Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Corrections Impact, Crimes And Punishments, Environment And Conservation, Notices, Pollution, Public Safety
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-07 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 512 to define terms; make criminal atmospheric pollution a Class D felony; require that a person found guilty of criminal atmospheric pollution pay a civil penalty of not less than $500,000 in addition to all other penalties authorized by law; provide that each day that a person engages in criminal atmospheric pollution constitutes a separate offense; empower all peace officers of the Commonwealth to enforce the prohibition on criminal atmospheric pollution; require an arresting officer to issue a notice to any federal agency that approved the action that those activities cannot be lawfully carried out in the Commonwealth.
Sponsors
- J. Hodgson (primary), primary
- S. Baker (primary), primary
- R. Bivens (primary), primary
- S. Bratcher (primary), primary
- E. Callaway (primary), primary
- J. Calloway (primary), primary
- J. Decker (primary), primary
- T. Huff (primary), primary
- M. Lockett (primary), primary
- C. Massaroni (primary), primary
- M. Proctor (primary), primary
- T. Roberts (primary), primary
- R. White (primary), primary