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News Regional & State News Impact fee and school choice proposals top PA fall legislative session
Monday, 19 September 2011 04:52

Impact fee and school choice proposals top PA fall legislative session

Written by  Mary Wilson

(Harrisburg) -- The state Senate reconvenes today after its summer recess with a full plate off issues to address. Some of the bills Governor Corbett has said he’d like to see get to his desk in the coming weeks. When pushed to rank his legislative to-do list, the governor has labeled passing a school vouchers bill as number-one. His spokesman, Kevin Harley, says it’s not safe to assume that anything is number two. "This isn’t a horse race, OK? Or a car race, or a sporting event," he says. "It’s not that one thing’s more important than the other, they’re all important." The long-discussed impact fee on natural gas drillers, which had the very vocal backing of top Republican senators, now has the endorsement of a governor-appointed advisory panel. Corbett says he’s presenting his own plan for a fee and stricter environmental regulations on the drilling industry in the next couple of weeks. He also supports a House proposal to privatize the state’s liquor stores and wants legislators to act to fill the multi-billion-dollar gap in funding for transportation infrastructure. But that’s just the top of the legislative iceberg, during a year that requires lawmakers to also pass a bill redrawing congressional districts.

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