| MD | HB277 | Intro
25% | Requiring a water bottle filling station or a combined water bottle filling station and drinking fountain to be installed in certain new construction or as part of certain renovations beginning October 1, 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB671 | Intro
25% | Requiring, by January 1, 2026, a county water and sewerage plan to include a plan to minimize inundation risks to existing on-site sewage disposal systems and limit the installation of new on-site sewage disposal systems in climate vulnerable areas; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB849 | Intro
25% | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program from $500,000 to $3,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary of Health to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB1020 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting the California Advanced Clean Cars II regulations to be effective before motor vehicle model year 2031; and prohibiting the Department from applying certain provisions of law governing enfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB266 | Intro
25% | Altering the planning visions for local comprehensive planning to consist of certain planning principles; altering the State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy to consist of certain planning principles; and requiring the publis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB807 | Intro
25% | Authorizing counties to adopt local building energy performance standards that are at least as stringent as certain standards adopted by the Department of the Environment if the standards are approved by the Department; authorizing a county to enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB778 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from requiring an owner, lessor, lessee, or operator of an agricultural building to apply to the Department for an exemption from certain building energy performance standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB964 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
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 | SB856 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Department of Health, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of General Services to develop a certain pamphlet and website; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB461 | Intro
25% | Renaming the Maryland Water Quality Revolving Loan Fund to be the Maryland Water Quality Improvement Revolving Loan Fund; altering the conditions under which the Maryland Water Quality Improvement Revolving Loan Fund may be used to include supporting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB903 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or a local government, or an agency of the State or a local government, from filing an action for monetary damages or alleged economic damages against a business for the adverse effects of global warming or climate change in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1112 | Intro
25% | Altering the time limits for bringing an action for wrongful death or personal injury concerning exposure of a person to PFAS chemicals; and prohibiting a person, on or after July 1, 2026, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in the State a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB858 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB902 | Intro
25% | Providing that a certain base fee established by the Department of the Environment that is paid by a certain generator of coal combustion by-products is not less than $2.30 per ton; altering the factors that the Department is required to consider in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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 | HB1175 | Intro
25% | Authorizing, in accordance with technical specifications adopted by the Department of Agriculture, that State cost-share funding be made available for installing various vegetative buffer practices on land within the 100-foot tidal buffer on an agric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1406 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person applying for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to include with the application a certain environmental impact analysis and, if applicable, a certain existing burden report; altering certain notice requirements; proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1467 | Intro
25% | Requiring interest earnings on money deposited for a certain taxing and assessment district to be credited to that district; and specifying that a certain provision of law governing the petition process for the construction of an erosion prevention p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 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 | HB1367 | Intro
25% | Establishing a penalty not exceeding $50,000 for a person who falsifies information that is submitted in a report of the results of lead-contaminated dust testing or visual inspection of an affected property; and establishing that each day a violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1269 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to funding and grants to transition to zero-emission vehicle school buses to include propane-powered school buses; and authorizing a county board of education, beginning in fiscal year 2030, to enter into a...
[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 | HB1451 | Intro
25% | Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1360 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain persons from storing road salt uncovered outdoors; and requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to establish proper outdoor storage requirements for road salt and penalties for noncompliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1415 | Intro
25% | Exempting a certain covered building from compliance with certain building energy performance standards and energy use intensity targets until a certain occurrence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1414 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "covered building" for purposes of certain building energy performance standards to exclude certain public safety, emergency, and public utility buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB757 | Intro
25% | Altering the fee for a license to transfer oil in the State; requiring the Department of the Environment to transfer a certain amount of the license fee to the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1023 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain land created under a tidal wetlands license to be described by metes and bounds; and requiring the Department of the Environment to update, on a scale of 1 inch to 200 feet, the landward boundaries of certain wetlands following the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1062 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1135 | Intro
25% | Altering the uses of the Maryland Clean Water Fund to include activities that are related to urban forest management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1092 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of recycling to exclude certain chemical conversion processes, pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, methanolysis, gasification, enzymatic breakdown, or similar processes as determined by the Department of the Environment; and prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1124 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1058 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt ordinances, rules, or regulations that set emission standards or ambient air quality standards under certain conditions; specifying that the requirement for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB84 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Transportation, as part of the planning and implementation of certain major highway expansion projects to develop and implement a corresponding multimodal transportation program; requiring the Department beginning with a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB479 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "covered building" for purposes of certain building energy performance standards to exclude certain public safety, emergency, and public utility buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB779 | Intro
25% | Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB959 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain land created under a tidal wetlands license to be described by metes and bounds; and requiring the Department of the Environment to update, to a certain standard, the landward boundaries of certain wetlands following the completion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 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 | SB901 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain producers of packaging materials, individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization, to submit a certain packaging materials producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB878 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to engage in the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of oil or natural gas in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB898 | Intro
25% | Authorizing, in accordance with technical specifications adopted by the Department of Agriculture, that State cost-share funding be made available for installing various vegetative buffer practices on land within the 100-foot tidal buffer on an agric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB871 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB346 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB345 | Intro
25% | Requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department of Agriculture to develop and maintain a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB591 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device recycling account and a separate cov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
