| MD | SB966 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to provide for an informational meeting on an application for an air quality control permit for activities located in Howard County; requiring Howard County to hold a public meeting before verifying that ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB89 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to establish a certain process in collaboration with one or more boards under the Department's direction and control that requires a board to include a notation indicating veteran status on a professional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB25 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Reservoir Augmentation Program in the Department of the Environment; defining "reservoir augmentation" as the planned placement of reclaimed water into a surface water reservoir used as a source for a drinking water treatment facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB930 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program; authorizing the Department of the Environment to review, permit, and regulate a process to test the use of treated reclaimed water from a demonstration facility as a source for groundwater augm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1088 | Intro
25% | Imposing a coal transportation fee on a person that transports coal in the State; providing that the rate of the coal transportation fee is $13 per short ton transported in the State; providing the fee does not apply to the transportation of coal tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1155 | Intro
25% | Defining the term "ecological restoration" as an activity undertaken with the goal of recovering, re-establishing, or enhancing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through specified measures; and requiring the Department of the Environment to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1237 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, whenever required by certain statutes to publish notice for a permit, license, or other authorization in a newspaper of general circulation, to accept public comments on the application for the time period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1296 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program; authorizing the Department of the Environment to review, permit, and regulate a process to test the use of treated reclaimed water from a demonstration facility as a source for groundwater augm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1484 | Intro
25% | Applying certain public participation requirements to permits for projects that have been identified by the Department of the Environment as having an increased potential for adverse community environmental and public health impacts; requiring a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB890 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Division of Just Communities in the Department of Housing and Community Development; transferring the authority to designate an area as a Just Community from the Governor to the Department; altering the criteria for designating an ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB978 | Intro
25% | Applying certain public participation requirements to permits for projects that have been identified by the Department of the Environment as having an increased potential for adverse community environmental and public health impacts; requiring a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB882 | Intro
25% | Imposing a coal transportation fee on a person that transports coal in the State; providing that the rate of the coal transportation fee is $13 per short ton transported in the State; providing that the fee does not apply to the transportation of coa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB722 | Intro
25% | Defining the term "ecological restoration" as an activity undertaken with the goal of recovering, re-establishing, or enhancing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through specified measures; and requiring the Department of the Environment to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB134 | Intro
25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB250 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site sewage disposal permits and individual well construction permits under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to establish by regulation a fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB340 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Attorney General to investigate, commence, and prosecute or defend any suit or action that holds certain entities accountable for tortious or otherwise unlawful conduct that has contributed to climate change; establishing the Climate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB168 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from processing or making any recommendation on a certain application submitted for the purpose of constructing a confined aquatic disposal cell within 5 miles of a residential overburdened community; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB265 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Reservoir Augmentation Program in the Department of the Environment; defining "Reservoir Augmentation" as the planned placement of reclaimed water into a surface water reservoir used as a source for a drinking water treatment facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB42 | Intro
25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
