MD | HB352 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604 |
MD | SB96 | Pass | Requiring at least one water bottle filling station or a combined water bottle filling station and drinking fountain to be installed in certain new construction or as part of certain renovations beginning October 1, 2025, subject to certain exception... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 548 |
MD | SB117 | Pass | Prioritizing funding first to failing sewage systems and holding tanks in the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, second to those located within the Maryland Chesapeake Bay 8-digit watershed that have a relative effectiveness for tota... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 460 |
MD | HB277 | Pass | Requiring a water bottle filling station or a combined water bottle filling station and drinking fountain to be installed in certain new construction or as part of certain renovations beginning October 1, 2025, subject to certain exceptions; requirin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 547 |
MD | HB25 | Pass | Establishing the Reservoir Augmentation Program in the Department of the Environment; defining "reservoir augmentation" as the planned placement of reclaimed water into a surface water reservoir used as a source for a drinking water treatment facilit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 441 |
MD | SB265 | Pass | Establishing the Reservoir Augmentation Program in the Department of the Environment; defining "Reservoir Augmentation" as the planned placement of reclaimed water into a surface water reservoir used as a source for a drinking water treatment facilit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 442 |
MD | HB131 | Pass | Updating the funding priorities for failing sewage systems and holding tanks; requiring as a second priority those located within the Maryland Chesapeake Bay 8-digit watershed that have a relative effectiveness for total nitrogen reduction of 9.24 or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 461 |
MD | SB250 | Pass | Altering the authorized uses of the Maryland Clean Air Fund to include certain activities relating to mitigating and reducing air pollution in the State; authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 |
MD | HB480 | Pass | Applying certain provisions relating to the adoption of or revision or amendment to a county plan to county plans in St. Mary's County; and repealing certain provisions relating to public sewerage systems and water supply systems in St. Mary's County... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 598 |
MD | SB425 | Pass | Altering the factors that the Department of the Environment is required to consider in establishing a certain fee; requiring the Department to use certain excess fees collected from certain generators of coal combustion by-products for certain purpos... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 529 |
MD | SB901 | Pass | Requiring certain producers of covered materials, individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization, to submit a certain covered materials producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval on or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
MD | SB930 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from performing groundwater augmentation except under certain circumstances; establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program; authorizing the Department of the Environment to review, permit, and regulate groundwater augme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 475 |
MD | SB871 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 495 |
MD | HB1296 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from performing groundwater augmentation except under certain circumstances; establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program to regulate and evaluate the use of treated reclaimed water as a source for groundwater augmenta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 474 |
MD | SB964 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424 |
MD | HB1124 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 |
MD | SB784 | Pass | 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 the Act is not intended to affect any l... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 142 |
MD | HB272 | Pass | Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to electronically submit certain precinct boundary information to the Secretary of Planning; altering certain requirements related to the Department of Planning preparing population projections for the W... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61 |
MD | SB236 | Pass | Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to immediately send electronically the description and map related to a new or changed precinct boundary to the Secretary of Planning; altering a requirement that the Department of the Environment submit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 62 |
MD | HB747 | Engross 50% | Requiring a landlord of property that is served by an on-site wastewater system to ensure, on or before July 1, 2028, and before each new tenant occupies the property thereafter, that the system has been inspected and pumped out in a certain manner; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted |
MD | HB902 | Intro 25% | Providing that a certain base fee established by the Department of the Environment that is paid by a certain generator of coal combustion by-products is not less than $2.30 per ton; altering the factors that the Department is required to consider in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Korman) Adopted |
MD | HB858 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-06 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB1062 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
MD | SB153 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2025-03-20 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
MD | HB42 | Engross 50% | Establishing, beginning July 1, 2027, 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, compost use, wasted food preve... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB1135 | Intro 25% | Altering the uses of the Maryland Clean Water Fund to include activities that are related to urban forest management. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
MD | HB671 | Intro 25% | Requiring, by January 1, 2026, a county water and sewerage plan to include a plan to minimize inundation risks to existing on-site sewage disposal systems and limit the installation of new on-site sewage disposal systems in climate vulnerable areas; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
MD | HB24 | Intro 25% | Altering the authorized uses of a certain account of the Bay Restoration Fund to include the cost of connecting certain property using an on-site sewage disposal system to an existing municipal wastewater facility under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-16 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | SB461 | Intro 25% | Renaming the Maryland Water Quality Revolving Loan Fund to be the Maryland Water Quality Improvement Revolving Loan Fund; altering the conditions under which the Maryland Water Quality Improvement Revolving Loan Fund may be used to include supporting... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB1360 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain persons from storing road salt uncovered outdoors; and requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to establish proper outdoor storage requirements for road salt and penalties for noncompliance. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | HB1092 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of recycling to exclude certain chemical conversion processes, pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, methanolysis, gasification, enzymatic breakdown, or similar processes as determined by the Department of the Environment; and prohibitin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | HB1058 | 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] | 2025-02-05 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | SB346 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland 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; prohibiting a produ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB591 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device recycling account and a separate cov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB686 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain producers of batteries and battery-containing products to individually or as part of a battery stewardship organization submit a certain battery stewardship plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval by July 1... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB909 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain sewage sludge utilization permits issued or renewed by the Department of the Environment to limit the concentration of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to 1 microgram per kilogram, the level established in certain health-... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | HB931 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device recycling account and a separate cov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | SB732 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain sewage sludge utilization permits issued or renewed by the Department of the Environment to limit the concentration of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to 1 microgram per kilogram, the level established in certain health-... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB69 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain producers of certain plastic 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 products to, individu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | HB232 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland 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; prohibiting a produ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 To House Environment and Transportation 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 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB407 | Intro 25% | Requiring the largest municipal corporation in each county, beginning on or before January 1, 2026, and every 5 years thereafter, to adopt or update certain recycling plans that provide for a reduction through recycling of a certain percentage of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | HB83 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, instead of the Board of Public Works, to establish a tire recycling fee to be imposed on the first sale of a new tire in the State by a tire dealer; requiring the Department to set the tire recycling fee a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |