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KY	SCR 66	A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to explore opportunities to participate in federal nuclear-related programs and to expand their curricula to offer courses and degree paths to train the workforce that will construct and operate the next generation of nuclear energy facilities.	Resolution	Died in Senate committee	2026-04-23
KY	SB 57	AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development.	Bill	Passed the Senate, died in the House	2026-04-08 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 56)
KY	SB 196	AN ACT relating to nuclear energy.	Bill	Died in Senate committee	2026-02-12 to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
KY	SB 179	AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.	Bill	Signed	2026-02-10 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 51)
KY	HCR 22	A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION declaring that nuclear power generation is a clean and dispatchable means of providing baseload electricity to the residents and businesses of the Commonwealth.	Resolution	Signed	2025-03-31
KY	S 179	S 179	Bill	pending	2025
KY	SB 198	AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development.	Bill	Enacted	2024-04-12 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 169)
KY	SJR 140	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.	Resolution	Signed	2024-02-12
KY	H.B. 1	H.B. 1	Bill	Enacted	2024
KY	Senate Resolution 327	Senate Resolution 327	Resolution	Enacted	2024
KY	House Resolution 70	House Resolution 70	Resolution	Enacted	2024
KY	SJR 79	A JOINT RESOLUTION establishing the Nuclear Energy Development Working Group.	Resolution	Signed	2023-02-10
KY	SCR 171	A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION requesting the Legislative Research Commission to examine funding sources and research institutions capable of conducting a feasibility study of advanced nuclear energy technology for electric power generation in the Commonwealth.	Resolution	Died in Senate committee	2022-03-03
KY	SB 11	AN ACT relating to nuclear power. Amend KRS 278.600 to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means of permanent disposal and to add definitions of "storage," "low-level nuclear waste," and "mixed nuclear waste"; amend KRS 278.610 to allow certification if the facility and its plans for waste storage are approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; eliminate the requirement that the facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclea	Bill	Signed	2017-03-27 signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 118)
KY	SB 248	AN ACT relating to radiation. Amend KRS 211.862 to amend the definition of Naturally-occurring radioactive material (NORM); add the definition of Technologically-enhanced naturally-occurring radioactive material (TENORM); amend KRS 211.863 to add provisions relating to TENORM; exempt certain drill cuttings from wells from regulation as TENORM; authorize the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to regulate TENORM.	Bill	Signed	2017-03-27 signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 116)
KY	HB 90	AN ACT relating to nuclear power. Amend KRS 278.600 to define "plan for storage of high-level nuclear waste," "storage," and "low-level nuclear waste"; amend KRS 278.610 to allow certification if the facility and its plans for waste storage are approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; eliminate requirement that facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; eliminate requirement that cost of waste disposal be known; eliminate requirement that facility have adequate capacity	Bill	Died in House committee	2017-01-03 to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
KY	H.B. 559	H.B. 559	Bill	Enacted	2012