| MD | SB20 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Cox Creek Citizens Oversight Committee; and requiring the Committee to monitor and provide input and feedback to the Maryland Port Administration regarding the management of dredged material at the Cox Creek Dredged Mat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 806 |
| MD | HB343 | Pass | Requiring the Cox Creek Oversight Committee to provide input to the Maryland Port Administration regarding management of dredged material at the Cox Creek Dredge Material Containment Facility; authorizing the Department of the Environment to approve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 807 |
| MD | HB1 | Pass | Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 587 |
| MD | SB166 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Emergency Management to study issues and factors regarding the feasibility of establishing a Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) to notify members of the public of certain waterway emergencies; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 547 |
| MD | SB135 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Funding for the Westernport Wastewater Treatment Facility to identify and examine existing funding sources that support the Facility and study whether increased funding could enhance operations at the Facility, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 640 |
| MD | SB196 | Pass | Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 523 |
| MD | SB148 | Pass | Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 516 |
| MD | HB78 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service to delegate certain responsibilities to an employee of the Service; altering the obligations of the Service after receiving a request for services and after ent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 |
| MD | HB256 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Emergency Management to study issues and factors regarding the feasibility of establishing a Waterway Incident Notification System to notify members of the public of certain waterway emergencies; and requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 |
| MD | SB337 | Pass | Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 478 |
| MD | SB325 | Pass | Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 588 |
| MD | HB323 | Pass | Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 477 |
| MD | HB449 | Pass | Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 517 |
| MD | HB457 | Pass | Requiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with represe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567 |
| MD | SB536 | Pass | Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 645 |
| MD | HB680 | Pass | Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644 |
| MD | SB653 | Pass | Providing certain persons standing in certain environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet certain standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 536 |
| MD | SB777 | Pass | Removing the State Treasurer from the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and repealing certain related authority and duties; removing the State Treasurer or the State Treasurer's designee from the Maryland Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 436 |
| MD | SB835 | Pass | Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit, on or before December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for certain well ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 561 |
| MD | HB918 | Pass | Removing the State Treasurer from the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and repealing related authority and duties; removing the State Treasurer or the State Treasurer's designee from the Maryland Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
| MD | HB991 | Pass | Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 531 |
| MD | HB992 | Pass | Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit, by December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for certain well and septic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 562 |
| MD | HB990 | Pass | Altering the definition of "manufacturing" for purposes of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements to exclude the production of cement; altering the application of certain provisions of law regarding the reduction of greenhouse gas em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 500 |
| MD | SB969 | Pass | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 559 |
| MD | SB1074 | Pass | Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 532 |
| MD | SB956 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to identify significant industrial users that currently and intentionally use PFAS chemicals by October 1, 2024; requiring the Department to develop certain PFAS monitoring and testing criteria for signific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 557 |
| MD | HB1101 | Pass | Providing certain persons standing in environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 535 |
| MD | HB1147 | Pass | Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 488 |
| MD | HB1165 | Pass | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; authorizing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558 |
| MD | HB1153 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to identify significant industrial users that currently and intentionally use PFAS chemicals by July 1, 2026; requiring the Department to develop certain PFAS monitoring and testing criteria for certain sig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 556 |
| MD | HB1266 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in entering into a certain contract under the Clean Water Commerce Account for the purchase of an environmental outcome, to allow for nonuniform payment schedules for certain purposes; and authorizing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 502 |
| MD | HB1465 | Pass | Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 524 |
| MD | SB1144 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in entering into a certain contract under the Clean Water Commerce Account for the purchase of a certain environmental outcome, to allow certain nonuniform payment schedules for certain purposes; and autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 501 |
| MD | HB1509 | Pass | Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Model Workgroup to study the regional water governance approach in the Baltimore region; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $500,000 in the annual budget bill for the Workgroup; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 503 |
| MD | HB1512 | Pass | Repealing the termination date for certain provisions of law that expand the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include certain costs associated with the connection of a property using an on-site sewage disposal system to a certain existi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 545 |
| MD | HB841 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a water bottle filling station be installed in certain new construction beginning October 1, 2024; requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a certain survey, gather certain data, and identify alternative methods for provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted |
| MD | HB836 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | HB1055 | Engross
50% | Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| MD | SB1174 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Model Workgroup to study the regional water governance approach in the Baltimore region; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $500,000 in the annual budget bill for the Workgroup; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB152 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Maryland Department of Labor, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcare and funeral practices in the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators M. Washington, Hester and Simonaire) |
| MD | SB1173 | Engross
50% | Repealing the termination date for certain provisions of law that expand the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include certain costs associated with the connection of a property using an on-site sewage disposal system to a certain existi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB681 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan planning organization to perform an impact assessment under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | SB932 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Agricultural BMP Priority Environmental Stewardship Program to provide and prioritize the use of certain funding relating to agricultural best management practices and to increase the cost-effectiveness and environmental, so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1264 | Engross
50% | Altering the conditions under which a person is exempt from obtaining a permit from the Department of the Environment to construct or repair a reservoir, dam, or waterway obstruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB173 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB245 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB353 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Confined Aquatic Disposal Task Force to study and review the overall concept, viability, and available options associated with confined aquatic disposal programs to meet the long-term dredged material placement needs of the State and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB837 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Water and Science Administration in the Department of the Environment, under certain circumstances to require Brookfield Power Piney & Deep Creek LLC to lower the level of Deep Creek Lake for at least 4 weeks between October 31 and Janu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1318 | Engross
50% | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities for on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue; establishing the Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB24 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to perform a certain environmental justice evaluation of certain environmental permit applications under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to take certain actions on certain environmental pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
