PENNSYLVANIA, November 7 - PRINTER'S NO. 1980

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

1346

Session of

2024

INTRODUCED BY BARTOLOTTA, YAW, LANGERHOLC, PHILLIPS-HILL AND

DUSH, NOVEMBER 7, 2024

REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, NOVEMBER 7, 2024

AN ACT

Amending Title 58 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, in unconventional gas well fee, further providing

for distribution of fee.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 2314 of Title 58 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding subsections to read:

§ 2314. Distribution of fee.

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(d.1) Prohibition and presumption.--

(1) Notwithstanding subsection (d)(2) and (3), the

commission shall not distribute revenue to any municipality

that maintains a zoning or other ordinance that unreasonably

limits or prohibits future development of unconventional

natural gas wells within the municipality as determined by

the commission.

(2) A municipality's zoning or other ordinance shall be

presumed to have unreasonably limited or prohibited future

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