Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky SB100: AN ACT relating to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and declaring an emergency.
Status: Chaptered, April 14, 2026
Amend KRS 164.2807 to provide for the administrative attachment of the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission (EPIC) to the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research, and the independent functions of EPIC; require EPIC to maintain separate accounts for all funds appropriated to it; provide the executive director of EPIC with the sole authority to hire staff and retain contractors; allow the commission in its sole discretion to set compensation for its professional employees; allow the commission to conduct its own procurements and perform its own bidding and negotiations under KRS Chapter 45A; limit the membership of the EPIC board to no more than 2 members who reside outside of the Commonwealth; amend the membership of the EPIC executive committee to consist of the EPIC commission board chair, the vice chair, 2 appointees made by the Attorney General, and 1 appointee elected by the membership of the board; require, instead of allow, EPIC to employ an executive director; allow the executive director to have the full authority to act on behalf of EPIC in all matters, with the advice of the commission; specify the termination and compensation adjustment procedures for the executive director; provide that all information, records, and data submitted by utilities and produced by EPIC members and staff shall be confidential and exempt from disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; establish the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission fund and specify the purposes of the fund; make conforming changes; require the Attorney General to make appointments to the EPIC executive committee on or before August 1, 2026, and terminate the terms of the current appointees for those positions on the effective date of the Act; EMERGENCY.
What the bill says
An act relating to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and declaring an emergency.
From the committee substitute text:
AN ACT relating to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Section 1. KRS 164.2807 is amended to read as follows: (1) The General Assembly finds and declares that: (a) The long-term economic health and well-being of the citizens of the Commonwealth and the United States depends upon the availability of reliable sources of energy; (b) The Commonwealth has abundant reserves of coal, natural gas, and other natural resources; (c) The energy needs of the Commonwealth are best met by continuing to engage in an all-of-the-above approach to electric generation resources, including but not limited to coal, oil, natural gas, wind, solar, hydropower, nuclear, and any future or emerging technologies like hydrogen power; (d) The current economy and future economic development of the Commonwealth requires reliable, resilient, dependable, and abundant supplies of electrical power; (e) The demand for reliable, resilient, dispatchable electrical power is anticipated to significantly increase in the coming decades as the Commonwealth becomes home to additional manufacturing and other economic development projects which increase demand for electrical power; (f) It is in the interest of the Commonwealth that it be able to generate sufficient electricity within its borders to serve its own industrial, residential, and commercial demand and to power its own …
Sponsors
- Robert Mills (R, SD-004) · primary sponsor
- Matthew Deneen (R, SD-010)
- Greg Elkins (R, SD-028)
Latest actions
- : delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 157)
- : enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- : enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- : passed 79-18
- : posted for consideration of Governor's veto
- : taken from Rules (H)
- : to Rules (H)
- : received in House
- : passed 32-6
- : veto overridden
Votes
- Senate: OVERRIDE VETO FINAL PASSAGE SB 100 RSN# 4150 (April 14, 2026): 32 yea, 6 nay, passed
- House: Veto Override RCS# 480 (April 14, 2026): 79 yea, 18 nay, passed
- Senate: FINAL PASSAGE OF SB 100 RSN# 4124 (April 1, 2026): 32 yea, 5 nay, passed
- House: Final Passage RCS# 421 (April 1, 2026): 77 yea, 15 nay, passed
- House: Pass RCS# 336 (March 26, 2026): 82 yea, 12 nay, passed
- Senate: PASS SB 100 w/ SCS 1 (SCS 1) RSN# 3919 (March 12, 2026): 30 yea, 6 nay, passed
Subjects: Effective Dates, Emergency, Energy, Public Utilities, Universities And Colleges, Boards And Commissions, Advisory Boards, Commissions, And Committees, Attorney General, Administrative Regulations And Proceedings
Common questions
- What is SB100?
- SB100 is a bill in the Kentucky Legislature (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT relating to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and declaring an emergency.
- What does SB100 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and declaring an emergency.
- What is the status of SB100?
- Chaptered as of April 14, 2026. Latest action: delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 157) (April 14, 2026).
- Who sponsored SB100?
- Robert Mills (R, SD-004), with 2 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for SB100?
- On the Kentucky Legislature website: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/sb100.html
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