SB 205 Kentucky Senate · 2022 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to state dealings with companies that engage in energy company boycotts.

Summary
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to declare findings regarding the financial harms of boycotting energy companies for dealing in fossil-fuel based energy; define terms; require the State Treasurer to publish, maintain, and update a list of financial companies engaged in energy company boycotts and to file the list with the Legislative Research Commission and the Attorney General; require state governmental entities to notify the Treasurer of the listed financial companies in which the state governmental entity owns direct or indirect holdings; require state governmental entities to inform and warn listed financial companies that they may become subject to divestment by the state governmental agency unless they clarify their actions or cease their energy company boycott; require state governmental entities to divest from the listed financial company if it does not cease its energy company boycott in the timeframes established by the section; provide for delays in the divestment schedule if it will result in a loss of value or a benchmark deviation; require for delays in divestment to be reported to the Treasurer, the Legislative Research Commission, and the Attorney General; provide that a state governmental entity shall not be required to divest from any holdings in actively or passively managed investment funds or private equity funds; provide for exceptions from divestment requirements; require that beginning on December 1, 2023, and each December 1 thereafter, each state governmental agency shall file a report with the Treasurer, the Attorney General, and the Legislative Research Commission identifying the divestments it made and the investments prohibited under the Act; allow the Attorney General or the Treasurer to enforce Sections 1 to 4 and 5 of the Act; prohibit a governmental entity from entering into a contract for goods or services with a company that engages in energy company boycotts; provide exceptions; amend KRS 286.2-015 to conform.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
House Passage
Mar 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Feb 22, 2022 Signed Apr 8, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 7, 2022

How they voted

244
Passed · 6 other
Total votes 34
Mar 7, 2022
D Democratic6
1 Yea 4 Nay 1
66% Nay
R Republican28
23 Yea 5
82% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
29
Key actions
10
Committee
9
Apr 8, 2022
Signed into law
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 120)
upper
Mar 30, 2022
Lower · Passed
enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
lower
Mar 30, 2022
Upper · Passed
enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
upper
Mar 29, 2022
Upper · Passed
passed 29-6
upper
Mar 29, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Mar 29, 2022
Upper · Passed
posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Mar 25, 2022
Committee
to Rules (S)
upper
Mar 24, 2022
Upper · Passed
3rd reading, passed 73-22 with Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Mar 24, 2022
Upper · Passed
reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Mar 16, 2022
Committee
to Natural Resources & Energy (H)
lower
Mar 8, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Mar 7, 2022
Upper · Passed
3rd reading, passed 26-5 with Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Mar 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Feb 24, 2022
Committee
to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
upper
Feb 22, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Feb 22, 2022
Introduced
introduced in Senate
upper
8 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors