| MD | HB1478 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "hemp" and "hemp product" in provisions of law relating to the Hemp Farming Program; and authorizing a person that produces hemp or a hemp product in accordance with the Program to include the hemp or hemp product in consum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB726 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the amount of income tax revenue from corporations that is distributed to a certain fund each year; and altering, beginning in fiscal year 2024, the amounts of capital grants calculated based on highway user revenues that are required to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB46 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain notices and information regarding applications to the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program, the Rental Housing Program, the Partnership Rental Housing Program, the Community Legacy Program, the Neighborhood Business Develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-23
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB229 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to exempt an on-farm composting facility from the requirement to obtain a permit if the on-farm composting facility uses 40,000 square feet of area or less for active food scrap compost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-23
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB599 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to establish a pilot program in Howard County and Montgomery County to allow certain drivers' schools to administer the driver skills examination required for an individual to obtain certain driver's licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-23
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB221 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to notify the Attorney General each time the Department initiates a certain administrative action; altering the enforcement authority of the Department under various provisions of law, including provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB497 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual who hunts deer under a Deer Management Permit to use a shotgun or breech loading center fired rifle approved by the Department to hunt deer throughout the year, including all deer hunting seasons, in a certain manner on Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB601 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing for the establishment of a Baltimore City Soil Conservation District with boundaries that correspond to the boundaries of the City; adding Baltimore City to a geographic area from which the Secretary of Agriculture appoints the soil conserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB76 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing exceptions to motor vehicle registration requirements for golf carts and low speed vehicles on Cobb Island, Charles County; requiring an operator of a golf cart on a highway on Cobb Island without a certain registration to operate the go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB625 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting certain employees of transportation network companies that provide transit service to persons with disabilities under contract with the Maryland Transit Administration from certain requirements relating to a certain criminal history records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB538 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "agritourism" to include special events and occasions conducted on a farm that generates income from an agricultural activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1215 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that certain fishing gear restrictions applicable in certain Anne Arundel County waters apply only to commercial finfish harvesters; and authorizing a person to use archery equipment to commercially harvest finfish in certain Anne Arunde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB537 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying the authority of the Department of Natural Resources to, notwithstanding certain provisions of law, adopt regulations governing any aspect of the shrimp fishery and establishing and implementing a pilot program related to fishing for shrim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB818 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a person applying for a certain permit from the Department of the Environment to include in the application the EJ Score from the Maryland EJ tool for the census tract where the applicant is seeking the permit; requiring the Department, on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB875 | Engross
Sine Die | Stating the policy of the State to provide fair housing, regardless of certain citizenship or immigration status; prohibiting certain discrimination related to the sale or rental of a dwelling on the basis of citizenship or immigration status, subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB492 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing inspection and reporting requirements for certain permit holders; establishing administrative penalties for certain permit holders determined to be in significant noncompliance of certain State or federal water quality standards, effluen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1428 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the notice requirements in code counties for bill hearings and passage of bills.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1419 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to evaluate the use of adjacent State rights-of-way for rail transit of any kind during the initial project planning phase for a proposed expansion of an expressway to add capacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1470 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Standard State Travel Regulations adopted under certain provisions of law to prohibit the reimbursement for travel expenses related to travel to a certain state for which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified two or mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB367 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the membership of the Patuxent River Commission to 36 voting members, one of which must represent an organization or unit of local government engaged in watershed management and restoration, and adding the Patuxent Riverkeeper and the Pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1331 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that certain materials used in the State include coal ash as a component of the material; requiring certain offshore wind projects to give preference to certain cement materials beginning on June 1, 2022; requiring all contractors licensed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB913 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Calvert County to enact an ordinance that establishes a local percentage preference for certain procurement contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the licensing process for offshore blind sites to require the Department of Natural Resources to review applications and issue licenses on a first-come, first-served basis; and requiring the Department to establish different licensing days f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an exception to the requirement that certain improvements to protect a person's property against erosion consist of nonstructural shoreline stabilization measures for areas determined by a licensed marine contractor to be unsuitable for suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1332 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and local governing bodies to construct a communication board in each public playground by October 1, 2027; defining "communication board" as a device that displays photos, symbols, or illustrations to en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2027, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill; prohibiting a person from burning or incinerating a mattress as an alternative means of disposal, subject to certain exceptions; requiring certain produce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Watermen's Microloan Program in the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans to qualified commercial fishermen to continue commercial operations in the State; providing, begi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1372 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Green Infrastructure Rebate Program to provide property owners the incentive to invest in stormwater management practices-; requiring the Department of the Environment to administer the Program in collaboration with each county that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1239 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain producers of certain plastic and glass products from selling, offering for sale, or distributing the products to any person in the State unless certain conditions are met; requiring certain producers of certain plastic and glass p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1310 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, rather than requiring, the Department of Natural Resources to revoke a person's authorization to catch oysters if the Department finds or concludes that the person has knowingly committed one of certain offenses; and authorizing a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB494 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the application of certain testing, certification, and enforcement requirements for certain efficiency standards; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to review certain efficiency standards on or before January 1, 2023; prohibiting t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to remit 45% of vehicle emissions inspection and testing fees, including late fees, collected at a facility in Washington County to the Washington County governing body for the sole purpose of supplementing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB81 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing charter counties to provide for the enforcement of local building energy performance laws by imposing civil fines not exceeding $10 per square foot of gross floor area; and providing that a civil fine may be imposed under the Act only if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB829 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations on or before December 1, 2022, establishing requirements for the sale of new zero-emission medium and heavy duty vehicles in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish building emissions standards for certain commercial and residential buildings; establishing the Building Energy Transition Implementation Task Force to study certain matters and develop a plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Opportunity Zone Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to use the Fund to operate and pay expenses of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, beginning in fiscal year 2025, the amounts of certain capital grants calculated based on highway user revenues that are required to be appropriated to Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities; requiring by July 1 of each year, Baltimore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Safe School Indoor Air Program in the Maryland Department of the Environment to improve indoor air quality in public school classrooms; requiring the Department, in consultation with the Maryland State Department of Education, to adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1075 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of the appropriation, beginning in fiscal year 2024, that the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill for the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000; and repealing the termina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB402 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the enforcement authority of the Department of the Environment under various provisions of law, including provisions relating to waterway construction and dam safety, tidal and nontidal wetlands, drinking water, and waterworks, wastewater wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB894 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment Rebate Program by extending the duration of the Program, increasing the total amount of rebates issued under the Program, repealing the authority to issue rebates to retail service station dealers, l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program to provide for a biennial exhaust emissions test only on vehicles that are equipped with an on-board diagnostic II system and are at least 7 model years old; repealing the requirement that the emissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a certain governmental unit from taking an action unless the governmental unit has conducted certain evaluations and assessments of the impact of the action on the climate, labor and employment, environmental justice, and any overburdened...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB265 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definitions of "community association" and "local code violation" to authorize community associations to seek judicial relief for nuisance abatement in Baltimore County; and repealing a provision of law requiring the Circuit Court for Ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the construction of certain new townhouses and multifamily residential buildings that do not have at least one garage, carport, or driveway for each housing unit to include on a certain number of communal off-street parking spaces an electr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1330 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that the Partnership Rental Housing Program operated by the Department of Housing and Community Development include goals with regard to, and conditions that apply to, households of middle income; requiring the Department to prioritize f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to register certain military vehicles; providing for the registration classification of military vehicles; establishing certain standards and procedures for the registration of military vehicles; and requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1333 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the penalty for modifying a motor vehicle exhaust system or noise abatement device in a certain manner or for driving on a highway a motor vehicle with an exhaust system or noise abatement device that is modified in a certain manner; and est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the prohibition on a former State employee or official representing or assisting a party for compensation on certain matters to limit it to 1 year after leaving State office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1328 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipality to impose a fee on a person who holds a certain permit and transfers surface water or groundwater outside a watershed located wholly or partially within the county or municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
