| MD | SB144 | Veto | 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] | 2023-05-19
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB908 | Pass | 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] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| MD | SB143 | Pass | 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] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 458 |
| MD | HB169 | Pass | 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] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 |
| MD | HB630 | Pass | 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] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 566 |
| MD | HB692 | Pass | Establishing that a county or a municipal corporation has the authority to approve or deny any local permit required under a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Public Service Commission for generating stations, transmission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 515 |
| MD | HB910 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish certain targets for the deployment of new energy storage devices in the State; requiring the Commission to establish and implement the Maryland Energy Storage Program to meet certain energy storage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 570 |
| MD | HB834 | Pass | 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 the Commission to terminate the expansion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 569 |
| MD | HB914 | Pass | 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] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 562 |
| MD | HB1188 | Pass | 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] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 460 |
| MD | HB969 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to include on its staff one or more employees that are experts in cybersecurity to perform certain duties; requiring the Commission to establish, in coordination with the Office of Security Management, cybersec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 |
| MD | SB26 | Pass | 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] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 282 |
| MD | HB37 | Pass | 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] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 414 |
| MD | SB90 | Pass | 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] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| MD | HB513 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to enforce certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on projects involving and traffic control activities related to underground gas or electric infrastructure of an inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 336 |
| MD | HB323 | Pass | 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] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 207 |
| MD | SB334 | Pass | 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] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 138 |
| MD | HB783 | Pass | Revising the minority business enterprise utilization program within the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, including altering the definition of "minority business enterprise", altering the duties of the Office of Supplier Diversity and Inclusi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 240 |
| MD | HB809 | Pass | 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] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 137 |
| MD | HB872 | Pass | 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] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 241 |
| MD | SB781 | Pass | 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] | 2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 95 |
| MD | SB667 | 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 this Act is not intended to affect any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 49 |
| MD | SB489 | Engross
50% | Establishing that a county or a municipal corporation has the authority to approve or deny any local permit required under a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Public Service Commission for generating stations, transmission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB800 | 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] | 2023-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB793 | 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] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (36-10) |
| MD | HB873 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain qualifications for a certain number of commissioners of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission from Prince George's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB931 | 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] | 2023-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1035 | Engross
50% | Requiring each electric company and gas company and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets through certain programs a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB697 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish certain targets for the deployment of new energy storage devices in the State; requiring the Commission to establish and implement the Maryland Energy Storage Program to meet certain energy storage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB613 | 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] | 2023-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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] | 2023-03-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| 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
To House Economic Matters 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
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1053 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees, taxicab drivers, and transportation network operators on the identification and reporting of suspecte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
