HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3907 FILED ON: 1/20/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 895
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Lindsay N. Sabadosa
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act to require separate carbon accounting for working lands and natural lands and to eliminate from Massachusetts net-zero carbon emissions goal any carbon offsets sold to entities outside of the Commonwealth.
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PETITION OF:
Name: | District/Address: | Date Added: |
Lindsay N. Sabadosa | 1st Hampshire | 1/20/2023 |
Margaret R. Scarsdale | 1st Middlesex | 2/10/2023 |
David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf | 17th Worcester | 2/23/2023 |
Michael P. Kushmerek | 3rd Worcester | 3/23/2023 |
Tommy Vitolo | 15th Norfolk | 4/12/2023 |
Patricia A. Duffy | 5th Hampden | 4/12/2023 |
Mike Connolly | 26th Middlesex | 4/21/2023 |
Samantha Montaño | 15th Suffolk | 10/16/2023 |
Carmine Lawrence Gentile | 13th Middlesex | 10/16/2023 |
James K. Hawkins | 2nd Bristol | 1/20/2024 |
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3907 FILED ON: 1/20/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 895
By Representative Sabadosa of Northampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 895) of Lindsay N. Sabadosa, Margaret R. Scarsdale and David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf for legislation to further regulate climate policy and regulate carbon emissions. Environment and Natural Resources. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)
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An Act to require separate carbon accounting for working lands and natural lands and to eliminate from Massachusetts net-zero carbon emissions goal any carbon offsets sold to entities outside of the Commonwealth.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Chapter 21N, Section 5, Part (xiii) as amended by Chapter 8 of the Acts of 2021 is hereby further amended by adding xiii D and xiii E as follows:
(xiii) (D) contain benchmarks, baseline measurements, measures of carbon flux, roadmap goals and plans for natural and working lands reported separately for each of the following: 1) agricultural lands, 2) forest lands managed for producing wood products, 3) forest lands in parks or reserves and not available for producing wood products, and 4) any other natural or working lands as deemed appropriate by the Secretary;
(xiii) (E) provide a full carbon accounting of all lands in the commonwealth with carbon offset contracts in effect; any lands subject to such offsets that serve the purpose of offsetting carbon emissions outside of Massachusetts shall not be counted toward meeting roadmap goals.