While it’s unclear who will be the majority party in the state House when the next session kicks off on Jan. 3, local legislators have already put out feelers on legislative properties for the next two years.

State Representative Kathy Rapp’s first legislative memo filed on Dec. 16 is a second attempt at a bill she brought last session — legislation to require the “proper decommissioning” of solar panels.

“With solar farms continuing to permeate our landscape, we must assure that long-term sustainability and reclamation concerns are addressed before it is too late,” she wrote. “To do so, I have proposed a plan to assure these facilities are responsibly decommissioned and our lands and landowners are protected.

“At this time an old solar panel can be thrown into a landfill while the property leased to these endeavors is left in an unusable state,” the memo states.

“Landowners, mainly farmers, need a legal guarantee that their leased property will not be marred by the remnants of solar installations decades from now.”

State Senator Scott Hutchinson has already put forward five such memos.

The first, dated Dec. 12, would require the Department of State to submit a report to the General Assembly regarding election complaints.

Three were filed on the following day, Dec. 13. One would re-introduce an item from the 2021-22 session that would provide a sales tax exemption on the purchase of gun safes and vaults.

The second would require PennDOT to maintain drainage facilities on state highways in boroughs of less than 2,500 people.

“Currently, responsibility for state highway maintenance varies based on municipality type,” he wrote.

The third would seek to expand a Medical Officer Health Incentive Program that provided “tuition reimbursement incentive to those who qualified through their time in the armed services. This program began to provide a solution for what the National Guard saw as a lack of health care providers in the Guard,” the momo states.

The legislation would expand the definition of health professionals to include providers like dentists and physician assistants that were left out of the original program.

The final memo Hutchinson has filed is jointly authored with Sen. Doug Mastriano and aims to prevent “undue restriction and censorship on large social media platforms.”

“Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has revealed what many of us had already known,” the memo states. “According to recently released internal documents, big tech executives coordinated weekly with the federal government to ban users and censor political speech which they deemed as ‘disinformation.'”

The legislation, they write, would create a “private right of action” to allow citizens to sue the platforms and require the platform to inform a user why they were banned and to “publish and consistently apply standards for user censoring, shadow-banning, and de-platforming.”