PA Environment Digest

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

Here is the latest voting session schedule for the Senate and House--

Senate

Budget Hearings: Feb. 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29 and March 1

March 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 26, 27, 28

April 2, 3, 30

May 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 21, 22, 23

June 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

House

Budget Hearings: Feb. 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, March 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

March 12, 13, 14, 26, 27, 28

April 2, 3, 4, 30

May 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 21, 22, 23

June 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

Bill Calendars

House (March 12): House Bill 1934 (F.Keller-R-Snyder) excluding people residing in federal or state facilities for determining when a municipality must recycle; House Resolution 438 (Cruz-D-Philadelphia) urging Philadelphia to establish a waste tire removal and disposal program; House Resolution 423 (Petri-R-Bucks) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study state funding formulas and how they impact counties; House Resolution 505 (Preston-D-Allegheny) disapproving the PUC regulation on natural gas competition. <> Click Here for full House Bill Calendar.

Senate (March 5): Senate Bill 1324 (Yaw-R-Bradford) quieting mineral property title rights; Senate Bill 1398 (Yudichak-D-Luzerne) extending the Underground Storage Tank Environmental Cleanup Program from 2012 to 2017; House Bill 1813 (Tobash-R-Schuylkill) further providing for anthracite reclamation fees and guarantees. <> Click Here for full Senate Bill Calendar.

Committees

House: the Appropriations Committee holds budget hearings on: Global Economy; Independent Fiscal Office; Department of Revenue; the House Democratic Policy Committee holds a hearing on Southeast PA oil refinery closings in Philadelphia. <> Click Here for full House Committee Schedule.

Senate: the Appropriations Committee holds budget hearings on: Department of Environmental Protection; Department of Transportation. <> Click Here for full Senate Committee Schedule.

Note: You can watch the hearings live through the Senate webpage and the House webpage or on the PA Cable Network website.

Bills Introduced

The following bills of interest were introduced this week--

Defining Chronic Dementia: House Bill 2196 (Curry-D-Montgomery) amending the Older Adult Protective Services Act to define chronic dementia and cognitive impairment and making other changes.

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