2025 bills / S.B. 216
S.B. 216 Environmental Quality Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill changes the requirements for a radioactive waste facility to renew or amend its license, and it creates a tax on facilities that apply to build a new facility or expand an existing one. Part of the new tax revenue from facilities receiving waste from new generators would go into an energy-related fund, and the expansion tax would end on a set sunset date.
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Official description
- defines terms
- modifies the requirements for a waste facility to renew or amend a radioactive waste license
- requires the State Tax Commission to deposit into an energy-related fund the portion of new tax revenue derived from a radioactive waste facility receiving radioactive waste from a new generator
- creates a radioactive waste facility expansion tax on a radioactive waste facility that submits an application to the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control to construct a new radioactive waste facility or expand an existing facility
- provides for the payment and deposit of the radioactive waste facility expansion tax
- implements a sunset date for the radioactive waste facility expansion tax
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 3 yes, 1 no, 3 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 5, 2025Who voted how
- 20 yes, 3 no, 6 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 20 yes, 2 no, 7 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 2 no, 3 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 59 yes, 11 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 22 yes, 4 no, 3 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 5, 2025 Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 24, 2025 House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee▶ Watch
- 18/2/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- 19/2/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Apr 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- May 3, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch