THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Senator Mike Gabbard, Chair
Senator Josh Green, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015

DATE:	Tuesday, February 10, 2015
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	Conference Room 225 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB358 Status and Testimony	RELATING TO ENERGY. Increases the amount of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax collections to be deposited into the environmental response revolving fund, energy security special fund, and agricultural development and food security special fund.  Ensures that the environmental response, energy, and food security tax applies to all fossil fuels.	ENE/AGL, WAM
SB359 Status and Testimony	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, ENERGY, AND FOOD SECURITY TAX. Increases the amount of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax collections to be deposited into the environmental response revolving fund, energy security special fund, and agricultural development and food security special fund.  Makes permanent:  (1) the renaming of the environmental response tax to the environmental response, energy, and food security tax; (2) the establishment of the agricultural development and food security special fund; (3) amendments to the environmental response revolving fund and energy security special fund; and (4) allocations of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to the environmental response revolving fund, energy security special fund, energy systems development special fund, and agricultural development and food security special fund.	ENE/AGL, WAM
SB583 Status and Testimony	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to research and develop methods for the prevention and treatment of macadamia felted coccid.	ENE/AGL, WAM
SB312 Status and Testimony	RELATING TO BIOSECURITY. Appropriates general funds and funds from the pest inspection, quarantine, and eradication fund to the department of agriculture for its biosecurity programs.	AGL/ENE, WAM
SB320 Status and Testimony	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. Permits composting in agricultural districts on all lands with soil classified by the land study bureau's detailed land classification as overall (master) productivity rating class A or B and for solar energy facilities, class B or C.	AGL/ENE

No testimony will be accepted.

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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