diff --git a/baseapp/baseapp.go b/baseapp/baseapp.go
index ceb553dd7d62..903fe55f926e 100644
--- a/baseapp/baseapp.go
+++ b/baseapp/baseapp.go
@@ -450,6 +450,8 @@ func (app *BaseApp) StoreConsensusParams(ctx sdk.Context, cp *abci.ConsensusPara
 	app.paramStore.Set(ctx, ParamStoreKeyBlockParams, cp.Block)
 	app.paramStore.Set(ctx, ParamStoreKeyEvidenceParams, cp.Evidence)
 	app.paramStore.Set(ctx, ParamStoreKeyValidatorParams, cp.Validator)
+	// We're explicitly not storing the Tendermint app_version in the param store. It's
+	// stored instead in the x/upgrade store, with its own bump logic.
 }
 
 // getMaximumBlockGas gets the maximum gas from the consensus params. It panics
diff --git a/simapp/app.go b/simapp/app.go
index 9197cd1b0765..4ce4c791afb5 100644
--- a/simapp/app.go
+++ b/simapp/app.go
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ func NewSimApp(
 	app.ParamsKeeper = initParamsKeeper(appCodec, legacyAmino, keys[paramstypes.StoreKey], tkeys[paramstypes.TStoreKey])
 
 	// set the BaseApp's parameter store
-	bApp.SetParamStore(app.ParamsKeeper.Subspace(baseapp.Paramspace).WithKeyTable(paramskeeper.ConsensusParamsKeyTable()))
+	bApp.SetParamStore(app.ParamsKeeper.Subspace(baseapp.Paramspace).WithKeyTable(paramstypes.ConsensusParamsKeyTable()))
 
 	app.CapabilityKeeper = capabilitykeeper.NewKeeper(appCodec, keys[capabilitytypes.StoreKey], memKeys[capabilitytypes.MemStoreKey])
 
diff --git a/x/params/module.go b/x/params/module.go
index f412e705adea..3f14475cd087 100644
--- a/x/params/module.go
+++ b/x/params/module.go
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ func (am AppModule) LegacyQuerierHandler(legacyQuerierCdc *codec.LegacyAmino) sd
 // module-specific gRPC queries.
 func (am AppModule) RegisterServices(cfg module.Configurator) {
 	proposal.RegisterQueryServer(cfg.QueryServer(), am.keeper)
+
 }
 
 // ProposalContents returns all the params content functions used to
diff --git a/x/params/keeper/consensus_params.go b/x/params/types/consensus_params.go
similarity index 79%
rename from x/params/keeper/consensus_params.go
rename to x/params/types/consensus_params.go
index 5ce8d340d0d9..fe27f7e8d9aa 100644
--- a/x/params/keeper/consensus_params.go
+++ b/x/params/types/consensus_params.go
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-package keeper
+package types
 
 import (
 	abci "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/abci/types"
 	tmproto "github.com/tendermint/tendermint/proto/tendermint/types"
 
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/baseapp"
-	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/x/params/types"
 )
 
 // ConsensusParamsKeyTable returns an x/params module keyTable to be used in
@@ -13,15 +12,15 @@ import (
 // standard validation functions. Applications can choose to adopt this KeyTable
 // or provider their own when the existing validation functions do not suite their
 // needs.
-func ConsensusParamsKeyTable() types.KeyTable {
-	return types.NewKeyTable(
-		types.NewParamSetPair(
+func ConsensusParamsKeyTable() KeyTable {
+	return NewKeyTable(
+		NewParamSetPair(
 			baseapp.ParamStoreKeyBlockParams, abci.BlockParams{}, baseapp.ValidateBlockParams,
 		),
-		types.NewParamSetPair(
+		NewParamSetPair(
 			baseapp.ParamStoreKeyEvidenceParams, tmproto.EvidenceParams{}, baseapp.ValidateEvidenceParams,
 		),
-		types.NewParamSetPair(
+		NewParamSetPair(
 			baseapp.ParamStoreKeyValidatorParams, tmproto.ValidatorParams{}, baseapp.ValidateValidatorParams,
 		),
 	)