Subject Pollution | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | SB575 | Requiring the Department of the Environment to report on the status of the Maryland Clean Water Fund to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before January 15 of each year. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 502 |
| MD | SB854 | Requiring a specified permit application to include a specified closure cost estimate; repealing specified bonding requirements; requiring a holder of a permit to drill for gas or oil to comply with specified requirements under specified circumstance... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 568 |
| MD | HB1515 | Altering the distribution of motor fuel tax revenue; requiring that specified motor fuel tax rates be increased on July 1 of each year based on the percentage growth in the Consumer Price Index; limiting the increase in specified motor fuel tax rates... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 429 |
| MD | SB302 | Requiring the Department of the Environment to publish annually on its Web site the total amount of sewage overflow into the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries and the total amount of fines collected by the Department as a result of sewage overflows ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 |
| MD | HB561 | Providing that specified requirements of the nutrient management program administered by the Department of Agriculture apply to specified surface waters, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and other specified bodies of water. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 315 |
| MD | SB748 | Providing that specified requirements of the nutrient management program administered by the Department of Agriculture apply to specified surface waters, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and other specified bodies of water. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 314 |
| MD | SB1029 | Establishing the Maryland Agricultural Certainty Program; stating the intent of the General Assembly; establishing the purpose of the Program; requiring the Department of Agriculture to develop the Program in coordination with the Department of the E... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 339 |
| MD | HB1295 | Expanding the prohibition on the use of State funds to install or replace specified luminaires by including funds to operate specified luminaires in the prohibition and applying the prohibition to all permanent outdoor luminaires unless the luminaire... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| MD | SB739 | Requiring a specified person to forward the results of a specified soil test to the Department of Agriculture every five years in accordance with a specified schedule; requiring the Department to maintain a specified database that is searchable in a ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-06 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | SB943 | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Department of the Environment jointly to study the feasibility and desirability of establishing, in whole or in part, a specified decentralized emissions inspection and testing program to im... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 |
| MD | HB1243 | Altering the maximum civil and administrative penalties for water pollution control violations; and requiring the Department of the Environment to distribute specified proceeds from the penalties to the Fisheries Research and Development Fund for spe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | HB827 | Altering a specified funding source for the Maryland Water Quality Revolving Loan Fund and the Maryland Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund; establishing the Water Supply and Wastewater Infrastructure Trust Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifyi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | HB1208 | Exempting a user of an on-site sewage disposal system that utilizes best available technology for nitrogen removal from paying the Bay Restoration Fee. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | HB44 | Requiring the Department of the Environment to use specified penalties or fines that are paid into the Maryland Clean Water Fund to restore specified areas associated with the penalty or fine; restricting the use of specified penalties or fines for a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | HB799 | Increasing a specified penalty for specified violations of the water pollution control law. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | SB873 | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop and use an alternate exhaust emissions test and an alternate emissions equipment and misfueling inspection under the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Pro... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | SB979 | Prohibiting a person from engaging in an activity or strategy to implement a State Watershed Implementation Plan until the State completes a full assessment of the environmental impacts of opening the Conowingo Dam floodgates in September 2011 follow... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB1274 | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a permit for the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of natural gas until specified conditions are met; requiring the Department of the Environment and the Depart... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn |
| MD | HB434 | Exempting Frederick County from the requirement to adopt a watershed protection and restoration program. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1392 | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Department of the Environment jointly to study the feasibility and desirability of establishing, in whole or in part, a specified decentralized emissions inspection and testing program to im... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| MD | HB837 | Authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in a civil suit against a family farm alleging that the family farm caused water pollution in any waters of the State as the result of an agricultural operation; and applying the Ac... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1086 | Requiring specified stores to charge and collect a 5-cent fee for each disposable carryout bag the store provides to a customer; authorizing specified stores to retain a specified amount of the fee; requiring the operator of specified stores to remit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-08 Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Environmental Matters) |
| MD | HB1134 | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Impact of the Heat Island Effect on Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| MD | HB444 | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop and use an alternate exhaust emissions test and an alternate emissions equipment and misfueling inspection under the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Pro... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-04 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | SB1054 | Altering the distribution of motor fuel tax revenue; reducing specified motor fuel tax rates on July 1, 2013; requiring that specified motor fuel tax rates be increased on July 1 of each year based on the percentage growth in the Consumer Price Index... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-04 |
| MD | HB694 | Exempting a county or municipality that maintains adequate program funding to support infrastructure and programs required under a specified permit from the requirement to adopt a watershed protection and restoration program under specified circumsta... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| MD | SB289 | Increasing from $5,000 to $10,000 a specified penalty for specified violations of the water pollution control law. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-26 Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Conway) |
| MD | SB576 | Requiring specified stores to charge and collect a 5-cent fee for each disposable carryout bag the store provides to a customer; authorizing specified stores to retain a specified amount of the fee; requiring the operator of specified stores to remit... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-26 |
| MD | SB317 | Exempting Frederick County from the requirement to adopt a watershed protection and restoration program. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB391 | Repealing the Sustainable Growth and Agricultural Preservation Act of 2012; repealing specified provisions of law relating to the adoption of specified growth tier designations by specified local jurisdictions; repealing a prohibition against the sal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB106 | Repealing the Sustainable Growth and Agricultural Preservation Act of 2012; repealing specified provisions of law relating to the adoption of specified growth tier designations by specified local jurisdictions; repealing a prohibition against the sal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
