| MD | SB592 | Engross | Establishing that in Washington County, if approved by the county governing body, a vehicle with a gross maximum weight not exceeding 95,000 pounds may use Warfordsburg Road from the Lanco-Pennland Dairy Cooperative cheese factory located at 14738 Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB370 | Engross | Requiring a county to address, in a recycling plan required to be submitted to the Secretary of the Environment, the collection and recycling of recyclable materials from buildings that are 150,000 square feet or greater and zoned for office use; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB203 | Engross | Altering the standard for achieving a no net loss of forest policy by altering the definition of "no net loss of forest" to mean that 40% of all land in Maryland is covered by forest as determined by data used in the most current Chesapeake Bay Water...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1031 | Engross | Altering the basis for calculating a certain license fee credited to the Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean-Up and Contingency Fund and the Oil Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund; expanding, to include fiscal years 2020 and 2021, the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB51 | Engross | Repealing the identification and use of "target investment zones" by the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority for certain acquisition and development grants in certified heritage areas; removing a restriction on certain areas within which the Authority ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB140 | Engross | Altering the size of the safety zone to 50 yards for archery hunters in Washington County within which archery hunting may not take place except under certain circumstances; and requiring that an archery hunter in Washington County be in an elevated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1110 | Intro | Altering the size of the safety zone to 50 yards for archery hunters in Washington County within which archery hunting may not take place except under certain circumstances; and requiring that an archery hunter in Washington County be in an elevated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB505 | Engross | Requiring certain jurisdictions to report to the Department of the Environment information relating to the number of cases alleging violations of sediment and erosion control laws and regulations and building and grading permits by January 1 each yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB922 | Engross | Prohibiting a person from selling, offering for sale, or advertising a product labeled as milk or a milk-based product if the product is not derived from a cow or another animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB234 | Engross | Requiring a person that is subject to the Forest Conservation Act to demonstrate that appropriate credits generated by a forest mitigation bank in the same county or watershed are not available before the person may pay money to a State or local fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB116 | Engross | Expanding the definition of "complete streets design features" under the Complete Streets Program by adding access to retail stores that provide health food and other necessities, especially in food deserts, as a design feature of the complete street...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB923 | Engross | Authorizing an individual who hunts under a Deer Management Permit in Harford County to use a shotgun or a breech loading center fired rifle to hunt deer throughout the year, including all deer hunting seasons, in the locations and under the conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB729 | Engross | Establishing the Task Force on Forest Conservation in Maryland to undertake a technical review of existing forest cover in the State and an analysis of the health and quality of State forests; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB143 | Engross | Extending the date, to on or before December 31, 2020, by which the Department of Natural Resources is required to prepare a certain fishery management plan for the cownose ray species, subject to available funding; continuing the prohibition on a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB33 | Engross | Prohibiting a licensed home inspector from making certain certifications relating to pests as part of a residential rental inspection in Baltimore City unless the home inspector is certified as a pest control consultant, pest control applicator, or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB3 | Engross | Authorizing the Department of Commerce to create, own, control, or be a member of a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, or any other entity, whether operated for profit or not for profit, for certain purposes; requiring the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB99 | Engross | Adding certain counties to the list of counties that exempt agricultural buildings used for agritourism from certain building performance standards; and exempting a building used for agritourism in certain counties from a building permit requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1306 | Intro | Providing that a nonprofit entity shall be deemed controlled by the Howard County Housing Commission if the nonprofit entity is established by the Commission under certain provisions of law and the Commission has the power to appoint a majority of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB707 | Engross | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue a temporary in-transit registration that allows a nonresident owner of a vehicle to operate the vehicle on a highway in the State only for the purpose of transporting the vehicle to a jurisdiction...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB741 | Engross | Requiring the Secretary of Planning to contract with a certain consultant to conduct a certain study on the adaptive reuse of certain historic properties; authorizing the Secretary to use up to $75,000 to pay for the costs of the study; requiring tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB908 | Engross | Altering the salary of the State's Attorney for Calvert County to be equal to the salary of a circuit court judge; and providing for the application of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB390 | Engross | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt game birds or mammals on a Sunday during the open season for that game bird or mammal on private property or certain public land in St. Mary's County under certain circumstance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB42 | Engross | Requiring Baltimore City, on or before January 1, 2020, to accept payment of a fee, a fine, or other monetary payment by at least two of three methods, including by mail, in person at a certain location, or online through a City website or other thir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB55 | Engross | Repealing a certain provision of law relating to the submission of certain plans to the Department of Planning; clarifying that the Department is the depository for all land use plans, amendments, and revisions adopted by certain entities in the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1362 | Intro | Altering the composition of the Prince George's County Environmental Justice Commission to include the Prince George's County State's Attorney or the State's Attorney's designee; altering the date by which the Commission is required to report certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1155 | Intro | Authorizing the governing body of Prince George's County to impose, by ordinance, certain alternative penalties for illegal disposal of litter, including additional penalties for disposal of litter within 100 feet of certain bodies of water; authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB25 | Engross | Authorizing the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, the Maryland Historical Trust, the Maryland Environmental Trust, certain other land trusts, a county, and the Department of Natural Resources to record notice of certain easements, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB563 | Engross | Requiring a local governing body, on application by a property owner for a certain special exception to construct or operate a landfill, to require the preparation of an environmental justice analysis at the expense of the property owner; requiring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB305 | Engross | Providing that a declarant is entitled to one vote per lot that has been subdivided and recorded and has not been sold to members of the public when voting on a homeowners association matter on or after the date on which all lots that may be part of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB460 | Engross | Establishing a minimum fine of up to 2 months imprisonment or a fine of not less than $150 and not more than $500 or both that may be imposed for a violation of certain provisions of Maryland Vehicle Law regarding crosswalks; establishing the Pedestr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB471 | Engross | Clarifying a certain prohibition on administering a medically important antimicrobial drug in a regular pattern to certain cattle, swine, or poultry; exempting dairy cattle on a farm operation with a herd size of fewer than 300 dairy cattle from cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB590 | Engross | Legalizing the 2019 edition of the Code of Public Local Laws of Washington County, being Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, published under the direction of the Board of County Commissioners of Washington County; and making prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB389 | Engross | Creating an exception to motor vehicle registration requirements for low speed electric vehicles in the City of Havre de Grace that are owned and operated by the City of Havre de Grace; defining a "low speed electric vehicle" as a vehicle capable of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB546 | Engross | Requiring a person who holds a certain certificate or license to comply with certain reporting requirements and deadlines related to implementation of the Phosphorus Management Tool and the submission of certain soil test phosphorus levels; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB830 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to convene the Oyster Advisory Commission, in coordination with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, on or before June 1, 2019; requiring the Commission to develop certain recommen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB770 | Engross | Establishing that an electric low speed scooter is considered to be a bicycle for the purposes of the Maryland Vehicle Law; defining the term "electric low speed scooter" and altering the defined term "scooter"; providing that an electric low speed s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB448 | Engross | Establishing a network of oyster sanctuaries in the five tributaries identified by the Department of Natural Resources for large-scale restoration pursuant to the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement; codifying the boundaries of certain oyster san...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB710 | Engross | Specifying that certain provisions of law may apply to contributions to the County Executive or the members of the County Council of Anne Arundel County or candidates for election to those offices; authorizing the County Council of Anne Arundel Count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB249 | Engross | Authorizing the Governor to include the State as a full participant in any regional governmental initiative, agreement, or compact that limits or reduces greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector; requiring the Department of the Environ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB467 | Engross | Establishing the Mel Noland Fellowship Program in the Department of Natural Resources to support students seeking careers in natural resources fields as they matriculate and graduate from institutions of higher education; requiring the Department and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB93 | Engross | Authorizing a person to operate or give permission to operate a vessel for certain purposes in a slalom ski course located in a controlled water ski area in Maynadier Creek during certain times on certain days; and prohibiting a person from operating...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB95 | Engross | Changing the name of the Recreational License Donation Fund to the Healing Heroes Hunting and Fishing Fund; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a process for an individual purchasing certain licenses and stamps to make a volunt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1422 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from committing certain acts while operating a motor vehicle in a highway work zone or on a bridge or highway that is under construction if a highway worker is present; providing that a person may not be convicted for a violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB368 | Engross | Requiring the Executive Director of the Maryland Aviation Administration to place donation boxes at the entrance to each security screening checkpoint at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport; and requiring that money depos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB10 | Engross | Repealing a duplicative provision of law requiring a person to obtain a tidal fish license to catch certain oysters or clams for commercial purposes; altering the area within which a person is authorized to catch hard-shell clams using certain equipm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB70 | Engross | Repealing certain provisions of law authorizing certain qualified hybrid vehicles to use a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane along a certain highway regardless of the number of passengers in the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB744 | Engross | Establishing the Commission on the Development of a Blueprint for Solar Energy in Maryland to develop a comprehensive siting blueprint to guide units of State and local government in evaluating proposed solar energy projects, consistent with the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB79 | Engross | Requiring a regulated lobbyist to file a registration and certain reports electronically with the State Ethics Commission; altering the manner in which a lobbyist is required to file a certain report with the Department of Legislative Services; repea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB54 | Engross | Requiring a certain surface mining permitee, on discovery of a sudden subsidence of the surface of the land, to immediately implement appropriate safety measures to protect public health and safety; specifying that a certain provision of law requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB57 | Engross | Extending for a certain number of years the length of time a county may retain certain revenue from the agricultural land transfer tax for use in certain agricultural land preservation programs; requiring the Department of Planning and the Maryland A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
