| MD | SB936 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a landowner whose land is subject to an agricultural land preservation easement to use the land for the construction and use of a certain wood vault under certain circumstances; requiring a person to have a permit issued by the Secretary ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1185 | Intro 25% | Requiring professional and occupational regulatory boards to issue licenses, certifications, and registrations to individuals who complete an apprenticeship program that is established under certain provisions of the Act, pass a certain examination, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB761 | Intro 25% | Requiring each testing facility in the State to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture to use animals in research, education, or testing; establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a testing facility; prohibiting a t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1153 | Intro 25% | Altering the boundary of the Frederick Soil Conservation District to include the Catoctin Soil Conservation District. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-11 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB641 | Intro 25% | Altering the contents and authorized uses of the Spay/Neuter Fund; requiring the Department of Agriculture to establish a process through which a person may make a voluntary donation to the Fund; requiring the Department to give additional considerat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1128 | Intro 25% | Limiting the term of a member serving on the agricultural preservation advisory board in Howard County to 3 years; and authorizing members currently serving on the agricultural preservation advisory board in Howard County to complete their terms. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB56 | Intro 25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB278 | Intro 25% | Altering and establishing renewal and reinstatement processes for horse establishment licenses; establishing certain duties and administrative penalties with respect to beekeeping activities; altering the administrative penalty structure for certain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB193 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB311 | Intro 25% | Expanding the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Mechanism Grant Program by making qualified nonprofit organizations that operate a farm or community garden that is on at least 250 acres, grows between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 pounds of produce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |