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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Bills Introduced

Here are the Senate and House Calendars and Committee meetings showing bills of interest as well as a list of new environmental bills introduced--

Session Schedule

The last voting session days of the year and for this legislative session for the Senate are scheduled for the coming week. Any legislation not given final action by the Senate and then the House will die and have to be reintroduced in the new session.

Senate Session
October 12, 13, 14
Change: November 18 changed to November 17 (Ceremonial Session to Elect an Interim President Pro Tempore)

House Session
November 8, 9, 10, 15, 16

Calendars

Senate (October 12): Senate Bill 1379 (Musto-D-Luzerne) requiring the recycling of college textbooks; Senate Bill 1422 (D.White-R-Indiana) authorizing PennVEST to fund non-point source management projects including specifically urban stormwater projects; House Bill 708 (Ross-R-Chester) requiring electronics recycling funded by industry fees;  House Bill 2591 (George-D-Clearfield) authorizing PennVEST to fund non-point source management projects including specifically urban stormwater projects.

House (November 8):  House Bill 80 (Vitali-D-Delaware) expanding the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards and authorizing a carbon sequestration networkHouse Bill 894 (Phillips-R-Northumberland) establishing a Lyme Disease Task Force and assigning responsibilities to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources without funding;  House Bill 2405 (DePasquale-D-York) which would increase the solar mandate provisions of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards and provide for carbon sequestration facilities;  House Bill 2619 (Preston-D-Allegheny) further providing for municipal aggregation of electric generation supply; House Resolution 864 (Mundy-D-Luzerne) memorializing Congress to pass the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act.

Committees

House: the House Democratic Policy Committee holds three hearings on Marcellus shale environmental issues in Newtown, Worcester and Phoenixville.

Senate: the Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee hears briefing on Rendell Administration's review of the Office of Homeland Security; the Urban Affairs and Housing Committee meets to consider House Bill 712 (J.Taylor-R-Philadelphia)  further providing for the creation of urban land banks; the Appropriations Committee meets to consider House Bill 1394 (Houghton-D-Chester) relating to splitting off farm and forest land under preferential assessment for alternative energy production.

Bills Introduced

The following bill of interest was introduced this week--

Full-Cost Infrastructure Pricing:  Senate Bill 1482 (Musto-D-Luzerne) requiring water and wastewater systems to develop and implement asset management plans and document progress toward full-cost pricing.

Gas Mineral Rights Disclosure:  Senate Bill 1486 (Greenleaf-R-Montgomery) further providing for gas mineral rights lease agreement disclosure and indemnification.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell:  House Bill 2503 (Milne-R-Chester) establishing a hydrogen fuel cell collaboration program in DEP taking $5 million from the General Fund that supports staff and operating costs for state agencies to finance this program.

10/11/2010

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