republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/sjr-140.md

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Bill	A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities in the Commonwealth.	Direct the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities in the Commonwealth, including but limited to conducting a survey of nuclear regulatory staff in other states, contracting with personnel with expertise in nuclear regulatory matters to be available to assist immediately with any nuclear siting or construction applications that may be filed with the commission, providing for the training of existing staff on nuclear siting and construction issues, amending the administrative regulations promulgated by the commission to require that electric utilities consider all generation resources, including nuclear resources, when developing their triennial integrated resource plans, and reviewing all other administrative regulations promulgated by the commission to ensure that there are no impediments to the effective regulation of nuclear facilities or any obstructions to the development of the nuclear ecosystem in the Commonwealth.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	SJR 140	Kentucky SJR 140 (2024RS)	joint resolution	Administrative Regulations and Proceedings Energy Environment and Conservation Nuclear Energy Public Utilities State Agencies	enacted	D. Carroll	3	19	2	2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00	2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/49232bb7-7fab-44ca-bff6-a7b486f32ee1	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sjr140.html	8c3879e2c35c50c10b9b9743f71ac09f80d1583951031cc8f91d0f6b937e39cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky SJR 140 (2024RS) — A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities in the Commonwealth.

Direct the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities in the Commonwealth, including but limited to conducting a survey of nuclear regulatory staff in other states, contracting with personnel with expertise in nuclear regulatory matters to be available to assist immediately with any nuclear siting or construction applications that may be filed with the commission, providing for the training of existing staff on nuclear siting and construction issues, amending the administrative regulations promulgated by the commission to require that electric utilities consider all generation resources, including nuclear resources, when developing their triennial integrated resource plans, and reviewing all other administrative regulations promulgated by the commission to ensure that there are no impediments to the effective regulation of nuclear facilities or any obstructions to the development of the nuclear ecosystem in the Commonwealth.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 29 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ADOPT SJR 140 — pass (pass) · upper
• Final Passage — 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 committee-passage
• 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, adopted 34-0 reading-3
• 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 94-0 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 signed by Governor (Acts Ch.29) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/49232bb7-7fab-44ca-bff6-a7b486f32ee1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).