Subject Energy Matters | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | SB27 | Repealing the limitations on the requirement to provide specified funding in specified fiscal years to the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program for specified purposes from the Environmental Trust Fund; requiring specified funding for the Corps Progr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 434 |
| MD | SB370 | Requiring that specified industrial wind energy conversion systems comply with specified setback requirements; authorizing specified variances under specified circumstances; requiring that, before a permit is issued for specified industrial wind ener... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 463 |
| MD | HB385 | Repealing the limitations on the requirement to provide specified funding in specified fiscal years to the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program for specified purposes from the Environmental Trust Fund; requiring specified funding for the Corps Progr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
| MD | SB524 | Altering the requirements for the issuance of a specified license, a specified permit, and a specified building permit for specified nonwater-dependent projects located on State or private wetlands; specifically authorizing the issuance of a specifie... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 |
| MD | HB621 | Authorizing the Maryland Energy Administration to create a Regulated Sustainable Energy Contract Program to authorize qualified contractors to provide residential renewable energy installations and residential energy efficiency measures to residentia... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 625 |
| 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 | HB1159 | Altering a requirement that the Public Service Commission, on or before September 1 of each year, determine whether specified electric companies have met specified service quality and reliability standards; requiring the Secretary of Health and Menta... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 670 |
| MD | HB1145 | Establishing a Task Force to Study Energy Generation in Prince George's County; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving compensation, but authorizing the reimbursemen... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 668 |
| MD | HB1055 | Requiring the Department of Transportation, the Governor's Office of Minority Affairs, and the Public Service Commission, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to evaluate the feasibility and constitutionality of requiring the Publ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 |
| MD | SB887 | Requiring a person to file a specified application for approval to construct a specified generating station at least a specified time before construction commences; requiring a person who constructs a specified generating station to pay a deposit to ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 |
| MD | SB481 | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Implementation of Tax Benefits for Emergency Preparedness; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding the impleme... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 |
| MD | SB563 | Requiring the Department of the Environment, on receipt of a specified permit application, to give notice immediately or require the applicant to give notice immediately by certified mail to specified counties and municipal corporations and to specif... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 500 |
| MD | HB554 | Requiring the Department of the Environment, on receipt of a specified permit application, to give notice immediately or require the applicant to give notice immediately by certified mail to specified counties and municipal corporations and to specif... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 501 |
| MD | HB151 | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Implementation of Tax Benefits for Emergency Preparedness Equipment; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding w... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB103 | Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations requiring design development documents for the construction or major renovation of school buildings to include specified information relating to the use of solar technology; requiring the Inter... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 |
| MD | SB245 | Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations requiring design development documents for the construction or major renovation of school buildings to include specified information relating to the use of solar technology; requiring the Inter... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 216 |
| MD | SB797 | Establishing the Maryland Thermal Renewable Energy Credit Task Force; requiring the Task Force to analyze how to restructure the renewable energy portfolio standard to incorporate specified thermal energy sources; requiring the Task Force to make spe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 322 |
| MD | HB791 | Extending the credit against the State income tax for qualified electric vehicle recharging equipment for specified tax years; providing for the amount of tax credit certificates that may be issued by the Maryland Energy Administration; altering the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 389 |
| MD | HB1084 | Establishing the Maryland Thermal Renewable Energy Credit Task Force; requiring the Task Force to analyze how to restructure the renewable energy portfolio standard to incorporate specified thermal energy sources; requiring the Task Force to make spe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323 |
| MD | HB1534 | Altering the definition of "solar water heating system" for purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard to include systems that consist of specified concentrating solar thermal collectors under specified circumstances; and making a stylistic ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 |
| MD | SB1064 | Altering the definition of "solar water heating system" for purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard to include systems that consist of specified concentrating solar thermal collectors under specified circumstances; and making a stylistic ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 341 |
| MD | HB226 | Altering the Maryland renewable energy portfolio standard program to include a specified amount of energy derived from offshore wind energy; prohibiting the portion of the renewable energy portfolio that represents offshore wind energy from applying ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3 |
| MD | HB472 | Adding a new article to the Annotated Code of Maryland, to be designated and known as the "Local Government Article", to revise, restate, and recodify the laws of the State relating to local governments; etc. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 119 |
| MD | SB600 | Altering and harmonizing variations of the defined term "plug-in electric drive vehicle" as that term applies to planning by a utility for the availability and reliability of electric supply, excise tax credits, and exemptions allowing the use of hig... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 64 |
| MD | HB836 | Altering and harmonizing variations of the defined term "plug-in electric drive vehicle" as that term applies to planning by a utility for the availability and reliability of electric supply, excise tax credits, and exemptions allowing the use of hig... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 65 |
| MD | HB696 | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $80,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and Town Council of Berwyn Heights for the capital equipping of the Berwyn Heights Town Administration Building and the Senior Center by t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | SB799 | Requiring each county and the Department of the Environment to adopt a specified solid waste management hierarchy; declaring the intent of the General Assembly that the State undertake specified actions relating to recycling and landfill disposal rat... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| MD | HB1187 | Requiring a person to file a specified application for approval to construct a specified generating station at least a specified time before construction commences; requiring a person who constructs a specified generating station to pay a specified d... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| MD | HB1152 | Requiring the Public Service Commission and specified electric companies to establish priorities for remediation projects; establishing an Electric Reliability Remediation Fund in the Commission; providing for the purpose, administration, investment,... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 Favorable Report by Finance |
| 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 | SB1016 | Authorizing a private lender to provide capital for a loan provided under a local Clean Energy Loan Program; providing that, with the consent of any holder of a mortgage or deed of trust on the property, a county or municipality may collect loan paym... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| MD | HB1404 | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $75,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Columbia Vantage House Corporation for planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | SB627 | Authorizing the Maryland Energy Administration to create a Regulated Sustainable Energy Contract Program to authorize qualified contractors to provide residential renewable energy installations and residential energy efficiency measures to residentia... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-06 |
| MD | HB40 | Requiring a vendor of single family residential real property to display or make available specified utility information under specified circumstances in a specified manner; providing that specified information is provided without warranties; providi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-04 Third Reading Failed (23-23) |
| MD | HB1173 | Authorizing the Public Service Commission to establish a Small Commercial Energy Efficiency On-Bill Financing Program; specifying the purpose of the Program; authorizing the Commission to require a utility company to participate in the Program; autho... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-04 |
| MD | HB1352 | Requiring, except under specified circumstances, the Governor annually to issue an order, in observance of Earth Hour, that the lights of Government House and the State House be turned off on the last Saturday of March at 8:30 p.m. and remain off for... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-04 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| MD | HB817 | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant a property tax credit for alternate power sources at retail service stations; establishing when the tax credit may be granted; establishing that the tax credit shall be equa... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-04 |
| MD | HB1102 | Limiting the eligibility of qualifying biomass as a Tier 1 renewable source for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard to qualifying biomass used at a generation unit that started commercial operation on or after a specified date and... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1091 | Requiring, on written request of a landowner in an application to purchase an easement, an easement to authorize the landowner to use the land subject to the easement for renewable energy generation under specified circumstances; requiring, on writte... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-01 Referred to interim study by Environmental Matters |
| MD | SB684 | Limiting the eligibility of qualifying biomass as a Tier 1 renewable source for the renewable energy portfolio standard to qualifying biomass used at a generation unit that started commercial operation on or after January 1, 2005, and that achieves a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-29 |
| MD | SB699 | Establishing a pilot program on community energy-generating facilities under the authority of the Public Service Commission; requiring the Commission to adhere to specified guidelines in conducting the pilot program; authorizing the Commission to ass... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-27 Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB1489 | Establishing the Energy-Efficient and Green Homes Construction Loan Program; providing for the purpose of the Program; establishing specified loan categories and criteria; establishing the Energy-Efficient and Green Homes Construction Fund as a speci... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | HB1428 | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish, in consultation with the Maryland Energy Administration, a pilot program for geothermal heating and cooling on-bill financing; establishing the purpose of the program; requiring the Commission and... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| MD | HB981 | Prohibiting an electric company from imposing an electric transmission charge on its customers if the electricity was generated at an electric generating facility located in the State that began operation on or after a specified date and was first so... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB935 | Establishing the Energy-Efficient and Green Homes Construction Loan Program; providing for the purpose of the Program; establishing specified loan categories and criteria; establishing the Energy-Efficient and Green Homes Construction Fund as a speci... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| MD | SB974 | Repealing the requirement that an electricity supplier's renewable energy portfolio include a specified percent of solar energy in specified years; repealing specified compliance fees for a shortfall from solar energy requirements under the renewable... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| MD | SB976 | Expanding the definition of a Tier 1 renewable source to include qualifying natural gas for purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| MD | SB1022 | Creating the Capitol Heights, Fairmount Heights, Glenarden, and Seat Pleasant green business zones in Prince George's County; requiring the Secretary of Business and Economic Development to designate a not-for-profit entity to establish specified job... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Hearing cancelled |
| MD | HB1066 | Prohibiting an electric company from disclosing specified data to a third party, subject to a specified exception; authorizing a customer to submit a specified complaint to the Public Service Commission under specified circumstances; requiring the Co... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB925 | Amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2010 to alter the deadline for a specified grantee to present evidence of a matching fund and to encumber funds for a specified grant; changing the name of the grantee for the Community Forklift... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-15 |
