Bill Text: MA H3129 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced

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Bill Title: For an investigation by a special commission (including membes of the General Court) relative to reducing fuel costs of cities and towns

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-28 - Referred to the HOUSE RULES [H3129 Detail]

Download: Massachusetts-2009-H3129-Introduced.html

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

David B. Sullivan

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
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��������������� The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to reducing fuel costs of cities and towns.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:	District/Address:
David B. Sullivan	6th Bristol
Michael J. Rodrigues	8th Bristol
Geraldine Creedon	11th Plymouth
Steven J. D'Amico	4th Bristol
Brian Michael Ashe	2nd Hampdon
Dennis Rosa	4th Worcester
James Dwyer	30th Middlesex
Stephen R. Canessa	12th Bristol
Stephen L. DiNatale	3rd Worcester
Patricia A. Haddad	5th Bristol
John F. Quinn	9th Bristol
Matthew C. Patrick	3rd Barnstable
Thomas J. Calter	12th Plymouth
William G. Greene, Jr.	22nd Middlesex
James E. Timilty	Bristol and Norfolk
Bruce E. Tarr	First Essex and Middlesex
Robert A. O'Leary	Cape and Islands
Barbara A. L'Italien	18th Essex
Ellen Story	3rd Hampshire
Elizabeth A. Malia	11th Suffolk
Denise Provost	27th Middlesex
Jennifer M. Callahan	18th Worcester
Timothy J. Toomey, Jr.	26th Middlesex
Kate Hogan	3rd Middlesex
Thomas P. Kennedy	Second Plymouth and Bristol
Susan C. Fargo	Third Middlesex
Robert L. Rice, Jr.	2nd Worcester
Richard J. Ross	9th Norfolk
Karen E. Spilka	Second Middlesex and Norfolk
Joan M. Menard	First Bristol and Plymouth
Cory Atkins	14th Middlesex
Thomas M. Stanley	9th Middlesex

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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RESOLVE

Resolved,

that a special commission to consist of the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on telecommunications, utilities, and energy, who shall serve as co-chairs of the commission; 1 member to be appointed by the senate president; 1 member to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; 1 member to be appointed by the senate minority leader; 1 member to be appointed by the house minority leader; the secretary of energy and environmental affairs or his designee; and 1 member to be appointed by the governor is hereby established for the purpose of making an investigation study relative to reducing the fuel costs of cities and towns.

 

The commission shall investigate and study the establishment of a statewide heating fuel collaborative, whose purpose will be to purchase heating fuel in bulk to sell to the local public school departments in the commonwealth, and to other municipal departments, at a lower cost than said school departments and municipal departments might be able to purchase it for individually.

 

The commission�s study shall include analysis of the potential reduction in fuel costs to the local public school departments, and to municipalities, and also to the commonwealth as a whole.

 

The commission shall consider the need for local school departments and to municipalities to purchase heating fuel and the potential savings that local school departments and municipalities might realize if the state is permitted to purchase fuel in bulk at a reduced cost and sell it to the cities and towns of the commonwealth.

 

The commission shall also make recommendations about procedures for the operation of such a collaborative, including a procedure and time line for the ordering and purchasing of fuel by the local school departments and cities and towns, for the storage and distribution of said fuel by the commonwealth and for the procurement of said fuel by the commonwealth.� The commission shall also evaluate any existing state statutes or regulations that might need to be amended for this collaborative to operate.

 

The commission shall report to the general court the results of its investigation and study, and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry such recommendations into effect by filing them with the clerk of the senate and the clerk of the house of� representatives on or before June 30, 2009.� The commission may issue preliminary or interim reports to the general court before that date.�