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<title>Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HR 265    </title>
<shortdesc>URGES-GREENHOUSE GAS</shortdesc>
<sponsor>
<sponsorhead1>House Sponsors</sponsorhead1><sponsors>Rep. Mike Bost</sponsors>
</sponsor>
<lastaction>
<statusdate>1/8/2013</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
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<synopsis>
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<SynopsisText>     Urges Congress to adopt legislation prohibiting the EPA, by any means necessary, from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, including if necessary defunding the EPA greenhouse gas regulatory activities, to impose a moratorium on the promulgation of any new air quality regulations by the EPA, except to directly address an imminent health or environmental emergency, for a period of at least two years, and to require the present Presidential administration to undertake a comprehensive study identifying all regulatory activity that the EPA intends to undertake in furtherance of its goal of "taking action on climate change and improving air quality" and specifying the cumulative effect of all of these regulations on the economy, jobs, and American economic competitiveness.</SynopsisText></synopsis>
<actions>
<statusdate>4/11/2011</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Mike Bost</action>
<statusdate>4/12/2011</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>4/14/2011</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Assigned to Environmental Health Committee</action>
<statusdate>7/23/2011</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee</action>
<statusdate>1/8/2013</statusdate><chamber>House</chamber><action>Session Sine Die</action>
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