republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-196.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to coal mining.	Amend KRS 351.127 to reduce the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required to be on shift at every active coal mine from two to one, if the number of employees on the shift is 10 or fewer.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 196	Kentucky HB 196 (2025RS)	bill	Coal Emergency Medical Services Energy Minerals and Mining Occupational Safety and Health Surface Mining	enacted		3	20	2	2025-01-10T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-25T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a877ce1e-5270-4953-b325-a4718b7406cf	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb196.html	d9af198d4895c5075f858ba44e5a8cd8ad0425c00d89142c98b0d6e8e54c0a2b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 196 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to coal mining.

Amend KRS 351.127 to reduce the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required to be on shift at every active coal mine from two to one, if the number of employees on the shift is 10 or fewer.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 80 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Pass — 76–16 (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 196 — 30–7 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-10T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2025-01-10T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Natural Resources & Energy (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 20, 2025
• 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 76-16 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 12, 2025
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 30-7 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
• 2025-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 80) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a877ce1e-5270-4953-b325-a4718b7406cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).