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H2488 • 2025

An Act relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel

An Act relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel

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Sponsor
Luddy, Hadley
Last action
2025-11-13
Official status
Accompanied a new draft, see H4728
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel

An Act relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel By Representatives Luddy of Orleans and Badger of Plymouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel By Representatives Luddy of Orleans and Badger of Plymouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 2488) of Hadley Luddy, Michelle L.
  • Badger and others for legislation to monitor dry casks of spent nuclear fuel.
  • Public Health.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-13 House

    Accompanied a new draft, see H4728

  2. 2025-09-10 Joint

    Hearing rescheduled to 09/10/2025 from 10:00 AM-01:35 PM in B-2 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time

  3. 2025-08-29 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 09/10/2025 from 10:00 AM-1:00 PM in B-2

  4. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Public Health

  5. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel
By Representatives Luddy of Orleans and Badger of Plymouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2488) of Hadley Luddy, Michelle L. Badger and others for legislation to monitor dry casks of spent nuclear fuel. Public Health.

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Bill H.2488

BILL WAS ORIGINALLY FILED LAST SESSION, SEE S.2685, SENATE BILL FILED THIS SESSION SD356

SECTION 1. Chapter 111 of the General Laws is hereby amended by:-

(a) Amending the title of section 5K by adding “STORAGE OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL:" after “NUCLEAR REACTOR; and

(b) Adding the following to section 5K:- (I) For the purpose of preventing, mitigating, or alleviating impacts on the resources of the commonwealth and to the health of its citizens from radiation emitted by spent nuclear fuel at facilities that at any time generated electricity for retail customers in the commonwealth, (i) the owner and operator of each such facility in the commonwealth that is not a stranded asset under Chapter 164 of the Acts of 1997 that stores nuclear fuel in dry casks shall report to the department of public health radiation control division, on a continuous real-time basis, the temperature of and the rate of helium and radiation release from each such dry cask. and (ii) the department of public health shall, in consultation with the office of the attorney general, promulgate rules and regulations to adopt and implement such reporting.

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