2015 Senate Bill 465

Authorize legislative vote on EPA-mandated electric generation plan

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 9, 2015

Introduced by Sen. Mike Shirkey (R-16)

To require the Department of Environmental Quality to submit to the legislature its plan to comply with recently promulgated federal greenhouse gas emissions mandates, and prohibit the DEQ from submitting the plan to the federal Environmental Protection Agency if the legislature votes to disapprove it within 30 days. The recently imposed federal mandate would reportedly require 60 percent of the state’s coal-fired generator plants to be shut down and replaced.

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

Sept. 10, 2015

Referred to the Committee on Environment, Energy, and Technology