SB 263 — AN ACT relating to the regionalization of public water and wastewater systems.
Last action — signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 179)
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed Senate
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✓Passed House
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✓To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 21, 2023. Enacted.
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Summary
Amend KRS 224A.011 to define "asset management plan" and "merger"; amend KRS 224A.300 to clarify the goal of offering secure water and adding managerial and technical resources as needed resources for the improvement of infrastructure for the security and safety of water systems; require the Energy and Environment cabinet to provide technical support to the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority; amend KRS 224A.302 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 224.304 to rename an account in the infrastructure revolving fund and add to the purpose of the account to encourage regionalization, merger and consolidation of water and wastewater systems; amend KRS 224A.306 to make technical corrections, delete the requirement for one governmental agency water system be a partner in the merger, or consolidation; amend KRS 224A.308 to require the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to help water systems develop or maintain asset management plans; amend KRS 224A.310 to conform and add wastewater to an incentive program targeting water systems with high debt and other problems; amend KRS 224A.312 to conform and make technical corrections; amend KRS 224A.316 to identify resiliency as a goal for the water systems and upgrade systems to prevent inflow and infiltration; give priority to funding projects that are regional; amend KRS 224A.318 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 151.603 to establish planning cycles in 5 year increments beginning in 2025; amend KRS 151.601 and 151.605 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 151.607 to make technical corrections and clarify projects that are regional have priority ranking and the goals are to consolidate or merge management and operations; repeal KRS 224A.314, relating to the study of water resource potential.
Bill Text
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UNOFFICIALCHAPTER COPY179 231 RSCHAPTER 179 ( SB 263/GA263 ) AN ACT relating to the regionalization of public water and wastewater systems.
and Page 1 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA (f) An analysis of customer rates necessary to support the asset management plan, including emergency repairs;
Legislative Research Commission PDF Version ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (f) The proceeds of bonds or long-term debt obligations of governmental agencies pledged to the payment of bond anticipation notes issued by the authority on behalf of the said governmental agency to provide interim Page 2 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA construction financing;
(a) Preliminary planning to determine the economic and engineering feasibility of Page 3 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA infrastructure projects, the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, and economic investigations, and studies necessary thereto, and surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other actions necessary to the construction of infrastructure or solid waste projects;
1251 et Page 4 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA seq.) as said federal act may be amended from time to time in the future, or any other enactment of the United States Congress providing funds that may assist in carrying out the purposes of the authority;
(20)[(19)] "Federally assisted wastewater revolving fund" means that fund which will receive federal and state funds or the proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds of the authority for the purpose of providing loans to finance construction of publicly owned treatment works as defined in Section 212 of the federal act and for the CHAPTER 179 3 implementation of a management program established under Section 319 of the federal act and for the development and implementation of a conservation and management plan under Section 320 of the federal act;
(22)[(21)] "Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substances resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the mining or taking, development, processing, or recovery of any natural resources, Page 5 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA including heat and radioactivity, together with any sewage as is present therein, which pollutes the waters of the state, and specifically, but not by way of limitation, means heat or thermal differentials created in the waters of the state by any industrial processing, generating, or manufacturing processes;
Page 6 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA Merger does not require a physical connection to be established;
(32)[(30)] "Prioritization schedules" means the list of wastewater treatment works, distribution facilities and water resources projects which the Energy and Environment Cabinet has evaluated and determined to be of priority for receiving financial assistance from the federally assisted wastewater revolving fund and the federally assisted drinking water revolving fund, or the list of infrastructure projects which the authority has evaluated Legislative Research Commission PDF Version ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY and determined to be of priority for receiving financial aid from the infrastructure revolving fund.
(33)[(31)] "Recovered material" means those materials which have known current use, reuse, or recycling potential, which can be feasibly used, reused, or recycled, and which have been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse, or recycling, whether or not requiring subsequent separation and processing but does not include materials diverted or removed for purposes of energy recovery Page 7 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA or combustion except refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which shall be credited as a recovered material in an amount equal to that percentage of the municipal solid waste received on a daily basis at the processing facility and processed into RDF;
(40)[(38)] "Solid waste facility" means any facility for collection, handling, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, or disposal of solid waste, whether the facility is associated with facilities generating the waste or otherwise, but does Page 8 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA not include a container located on property where the waste is generated and which is used solely for the purpose of collection and temporary storage of that solid waste prior to off-site disposal, or a recovered material processing facility;
(46)[(44)] "Underserved area" means any project area where broadband service with a Page 9 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA minimum one hundred (100) megabits per second downstream and twenty (20) megabits per second upstream is not available;
CHAPTER 179 5 (47)[(45)] "Unserved area" means any project area where broadband service with a minimum twenty-five (25) megabits per second downstream and three (3) megabits per second upstream is not available;
and (53)[(51)] "Waters of the state" means all streams, lakes, watercourses, waterways, ponds, marshes, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, Page 10 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA which are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural, surface, or underground waters.
(4) The authority shall promulgate administrative regulations that require a water Page 11 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA supply and distribution system receiving or seeking funding to provide current information regarding the financial, managerial, and technical aspects of its system and, thereafter, to furnish updates to the information so provided.
Legislative Research Commission PDF Version ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Section 4.
(1) The authority shall require the following as conditions for receiving assistance from any fund administered by the authority for infrastructure projects related to water Page 12 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA and wastewater service:
Page 13 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA Section 6.
(1) The authority shall establish an incentive program that allocates funds from the water and wastewater service regionalization account[2020 water service account in a manner] that encourages the regionalization, merger, and consolidation of water and wastewater systems and elimination of structural and administrative CHAPTER 179 7 duplication.
(2) The incentive program shall target water and wastewater systems that have high debt, inadequate operational and maintenance resources, high maintenance costs, Page 14 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA old and inadequately maintained treatment works, a history of violations of the Division of Water's statutes and administrative regulations due to inadequate operational and maintenance resources, or insufficient financial resources to extend system service to unserved or underserved areas.
(b) Conserve, protect, and maximize the resources needed to offer drinking water Page 15 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA and wastewater systems and services;
Legislative Research Commission PDF Version ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY (3) The authority shall give priority for projects that are regional in nature and Page 16 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA achieve the purposes set out in Section 2 of this Act.
(4) Members of the[ 2020] water management planning councils shall serve without pay but may be reimbursed by counties or appointing agencies for reasonable Page 17 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA expenses incurred to carry out the work of the councils.
Page 18 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA (1) The[ 2020] water management planning councils or multicounty planning councils may employ a water service coordinator.
CHAPTER 179 9 (2) The Kentucky Infrastructure Authority may establish by administrative regulations a program to provide or supplement funding for a multicounty planning council water service coordinator for a period of three (3) years from July 14, 2000.
Page 19 of 20 SB026310.100 - 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS SB 263/GA (a) The current and potential customer base that would benefit from water service;
PageSigned 20by ofGovernor 20April SB026310.1006, -2023. 1715 - XXXX 3/10/2023 11:36 AM GA
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Action History
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signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 179)
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delivered to Governor
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enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
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enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
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received in Senate
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3rd reading, passed 97-0
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placed in the Orders of the Day
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taken from Rules
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reported favorably, to Rules
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to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
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returned to Committee on Committees (H)
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2nd reading
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taken from Committee on Committees (H)
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returned to Committee on Committees (H)
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1st reading
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taken from Committee on Committees (H)
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to Committee on Committees (H)
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received in House
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3rd reading, passed 34 -0 with Floor Amendment (1)
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taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
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posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 10, 2023
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floor amendment (1) filed
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2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill
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reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
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reassigned to State & Local Government (S)
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to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
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to Committee on Committees (S)
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introduced in Senate
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →0 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 138 not signed on
Sponsors (0)
None.
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (138)
138 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 138 →"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.
Votes
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Democrat | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unaffiliated | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Republican | 64 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 97 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| % of votes cast | 97% | 0% | 0% | 3% |
How each member voted (100)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Dixon | — | Yea |
| Smith | — | Yea |
| Nemes | — | Yea |
| Bentley | — | Yea |
| Palumbo | — | Yea |
| Swann | — | Yea |
| Justice | — | Yea |
| Pratt | — | Yea |
| Thomas | — | Yea |
| Bratcher S. | — | Yea |
| Timoney | — | Yea |
| Raymond | — | Yea |
| Webber | — | Yea |
| Graham | — | Yea |
| Williams | — | Yea |
| Heath | — | Yea |
| Meredith | — | Yea |
| Wilson | — | Not Voting |
| Bratcher K. | — | Yea |
| Stevenson C | — | Yea |
| Al Gentry | Democrat | Yea |
| Ashley Tackett Laferty | Democrat | Yea |
| Beverly Chester-Burton | Democrat | Yea |
| Chad Aull | Democrat | Yea |
| Daniel Grossberg | Democrat | Yea |
| George Brown Jr. | Democrat | Yea |
| Keturah J. Herron | Democrat | Yea |
| Lindsey Burke | Democrat | Yea |
| Lisa Willner | Democrat | Yea |
| Nima Kulkarni | Democrat | Yea |
| Pamela Stevenson | Democrat | Yea |
| Rachel Roarx | Democrat | Yea |
| Sarah Stalker | Democrat | Yea |
| Tina Bojanowski | Democrat | Yea |
| Aaron Reed | Republican | Yea |
| Adam Bowling | Republican | Yea |
| Amy Neighbors | Republican | Yea |
| Bill Wesley | Republican | Yea |
| Bobby McCool | Republican | Yea |
| Candy Massaroni | Republican | Yea |
| Chris Freeland | Republican | Yea |
| Chris Fugate | Republican | Yea |
| DJ Johnson | Republican | Yea |
| Daniel Elliott | Republican | Yea |
| Daniel Fister | Republican | Yea |
| David Hale | Republican | Yea |
| David Meade | Republican | Yea |
| David W. Osborne | Republican | Yea |
| Deanna Gordon | Republican | Yea |
| Derek Lewis | Republican | Yea |
| Emily Callaway | Republican | Yea |
| Felicia Rabourn | Republican | Yea |
| James Tipton | Republican | Yea |
| Jared Bauman | Republican | Yea |
| Jason Petrie | Republican | Yea |
| Jennifer Decker | Republican | Yea |
| Jim Gooch Jr. | Republican | Yea |
| John Blanton | Republican | Yea |
| John Hodgson | Republican | Yea |
| Josh Branscum | Republican | Not Voting |
| Josh Bray | Republican | Yea |
| Josh Calloway | Republican | Yea |
| Ken Fleming | Republican | Yea |
| Ken Upchurch | Republican | Yea |
| Kevin Jackson | Republican | Yea |
| Kim Banta | Republican | Yea |
| Kim King | Republican | Yea |
| Kimberly Poore Moser | Republican | Yea |
| Marianne Proctor | Republican | Yea |
| Mark Hart | Republican | Yea |
| Mary Beth Imes | Republican | Yea |
| Matt Lockett | Republican | Yea |
| Matthew Koch | Republican | Yea |
| Michael Sarge Pollock | Republican | Yea |
| Mike Clines | Republican | Yea |
| Myron Dossett | Republican | Yea |
| Nancy Tate | Republican | Yea |
| Patrick Flannery | Republican | Yea |
| Randy Bridges | Republican | Yea |
| Rebecca Raymer | Republican | Yea |
| Richard White | Republican | Yea |
| Robert Duvall | Republican | Yea |
| Ryan Dotson | Republican | Yea |
| Samara Heavrin | Republican | Yea |
| Savannah Maddox | Republican | Yea |
| Scott Lewis | Republican | Yea |
| Scott Sharp | Republican | Yea |
| Shane Baker | Republican | Yea |
| Shawn McPherson | Republican | Yea |
| Stephanie Dietz | Republican | Yea |
| Steve Rawlings | Republican | Yea |
| Steve Riley | Republican | Yea |
| Steven Doan | Republican | Yea |
| Steven Rudy | Republican | Yea |
| Susan Witten | Republican | Yea |
| Suzanne Miles | Republican | Yea |
| T.J. Roberts | Republican | Yea |
| Thomas Huff | Republican | Yea |
| Timmy Truett | Republican | Yea |
| William Lawrence | Republican | Not Voting |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Democrat | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 19 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Unaffiliated | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 34 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| % of votes cast | 92% | 0% | 0% | 8% |
How each member voted (37)
| Member | Party | Vote |
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| Nemes | — | Yea |
| Turner | — | Yea |
| Schickel | — | Yea |
| Westerfield | — | Yea |
| Southworth | — | Yea |
| ChambersArmstrong | — | Yea |
| Williams | — | Yea |
| Wilson | — | Yea |
| Meredith | — | Yea |
| Thayer | — | Yea |
| Thomas | — | Yea |
| Yates | — | Yea |
| Smith | — | Not Voting |
| Harper Angel | — | Yea |
| Gerald A. Neal | Democrat | Yea |
| Karen Berg | Democrat | Yea |
| Amanda Mays Bledsoe | Republican | Yea |
| Brandon J. Storm | Republican | Yea |
| Christian McDaniel | Republican | Yea |
| Danny Carroll | Republican | Yea |
| David P. Givens | Republican | Yea |
| Donald Douglas | Republican | Yea |
| Gary Boswell | Republican | Yea |
| Jared Carpenter | Republican | Yea |
| Jason Howell | Republican | Yea |
| Jimmy Higdon | Republican | Yea |
| Julie Raque Adams | Republican | Yea |
| Lindsey Tichenor | Republican | Yea |
| Matthew Deneen | Republican | Yea |
| Max Wise | Republican | Yea |
| Phillip Wheeler | Republican | Yea |
| Rick Girdler | Republican | Yea |
| Robby Mills | Republican | Yea |
| Robert Stivers | Republican | Yea |
| Robin L. Webb | Republican | Not Voting |
| Shelley Funke Frommeyer | Republican | Yea |
| Stephen West | Republican | Not Voting |
Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- What does SB 263 do?
- Amend KRS 224A.011 to define "asset management plan" and "merger"; amend KRS 224A.300 to clarify the goal of offering secure water and adding managerial and technical resources as needed resources for the improvement of infrastructure for the security and safety of water systems; require the Energy and Environment cabinet to provide technical support to the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority; amend KRS 224A.302 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 224.304 to rename an account in the infrastructure revolving fund and add to the purpose of the account to encourage regionalization, merger and consolidation of water and wastewater systems; amend KRS 224A.306 to make technical corrections, delete the requirement for one governmental agency water system be a partner in the merger, or consolidation; amend KRS 224A.308 to require the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to help water systems develop or maintain asset management plans; amend KRS 224A.310 to conform and add wastewater to an incentive program targeting water systems with high debt and other problems; amend KRS 224A.312 to conform and make technical corrections; amend KRS 224A.316 to identify resiliency as a goal for the water systems and upgrade systems to prevent inflow and infiltration; give priority to funding projects that are regional; amend KRS 224A.318 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 151.603 to establish planning cycles in 5 year increments beginning in 2025; amend KRS 151.601 and 151.605 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 151.607 to make technical corrections and clarify projects that are regional have priority ranking and the goals are to consolidate or merge management and operations; repeal KRS 224A.314, relating to the study of water resource potential.
- What is the current status of SB 263?
- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 21, 2023. Enacted.
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