2016 House Bill 5367

Impose new regulations on gas and oil “fracking”

Introduced in the House

Feb. 16, 2016

Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D-53)

To ban issuing any new permits for the extraction of natural gas or oil using "hydraulic fracturing" unless the legislature enacts the far more restrictive regulatory, disclosure and public notice regimes described in the bill for the chemicals used in these “fracking” operations.

Referred to the Committee on Energy Policy