State Senate and Assembly committees will hold hearings from Feb. 10 to Feb. 15 to review the modifications proposed by Gov. Jim Doyle's Clean Energy Jobs Act. The recommendations came from former members of the Governor's Task Force on Global Warming.
The task force work group chairs and Legislative Council staff met informally on Jan. 8 and Jan. 22 to review the Act, which was released earlier this year.
The task force compiled multiple suggested revisions, all of which were sent in a memorandum in late January to State Senators Jeff Plale, D-Milwaukee, and Mark Miller, D-Monona, as well as Reps. Jim Soletski, D-Green Bay, and Spencer Black, D-Madison, whose legislative committees are working on clean energy legislation.
The proposed changes are meant to strengthen the Act along the lines of earlier task force recommendations, according to the memorandum.
The modifications were categorized by subject areas such as enhanced energy conservation and efficiency strategies and renewable portfolio standard measure.
Doyle has previously stated he wants to increase clean energy jobs in the state in the coming years.
The Senate and Assembly committee chairs have not yet specified whether they will be accepting the proposed changes to the Act.
