| 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB131 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to establish performance-based funding levels for best available nitrogen removal technologies for on-site sewage disposal systems using a certain evaluation and ranking process; requiring the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB272 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to electronically submit certain precinct boundary information to the Secretary of Planning; altering certain requirements related to the Department of Planning preparing population projections for the W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB42 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to designate the watersheds of Carroll Creek in Frederick City and Frederick County, Gwynns Falls and Jones Falls in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, and Herring Run, including the Herring Run Stream in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Motion Special Order until 2/25 (Senator Folden) Adopted |
| MD | HB482 | Intro
25% | Establishing a predetermination review process for occupational licenses and certificates in certain departments of State government; authorizing a department to charge a criminal history review fee of not more than $100; and authorizing the fee to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| 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] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | 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] | 2025-02-18
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB270 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Energy Administration, and the University of Maryland School of Business, in coordination with the Department of Legislative Services, to conduct an analysis of the likely environmental, energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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 | 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 | SB176 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to use information from a soil conservation and water quality plan for certain enforcement actions and statistical purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB236 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to immediately send electronically the description and map related to a new or changed precinct boundary to the Secretary of Planning; altering a requirement that the Department of the Environment submit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 12:00 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 | HB352 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB213 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of energy generating systems that produce energy from natural gas until the State meets 100% of its energy needs from renewable energy resources, including nuclear energy; establishing certain r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB506 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the defin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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 | 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 | HB1258 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a local government or unit of State government from restricting the sale, purchase, or use of a certain consumer good solely on the basis of the energy source used to power the consumer good; repealing provisions of law requiring the Depa...
[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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB973 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Aviation Commission to adopt, rather than approve for adoption by the Executive Director of the Maryland Aviation Administration, regulations for the operation of the State-owned airports; altering requirements for meetings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance 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 | SB903 | Intro
25% | Establishing an expedited certificate of public convenience and necessity review process for certain co-located energy generation projects that have received a fast track pass; establishing a Data Center Fast Track Advisory Committee in the Public Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
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
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 | 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
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
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
