On the Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule

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

Session Schedule

The House is set to return to voting session November 12. Remember, November 13 was removed from the House voting schedule. The Senate reiterated this week it 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

There are no committee meetings next week.


11/7/2008

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