House Won’t Vote Impact Fee Until Wednesday

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An impact fee update: the House began delib­er­at­ing leg­is­la­tion over­haul­ing Pennsylvania’s nat­ural gas reg­u­la­tions around 8:30 Tues­day night, but ended its ses­sion with­out a final vote on the measure.

The House has an 11 PM cur­few. Mem­bers can over­ride it on a 2/3 vote, but shortly before 11 o’clock, Speaker Sam Smith announced the cham­ber would end debate for the night, and pick up delib­er­a­tions Wednesday.

The Sen­ate passed the mea­sure on a 31–19 vote Tues­day morn­ing. Five Democ­rats voted for the bill, includ­ing two Philadel­phia law­mak­ers who said they did-so due to polit­i­cal pressure.