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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule

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

Senate Fall Session
September 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30
October 12, 13, 14
November 18 (Ceremonial Session to Elect an Interim President Pro Tempore)

House Fall Session
September 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29
October 4, 5, 6
November 8, 9, 10, 15, 16

Calendars

House (September 13): 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.

Senate (September 20):  All items were Tabled.

Committees

House: the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider  House Bill 381 (Mundy-D-Luzerne) providing for the tracking of wastewater from gas wells, House Resolution 826 (Goodman-D-Schuylkill) memorializing the U.S. EPA to uniformly enforce RCRA on all hazardous waste reclamation companies, House Resolution 864 (Mundy-D-Luzerne) memorializing Congress to pass the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act; the Consumer Affairs Committee holds a hearing on Senate Bill 168 (Brubaker-R-Lancaster) authorizing boroughs to contract for electric service; the Labor Relations Committee holds a hearing on workplace and safety issues relating to Marcellus Shale operations in Scranton.

Senate: the Urban Affairs and Housing Committee holds a hearing on House Bill 712 (J.Taylor-R-Philadelphia) authorizing urban land banks for the conversion of vacant or tax-delinquent properties at the Penn State Beaver Campus.


9/13/2010

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