Pennsylvania SB 102: An Act amending Title 58 (Oil and Gas) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in unconventional gas well fee, further providing for distribution of fee.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 113
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 102
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY BARTOLOTTA, YAW, LANGERHOLC, ROTHMAN, HUTCHINSON,
J. WARD AND STEFANO, JANUARY 23, 2025
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, JANUARY 23, 2025
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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development of unconventional natural gas wells if the
municipality has adopted or enacted a zoning or other
ordinance that imposes a standard or condition on well
development that conflicts with or exceeds those contained in
Chapter 32 (relating to development).
(d.2) Restricted account.--Upon notice to the commission
that a party has initiated litigation challenging the validity
of a zoning or other ordinance that the party alleges is in
violation of Chapter 32 or that unreasonably limits or prohibits
future development of unconventional natural gas wells, the
commission shall place any revenue otherwise due to a
municipality under subsection (d)(2) or (3) into a restricted
account maintained by the commission. No revenue shall be
distributed to the municipality until the conclusion of the
litigation.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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