| MD | HB854 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to print an assigned permanent identification number in a certain manner for a person who completes the course of instruction in conservation and in competency and safety in the handling of firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
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
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 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 | 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 | HB1022 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from using federal funds for oyster restoration projects in State waters from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2030, both inclusive, subject to a certain exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB955 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person constructing an overhead transmission line from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property encumbered by a conservation easement; authorizing a certain property owner to bring an action for damages incurred as a resul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB635 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to foster collaboration among State and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders for the purpose of protecting endangered wildlife from habitat fragmentation; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 | SB837 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from using federal funds for oyster restoration projects in State waters from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2030, both inclusive, subject to a certain exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB946 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the northern long-eared bat, and the tricolor bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secretary makes certain findings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 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 | SB722 | 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] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB878 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to protect and preserve vernal pools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB894 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the northern long-eared bat, and the tricolor bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secretary makes certain findings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB631 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking certain property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB731 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to foster collaboration among State and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders for the purpose of protecting endangered wildlife from habitat fragmentation; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB640 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and nec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
