| MD | SB226 | Engross
50% | Altering the purpose and use of the Maryland Farms and Families Fund to match purchases made with FMNP, SNAP, and WIC benefits at certain farmers markets and farm stands, support nonprofit farmers markets by providing logistical and marketing support...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB240 | Engross
50% | Altering the membership of the Maryland Agricultural Commission; establishing the Committee on Young Farmers for purposes of communicating to the Maryland Agricultural Commission issues relating to young and beginning farmers in the State; and repeal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB990 | Intro
25% | Requiring, to make a claim under a warranty for certain agricultural equipment, a consumer to provide written notice to a certain parties to report a nonconformity, defect, or condition occurring in certain agricultural equipment; requiring certain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB473 | Intro
25% | Expanding the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Mechanism Grant Program by making certain qualified suppliers eligible for grant funding; establishing the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Operating Fund; and requiring the Governor to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB806 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure that is not a cage-free housing system and does not meet certain space requirements, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2030; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB481 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from limiting the amount of revenue the holder of an on-farm home processing license may derive from food processed under the license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB203 | Engross
50% | Creating an exception for vehicles carrying fluid milk products to the prohibition against driving a vehicle subject to an exceptional hauling permit on the interstate highway system; altering certain weight limits and tolerances under an exceptional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB134 | Intro
25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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 | SB177 | Intro
25% | Altering the list of units exempt from the authority of the Board of Public Works to control procurement to include the State Department of Education for the purpose of master contracting; altering the list of units that are defined as designated pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
