| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB857 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person who is authorized by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer and who wounds a deer during legal hunting hours to pursue and kill the deer after legal hunting hours using the means authorized for the applicable hunting se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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 | HB889 | Intro
25% | Expanding the scope of the annual young-of-the-year juvenile survey of striped bass or rockfish by requiring the Department of Natural Resources to conduct the survey at sampling sites in the central region of the Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Ba...
[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 | HB893 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to suspend for 2 years for a first violation and up to 10 years for two or more violations, rather than revoke, a person's oyster authorization for knowingly committing certain violations; requiring the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB892 | Intro
25% | Requiring, during the migratory Canada goose (Atlantic population) hunting season, the bag limit for all Canada geese in the State, including geese found in the Atlantic Flyway Resident Population Hunt Zone and the Atlantic Population Hunt Zone, to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB976 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a vessel registered under Title 8, Subtitle 7 of the Natural Resources Article is not a nonwater-dependent project for the purpose of certain provisions of law regarding construction on State or private wetlands, regardless of how t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB882 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on each Sunday of the deer bow hunting season in Prince George's County; and adding Prince George's County to the list of counties in which the safety zone for archery hun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB540 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education to update, by March 1, 2027, and maintain a certain website; requiring the Association to conduct certain outreach efforts with a certain frequency; requiring the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB741 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "hunt" to no longer exclude the sport of fox chasing; establishing the Deer Management Assistance Program in the Department of Natural Resources; requiring the Department to require, through a certain phasing-out process, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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 | HB719 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing the State Boat Act; increasing the funding threshold for certain projects financed by the Waterway Improvement Fund; and altering the fees for manufac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB720 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions of law relating to the Somers Cove Marina Commission, the Somers Cove Marina Improvement Fund, and the operation of Somers Cove Marina; authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to execute certain leases, procure and execute...
[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
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB832 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to hunt in Carroll County on each Sunday of the game bird and game mammal seasons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB634 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "hunt" to no longer exclude the sport of fox chasing; establishing the Deer Management Assistance Program in the Department of Natural Resources; requiring the Department to require, through a certain phasing-out process, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB766 | Intro
25% | Requiring that the Wildlife Advisory Commission member appointed to represent the farming community be selected from a list of candidates provided by the Maryland Farm Bureau.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB637 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a vessel registered under Title 8, Subtitle 7 of the Natural Resources Article is not a nonwater-dependent project for the purpose of certain provisions of law regarding construction on State or private wetlands, regardless of how t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB638 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to assess and collect an 8% hotel rental surcharge on rental units at the Savage River Lodge and remit the proceeds to the Comptroller for distribution to Garrett County; and requiring Garrett County to u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB116 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Energy Administration, and the University of Maryland School of Business, in coordination with the Department of Legislative Services, to conduct an analysis of the likely environmental, energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB16 | Intro
25% | Establishing the maximum funding amount of $300,000 or 80% of the total project cost for certain grants made by the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority; decreasing the percentage of Program Open Space funds transferred to the Maryland Heritage Areas Au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB316 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company in the State to submit to the Public Service Commission by certain dates plans for the construction or procurement of distribution-connected energy storage devices and to construct or procure the devices in accordance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB530 | Intro
25% | Extending the fiscal years through 2031 in which the Governor is required to include a $250,000 appropriation in the annual budget bill for the Maryland Forestry Education Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB467 | Intro
25% | Extending the fiscal years, through 2031, in which the Governor is required to include a $250,000 appropriation in the annual budget bill for the Maryland Forestry Education Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB654 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain time restrictions that apply to the hunting of game birds and mammals on certain Sundays on private property and public land designated for Sunday hunting in Wicomico County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB684 | Intro
25% | Altering the purpose and authorized uses of the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for fiscal year 2027 a $1,000,000 appropriation to the Fund; and extending to June 30, 2027, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB95 | Intro
25% | Requiring each unit of State or local government responsible for the construction and maintenance of a playground to ensure that the playground is constructed and maintained in accordance with certain safety standards; and requiring a unit of State o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB250 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB290 | Intro
25% | Requiring an applicant for a roadside tree removal permit to provide a certain notice in a certain manner to all owners of property abutting and adjacent to the property subject to the tree removal and to the governing body of any common ownership co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB312 | Intro
25% | Establishing that the holder of a Maryland Golden Age Pass is entitled to free day-use entry at certain State parks and is authorized to launch a boat at any State park without paying a boat launch fee; and establishing that the free day-use entry ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB317 | Intro
25% | Establishing a Food Forests and Foraging Program on areas owned or managed by the Department of Natural Resources; defining "foraging" as harvesting plant materials, including seeds, nuts, mushrooms, roots, tubers, and berries for noncommercial perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB399 | 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB420 | Intro
25% | Altering the purpose and authorized uses of the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund by specifying that it may be used only for the protection and restoration of Deep Creek Lake; and extending the termination date applicable to certain provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
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
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB477 | Intro
25% | Altering the size and scope of the Port of Deposit State Historical Park; extending the deadline for the Bainbridge Development Corporation to transfer certain property to the Department of Natural Resources to June 1, 2026; and altering the purpose ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB511 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting certain licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under certain circumstances in Frederick County and Washington County during deer hunting season.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB449 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting certain licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under certain circumstances in Frederick County and Washington County during deer hunting season.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB505 | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB494 | Intro
25% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health and the regulation of health occupations to apply...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB362 | Intro
25% | Requiring an applicant for a roadside tree removal permit to provide notice of the application to all owners of property abutting and adjacent to the property subject to the application and the governing body of any common ownership community that ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB425 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain auctioneers from certain provisions of the State Boat Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB446 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain regulations adopted by the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting the holder of a commercial blue and flathead catfish finfish trotline license from fishing in the main stem of the Chesapeake Bay that is south of the Che...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB417 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to hunt in Carroll County on each Sunday of the game bird and game mammal seasons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB335 | Intro
25% | Requiring, during the migratory Canada goose (Atlantic population) hunting season, the bag limit for all Canada geese in the State, including geese found in the Atlantic Flyway Resident Population Hunt Zone and the Atlantic Population Hunt Zone, to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
