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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule (Updated)

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 (Updated)

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

Senate

June 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 (New)

House

June 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

Bill Calendars

House (June 24): House Bill 302 (Moul-R-Adams) transferring funds from the Oil and Gas Lease Fund to DEP for a competitive grant program to convert small mass transit bus fleets to natural gas; House Bill 303 (Moul-R-Adams) transferring funds from the Oil and Gas Lease Fund to DEP for a competitive grant program to convert large mass transit fleets to natural gas; House Bill 304 (Marshall-R-Beaver) funding conversions of transit buses to natural gas; House Bill 306 (Pickett-R-Bradford) redirecting the Alternative Fuels Incentive Fund to create the Keystone Fuel Incentive Program to fund conversions of vehicles to natural gas; House Bill 308 (Saylor-R-York) redirecting $6 million annually from the Clean Air Fund to finance vehicle conversions to natural gas. <> Click Here for full House Bill Calendar.

Senate (June 24): Senate Bill 332 (Vogel-R-Beaver) intends to exempt vehicles of up to 10 years old from the emissions inspection program; Senate Bill 994 (Vogel-R-Beaver) establishes a system to put in place capital-intensive nutrient reduction technology; House Bill 34 (Harper-R- Montgomery) setting green building standards for state-owned or leased buildings. <> Click Here for full Senate Bill Calendar.

Committee Meeting Agendas This Week

House: the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee (Agenda TBA); the Transportation Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 1 (Rafferty-R-Montgomery) providing for additional highway, bridge and transit funding; the State Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 1527 (Evankovich-R-Armstrong) providing for the reuse of steel blast furnace slag. <> Click Here for full House Committee Schedule.

Senate: the Appropriations Committee meets to consider House Bill 1437 (Adolph-R- Delaware) the FY 2013-14 General Fund budget; the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee holds a public hearing on gas and oil royalty transparency issues and post-production costs from the development of natural gas; the State Government Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 684 (Wozniak-D-Cambria) relating to leasing state forest land for wind farm development-- summary. <> Click Here for full Senate Committee Schedule.

Bills Pending In Key Committees

Here are links to key Standing Committees in the House and Senate and the bills pending in each--

House

Appropriations;

Education

Environmental Resources and Energy