| MD | SB854 | Pass | Requiring, instead of authorizing, the Secretary of Agriculture to implement, under certain circumstances, a program to use Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis to control or eliminate nuisance insects in the State; and requiring, instead of authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 681 |
| 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 |
| MD | HB1511 | Pass | Altering the definition of "qualified conservation" for purposes of provisions of law related to forest mitigation banks; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to update a certain model local government ordinance by July 1, 2025, and adopt ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 457 |
| 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 | HB228 | Pass | Extending the date by which the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund must be expended to before July 1, 2029; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to expend up to $400,000 from the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 402 |
| MD | HB376 | Pass | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to hire an independent consultant to study and make recommendations on the feasibility of relocating the Prince George's County public school system headquarters and to report its recommendation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 372 |
| MD | SB418 | Pass | Expanding the purpose and use of the Seed Community Development Anchor Institution Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to include providing grants and loans to anchor institutions for a certain purpose in sustaina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 157 |
| MD | SB430 | Pass | Establishing the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to support certain eligible projects that improve the quality of life within and economic potential of Maryland communities by mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 221 |
| MD | SB680 | Pass | Requiring the judge or jury in certain actions to make a certain determination and assign responsibility and liability in a certain manner; authorizing the State to continue to pursue certain actions if it does not obtain complete relief from certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 137 |
| MD | SB1106 | Pass | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 |
| MD | HB109 | Pass | Authorizing certain persons to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetation in a certain manner and in accordance with certain requirements; authorizing a public utility company or telecommunications carrier to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 83 |
| MD | SB281 | Pass | Authorizing certain persons to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetation in a certain manner and in accordance with certain requirements; authorizing a public utility company or telecommunications carrier to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 84 |
| MD | SB300 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources, with prior approval of the Maryland Historical Trust and after an internal departmental review, to authorize within the Belt Woods Wildland archeological inventories, studies, and research that involve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 112 |
| MD | SB268 | Pass | Altering the enforcement and after-the-fact application approval procedures required as minimum elements of a local jurisdiction's Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area Program to apply to all critical area violations; repealing the 30-d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 80 |
| MD | SB553 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the composition of the Maryland Zero Emission Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council to include a light-duty plug-in electric drive vehicle manufacturer, a heavy-duty plug-in electric drive vehicle manufacturer, the automotive dismantling a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (136-0) |
| 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 | HB1220 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center to provide early-stage funding for certain start-up companies; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (101-35) |
| MD | SB1174 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| 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 | HB891 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the purpose and use of the Seed Community Development Anchor Institution Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to include providing grants and loans to anchor institutions for a certain purpose in sustaina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Motion Special Order until 4/8 (Senator Hayes) Adopted |
| MD | SB259 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending the date by which the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund must be expended to July 1, 2029; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to expend up to $400,000 from the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund for a project that address...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| 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 | SB1140 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "aerial survey" for purposes of surveying submerged aquatic vegetation to include other surveys that encompass certain geographic areas and use certain methodologies; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB130 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the State's goals for reducing energy consumption in State buildings; requiring the Maryland Green Building Council to update the High Performance Green Building Program to ensure that the Program aligns with certain greenhouse gas emissions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB932 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Agricultural BMP Priority Environmental Stewardship Program to provide and prioritize the use of certain funding relating to agricultural best management practices and to increase the cost-effectiveness and environmental, so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB993 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the first week of April as Maryland Climate Education Week; and requiring the proclamation to urge residents of all ages to participate in educational activities that promote awareness of climate change and...
[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 | HB173 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB353 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Confined Aquatic Disposal Task Force to study and review the overall concept, viability, and available options associated with confined aquatic disposal programs to meet the long-term dredged material placement needs of the State and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation 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 | SB1094 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending the termination date applicable to certain provisions relating to the purpose, use, and funding of the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations 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 | HB1320 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the disbursement of certain fee revenue deposited into the Bay Restoration Fund in a certain manner; and authorizing certain fee revenue deposited into the Fund to be used for certain costs attributable to the testing, engineering, or design...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB155 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Carbon Capture Opportunity Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to assist nonprofit and for-profit businesses in the State engaged in carbon capture projects or carbon capture research; and requiring the Administration to us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Small Business Climate Change Coordinator in the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs in the Executive Department to support the State's small, minority, and women-owned business community on matters related to clima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider certain factors before authorizing or approving any agreement related to the premature retirement of an electricity generation facility; establishing a rebuttable presumption that an electricity gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 | HB820 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Nuclear Energy Development Task Force to study and make recommendations on the deployment of nuclear power generation resources and other related technologies in the State and the establishment of a permanent nuclear energy commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 | HB1404 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a political subdivision to enact a certain local law or ordinance regarding the storage of dissolved air flotation by-products that is equal to or more stringent than the permit requirements for a sewage sludge utilization permit.
[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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB339 | 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] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB187 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a fina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Electric Transmission Authority to serve as the lead State agency on issues related to electricity transmission; and requiring the Authority to advocate on, research, evaluate, and identify certain issues related to electric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
