The Senate and House committee schedules and floor calenders are listed here--

Session Schedule

The House will return to voting session on November 12. The Senate isn't coming back until November 20-21, except to do tributes to retiring members and possibly vote on nominations). Here's the schedule--

House

November 12,17, 18, 19,and 25

Senate

November 20-21 (tribute to retiring members, certain nominations, no legislative votes)

You can watch the Senate Floor Sessionand House Floor Sessionlive online.

Calendars/Committees

The Senate and House committee schedules and floor calendars are summarized here on environmental issues--

Calendars

The following bills of interest are on the House and Senator voting Calendars--

Senate: All bills remaining on the Calendar were Tabled.

House (November 12): House Resolution 883(Harper-R-Montgomery) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to review where grants were made under the Growing Greener II program;

Special Session (November 12): Special Session House Bill 13 (Bennington-D-Allegheny) further providing for alternative energy portfolio standards; Special Session House Bill 17 (McIlvaine-Smith-D-Montgomery) providing a sales tax exclusion for hybrid vehicles; Special Session House Resolution 6(Thomas-D-Delaware) recognizing November 11-17 as "National Geography Awareness Week."

Committees

Other: Joint Conservation CommitteeLegislative Forestry Task Force in State College.

Bills Introduced

The following bills of interest were introduced this week, but will die at the end of the year--

Alternative Fuels Tax: House Bill 2831 (Reichley-R-Berks) suspending the liquid fuels tax on alternative fuels such as natural gas, electric fuel cells and hydrogen fuel cells.

10/17/2008