The Senate and House have the following committee meetings scheduled next week and published voting Calendars for November 13—

Calendars – November 13

House: House Bill 1281 (Freeman-D-Lehigh) requiring municipalities to protect the Appalachian Trail; House Bill 1025 (Casorio-D-Westmoreland) amending the Workers’ Compensation Act to add employees from the Fish and Boat Commission exposed to disease to the definition of “occupational disease.”

Senate: House Bill 43 (Rubley-R-Chester) providing for uniform environmental covenants for brownfields projects.

Special Energy Session: Special Session Senate Bill 1 (MJ White-R-Venango) to invest $530 million over the next seven years in consumer energy programs, energy conservation, and the development of alternative and renewable energy.

Committees

House: the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee meets to consider House Resolution 300 (Bennington-D-Allegheny) urging Congress to ban the use of organic or inorganic arsenic and arsenic derivatives in poultry feed; the Health & Human Services Committee holds a hearing on House Bill 798 (Phillips-R-Northumberland) establishing a task force on Lyme Disease; the Commerce Committee holds a hearing on House Bill 1742 (Pashinski-D-Luzerne) requiring scrap and recycling facility operators to collect information on scrap material in Wilkes-Barre.

Senate: the Special Session Committee on Energy Policy will hold a hearing on Special Session Senate Bill 1 (MJ.White-R-Venango), the Alternative Energy Investment Act; the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee meets to consider Senate Resolution 195 (Brubaker-R-Lancaster) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to review the Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Program, Senate Bill 863 (Waugh-R-York) amending the Agricultural Area Security Law to provide for the Agricultural Land Conservation Assistance Grant Program and Senate Bill 1020 (Wonderling-R-Montgomery) updating the Conservation District Law prompted by the 2005 review by the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee; the Appropriations Committee meets to consider House Bill 1589 (D.Evans-D-Philadelphia) establishing a Capital Budget for 2007-08.

Bills Introduced

These bills were introduced this week--

Natural Gas Infrastructure: Special Session House Bill 40 (Preston-D-Allegheny) creating the Natural Gas Pipeline Replacement Program and Special Session House Bill 41 (D.Evans-D-Philadelphia) giving the PUC authority to order the acquisition of a natural gas company in a city of the first class.

NewsClips: 2 Bills by Evans Aim to Address PGW Ills

Editorial: PGW Fix: Getting Warmer

11/9/2007