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HB367 • 2026

AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities.

AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
B. McCool
Last action
2026-01-22
Official status
01/22/26: to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities.

AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities.

What This Bill Does

  • AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-22 Kentucky Legislative Research Commission

    to Natural Resources & Energy (H)

  2. 2026-01-14 Kentucky Legislative Research Commission

    introduced in House to Committee on Committees (H)

Official Summary Text

AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities.

Current Bill Text

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AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities. 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2
Section 1. KRS 278.160 is amended to read as follows: 3
(1) Under rules prescribed by the commission, each utility shall file with the 4
commission, within such time and in such form as the commission designates, 5
schedules showing all rates and condi tions for service established by it and 6
collected or enforced. The utility shall keep copies of its schedules open to public 7
inspection under such rules as the commission prescribes. 8
(2) No utility shall charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person a greater or less 9
compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered than that prescribed in its 10
filed schedules, and no person shall receive any service from any utility for a 11
compensation greater or less than that prescribed in such schedules. 12
(3) The provisions of this section do not require disclosure or publication of a provision 13
of a special contract that contains rates and conditions of service not filed in a 14
utility's general schedule if such provision would otherwise be entitled to be 15
excluded from the application of KRS 61.870 to 61.884 under the provisions of 16
KRS 61.878(1)(c)1. 17
(4) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, beginning January 1, 2027, 18
an investor-owned electric utility subject to the requirements of this chapter sha ll 19
not collect taxes, fees, or other amounts imposed on its customers by any other 20
governmental unit. Notwithstanding KRS 278.183, 278.285, and 278.287, the 21
commission shall not approve surcharges for an investor -owned electric utility 22
relating to environm ental compliance, demand -side management, and voluntary 23
energy cost assistance, and the investor -owned utility shall not collect from the 24
ratepayer any amounts except for the recovery of those amounts directly and 25
exclusively related to the provision of el ectric utility service that have been 26
approved by the commission. Investor -owned electric utilities shall have ninety 27
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(90) days from the effective date of this section to file new tariffs in conformance 1
with this section. 2
Section 2. This Act takes effect December 30, 2026. 3