SCS/SB 517 - This act establishes the Missouri Solar Pollinator Habitat Act. Under the act, the University of Missouri extension service shall publish a scorecard that sets forth criteria for making a claim that a solar site, as defined in the act, is pollinator-friendly or provides benefits to pollinators.
An owner of a solar site may follow practices at the solar site that provide native perennial vegetation and foraging habitat beneficial to pollinators. If an owner of a solar site follows such practices, the owner may claim that the site is pollinator-friendly or provides benefits to pollinators if the site and the site's vegetation management plan adhere to the criteria set forth in the scorecard created by the University of Missouri extension service.
A solar site's completed scorecard and vegetation management plan shall be made available to the public and a copy shall be provided to the University of Missouri extension service and a nonprofit solar industry trade association of the state.
This act is identical to a provision in the truly agreed SCS/HCS/HB 266 (2019) and is similar to HCS/HB 1209 (2019).
JAMIE ANDREWS