Energy, Environment and Economic Development

The Senate Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development.

Bills Referred, 2009-2010

• HB 45: relative to the water supply land conservation program. (Signed into law)
• HB 55: relative to energy facility siting construction and operation. (Signed into law)
• HB 58: designating segments of the Cocheco River as protected under the rivers management and protection program. (Signed into law)
• HB 61: relative to a definition of "sustainable energy." (Signed into law)
• HB 102: relative to the rivers management and protection program, establishing the volunteer river assessment program, and naming the bridge at the intersection of NH route 12A and NH route 123 in Alstead the Alstead Veterans Memorial Bridge. (Signed into law)
• HB 117: repealing the gas utility restructuring oversight committee. (Signed into law)
• HB 130: relative to enforceability of publicly-owned land restrictions. (Signed into law)
• HB 229: clarifying the eligibility requirements for class IV renewable energy generating facilities and relative to renewable energy certificates. (Signed into law)
• HB 232: increasing manufacturers’ pesticide registration fees. (Signed into law)
• HB 293: amending the Hampton Beach area commission. (Signed into law)
• HB 314-LOCAL: relative to the assessment of certain costs associated with proposed large groundwater withdrawals from wells. (Died on the table)
• HB 338: relative to definitions of electronic waste. (Signed into law)
• HB 350: prohibiting the sale and distribution of household cleaning products containing phosphorus. (Signed into law)
• HB 384: relative to forest management permitting in and near prime wetlands, waivers for work near prime wetlands, and utility maintenance work in any wetland. (Signed into law)
• HB 395: requiring electric utilities to offer renewable energy source options, allowing the public utilities commission to make contingent grants and loans from the greenhouse gas emissions reduction fund, and relative to using the electricity distribution charge to fund conservation and load management. (Signed into law)
• HB 423-FN-A-LOCAL: requiring the department of environmental services to develop an outreach campaign to disseminate information on recycling materials, including electronic waste. (Signed into law)
• HB 424-FN-A: relative to the land use change tax. (Signed into law)
• HB 431-FN: requiring certain engine coolants and antifreeze to include an aversive agent so that they are rendered unpalatable. (Died: conferees could not agree)
• HB 443: relative to underground storage facility operator training and relative to requirements for guaranteed price plans and prepaid contracts for petroleum. (Vetoed, override failed)
• HB 452: designating segments of the Ammonoosuc River into the rivers management and protection program, relative to the consideration of riparian rights in the establishment of instream flows, and relative to an exemption from terrain alteration permitting requirements. (Signed into law)
• HB 502: modifying the definition of "dam." (Signed into law)
• HB 585-FN: relative to outdoor lighting efficiency. (Signed into law)
• HB 674-FN-A: relative to eliminating the water resources council, relative to dams, and authorizing the Connecticut lakes headwaters citizens committee to advise the department of environmental services on the management of Lake Francis and associated property. (Signed into law)
• HB 681-FN: relative to assessments for aquatic resource compensatory mitigation. (Signed into law)
• HB 1153: relative to membership of the commission to study water infrastructure sustainability funding. (Signed into law)
• HB 1155: relative to water district contracts. (Signed into law)
• HB 1239: relative to processing certain environmental permits and administrative fines for violations of dredge and fill requirements, relative to air quality in public schools, and drinking water revolving loan funds. (Signed into law)
• HB 1251: relative to the sale and transfer procedures for shutdown emissions credits. (Signed into law)
• HB 1266: relative to notification requirements for lowering the water level of a lake or pond. (Signed into law)
• HB 1270: relative to balancing amounts expended from the renewable energy fund. (Signed into law)
• HB 1292: relative to underground storage tank facility permits, compliance, and cleanup fund eligibility. (Signed into law)
• HB 1294: relative to underground storage facility operator training. (Signed into law)
• HB 1322: establishing the legislative committee on the maintenance of state-owned dams. (Killed)
• HB 1353: relative to group net energy metering. (Signed into law)
• HB 1377: permitting utilities to establish loan programs for owners of residential and business property engaging in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. (Signed into law)
• HB 1378-FN: establishing an adopt-a-state park program in the state park system and establishing an adopt-a-forest fire tower program in the division of forests and lands. (Signed into law)
• HB 1379: relative to promotion of the state parks. (Signed into law)
• HB 1399: relative to state water pollution control and drinking water revolving loan funds, and state contributions to sewage disposal facilities. (Signed into law)
• HB 1450: relative to the designation of a portion of the Cocheco River as a protected river. (Signed into law)
• HB 1462: establishing a shoreland advisory committee. (Signed into law)
• HB 1471: requiring the governor’s office of energy and planning and the board of home inspectors to develop a document relative to home energy efficiency for home buyers. (Killed)
• HB 1520: relative to the rulemaking authority of and administrative fine authority for the department of resources and economic development. (Signed into law)
• HB 1534: relative to the issuance of air permits and certain fees relative to air permits. (Signed into law)
• HB 1542-FN: repealing nitrogen oxide emitting generation source requirements. (Signed into law)
• HB 1609-FN: relative to current use and the land use change tax. (Signed into law)
• SB 16: extending the date for completion of the state park system development plan and establishing a state historic sites fund. (Signed into law)
• SB 20: adding a member to the statewide trail system advisory committee. (Killed)
• SB 28-FN: relative to annual dam registration fees for non-menace dams and notification to dam owners of downstream development. (Signed into law)
• SB 44: establishing a commission to review all fees charged by the department of environmental services. (Killed)
• SB 47: relative to surface water. (Signed into law)
• SB 48: relative to preventing contamination of groundwater from certain geothermal processes. (Signed into law)
• SB 50: relative to funds and programs of the department of environmental services, and relative to the duties of the exotic aquatic weeds and species committee. (Signed into law)
• SB 56: expanding the duties of the commission to study issues relative to groundwater withdrawals. (Signed into law)
• SB 60: establishing a commission to study water infrastructure sustainability funding. (Signed into law)
• SB 65-FN: relative to the acceptance of in lieu payments for the restoration or creation of wetlands and establishing a committee to study the administrative fee percentage for such in lieu payments. (Signed into law)
• SB 73-FN: requiring the state government to reduce energy use per square foot in state buildings, to develop an energy conservation plan, and to make an annual report on the state’s energy consumption. (Signed into law)
• SB 85: relative to the commission to develop a plan for the expansion of transmission capacity in the north country. (Signed into law)
• SB 97: establishing a committee to study the standards and procedures by which certain information should be provided to electrical service customers. (Signed into law)
• SB 101-FN-A: relative to the Cannon Mountain ski area. (Killed)
• SB 107-FN: relative to the leasing of state-owned real estate on public waters. (Signed into law)
• SB 117: establishing a committee to study the feasibility of establishing a program to provide low-cost firewood from state lands to low-income individuals. (Signed into law)
• SB 127: making renewable energy facilities eligible for certain bonds issued by municipalities and business and industrial development authorities. (Signed into law)
• SB 134-FN: relative to the comprehensive shoreland protection act. (Signed into law)
• SB 139-FN: establishing a moratorium on the shoreland protection act and establishing a commission to study revision of the shoreland protection act. (Killed)
• SB 152: relative to an investigation by the public utilities commission to determine whether the scrubber installation at the Merrimack station is in the public interest of retail customers. (Killed)
• SB 159-FN: relative to broadband technology planning and development. (Signed into law)
• SB 162-FN-A: relative to lake and pond preservation and making an appropriation therefor. (Killed)
• SB 164-FN-A: relative to the expansion and funding of northern New Hampshire's electrical transmission system, and establishing the northern New Hampshire electrical transmission system improvement fund. (Died on the table)
• SB 166-FN: relative to mineral extraction, mining, and reclamation in New Hampshire. (Signed into law)
• SB 168-FN: establishing the Southeast Watershed Alliance. (Signed into law)
• SB 300: relative to the system benefits charge. (Signed into law)
• SB 301: relative to combustion of untreated wood at municipal transfer stations. (Signed into law)
• SB 323: requiring the public utilities commission to study certain energy policy issues. (Signed into law)
• SB 327: relative to disclosure of electric service energy sources and environmental characteristics and relative to disciplinary actions against competitive electric suppliers. (Signed into law)
• SB 334: establishing a committee to study methods of encouraging the installation and use of small scale renewable energy resources by homeowners and businesses and relative to investments in photovoltaic renewable energy projects. (Killed)
• SB 335: relative to wetland impact assessments in construction permit applications. (Referred for interim study)
• SB 338: relative to modification of PSNH generation assets. (Killed)
• SB 362: relative to giving swimmers and kayakers the right of way. (Signed into law)
• SB 366: relative to size limitations on OHRVs operating in Jericho Mountain state park. (Referred for interim study)
• SB 369: relative to the effect of changes in local permit status on large groundwater withdrawal permits issued by the department of environmental services. (Signed into law)
• SB 370: relative to sewage disposal systems. (Signed into law)
• SB 382: relative to The New Hampshire Native Plant Protection Act of 1987. (Signed into law)
• SB 393-FN-A: establishing a New Hampshire sustainable energy loan fund (SELF) financing program. (Referred for interim study)
• SB 397-FN: relative to public utilities commission assessments for the expenses of the consumer advocate. (Signed into law)
• SB 409: requiring buildings or structures constructed or renovated using state funding to adhere to certain energy efficiency and building standards. (Signed into law)
• SB 411: relative to permitting of large groundwater withdrawals. (Signed into law)
• SB 418: establishing requirements for electric distribution company solicitation of proposals from renewable energy developers. (Referred for interim study)
• SB 422: relative to small power producer electric sales in brownfields and economically depressed locations. (Referred for interim study)
• SB 426: relative to the classification of Pleasant Lake. (Signed into law)
• SB 432: relative to technical changes in public utilities law concerning telecommunications. (Killed)
• SB 433: relative to underground facility damage prevention and establishing the position of director of safety and security of the public utilities commission. (Signed into law)
• SB 442: relative to the grant program to administer exotic aquatic plant prevention. (Signed into law)
• SB 480: relative to appeals of decisions by the department of environmental services. (Signed into law)

And 123 bills in 1 earlier term.

Recent Meetings

• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on April 22, 2010 for hearings on HB 1266, HB 1322, HB 1450, HB 1239 and HB 1462.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on April 15, 2010 for hearings on HB 1251, HB 1534, HB 1471, HB 1270 and HB 1520.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on April 8, 2010 for hearings on HB 1153, HB 431-FN, HB 1542-FN, HB 232, HB 1292 and HB 1353.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on April 1, 2010 for hearings on HB 1609-FN, HB 1399, HB 681-FN and HB 1377.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on March 25, 2010 for hearings on HB 1294, HB 1155, HB 1379 and HB 1378-FN.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on March 11, 2010 for hearings on SB 301, SB 366 and SB 370.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on March 4, 2010 for hearings on SB 422, SB 418, SB 338 and SB 334.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on February 18, 2010 for hearings on SB 323 and SB 393-FN-A.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on February 11, 2010 for hearings on SB 334, SB 327 and SB 409.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on February 4, 2010 for hearings on SB 411, SB 369, SB 335 and SB 480.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on January 28, 2010 for hearings on SB 397-FN, SB 432, SB 433 and SB 366.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on January 20, 2010 for hearings on SB 382, SB 442, SB 426 and SB 362.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on January 12, 2010 for a hearing on SB 300.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on May 28, 2009 for a hearing on HB 45.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on May 21, 2009 for hearings on HB 45, HB 130, HB 314-LOCAL, HB 443 and HB 350.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on May 7, 2009 for hearings on HB 293 and HB 502.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on April 30, 2009 for hearings on HB 338, HB 423-FN-A-LOCAL, HB 395, HB 384, HB 585-FN and HB 424-FN-A.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on April 23, 2009 for hearings on HB 117, HB 61, HB 229 and HB 55.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on April 16, 2009 for hearings on HB 102, HB 58, HB 452 and HB 674-FN-A.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on April 2, 2009 for a hearing on SB 97.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on March 26, 2009 for hearings on SB 97, SB 117, SB 85 and SB 127.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on March 13, 2009 for a hearing on SB 152.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on March 12, 2009 for hearings on SB 44, SB 50 and SB 56.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on March 5, 2009 for a hearing on SB 73-FN.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on February 19, 2009 for hearings on SB 166-FN, SB 159-FN, SB 168-FN, SB 134-FN, SB 139-FN, SB 73-FN and SB 164-FN-A.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on February 11, 2009 for hearings on SB 65-FN, SB 107-FN and SB 162-FN-A.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on February 5, 2009 for hearings on SB 20, SB 101-FN-A, SB 56 and SB 60.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on January 29, 2009 for hearings on SB 47, SB 48, SB 56 and SB 60.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on January 22, 2009 for hearings on SB 16, SB 20 and SB 28-FN.
• The Committee on Energy, Environment and Economic Development met on April 29, 2008 for hearings on HB 1202 and HB 1429.

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