republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/sb-179.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to be administered by the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; establish the nuclear energy development grant administration subcommittee and provide for its duties; limit individual grant awards from the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to $2,000,000 per grant; amend KRS 164.2802 to require the director of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to publicize and encourage application to the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program; require the evaluations and scores of grant applications and grant awards made from the program to be included in the annual report that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority submits to the Legislative Research Commission; amend 2024 Kentucky Acts Chapter 173, Section 1, (207), at page 1766, to allow $10,000,000 of the amount appropriated to the University of Kentucky budget unit for the Center of Applied Energy Research's administration and support of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Authority and the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission for fiscal year 2025-2026 to be used for the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program; repeal KRS 154.12-340; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "SB 179"
citation: "Kentucky SB 179 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Advisory Boards", "Commissions", "and Committees", "Appropriations", "Economic Development", "Education", "Higher", "Effective Dates", "Emergency", "Energy", "Fiscal Note", "Nuclear Energy", "Reports Mandated", "Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/511af2f6-c7de-434d-a034-6a18312171c8"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb179.html"
source_hash: "275be5410298a432927e07c23fd903b5eb3484ecec8f12c92de880873ab63521"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky SB 179 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to be administered by the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; establish the nuclear energy development grant administration subcommittee and provide for its duties; limit individual grant awards from the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to $2,000,000 per grant; amend KRS 164.2802 to require the director of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to publicize and encourage application to the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program; require the evaluations and scores of grant applications and grant awards made from the program to be included in the annual report that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority submits to the Legislative Research Commission; amend 2024 Kentucky Acts Chapter 173, Section 1, (207), at page 1766, to allow $10,000,000 of the amount appropriated to the University of Kentucky budget unit for the Center of Applied Energy Research's administration and support of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Authority and the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission for fiscal year 2025-2026 to be used for the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program; repeal KRS 154.12-340; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb179/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 51** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0051.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb179/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- PASS SB 179 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **97–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage SB 179 W/ hcs1 — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** to Natural Resources & Energy (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 21, 2025
- **2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 36-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** to Appropriations & Revenue (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** placed in the Orders of the Day
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 97-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** passed 36-0 `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 51) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/511af2f6-c7de-434d-a034-6a18312171c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).