Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Energy and Environment Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 996
Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: Allows the siting of a power plant that uses one or more small modular reactors. Exempts the siting from the law that requires there to be a place for radioactive waste to be disposed of before a nuclear power plant may be sited in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.6). Allows the siting and operation of a small modular reactor energy facility without requiring that there be a licensed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
February 6 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action3 actions on 3 days
In the SenateFeb 6 to Jun 27 · stopped141 days
Waiting for a committeeFeb 6 to Feb 104 days
Energy and EnvironmentFeb 10 to Jun 27 · stopped137 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Feb 6 – Jun 27
- Feb 6Introduced
- Feb 10Sent to Energy and Environment
- Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published
- Feb 6Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
- Feb 10Referred to Energy and Environment.Senate
- Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate