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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 179: AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

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

SB 179 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate on February 14, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Most recent recorded action (March 24, 2025): signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 51).

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.

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.

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. signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 51)
  2. delivered to Governor
  3. enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  4. enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
  5. passed 36-0
  6. Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)
  7. posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
  8. to Rules (S)
  9. received in Senate
  10. 3rd reading, passed 97-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
  11. placed in the Orders of the Day
  12. taken from Rules

Showing 12 most recent of 29 actions. Full history

Sources

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