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission; require the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to develop criteria for a nuclear-ready community designation; create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require the Cabinet for Economic Development to create and implement a financial assistance program to support the nuclear energy ecosystem in the Commonwealth; provide for the staggering of initial appointments; require the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Authority to conduct a study to identify the workforce needs to develop and support the nuclear ecosystem and to submit its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2024; require the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to contract for services to produce a site suitability study to identify the best potential locations for nuclear facility sites in the Commonwealth and report its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2025; require the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to contract for services to develop and implement a nuclear marketing and education plan.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	SB 198	Kentucky SB 198 (2024RS)	bill	Administrative Regulations and Proceedings Advisory Boards Commissions and Committees Economic Development Education Higher Energy Environment and Conservation Nuclear Energy Reports Mandated Studies Directed Universities and Colleges	enacted	D. Carroll	3	37	4	2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00	2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/44861d34-5009-4575-a521-88313f03f125	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb198.html	b0c98b9b4f360b0a61fe05f1f221b455a5ea40e8083e103643179f7346a6b807	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky SB 198 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; declare that the mission of the authority is to serve as the nonregulatory, trusted state government agency on nuclear energy issues and to support and facilitate the development of the nuclear energy ecosystem across the Commonwealth; establish the membership and responsibilities of the advisory board to govern the authority; require the advisory board to hire a director of the authority; establish that the purposes of the authority are to assist interested communities in understanding advanced nuclear opportunities, provide information to the public, develop the capacity for nuclear energy development in the Commonwealth, seek clarity on early nuclear site permitting, work with energy communities that have hosted nuclear-related or fossil fuel activities to assist in exploring nuclear energy opportunities, strengthen engagement with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, build the organizational capacity to convene a consortium of nuclear stakeholders to share best practices, engage with United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and private companies to develop technologies to reprocess or recycle spent nuclear fuel, and maintain awareness of potential events that could initiate or accelerate the development of new nuclear technologies in the Commonwealth; require the authority, with the approval of the advisory board, to propose and adopt bylaws for the management and operation of the authority, develop and adopt a strategic plan for carrying out the purposes of the authority, create and update at least once every two years a nuclear energy economic impact analysis, and beginning December 1, 2025, and every December 1 thereafter, submit a report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission; require the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to develop criteria for a nuclear-ready community designation; create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require the Cabinet for Economic Development to create and implement a financial assistance program to support the nuclear energy ecosystem in the Commonwealth; provide for the staggering of initial appointments; require the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Authority to conduct a study to identify the workforce needs to develop and support the nuclear ecosystem and to submit its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2024; require the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to contract for services to produce a site suitability study to identify the best potential locations for nuclear facility sites in the Commonwealth and report its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2025; require the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to contract for services to develop and implement a nuclear marketing and education plan.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 169 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Final Passage — pass (pass) · upper
• Veto Override — pass (pass) · upper
• Veto Override SB 198 — pass (pass) · upper
• PASS SB 198 W/ scs1 sfa2 — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• D. Carroll — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 to Natural Resources & Energy (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 Floor Amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute amendment-introduction
• 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 26, 2024
• 2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendment withdrawn Floor Amendment (1)
• 2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 passed 34-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (2) passage
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 to Natural Resources & Energy (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 92-0 passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00 Vetoed executive-veto
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 passed 30-7 passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 passed 80-16 passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 169) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44861d34-5009-4575-a521-88313f03f125. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).