Florida Senate Bill 596 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on April 30 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires that electric utilities meet or exceed specified standards for the production or purchase of clean energy. Authorizes the Public Service Commission to allow a utility to recover the costs of converting an existing fossil fuel plant to a biomass plant under certain conditions. Provides legislative findings with respect to the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the direct end-use of natural gas, etc.

Energy [EPSC]

Sen. Nancy Detert [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-04-30		Died in Committee on Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities
2010-03-02		Introduced, referred to Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities; Environmental Preservation and Conservation; Finance and Tax; Policy & Steering Committee on Ways and Means -SJ 00046
2009-12-09		Referred to Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities; Environmental Preservation and Conservation; Finance and Tax; Policy & Steering Committee on Ways and Means
2009-10-30		Filed

H0077 (Similar To) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Military & Local Affairs Policy (EDCA)
S0090 (Similar To) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities
S1186 (Similar To) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Policy & Steering Committee on Ways and Means
S1774 (Similar To) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Finance and Tax
S2348 (Similar To) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Agriculture, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 350 (Ch. 2010-25)
H1445 (Similar To) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Agriculture, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 5 (Ch. 2010-230)
H1471 (Similar To) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Energy & Utilities Policy (GGPC)
S0382 (Similar To) 2010-04-30 - In Messages; Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 5 (Ch. 2010-230)
S2322 (Similar To) 2010-04-28 - Placed on Special Order Calendar; Read 2nd time -SJ 00951; Amendment(s) adopted (956108, 866150) -SJ 00951; Substituted CS/HB 7179 -SJ 00951; Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7179 (Ch. 2010-139) -SJ 00951
H7229 (Similar To) 2010-04-30 - Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7179 (Ch. 2010-139), HB 7243 (Ch. 2010-143), CS/CS/SB 1412 (Ch. 2010-102)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
0366	92		Amended Code	See Bill Text
0366	93		Amended Code	See Bill Text
0366	99		New Code	See Bill Text
0377	6015		Amended Code	See Bill Text
0377	705		Amended Code	See Bill Text
0403	503		Amended Code	See Bill Text
0525	09		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&Tab=session&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0596&Chamber=Senate&Year=2010
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0596.html&Directory=session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/html/