The Senate was in session this week, starting on Monday, when the Senate Communications and Technology Committee held a public hearing on the expansion of 5G and small cell wireless infrastructure.
Bills targeting relief for agricultural efficiency programs, drought resiliency, and community revitalization all advance through committees DENVER, CO - Today,
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Some Pennsylvania lawmakers said Tuesday the state should advance legislation that prevents local officials from enacting policies that limit energy choices.
Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Williamsport, said he sponsored
Senate Bill 275 in response to a growing national trend of local officials discriminating against utility connections based on the source of the energy provided.
He also pushed back against the insinuation that fossil fuel advocates pushed for the bill, noting that clean energy lobbyists exist, too.
“We didn’t just pull this out of the air,” he said. Constituents came to us and said this is a problem. This has already taken roots elsewhere nationally.”
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Statehouse Bills Moving through Committees Could Impact the State’s Housing, Water, Transportation, as well as Public Safety
The hyper-busy 2021 legislative session is rolling along at a pace that can make it hard for the general public to keep up, let alone read the dozens of bills passing through committees prior to reaching the floor of the Colorado General Assembly. The activity is partly the result of the COVID-shortened 2020 legislative session. Four bills have come before committees during the first half of this week that could have both statewide and local impact.
It is important to note that bills that pass through the Finance Committee and are assigned a budget line appear to have a better chance of becoming law.
Colorado lawmakers are making progress on bills designed to help stimulate the stateâs economy and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic more quickly.
Lawmakers are working on two dozen measures that would allocate about $800 million into various things designed to help businesses and displaced workers more quickly get back to work, schools to get back to in-class instruction, rural and agricultural areas to stabilize their economies, and numerous infrastructure projects dealing with such things as broadband and renewable energy.
One measure, introduced by Sens. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, and Kerry Donovan, a Vail Democrat whose district includes Delta County, would add more money to the Rural Economic Development Initiative Grant Program.