PRINTER'S NO. 2966
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2030
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY SANTARSIERO, DEAN, O'BRIEN, McNEILL, COHEN,
VITALI, BRIGGS AND NEILSON, MARCH 15, 2016
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
MARCH 15, 2016
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 9, 2008 (P.L.935, No.70), entitled "An
act providing for a report on potential climate change
impacts and economic opportunities for this Commonwealth, for
duties of the Department of Environmental Protection, for an
inventory of greenhouse gases, for establishment of the
Climate Change Advisory Committee, for a voluntary registry
of greenhouse gas emissions and for a climate change action
plan," further providing for climate change action plan.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 7 of the act of July 9, 2008 (P.L.935,
No.70), known as the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act, is amended
to read:
Section 7. Climate change action plan.
(a) Action plan required.--Within 15 months from the
effective date of this act and every three years thereafter, the
department shall, in consultation with the committee, submit to
the Governor a climate change action plan that, when combined
with existing efforts in this Commonwealth to reduce GHG
emissions, will cumulatively result in a total GHG emissions
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