Maryland Senate Bill 544 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-09 - Hearing 3/8 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the University of Maryland, to adopt regulations requiring specified signs to be posted where specialty fertilizer is sold or distributed on or after April 1, 2012; requiring the sign to contain specified information; prohibiting specified specialty fertilizers from being labeled for specified uses on or after April 1, 2012; prohibiting specified fertilizers from being sold or distributed for use on established lawns, grass, or turf on or after April 1, 2012; etc.

Chesapeake Bay Nitrogen Reduction Act of 2011

Sen. John Astle [D]	Sen. Joanne Benson [D]	Sen. William Ferguson [D]	Sen. Karen Montgomery [D]
Sen. Paul Pinsky [D]	Sen. Jim Rosapepe [D]	Sen. Ronald Young [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-09		Hearing 3/8 at 1:00 p.m.
2011-02-04		First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Search/Legislation?target=/2011rs/billfile/SB0544.htm
Text	http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/sb/sb0544f.pdf