Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 790: AN ACT relating to solar merchant electric generating facilities.
Passed one chamber Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
HB 790 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on February 19, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to solar merchant electric generating facilities. Most recent recorded action (March 12, 2025): to Committee on Committees (S).
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Amend KRS 278.704 to prohibit the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Transmission Siting from granting a setback deviation for an application for a solar merchant electric generating facility made after January 1, 2026, that would allow the facility to be located within 350 feet of an adjoining property owner unless consented to in writing and approved by the legislative body of the local government where the adjoining property is located; establish requirements for the application of the minimum setback requirements for solar merchant electric generating facilities; amend KRS 278.710 to require a construction certificate holder for a solar merchant electric generating facility to file a report with the Energy and Environment Cabinet detailing all federal and state incentives utilized by the construction certificate holder relating to the siting, construction, and operation of the facility; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to compile an annual report from the incentive disclosures it receives and to submit the report to the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1 each year.
Sponsors
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- to Committee on Committees (S)
- received in Senate
- 3rd reading, passed 97-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
- posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
- returned to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
- 1st reading
- taken from Natural Resources & Energy (H)
- to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
- to Committee on Committees (H)
- introduced in House