| MD | HB343 | Pass | Requiring the Cox Creek Oversight Committee to provide input to the Maryland Port Administration regarding management of dredged material at the Cox Creek Dredge Material Containment Facility; authorizing the Department of the Environment to approve ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 807 |
| MD | HB1 | Pass | Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 587 |
| MD | HB78 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service to delegate certain responsibilities to an employee of the Service; altering the obligations of the Service after receiving a request for services and after ent... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 |
| MD | HB256 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Emergency Management to study issues and factors regarding the feasibility of establishing a Waterway Incident Notification System to notify members of the public of certain waterway emergencies; and requiring the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 |
| MD | HB323 | Pass | Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 477 |
| MD | HB449 | Pass | Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 517 |
| MD | HB457 | Pass | Requiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with represe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567 |
| MD | HB680 | Pass | Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644 |
| MD | HB918 | Pass | Removing the State Treasurer from the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and repealing related authority and duties; removing the State Treasurer or the State Treasurer's designee from the Maryland Commission... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
| MD | HB991 | Pass | Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 531 |
| MD | HB992 | Pass | Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit, by December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for certain well and septic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 562 |
| MD | HB990 | Pass | Altering the definition of "manufacturing" for purposes of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements to exclude the production of cement; altering the application of certain provisions of law regarding the reduction of greenhouse gas em... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 500 |
| 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 | HB1147 | Pass | Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to whi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 488 |
| MD | HB1165 | Pass | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; authorizing th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558 |
| MD | HB1153 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to identify significant industrial users that currently and intentionally use PFAS chemicals by July 1, 2026; requiring the Department to develop certain PFAS monitoring and testing criteria for certain sig... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 556 |
| MD | HB1266 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in entering into a certain contract under the Clean Water Commerce Account for the purchase of an environmental outcome, to allow for nonuniform payment schedules for certain purposes; and authorizing the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 502 |
| MD | HB1465 | Pass | Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 524 |
| MD | HB1509 | Pass | Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Model Workgroup to study the regional water governance approach in the Baltimore region; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $500,000 in the annual budget bill for the Workgroup; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 503 |
| MD | HB1512 | Pass | Repealing the termination date for certain provisions of law that expand the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include certain costs associated with the connection of a property using an on-site sewage disposal system to a certain existi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 545 |