| 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] | 2025-03-06
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1417 | 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] | 2025-03-06
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB878 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to engage in the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of oil or natural gas in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1451 | 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] | 2025-03-02
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1258 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a local government or unit of State government from restricting the sale, purchase, or use of a certain consumer good solely on the basis of the energy source used to power the consumer good; repealing provisions of law requiring the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-02
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1022 | 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] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB904 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Planning, in consultation with the Maryland Energy Administration, to conduct a study to identify and evaluate land owned by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services for the siting of new solar energy proj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB595 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish certain targets for electricity production from renewable energy resources located in the State; and setting a target of 50% of all electricity sold in the State coming from electricity produced fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB270 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB807 | Intro
25% | Authorizing counties to adopt local building energy performance standards that are at least as stringent as certain standards adopted by the Department of the Environment if the standards are approved by the Department; authorizing a county to enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1061 | Intro
25% | Requiring each unit of State government to submit to the Department of Planning an inventory of State-owned property used or controlled by the unit; requiring the Department to determine the suitability of each property for use or redevelopment for h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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 | SB909 | 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] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB937 | 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] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB931 | 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] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-02-10
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] | 2025-02-10
To House Economic Matters 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] | 2025-02-10
To House Economic Matters 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] | 2025-02-07
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] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1149 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct an analysis of the full costs and benefits of sources of electricity generation in the State; requiring the Commission to include recommended policy changes to support the development of energy sourc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters 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
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters 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
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1273 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the use of the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund for grants and loans for building electrification and transportation electrification; altering the allowed uses of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative auction revenue and certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters 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 | HB1415 | Intro
25% | Exempting a certain covered building from compliance with certain building energy performance standards and energy use intensity targets until a certain occurrence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1217 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of natural gas generating facilities in the State until the State meets 50% of its energy needs from renewable energy resources; and requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to work with the...
[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 | 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
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 | SB675 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct an analysis of the full costs and benefits of sources of electricity generation in the State; requiring the Commission to include recommended policy changes to support the development of energy sourc...
[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 | SB950 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of natural gas generating facilities in the State until the State meets 50% its energy needs from renewable energy resources; and requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to work with the ow...
[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 | HB1039 | Intro
25% | Requiring the owner of public electric vehicle supply equipment to register with the Secretary of Agriculture on or before certain dates; applying certain provisions of law regarding weights and measures to public electric vehicle supply equipment; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB220 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Matters 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
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB913 | Intro
25% | Requiring the owner of public electric vehicle supply equipment to register with the Secretary of Agriculture on or before certain dates; applying certain provisions of law regarding weights and measures to public electric vehicle supply equipment; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB10 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB332 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Premature Retirement of Electricity Generation Facilities; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations to address challenges and enhance decision making regarding the premature retirement of electricity g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB61 | Intro
25% | Requiring that each construction project or major renovation project of a public school building proposed after December 31, 2025, that includes the construction or renovation of a school parking lot be designed, engineered, and constructed in a mann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Appropriations 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
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB340 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Attorney General to investigate, commence, and prosecute or defend any suit or action that holds certain entities accountable for tortious or otherwise unlawful conduct that has contributed to climate change; establishing the Climate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB452 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Green Building Council, on or before October 1, 2026, to update or develop guidance for the purchase of outdoor lighting fixtures in consideration of certain recommendations; prohibiting State funds from being used to install o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB216 | Intro
25% | Repealing the electric vehicle excise tax credit; establishing the Electric Vehicle Rebate Program; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to establish a website to administer the program; requiring a participating dealer to provide a rebate in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB105 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB145 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
