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 House and Senate return to session on June 7--

House Session Schedule-

Senate Session Schedule-

Calendars

House (June 7):  House Bill 80 (Vitali-D-Delaware) expanding the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards and authorizing a carbon sequestration network.

Senate (June 7):  Senate Bill 1250 (Pileggi-R-Delaware) requiring the sharing of air pollution fines with local governments.

Committees

House: the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 298 (Yaw-R-Bradford) allowing the split-off of farmland under Act 319 for energy production;  the House Republican Policy Committee holds two hearings, one on Marcellus Shale natural gas gathering and pipelines and a second on wind energy in Three Springs.

Senate: the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider final Environmental Quality Board erosion and sedimentation control regulations and Total Dissolved Solids regulations, Senate Bill 1303 (MJ White-R-Venango) authorizing the use of the Clean Water Fund to finance Black Fly and West Nile Virus suppression, Senate Bill 1374 (MJ White-R-Venango) requiring DCNR's Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey to update workable coal seams annually, Senate Bill 1374 (Musto-D-Luzerne) requiring the recycling of textbooks; the State Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 621 (Curry-D-Montgomery) designating the eastern box turtle as PA's official state reptile; the Appropriations Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 900 (Argall-R-Schuylkill) providing for neighborhood blight reclamation and revitalization.

6/7/2010