HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 246        FILED ON: 1/8/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3080

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Banning the Construction of Carbon-based Power Plants..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 164 of the 2006 Official Edition of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting a new section after the SECTION 1. Definitions.  The construction of new carbon-based power generating plants in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be prohibited.

SECTION 2. This section shall take effect July 1, 2009.