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2016 SESSION
SB 21 Clean Power Plan; state implementation plan; General Assembly approval.
Introduced by: A. Benton "Ben" Chafin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Clean Power Plan; state implementation plan; General Assembly approval. Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to receive approval from the General Assembly for a state implementation plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants prior to submitting the plan to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for approval. This bill incorporates SB 482 and is identical to HB 2.
FULL TEXT
- 12/07/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101688D pdf
- 01/21/16 Senate: Committee substitute printed 16104660D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/16 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB21ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/07/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101688D
- 12/07/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/21/16 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute (8-Y 7-N)
- 01/21/16 Senate: Committee substitute printed 16104660D-S1
- 01/25/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/16 Senate: Read second time
- 01/26/16 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/26/16 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 16104660D-S1
- 01/26/16 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB21S1
- 01/27/16 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/28/16 Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- 01/28/16 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/02/16 Senate: Reported from Finance (9-Y 4-N)
- 02/03/16 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 02/05/16 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/16 House: Read first time
- 02/05/16 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/18/16 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 6-N)
- 02/19/16 House: Read second time
- 02/22/16 House: Read third time
- 02/22/16 House: Passed House (64-Y 34-N 2-A)
- 02/22/16 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (64-Y 34-N 2-A)
- 02/23/16 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/23/16 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB21ER)
- 02/23/16 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/23/16 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/16 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/16
- 02/23/16 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 1, 2016
- 03/01/16 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 03/03/16 Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto (21-Y 19-N)
- 03/03/16 Senate: Requires 27 affirmative votes to override veto