The Senate Appropriations Committee Monday reported out legislation eliminating the sunset on the recycling fee and legislation requiring the General Assembly to vote to approve regulations.

The bills include--

-- Eliminate Recycling Fee Sunset: Senate Bill 646 (Killion-R-Delaware) would prevent a funding crisis in the state’s Recycling Program by eliminating the expiration date for the Act 101 $2 per ton recycling fee on waste disposed in Pennsylvania. 

DEP has already stopped accepting new applications for local recycling implementation grants until the fee issue is resolved by the General Assembly.  The fee was due to sunset on January 1, 2020.  Click Here for more.

-- Voting To Approve Regulations: Senate Bill 561 (Disanto-R-Dauphin) which requires an up or down vote by the General Assembly on every final regulation approved by the Independent Regulatory Review Commission if that regulation has a fiscal impact of $1 million or more.  If the General Assembly does not vote, the regulation would die.  Click Here for more.

The bills now go to the full Senate for final action.

Sen. Pat Browne (R-Lehigh) serves as Majority Chair of the Committee and can be contacted by sending email to: pbrowne@pasen.gov.  Sen. Vincent Hughes (D-Philadelphia) serves as Minority Chair and can be contacted by sending email to: Hughes@pasenate.com.

[Posted: June 5, 2017]

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