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House amends solar-funding bill to bar forced-labor imports and require PUC rulemaking on net metering; measures approved
Summary
Members adopted an amendment requiring that equipment funded under the bill be free of forced labor and approved a separate amendment directing the PUC to address net-metering subsidies; both amendments were adopted and the bill will be reprinted as amended.
The Pennsylvania House approved two floor amendments to House Bill 362, a bill described on the floor as providing for federal money for a solar program. Lawmakers adopted an amendment offered by Representative Scott Roe that applies a forced-labor certification standard to materials subsidized by the bill and later approved an amendment from Representative Stephen Williams requiring the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission to undertake rulemaking on net metering. The bill, as amended on the floor, will be reprinted.
Representative Scott Roe (Union County) proposed an amendment referencing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and asked…
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