| Legislation |
- HR 122 -- This resolution asks the president and Congress to increase Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding for Pennsylvania, which faces a 25 percent cut in federal heating assistance.
- HB 285 -- This bill would protect citizens suffering from serious illnesses by enabling health-care professionals to certify that a serious medical condition exists and utility service cannot be terminated for up to 90 days.
- HB 366 -- This bill would establish a state Energy Office to promote energy development and conservation.
- HB 496 -- This bill would establish new fees, paid by utilities, to pay for enhanced safety and emergency-response programs at Pennsylvania's five nuclear plants.
- HB 505 -- This bill would establish "Bad Actor" provisions enabling environmental permits to be denied, suspended
- HB 506 -- This bill would provide about $20 million in state funding for heating assistance during emergencies.
- HB 508 -- This bill would enable landfill and incinerator permits to be frozen for up to three years unless the need for additional capacity is proven.
- HB 664 -- This bill would exempt agricultural products such as corn, soybeans and switchgrass, and biomass products such as wood chips and sawdust from the state's 6 percent sales tax when they are sold for use as fuel.
- HB 665 -- This bill would protect freedom of speech by shielding Pennsylvanians from retaliatory lawsuits known as SLAPPs -- Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. Under the bill, all good-faith communications made in connection with a public issue would be immune from civil liability.
- HB 666 -- This bill would ensure equal income-reporting requirements for federal employees applying for Senior Citizen Rebate and Assistance Act benefits.
- HB 792 -- This bill would enable municipalities to have sludge inspections performed with the costs paid by the sludge applicator, landowner or sludge transporter. It also would enable the DEP to make unannounced inspections of sludge sites when it receives a written complaint.
- HB 793 -- This bill would prohibit the production, sale and distribution of gasoline containing methyl tertiary-butyl ether.
- HB 1201 -- This legislation would create the Energy Independence Fund, an $850 million bond issue that would seed diverse energy and conservation initiatives.
- HB 1431 -- This bill would provide for an on bill financing program.
- HB 1844 -- This legislation would provide for financial planning services.
- HB 1873 -- This bill would establish a bill of rights for cellular telephone customers.
- HB 1967 -- This bill would provide additional funding for the Senior Environment Corps.
- HB 1968 -- This legislation would provide for intercounty cooperative agreements and general powers of metropolitan transportation authorities.
- HB 1969 -- This bill would provide funding for a comprehensive water facilities plan through PENNVEST.
- HB 1984 -- This bill would extend rate caps for electric utility consumers.
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