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March 6, 2019 SB19-181 PASSES THROUGH SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND ENERGY COMMITTEE
SB19-181 was heard in the Senate Transportation & Energy Committee on March 6, 2019 with 12 hours of testimony from both proponents and opponents. The Bill passed through the first Committee on a 4-3 party line vote with 5 approved Amendments. The Bill will pass through 5 additional Committees and will be heard next in the Senate Finance Committee on March 7, 2019.
The Senate Transportation & Energy Committed adopted the following 5 Amendments:
L007 was approved – referred to as technical cleanup of the flowline rulemaking section
L009 was approved – expands rulemaking language for wellbore rulemaking
L010 was approved – increased worker certification requirements
L012 was approved – strikes Section 4 contentious language around land use authority
L014 was approved – clarifies emissions monitoring for facilities with large emissions and would be phased in