THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Senator Mike Gabbard, Chair

Senator Russell E. Ruderman, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, January 30, 2014

TIME:

3:30 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 225

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 3014

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT.

Establishes a registration fee for distributors of telephone directories.  Beginning January 1, 2016, prohibits distributors of telephone directories from distributing yellow page-type phone books to individuals or businesses that do not specifically request them.

 

ENE, CPN

SB 2651

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PARKING.

Establishes fines beginning 1/1/2015 for owners of places of public accommodation with at least one hundred parking spaces that do not provide at least one parking space equipped with a charging system exclusively for electric vehicles.

 

ENE, JDL

SB 2657

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Transfers responsibility for the warranty of the area of a roof on which a solar energy device has been installed from the roofing contractor to the solar contractor that installs the solar energy device.

 

ENE, CPN

SB 2652

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Establishes association rules for the placement of solar energy devices in the absence of a private entity adopting rules.  Makes permanent the prohibition on requiring an encumbrance on title for the replacement of any solar energy device.

 

ENE, CPN

SB 2179

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY.

Authorizes condominium owners in a condominium structure of no more than three stories in height to place solar energy devices on the roof, under certain conditions.

 

ENE, CPN

SB 2178

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Permits the installation of clotheslines in any residential dwelling or townhouse.  Defines a reasonable restriction on the placement and use of clotheslines as any restriction that is necessary to protect public health and safety, buildings from damage, historic or aesthetic values, and shorelines under certain circumstances.

 

ENE, CPN

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Mike Gabbard

Chair