| MD | SB224 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations on or before December 1, 2023, establishing requirements for the sale of new zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in the State; requiring the Department, in consultation with c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB222 | Engross
50% | Requiring, by April 1, 2026, and every 5 years thereafter, producers of certain packaging materials to individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization submit a producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB262 | Engross
50% | 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 10,000 square feet of area or less for active food scrap compost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB483 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Private Well Safety Program in the Department of the Environment to manage and, subject to the availability of certain funding, address the contamination of certain private and domestic water supply wells in the State; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB503 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Greenspace Equity Program in the Department of Natural Resources to provide grants to eligible applicants for enhancing the public health and livability of overburdened and underserved communities by implementing projects to preserve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB624 | Engross
50% | Altering the means by which a supplier of water must give notice to the Department of the Environment and certain individuals and entities under certain circumstances; requiring that a certain supplier of water use certain means to give the notice; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB976 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of General Services, to adopt certain regulations on or before June 1, 2025, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB923 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Greenspace Equity Program in the Department of Natural Resources to provide grants to eligible applicants for enhancing the public health and livability of overburdened communities and underserved communities; requiring the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB11 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Private Well Safety Program in the Department of the Environment to manage and, subject to the availability of certain funding, address the contamination of certain private and domestic water supply wells in the State; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB299 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a system to track the chain of custody of synthetic turf installed on sports and playing fields in the State; requiring the custodian of a synthetic turf sports or playing field installed in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB471 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to review and update specifications for sediment control plans in a certain manner on or before December 1, 2024, and every 5 years thereafter; prohibiting the Department from authorizing the discharge of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB813 | Engross
50% | Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefitting underserved or overburdened communities; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB830 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment and the Maryland Department of Health, in conjunction with the Board of Environmental Health Specialists, to conduct a study on staffing needs for environmental health specialists in local health department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1004 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the governing body of Wicomico County to create a sanitary district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB831 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to develop and maintain a certain online database of all septic systems installed in the State to track certain information; requiring a local jurisdiction to report information on septic systems to the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-18
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB848 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Indirect Potable Reuse Pilot Program in the Department of the Environment for the purpose of authorizing the regulated use of reclaimed water as a source for drinking water treatment facilities; providing for the issuance of potable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1299 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the total area of fixed pier platforms and floating pier platforms from exceeding 400 square feet per pier; prohibiting the Department of the Environment from requiring a person to obtain a license or permit for the construction or instal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB883 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a certain water utility to temporarily shut off service for reasons of health or safety or in a State or national emergency, notwithstanding certain provisions of law; prohibiting a water utility from shutting off service for certain reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB91 | Intro
25% | Requiring an owner, an operator, or a manager of a hotel to provide recycling for the guests of the hotel and recycle certain materials on or before October 1, 2024; authorizing a county to require an owner, an operator, or a manager of a hotel to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB256 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting the setting on fire or burning of oriented strand board for certain fire-fighting training; and establishing an administrative penalty not exceeding $500 for a first violation of the Act and a civil penalty not exceeding $1,000 for a seco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB667 | Engross
50% | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1170 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the use of a certain graywater system to serve a public or private building that is located on a former dredge site or is located in a remote area with minimal public access and operates on a seasonal basis; and requiring the owner or ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1088 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt ordinances, rules, or regulations that set emission standards or ambient air quality standards under certain conditions; specifying that the requirement for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB253 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB470 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting the setting on fire or burning of oriented strand board for certain fire-fighting training; and establishing an administrative penalty not exceeding $500 for a first violation of the Act and a civil penalty not exceeding $1,000 for a seco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB843 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB941 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Poplar Island and Mid-Chesapeake Bay Island Citizens Oversight Committee to monitor certain activities and hear and address certain concerns and complaints relating to Poplar Island, Mid-Chesapeake Bay Island, the Paul S. Sarbanes Ec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB124 | Engross
50% | Modifying certain reporting requirements for practicability and efficiency; and repealing certain reporting requirements that are unnecessary, obsolete, duplicative, or inefficient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB407 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Indirect Potable Reuse Pilot Program in the Department of the Environment for the purpose of authorizing the regulated use of reclaimed water as a source for drinking water treatment facilities; providing for the issuance of potable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-03
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB916 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the use, manufacture, sale, offering for sale, or distribution of ethylene oxide in the State; and providing a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 for a first violation of the Act and up to $5,000 for a second or subsequent violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB122 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish and maintain a voluntary registry on the Department's website for property owners who have registered a claim of riparian rights with the Department; requiring the Governor to appropriate funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB7 | Engross
50% | Altering the composition of the State Board of On-Site Wastewater Professionals; clarifying and altering the distribution of certain fees and penalties; and clarifying the application of certain license requirements and penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB246 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the governing body of Wicomico County to create a sanitary district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB499 | Intro
25% | Requiring the owner or operator of a publicly owned treatment works to monitor and report the levels of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in effluent, influent, and biosolids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB893 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a certain water utility to temporarily shut off service for reasons of health or safety or in a State or national emergency, notwithstanding certain provisions of law; prohibiting a water utility from shutting off service for certain reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB924 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to monitor effluent discharged from sewage treatment plants permitted to process at least 50,000,000 gallons of effluent per day, evaluate whether the effluent impacts area midge populations, and place an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1025 | Intro
25% | Altering the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include, for fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026, reasonable administrative costs incurred by the Dorchester County Sanitary District, Inc., to address certain bermed infiltration ponds, up to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB437 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of the Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission and the Oyster Advisory Commission; requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in coordination with the Aquaculture Coordinating Council, the Department of the Environment, the W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB635 | Intro
25% | Altering the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include, for fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026, reasonable administrative costs incurred by the Dorchester County Sanitary District, Inc., to address certain bermed infiltration ponds, up to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1003 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a seasonal restaurant in Wicomico County to operate without providing potable running water to customers if the restaurant is located in a certain area and uses a graywater system and a community sewerage system is not available to serve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB776 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the use of a certain graywater system to serve a public or private building that is located on a former dredge site or is located in a remote area with minimal public access and operates on a seasonal basis; and requiring the owner or ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB936 | Intro
25% | Limiting the liability of a certain person for certain discharges from a construction site; and providing that the civil or administrative penalty for discharge from a construction site may not exceed $5,000 for each violation or $25,000 total.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB225 | Intro
25% | Requiring the owner or operator of a publicly owned treatment works to monitor and report the levels of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in effluent, influent, and biosolids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB479 | Intro
25% | Renaming the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to be the Maryland Department of Small, Minority, and Women Business Enterprises; establishing the Department as a principal department of the Executive Branch of State gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB840 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a certain evaluation regarding the impact of issuing an approval for certain environmental permits; requiring the Department to provide opportunities for certain communication with certain reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB892 | Intro
25% | Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefitting census tracts with an EJ Score of .76 or greater; and requiring the Governor to include in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB971 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Green Roof Grant Program to provide grants to certain eligible grantees to support the construction of green roofs on commercial buildings; requiring the Maryland Department of the Environment, subject to the availability of funding,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1209 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to publish a statewide flood risk assessment map projected to the year 2050, educate the public on certain information, and establish a certain model floodplain ordinance by July 1, 2024; requiring certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1089 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Redeemable Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1139 | Intro
25% | Establishing the On-Farm Composting and Compost Use Grant Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; establishing a statewide solid waste disposal surcharge to be collected by owners and operators of refuse disposal systems and requiring that the surcharge ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
