| MD | SB362 | Pass | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering, from December 1, 2024, to January 15, 2027, the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to conduct and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 717 |
| MD | HB1358 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and Baltimore City to convene focus group meetings on the establishment of the Gwynns Falls State Park with community members and stakeholders that reside or operate in the vicinity of the proposed State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 965 |
| MD | HB19 | Pass | Establishing the common name of the northern snakehead as the "Chesapeake Channa".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 |
| MD | SB207 | Pass | Establishing the common name of the northern snakehead as the "Chesapeake Channa".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 571 |
| MD | HB233 | Pass | Authorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption of the critical area for climate resiliency, enhancing resilience in the critical area, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424 |
| MD | HB78 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service to delegate certain responsibilities to an employee of the Service; altering the obligations of the Service after receiving a request for services and after ent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 |
| MD | SB367 | Pass | Authorizing a person to receive a raffle ticket for each antlerless deer hunted by the person during a certain raffle program that has as its objective the hunting of antlerless deer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 542 |
| MD | HB345 | Pass | Requiring certain petitions to review the listing or unlisting of endangered or threatened species to contain certain information regarding the distribution, life needs, habitat requirements, and status of the species; requiring the Secretary of Natu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 620 |
| MD | HB379 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 597 |
| MD | HB420 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and local governing bodies to construct communication boards in certain newly constructed public play areas; defining "communication board" as a device that displays photos, symbols, or illustrations to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 568 |
| MD | HB481 | Pass | Authorizing a person to receive a raffle ticket for each antlerless deer hunted by the person during a certain raffle program that has as its objective the hunting of antlerless deer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 541 |
| MD | HB562 | Pass | Increasing the license fee for a special Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing license for nonresident license applicants from $50 to $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 593 |
| MD | SB508 | Pass | Altering the fee for nonresident sika deer stamps from $25 to $200.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 591 |
| MD | HB561 | Pass | Specifying the maximum amounts of fees for a tree expert license established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if the license holder fai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 511 |
| MD | HB497 | Pass | Altering the fee for nonresident sika deer stamps from $25 to $200.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 592 |
| MD | SB533 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue certain complimentary fishing and hunting licenses to certain veterans who the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs determines are unemployable; and exempting certain veterans who the U.S. Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489 |
| MD | SB507 | Pass | Increasing the license fee for a special Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing license for nonresident license applicants from $50 to $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 594 |
| MD | HB512 | Pass | Requiring certain persons licensed or regulated with respect to fish and fisheries by the Department of Natural Resources to submit reports in accordance with regulations adopted by the Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 519 |
| MD | SB547 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596 |
| MD | HB613 | Pass | Altering certain authorizations to recreationally catch clams in the State; establishing a recreational oyster license; requiring an applicant for a recreational oyster license to be at least 16 years of age; requiring the Department of Natural Resou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 518 |
| MD | HB715 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue certain complimentary fishing and hunting licenses to certain veterans who the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs determines are unemployable; and exempting certain veterans who the U.S. Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 490 |
| MD | SB683 | Pass | Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees relating to tree expert licensing established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510 |
| MD | SB674 | Pass | Requiring the owner of a vessel that is required to be numbered to include certain contact information for each owner of the vessel with the application for a certificate of number; requiring the Department of Natural Resources, before and after seiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560 |
| MD | HB807 | Pass | Altering the definition of "aerial survey" for purposes of surveying submerged aquatic vegetation to include other surveys that encompass certain geographic areas and use certain methodologies; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 512 |
| MD | SB740 | Pass | Altering the time period within which a court may prohibit a person convicted under certain circumstances of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol from operating a vessel on the waters of the State; requiring the Department of Natur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 |
| MD | SB775 | Pass | Altering the requirements that certain officers and employees of the State be covered by certain surety bonds to allow the officers and employees to be covered by certain insurance policies; transferring certain duties and responsibilities of the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 438 |
| MD | SB777 | Pass | Removing the State Treasurer from the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and repealing certain related authority and duties; removing the State Treasurer or the State Treasurer's designee from the Maryland Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 436 |
| MD | HB918 | Pass | Removing the State Treasurer from the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and repealing related authority and duties; removing the State Treasurer or the State Treasurer's designee from the Maryland Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
| MD | HB857 | Pass | Repealing a restriction which prohibited the harvesting of shellfish between the hours of sunset and sunrise from certain areas leased for aquaculture; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish by regulation the hours for harvest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 550 |
| MD | SB879 | Pass | Repealing a restriction on the harvesting of shellfish between the hours of sunset and sunrise from certain areas leased for aquaculture; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish by regulation the hours for harvesting shellfish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 |
| MD | SB922 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from taking any action to reduce or alter the boundaries of certain oyster sanctuaries until the Department has developed a certain updated fishery management plan for oyste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 |
| MD | HB1012 | Pass | Altering the requirements that certain officers and employees of the State be covered by certain surety bonds to allow the officers and employees to be covered by certain insurance policies; transferring certain duties and responsibilities of the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 437 |
| MD | SB969 | Pass | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 559 |
| MD | SB916 | Pass | Requiring certain petitions to review the listing or unlisting of endangered or threatened species to contain certain information regarding the distribution, life, and habitat needs of the species and relevant information about the status of a specie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621 |
| MD | HB1165 | Pass | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; authorizing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558 |
| MD | HB1231 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from taking any action to reduce or alter the boundaries of certain oyster sanctuaries until the Department has developed a certain updated fishery management plan for oyste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 543 |
| MD | SB1118 | Pass | Requiring certain persons licensed or regulated with respect to fish and fisheries by the Department of Natural Resources to submit reports in accordance with regulations adopted by the Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520 |
| MD | HB1511 | Pass | Altering the definition of "qualified conservation" for purposes of provisions of law related to forest mitigation banks; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to update a certain model local government ordinance by July 1, 2025, and adopt ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 457 |
| MD | HB228 | Pass | Extending the date by which the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund must be expended to before July 1, 2029; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to expend up to $400,000 from the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 402 |
| MD | SB1106 | Pass | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 |
| MD | SB284 | Pass | Authorizing the sale, barter, or exchange of a legally acquired mounted specimen of a game bird, excluding a migratory game bird, or game mammal from a decedent's estate and the specimen is part of the personal property being liquidated or distribute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 82 |
| MD | SB303 | Pass | Altering the definition of "shellfish" as it relates to certain provisions of law governing aquaculture to include live bivalves and bivalve shells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 114 |
| MD | HB237 | Pass | Repealing certain buffer zones within which a commercial northern snakehead licensee may not fish using bowfishing gear; and requiring a licensee who fishes for northern snakehead to comply with Department of Natural Resources regulations governing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 109 |
| MD | SB301 | Pass | Extending to June 30, 2027, the authorization of a leaseholder of certain aquaculture leases to, with prior written approval from the Department of Natural Resources, place shellfish, bags, nets, and structures on submerged aquatic vegetation, subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 113 |
| MD | SB302 | Pass | Repealing certain buffer zones within which a commercial northern snakehead licensee may not fish using bowfishing gear; and requiring a licensee who fishes for northern snakehead to comply with Department of Natural Resources regulations governing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 110 |
| MD | SB300 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources, with prior approval of the Maryland Historical Trust and after an internal departmental review, to authorize within the Belt Woods Wildland archeological inventories, studies, and research that involve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 112 |
| MD | HB109 | Pass | Authorizing certain persons to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetation in a certain manner and in accordance with certain requirements; authorizing a public utility company or telecommunications carrier to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 83 |
| MD | SB299 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Coast Smart Council to include the development of eligibility criteria, standards, and procedures for categorical exemptions from the application of the Coast Smart requirements for proposed capital projects that have been ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 111 |
| MD | HB117 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Geological Survey Fund to finance certain direct and indirect costs, including long-term budgeting and planning for survey projects, procurements, and equipment purchases; establishing the Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 85 |
| MD | SB305 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Geological Survey Fund to finance certain direct and indirect costs, including long-term budgeting and planning for survey projects, procurements, and equipment purchases; establishing the Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 86 |
