Maryland Senate Bill 719 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 3 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-03-13 - Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Altering the contents of the criteria developed by the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation for counties to consider when determining whether a property qualifies for the Critical Farms Program to include other benefits attributable to wildlife habitat enhancement and shoreline and water quality protection; and requiring the State Department of Agriculture to report to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2017, on its efforts to encourage easement purchases on working waterfront farms.

Conserving Working Waterfront Farms Act of 2017

Sen. Adelaide Eckardt [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-13	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2017-02-21	Senate	Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-03	Senate	First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0719?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0719f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0009/sb0719.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/sb0719_ehe.pdf