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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 741: AN ACT relating to public water and wastewater systems and declaring an emergency.

Passed one chamber 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 741 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on February 19, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to public water and wastewater systems and declaring an emergency. Most recent recorded action (March 13, 2025): returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S).

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 224A.320 to require that eligible funding recipients for the Kentucky Water and Wastewater Assistance for Troubled or Economically Restrained Systems (WWATERS) Program meet three or more of the eligibility criteria instead of one; require that a funding application for a capital construction project include cost and timeline estimates prepared and signed by a licensed professional engineer; allow the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority board to evaluate and score funding applications for proposed projects in phases; remove the funding evaluation criteria categories of current accounts payable turnover ratio and current days' sales in accounts receivable ratio; remove the requirement from the evaluation criteria that the applicant's receipt of a notice of violation of drinking water or other water quality standards occur in the past year; add to the funding evaluation criteria that the funding applicant previously received funding through the program for a prior phase of the proposed project.

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. returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  2. 2nd reading
  3. taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  4. to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  5. 1st reading
  6. taken from Committee on Committees (S)
  7. to Committee on Committees (S)
  8. received in Senate
  9. 3rd reading, passed 95-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  10. placed in the Orders of the Day
  11. taken from Rules
  12. reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)

Showing 12 most recent of 21 actions. Full history

Sources

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