| 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 | HB397 | Pass | Requiring gas companies serving at least 75,000 customers in their distribution territories and authorizing gas companies serving fewer than 75,000 customers to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems on or before October ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 564 |
| MD | SB570 | Pass | Requiring certain gas companies and authorizing certain gas companies to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems by October 1, 2024; requiring a gas company that serves at least 75,000 customers in its distribution territo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 |
| MD | SB653 | Pass | Providing certain persons standing in certain environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet certain standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 536 |
| MD | HB1101 | Pass | Providing certain persons standing in environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 535 |
| MD | HB836 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | SB681 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan planning organization to perform an impact assessment under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | HB245 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1318 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities for on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue; establishing the Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB24 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to perform a certain environmental justice evaluation of certain environmental permit applications under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to take certain actions on certain environmental pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Stream Restoration Contractors Licensing Board; requiring a person to be licensed as a stream restoration contractor or be employed by an individual or entity that is licensed as a stream restoration contractor before the person perf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1250 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1375 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to submit an annual report to the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 31, 2024, relating to the identification of overburdened and underserved communities, the percentage of spending for cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB936 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB942 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a State agency, in administering certain federal funds, to allocate 40% of those funds to infrastructure construction projects in overburdened communities and underserved communities and an additional 40% of those funds to infrastructure co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1185 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring professional and occupational regulatory boards to issue licenses, certifications, and registrations to individuals who complete an apprenticeship program that is established under the Maryland Apprenticeships in Licensed Occupations Act, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1131 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program; and 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a climate and environmental equity evaluation regarding the impact of issuing an approval for certain environmental permits; requiring the Department to provide opportunities for residents of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1086 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a resident of a local jurisdiction or an overburdened and underserved community in the State to submit an application to the Department of the Environment to request the designation of a certain area as an environmental justice district i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1088 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing judicial review of certain environmental permitting and license decisions by the Department of the Environment at the request of certain persons who meet certain federal standing requirements under certain circumstances; requiring a perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption to climate change relevant to the critical area, enhancing resilience in the critical are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
