| MD | HB25 | 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] | 2025-02-10
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB227 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or make donation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Favorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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Withdrawn by Sponsor |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 | SB561 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or make donation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB503 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1270 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain areas in the Big Savage Mountain Wildland, Bear Pen Wildland, and Dan's Mountain Wildland from being designated as a wildland area, subject to a certificate of public convenience and necessity being obtained for a certain transmissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1225 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations or issue orders on or before December 31, 2025, that require electric companies to, every 3 years, develop an electric system distribution plan to be approved by the Commission and provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1224 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "linear project" under the Forest Conservation Act to exclude a project for a new transmission line or new distribution line constructed on or after October 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1266 | Intro
25% | Providing that, in Prince George's County, the planning board's authority over zoning and subdivision matters is not exclusive and may be subject to review by the district council under certain circumstances; altering the jurisdiction of the Prince G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1233 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a certain LMI subscriber to hold a subscription to a community solar energy generating system located in a different electric service territory from the one in which the LMI subscriber resides; providing that a certain LMI subscriber shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1396 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a certain generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters 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
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1419 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to approve the use of regulatory asset accounting in recovering certain costs associated with electric distribution system support services programs and incentives if the Commission makes a certain determinatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters 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
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1329 | Intro
25% | Stating the authority to construct, permit, and operate in the State an energy generating system that produces energy from natural gas; authorizing investor-owned electric companies and electricity suppliers in the State to construct, acquire, or lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB430 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1079 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct a study on the electric transmission system and the electric distribution system in the State; and establishing that the purpose of the study is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the potential...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1160 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain personal property from the Calvert County property tax; providing that operating personal property of a railroad or public utility and certain property used to provide cable television, data, or telecommunications services remains s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1196 | Intro
25% | Exempting, in Prince George's County, a duplex constructed, converted, or intended to be constructed or converted to condominium or cooperative ownership, from provisions prohibiting the use of a master meter for water and sewer service in a resident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB434 | Intro
25% | Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB478 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a solar energy generating station unless the Commission receives written approval for the construction of the generating station from each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB483 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB643 | Intro
25% | Stating the authority to construct, permit, and operate in the State an energy generating system that produces energy from natural gas; stating the General Assembly's support for the development of additional nuclear energy in the State; and stating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB640 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person constructing a solar energy generating station from exercising a right of condemnation in connection with that construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB716 | Intro
25% | Altering the renewable energy portfolio standard; including nuclear energy generated by certain nuclear energy reactors as a Tier 1 renewable source; establishing a certified nuclear renewable energy credit for use in meeting certain renewable energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB737 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State or any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB983 | Intro
25% | Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB853 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from authorizing, and a person from undertaking, the construction of an overhead transmission line outside of an existing transmission line right-of-way unless the applicant adequately demonstrates to the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB908 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations or issue orders on or before December 31, 2025, that require electric companies to, every 3 years, develop an electric system distribution plan to be approved by the Commission and provide ...
[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 | SB947 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations related to the construction of a generating station that is co-located with a data center but is not interconnected with the electric transmission system or electric distribution system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB951 | Intro
25% | Authorizing investor-owned electric companies in the State to construct, acquire, or lease, and operate, their own generating facilities and construct, acquire, or lease, and operate, certain transmission facilities; and repealing the authority of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1035 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in coordination with the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, to pursue certain agreements with neighboring states and federal agencies related to the development of new nucl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1037 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Integrated Resource Planning Office in the Public Service Commission; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Energy Forecast and conduct a certain study to support the development of the Forecast; requiring the Office, in co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1036 | Intro
25% | Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing certain requirements for the construction of a certain solar energy generating station or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1111 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain floating solar energy generating systems are eligible for the Small Solar Energy Generating System Incentive Program; and exempting certain floating solar energy generating systems and solar energy generating systems located on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1093 | Intro
25% | Providing for the disposition of a tenant's personal property in certain evictions; prohibiting a county or municipality from enacting or enforcing a local law or ordinance requiring a certain landlord to compensate a tenant for certain moving expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1052 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a Maryland nonstock corporation to convert to a limited equity housing cooperative subject to certain requirements; requiring a limited equity housing cooperative for certain households to receive notice and vacate a portion of a certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB480 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Maryland Green Purchasing Committee, the University System of Maryland, and the Maryland Clean Energy Center, to establish a Clean Energy Procurement Program in the Department on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 | HB657 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB827 | Intro
25% | Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB699 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "linear project" under the Forest Conservation Act to exclude a project for a new transmission line or new distribution line constructed on or after October 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB900 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company in the State to submit to the Public Service Commission for approval a specific rate schedule for certain data center customers with certain required provisions, including minimum durations, financial responsibilities,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB960 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an investor-owned electric company, gas company, or combination gas and electric company from recovering through rates certain costs, including certain costs associated with lobbying and political activities; and requiring certain public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB984 | Intro
25% | Applying to electric cooperatives certain provisions of law related to rate proceedings held by the Public Service Commission to determine whether additional revenues are required to allow certain public service companies to earn the existing fair ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters 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] | 2025-02-04
[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 | SB756 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company, gas company, gas and electric company, and water company in the State to submit an audit of utility operations, customer usage, and customer billing to the Public Service Commission every 3 months beginning December 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
