Senate and House have a variety of bills on their agendas for this week. Here’s a quick rundown--

In the Senate

Senate Calendar: The Senate will start the week with these items of interest on the Calendar— legislation establishing the PA Center for Environmental Education in law (Senate Bill 410), extending the sunset date for the small heating oil storage tank cleanup program (Senate Bill 722), providing a sales and use tax exclusion for appliances meeting the energy star requirements (Senate Bill 266), establishing a tax credit for historic properties (Senate Bill 571) and extinguishing utility and other liens on donated property (Senate Bill 639)

In Committee: The Senate Local Government Committee is set to consider legislation authorizing local governments to preserve open space through the waiver of certain service fee and a bill specifically authorizing local government funding of watershed associations, the Senate Appropriations Committee will consider legislation to toughen landfill permit requirements and make changes to the Agricultural Security Law.

In the House

House Calendar: The House starts the week several environmental bills on the Calendar-- electronic titling of vehicles that attracted a proposed vehicle emission inspection amendment (House Bill 1014) and resolutions encouraging Congress to earmark more funds for state storage tank regulatory programs (House Resolution 326) and establishing a sewage management issues task force (House Resolution 88).

In Committee: the Agriculture Committee will again try to consider legislation establishing an Agricultural Review Board (the Administration’s ACRE proposal).

6/17/2005