| MD | SB334 | Engross
50% | Altering to July 1, 2025, the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to offshore wind projects and video lottery terminals; and altering the date by which certain reports,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | SB170 | Engross
50% | Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or an exemption from a certain requirement for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB872 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to enter into contracts with the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a water supply, sewer, or drainage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB873 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain qualifications for at least one Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission commissioner from each county; and providing that the general manager of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission has certain voting powers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB323 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Office of Home Energy Programs to enroll households, based on certain eligibility, in any fuel and utility assistance program; and altering the eligibility requirements for the electric universal service program to provide assistance to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB834 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to expand the EV Pilot Program to allow participating electric companies to install EV charging stations in multifamily dwellings in underserved communities; requiring an electric company operating an EV chargi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1186 | Engross
50% | Requiring each public service company that is a member of a regional transmission organization to submit to the Public Service Commission on or before February 1 each year a report on votes cast by the public service company at a meeting of the regio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB90 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from making certain telephone solicitations to a certain called party in a certain manner by restricting the methods, times, and identifying information that the person making the call may utilize; and making a violation of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB143 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a certain eligible customer-generator to accrue net excess generation for an indefinite period; requiring the Public Service Commission to establish a method for calculating the value of certain accrued net excess generation; and requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB459 | Engross
50% | Finding that local governments pay electric companies large sums to light streets and are limited in how this public safety resource can be managed, the Act authorizes certain counties or municipalities to acquire certain street lighting equipment by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB513 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Public Service Commission to enforce certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on certain projects involving and traffic control activities related to underground gas or electric infrastructure of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB630 | Engross
50% | Authorizing an account holder who is the victim of abuse to terminate, and requiring a utility to allow for the termination of, the account holder's future liability under a utility contract if the account holder provides the utility with certain wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB663 | Engross
50% | Requiring each investor-owned electric company, on or before January 1, 2025, to file with the Public Service Commission an application for a pilot program to support residential customer adoption of beneficial electrification measures; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB781 | Engross
50% | Requiring an application for any new qualified offshore wind project and a certain proposal for an offshore wind transmission facility to be subject to a certain community benefit agreement; requiring the Public Service Commission to request that PJM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB809 | Engross
50% | Altering the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to offshore wind projects and video lottery terminals to July 1, 2025; and altering the date by which certain reports m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB910 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish certain targets for the deployment of new energy storage devices in the State; and requiring the Commission to establish and implement the Maryland Energy Storage Program to meet certain energy sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB914 | Engross
50% | Clarifying that a certain proceeding for judicial review of a final decision or order by the Public Service Commission may be instituted in a circuit court for a county in which the public service company that is a party to the proceeding provides se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB908 | Engross
50% | Making permanent the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Pilot Program; requiring a community solar energy generating system to serve at least 40% of its kilowatt-hour output to low-income and moderate-income subscribers under certain circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1214 | Engross
50% | Requiring an electricity supplier that offers green power for sale to residential customers to purchase certain renewable energy credits; requiring certain electricity suppliers marketing and selling green power to residential customers to include a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1188 | Engross
50% | Defining "generating station" as it relates to the requirement to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity or approval from the Public Service Commission for a person who constructs a generating station that has the capacity to produc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB969 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to include on its staff a certain number of experts in cybersecurity to perform certain duties; requiring the Commission to establish, in coordination with the Office of Security Management, cybersecurity stand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB111 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an Express Lane Eligibility Program by January 1, 2025, to enroll individuals, based on eligibility findings by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, in the Maryland Medical Assistance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB692 | Engross
50% | Establishing that a county or a municipal corporation has the authority to process any local permit required under a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Public Service Commission for generating stations, transmission lines, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB891 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to contract with an independent entity to conduct a study of the staffing capacity, organizational structure, processes, and strategic focus of the Commission; and requiring, on or before July 1, 2024, the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB26 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an Express Lane Eligibility Program by January 1, 2025, to enroll individuals, based on certain eligibility, in the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and the Maryland Children's Health Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB144 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to procure or provide for electricity customers energy efficiency and conservation programs and services designed to achieve certain target annual incremental gross energy savings for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To House Economic Matters 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 | HB1103 | Intro
25% | Requiring an electric company to include in a certain annual report the location of feeders in the service territory of the electric company that have experienced frequent service interruptions and to develop a plan to reduce frequent service interru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB37 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from making certain telephone solicitations to a certain called party in a certain manner by restricting the methods, times, and identifying information that the person making the call may utilize; providing that the Act does not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1007 | Intro
25% | Adding the general manager of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission as a member of the Commission; and requiring that one commissioner from Prince George's County and one commissioner from Montgomery County be a subject matter expert in the are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB905 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company and gas company and the Department of Housing and Community Development to procure or provide for its customers or certain individuals, beginning September 1, 2023, and every 3 years thereafter, certain energy efficien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1213 | Intro
25% | Establishing procedures and requirements for the permitting, installation, and regulation of certain wireless facilities in the State; prohibiting a certain local law from generally prohibiting the installation of certain wireless facilities or poles...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB800 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to include on its staff a certain number of experts in cybersecurity to perform certain duties; requiring the Commission to establish, in coordination with the Office of Security Management, cybersecurity stand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB931 | Intro
25% | Defining "generating station" as it relates to the requirement to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity or approval from the Public Service Commission for a person who constructs a generating station that has the capacity to produc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| 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 | HB718 | Intro
25% | Altering the definitions of "qualifying biomass", "thermal biomass system", and "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from certain forest-related resources, animal manure, waste, and refuse and gas produced from the anaer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB793 | Intro
25% | Requiring an application for any new qualified offshore wind project and a certain proposal for an offshore wind transmission facility to be subject to a certain community benefit agreement; requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1035 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company and gas company and the Department of Housing and Community Development to procure or provide for its customers or certain individuals, beginning September 1, 2023, and every 3 years thereafter, certain energy efficien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1099 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from authorizing, and a person from undertaking, the construction of a solar energy generating station that uses a battery-based energy storage device unless the device will be, and is designed to be, protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB904 | Intro
25% | Altering the goals and requirements of certain energy efficiency programs to include certain greenhouse gas emissions reductions from electric companies and gas companies beginning January 1, 2024; requiring the EmPOWER Maryland Program to provide co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB839 | Intro
25% | Requiring each investor-owned electric company, on or before January 1, 2024, to file with the Public Service Commission an application for a pilot program to support residential customer adoption of beneficial electrification measures; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB590 | Intro
25% | Altering the definitions of "qualifying biomass", "thermal biomass system", and "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from certain forest-related resources, animal manure, waste, and refuse and gas produced from the anaer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB613 | Intro
25% | Making permanent the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Pilot Program; requiring a community solar energy generating system to serve at least 40% of its kilowatt-hour output to low-income and moderate-income subscribers under certain circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB689 | Intro
25% | Altering the goals and requirements of certain energy efficiency programs to include certain greenhouse gas emissions reductions from electric companies and gas companies beginning January 1, 2024; requiring the EmPOWER Maryland Program to provide co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB697 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish certain targets for the deployment of new energy storage devices in the State; and requiring the Commission to establish and implement the Maryland Energy Storage Program to meet certain energy sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB489 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county or a municipal corporation to process any local permit required under a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Public Service Commission for generating stations, transmission lines, and qualified generator le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB357 | Intro
25% | Altering the compliance fee for a shortfall from the required percentage of energy from Tier 1 renewable sources to be derived from solar energy for the renewable energy portfolio standard beginning in 2025 and later.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB511 | Intro
25% | Altering the compliance fee for a shortfall from the required percentage of energy from Tier 1 renewable sources to be derived from solar energy for the renewable energy portfolio standard beginning in 2025 and later.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB68 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an eligible customer-generator to accrue net excess generation for an indefinite period; requiring an eligible customer-generator that elects to accrue net excess generation for an indefinite period to forfeit any net excess generation at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-30
To House Economic Matters Committee |
