| 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Withdrawn by Sponsor |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 | 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Withdrawn by Sponsor |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 | SB128 | 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] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |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 | 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 | HB717 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions of law regarding the Department of Natural Resources' acquisition of real property; establishing a Land and Property Management Program in the Department to process certain real property transactions; authorizing the Department to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB149 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB34 | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB428 | 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 fulfilling the Program's purpose; alterin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 |
| MD | SB73 | Intro
25% | Renaming the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program to be the Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB189 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking privately owned property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB128 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
