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

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

House

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

Bill Calendars

House (June 4): House Bill 2223 (Gingrich-R-Lebanon) and House Bill 2167 (Quigley-R-Montgomery) further providing for the preservation of open space by local governments; Senate Bill 1466 (Corman-R-Centre) the General Fund Budget bill;  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 (June 4): Senate Bill 1346 (Kasunic-D-Somerset) encouraging the use of mine drainage water for fracking and other purposes;  Senate Bill 1480 (Corman-R-Centre) providing for the 2012-13 Capital Budget; House Bill 3 (Geist-R-Blair) authorizing public-private transportation projects; House Bill 728 (Barrar-R-Bucks) setting new standards for emergency shut-off values for facilities dispensing flammable liquids; House Bill 807 (Sonney-R-Erie) further providing for the definition, content, registration and enforcement of the Biofuel Development and In-State Production Incentive Act; House Bill 1682 (Taylor-R-Philadelphia) further providing for the creation of land banks; House Bill 1934 (Keller-R-Snyder) amending Act 101 to exclude the populations of prisons and other state facilities in calculating mandated recycling communities.  <> Click Here for full Senate Bill Calendar.

Committees

House: the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 1398 (Yudichak-D-Luzerne) extending the Storage Tank Cleanup Program; the State Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 726 (Saylor-R-York) providing for state agency accountability evaluations; the House Democratic Policy Committee holds a hearing on climate change in Philadelphia.  <>  Click Here for full House Committee Schedule.

Senate: the Appropriations Committee meets to consider House Bill 608 (Brooks-R- Crawford) providing for the use of bioenergy crops in mine reclamation, House Bill 1913 (Culver-R- Northumberland) providing for flood damage local property tax relief,  House Bill 1916 (Millard-R- Columbia) providing for an itemized list of public improvement project for flood protection and flood damage repair.  <>  Click Here for full Senate Committee Schedule.

Bills Introduced

The following bills of interest were introduced this week-- 

Vehicle Emissions Inspection: Senate Bill 1532 (Vogel-R-Beaver) limiting the current vehicle emission inspection program. 

Marcellus Tax Credit: House Bill 2399 (Mirabito-D-Lycoming) would create a new Marcellus Shale Job Creation Tax Credit program as an incentive for companies in the Marcellus Shale natural gas industry to hire Pennsylvania workers. 

Drilling Zoning: House Bill 2412 (Dermody-D-Allegheny) would restore the rights of municipalities to determine how natural-gas drilling and related activities can be zoned in their communities.

Statewide Drilling Fee: House Bill 2413 (Hanna-D-Clinton) would provide real tax fairness to Pennsylvanians through a fair and reasonable statewide fee for drilling companies, rather than a county adopted fee in Act 13. 

Environmental Safeguards: House Bill 2414 (Santarsiero-D-Bucks) would establish stronger environmental safeguards in natural gas drilling activities than what is currently required in Act 13.

Drilling Information: House Bill 2415 (Bradford-D-Montgomery) would ensure the rights of patients and doctors to full medical disclosure and transparency in natural gas fracking – a hot-button issue that has caused serious concerns regarding Act 13. 

Protecting Water Sources: House Bill 2416 (Mundy-D-Luzerne) would add new protections from drilling activities for public water sources and would create an online tracking system to report the storage, transportation and disposal of drilling wastewater. 

Reusing Mine Water: House Resolution 745 (George-D-Clearfield) urging DEP to establish an evaluation and approval process for the reuse of acid mine drainage in the extraction of natural gas.

6/4/2012