| MD | HB386 | Intro 25% | Requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department of Agriculture to develop and maintain a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB650 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to advance agricultural fairs and education in the State; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring a $1,450,000 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB834 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure that is not a cage-free housing system and does not meet certain space requirements, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2030; an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 [Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB162 | Intro 25% | Defining the term "breeding stable" as it relates to licensure, inspection, and regulation by the Maryland Horse Industry Board; and altering the definition of "horse establishment" to include a breeding stable. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 [Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB513 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting, beginning January 1, 2027, unless authorized by the Department of Agriculture, a person who keeps roosters that are maintained individually and kept movement-constrained through use of an enclosure or tether from keeping more than 5 roos... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro 25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB537 | Intro 25% | Applying certain provisions of law regarding the adoption of dogs and cats used for scientific research purposes to testing facilities; requiring certain research facilities and testing facilities to submit to the Department of Agriculture certain in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB536 | Intro 25% | Establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a research facility or testing facility; prohibiting a research facility and testing facility from using certain dogs and cats for research or testing purposes and performing devo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB563 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to advance agricultural fairs and education in the State; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring $1,450,000 of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB535 | Intro 25% | Requiring each research facility and testing facility in the State that uses animals in research, education, or testing to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture; applying certain provisions of law regarding the adoption of dogs and cats used f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB134 | Intro 25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro 25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB428 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with fulfilling the Program's purpose; alterin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 [Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB473 | Intro 25% | Expanding the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Mechanism Grant Program by making certain qualified suppliers eligible for grant funding; establishing the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Operating Fund; and requiring the Governor to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB471 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a nonresident alien who is a citizen of a country subject to an embargo under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, a commercial enterprise or business incorporated in a country subject to an embargo under the International Traff... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22 [Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB506 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the defin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB153 | Intro 25% | Altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renaming of the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee to be the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee; altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renam... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21 [Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB380 | Intro 25% | Defining the term "breeding stable" as it relates to licensure, inspection, and regulation by the Maryland Horse Industry Board; and altering the definition of "horse establishment" to include a breeding stable. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB375 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting, unless authorized by the Department of Agriculture, a certain person from keeping a certain number of roosters on certain property beginning January 1, 2027, subject to certain exceptions; and authorizing the Department to work in cooper... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB345 | Intro 25% | Requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department of Agriculture to develop and maintain a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB244 | Intro 25% | Increasing the inspection fee that a nursery is required to pay to the Secretary of Agriculture in a specified manner; increasing the annual certification fee that a nursery is required to pay from $100 to $150; and increasing the annual license fee ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15 [Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB262 | Intro 25% | Altering the membership of the Maryland Agricultural Commission; establishing the Committee on Young Farmers for purposes of communicating to the Maryland Agricultural Commission on issues relating to young and beginning farmers in the State; and re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15 [Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB114 | Intro 25% | Establishing requirements for the commercial application of general use pesticides, the commercial application of restricted use pesticides, and the private application of restricted use pesticides; requiring a certified private applicator to ensure ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15 [Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB104 | Intro 25% | Altering the purpose and use of the Maryland Farms and Families Fund to match purchases made with FMNP, SNAP, and WIC benefits at certain farmers markets and farm stands, support nonprofit farmers markets by providing logistical and marketing support... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15 [Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB140 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to use information from a soil conservation and water quality plan for certain enforcement actions and statistical purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15 [Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB176 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to use information from a soil conservation and water quality plan for certain enforcement actions and statistical purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB249 | Intro 25% | Establishing requirements for the commercial application of general use pesticides, the commercial application of restricted use pesticides, and the private application of restricted use pesticides; requiring a certified private applicator to ensure ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB162 | Intro 25% | Repealing the Department of Agriculture's authority over the identification, inspection, and sale of cantaloupes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB264 | Intro 25% | Increasing the inspection fee that a nursery is required to pay to the Secretary of Agriculture in a specified manner; increasing the annual certification fee that a nursery is required to pay from $100 to $150; and increasing the annual license fee ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB226 | Intro 25% | Altering the purpose and use of the Maryland Farms and Families Fund to match purchases made with FMNP, SNAP, and WIC benefits at certain farmers markets and farm stands, support nonprofit farmers markets by providing logistical and marketing support... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14 [Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB240 | Intro 25% | Altering the membership of the Maryland Agricultural Commission; establishing the Committee on Young Farmers for purposes of communicating to the Maryland Agricultural Commission issues relating to young and beginning farmers in the State; and repeal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB42 | Intro 25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |