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Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 398: AN ACT relating to decommissioning costs for electric generating units.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 398 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on January 15, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to decommissioning costs for electric generating units. Most recent recorded action (April 12, 2026): became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 95).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Amend KRS 278.264 to provide that the Public Service Commission maintains its authority to approve a utility's right to record and seek, prior to retirement authorization, the recovery of any electric generating unit's decommissioning, removal and salvage costs, and depreciation expenses through rates over the unit's estimated depreciable life.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
No sponsor recorded in source data.

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 95)
  2. filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
  3. delivered to Governor
  4. enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
  5. enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  6. passed 81-14
  7. House concurred in Committee Substitute (1)
  8. posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
  9. to Rules (H)
  10. received in House
  11. 3rd reading, passed 30-6 with Committee Substitute (1)
  12. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 26 2026

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source