| MD | HB468 | Pass | Establishing the Commission to Advance Lithium-Ion Battery Safety in Maryland to study and make legislative, regulatory, programmatic, or other recommendations regarding certain best practices, standards, and guidelines; requiring the Commission to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 950 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB864 | Pass | Requiring each electric company, each gas company, and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets through certain program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 539 |
| 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 | 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 | HB1296 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to open a revised Round 2 proceeding on June 1, 2024, to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; prohibiting the Commission from approving an application for an offshore wind project unless the application inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
| 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 | 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 | HB981 | Pass | Requiring, on or before July 1, 2025, the principal departments of the Executive Branch to fully implement certain provisions of law requiring equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 656 |
| 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 | HB841 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that a water bottle filling station be installed in certain new construction beginning October 1, 2024; requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a certain survey, gather certain data, and identify alternative methods for provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted |
| 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 | HB1055 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| MD | HB152 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Maryland Department of Labor, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcare and funeral practices in the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators M. Washington, Hester and Simonaire) |
| MD | HB1264 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which a person is exempt from obtaining a permit from the Department of the Environment to construct or repair a reservoir, dam, or waterway obstruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| 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 | HB175 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 or to waive the fee under cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to adopt certain regulations related to lead telecommunications cables; and requiring a company that applied for a grant through the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1360 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1478 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include, beginning in fiscal year 2026, 100% of certain costs related to the decommissioning of certain wastewater treatment lagoons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ...
[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 | HB931 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, in making a decision on an application for a license or permit to construct a pier, the Department of the Environment from considering any vessel owned by the applicant as a condition for issuing the license or permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain notice requirements that a supplier of water must give to the Department of the Environment and certain individuals and entities under certain circumstances; requiring a supplier of water to give notice to the Department of the Envir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting the installation and maintenance of certain duck nest boxes from certain wetlands license requirements; defining a "duck nest box" as a nesting structure located on or over water that is provided for the purpose of sheltering domesticated d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | HB1241 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from using certain polyvinyl chloride or chlorinated polyvinyl chloride piping in the installation, repair, or replacement of a water pipe or plumbing intended to dispense water for human consumption beginning January 1, 2025; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1221 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute to train local fire departments on certain safety aspects associated wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1247 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting the California Advanced Clean Cars II regulations to be effective before motor vehicle model year 2030; and prohibiting the Department from applying certain provisions of law governing enfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment, on or before October 1, 2025, to develop outdoor lighting standards that consider energy consumption, the environment, and public health and safety; requiring the Department to consult with the Maryland De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1466 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Agriculture to coordinate with the Maryland Energy Administration, the Department of the Environment, the Department of Commerce, the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and certain other s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Office of Trails in the Department of Transportation to develop and maintain the Maryland Trails Network, advance the development, maintenance, and use of trails in the State, develop a certain inventory and database, and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1284 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing an exemption for stream restoration projects from certain application fees for certain projects that impact a wetland or waterway; requiring a person applying for a wetlands and waterways authorization for a stream restoration project assoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from locating a new crematory within 1,000 feet of an assisted living or nursing facility, a property that primarily serves children, or a residential property that is designed primarily for human habitation; and prohibiting the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1355 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2029, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2029, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing a fossil fuel transportation fee on a person that transports a fossil fuel in the State; providing that the rate of the fossil fuel transportation fee is 30 cents per million British thermal units of fossil fuels transported in the State; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1240 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the governing body of a county or municipality from prohibiting the use or installation of natural gas- and propane-powered appliances in a home t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
