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2016 SESSION
HB 2 Clean Power Plan; state implementation plan, General Assembly approval.
Introduced by: Israel D. O'Quinn | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
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 is identical to SB 21.
FULL TEXT
- 11/16/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100592D pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/16 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 11/16/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100592D
- 11/16/15 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/19/16 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 6-N)
- 01/21/16 House: Read first time
- 01/25/16 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/26/16 House: Read second time
- 01/26/16 House: Pending question ordered
- 01/26/16 House: Engrossed by House
- 01/27/16 House: Read third time and passed House (64-Y 34-N 1-A)
- 01/27/16 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (64-Y 34-N 1-A)
- 01/28/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/28/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/18/16 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (8-Y 7-N)
- 02/18/16 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 03/01/16 Senate: Reported from Finance (10-Y 5-N)
- 03/02/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/16 Senate: Read third time
- 03/03/16 Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 03/07/16 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/16 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2ER)
- 03/07/16 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/16 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/09/16 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/9/2016
- 03/09/16 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, April 10, 2016
- 03/25/16 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/20/16 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/20/16 House: Passed by for the day - Governor's veto sustained