| MD | SB362 | Pass | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering, from December 1, 2024, to January 15, 2027, the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to conduct and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 717 |
| MD | SB1 | Pass | Altering a certain charge that may be assessed to a public service company; providing for the recovery of certain costs through rates; establishing an energy salesperson license for certain persons that offer or sell electricity supply agreements or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 537 |
| MD | HB397 | Pass | Requiring gas companies serving at least 75,000 customers in their distribution territories and authorizing gas companies serving fewer than 75,000 customers to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems on or before October ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 564 |
| MD | SB474 | Pass | Altering and establishing the definition of "generating station" for the purpose of exempting the construction of certain generating facilities used to produce electricity for the purpose of on-site emergency backup and certain test and maintenance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411 |
| MD | SB570 | Pass | Requiring certain gas companies and authorizing certain gas companies to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems by October 1, 2024; requiring a gas company that serves at least 75,000 customers in its distribution territo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 |
| MD | SB783 | Pass | Requiring that certain home improvement contracts for the installation of a solar energy generating system on the roof of a building include the installation of a certain wildlife barrier under certain circumstances; requiring a county or municipalit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595 |
| MD | HB864 | Pass | Requiring each electric company, each 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 program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 539 |
| MD | HB1024 | Pass | Expanding the Connection Pipe Emergency Replacement Loan Program to include certain sewer pipes and diagnostic actions; altering the maximum amount of a loan that may be made under the Program from $5,000 to $10,000; altering the total amount of loan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 679 |
| MD | SB951 | Pass | Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework for reliability and reporting standards for electric vehicle charging stations and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Education,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 452 |
| MD | HB1028 | Pass | Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup to study certain standards related to EV charging stations; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework and recommendations to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 453 |
| MD | SB959 | Pass | Requiring an investor-owned electric company to file certain time-of-use tariffs with the Public Service Commission by July 1, 2025; requiring an investor-owned electric company to attempt to achieve a reasonable enrollment target for the tariffs by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 475 |
| MD | HB1256 | Pass | Requiring a certain electric company to file certain time-of-use tariffs with the Public Service Commission by July 1, 2025; requiring a certain electric company to attempt to achieve a certain enrollment target for certain tariffs by January 1, 2028...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 476 |
| MD | HB1393 | Pass | Altering the scope of certain policy goals with regard to energy systems; requiring the Public Service Commission to report on certain projects relating to certain goals; altering the scope of certain funds that may be used for certain projects; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 540 |
| MD | HB1296 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to open a revised Round 2 proceeding on June 1, 2024, to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; prohibiting the Commission from approving an application for an offshore wind project unless the application inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
| MD | SB1106 | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 |
| MD | HB1228 | Pass | Establishing that certain provisions of law that prohibit a person from making or causing to make a certain telephone solicitation that involves using a certain automated system or playing a recorded message do not apply to a noncommercial telephone ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 214 |
| MD | HB1397 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377 |
| MD | SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted |
| MD | HB505 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a certain electric company to be a member of a regional transmission organization; and requiring a certain electric company, by February 1 each year, to submit a report to the Public Service Commission regarding certain votes cast by the el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Fraser-Hidalgo, Adams and Crosby) |
| MD | SB682 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a certain electric company to submit a report to the Public Service Commission on or before February 1 each year regarding certain votes cast by the electric company and any affiliates of the electric company at a meeting of the regional tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB148 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees on the identification and reporting of human trafficking victims; requiring, by January 1, 2025, and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1420 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Office of People's Counsel to retain or hire experts in the field of cybersecurity; requiring certain public service companies to engage with a third party to conduct an assessment that analyzes certain critical software; requiring ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1112 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that a person that applies for a certificate of public convenience and necessity in response to a certain order is eligible for an expedited review process of the application; requiring the Public Service Commission to give priority to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1161 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission on June 1, 2024 to open a revised Round 2 proceeding to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; authorizing certain offshore wind projects to submit certain revised plans for project schedules, sizes, or prici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB829 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitations of its budget, to provide a virtual mental health awareness and skills building training program for service sector employees; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to adopt certain regulations related to lead telecommunications cables; and requiring a company that applied for a grant through the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider certain factors before authorizing or approving any agreement related to the premature retirement of an electricity generation facility; establishing a rebuttable presumption that an electricity gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the required contents of a certain plan that a gas company may file with the Public Service Commission for proposed eligible infrastructure replacement projects to include certain descriptions, demonstrations, analyses, and notifications; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB993 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of the Inspector General of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to complete a review of a certain facility within 60 days after receiving confirmation that the construction of the facility is complete; requiring the Washi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB696 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 approval for the construction of a certain gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1414 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the grounds for disciplining the holder of an electronic smoking devices license or license applicant; altering the scope of the Clean Indoor Act and other provisions of law prohibiting smoking indoors to also prohibit the use of electronic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB935 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Public Service Commission, to establish a Renewable Natural Gas Pilot Program in the Department on or before January 1, 2025; requiring the Department, in consultation with the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Changing the name of the Retail Choice Customer Education and Protection Fund to the Education and Protection Fund; and modifying the purpose and uses of the Fund to include educating certain customers on certain energy choices and developing a certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB361 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 2 megawatts to 5 megawatts, the limitation on the generating capacity for certain community solar energy generating systems that are exempt from personal property taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 2 megawatts to 5 megawatts, the limitation on the generating capacity for certain community solar energy generating systems that are exempt from personal property taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on certain projects involving, and traffic control activities related to, any underground gas or electric infrastructure of an investor-owned gas company, electr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt certain regulations to oversee electric distribution system planning in the State on or before December 31, 2025; requiring electric companies in the State to submit to the Commission certain plans to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1082 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to enact a local law creating a conservation and restoration fund for a certain purpose; establishing the Utility-Scale Solar Design and Siting Commission in the Power Plant Research Program to provide recommendations related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1133 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the cap on the assessment a county or municipal corporation may impose on each transportation network service from 25 cents per trip to 50 cents per trip.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1046 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program to develop and submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1215 | Intro
Sine Die | Pledging certain revenues from a retail delivery fee and a transportation network company impact fee to paying the principal of and interest on consolidated transportation bonds issued by the Department of Transportation; establishing a Retail Delive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1328 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to enact a local law creating a conservation and restoration fund for a certain purpose; establishing the Utility-Scale Solar Design and Siting Commission in the Power Plant Research Program to provide recommendations related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1407 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting counties from establishing zoning laws or other regulations that restrict or prohibit the construction or operation of Tier 1 renewable source generating systems or facilities; requiring the Public Service Commission to study the electric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1379 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the University System of Maryland and the Department of the Environment, to establish a Renewable Natural Gas Pilot Program in the Department on or before January 1, 2025; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1435 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the maximum generating capacity authorized for certain net metered generating facilities; authorizing an eligible customer-generator participating in certain meter aggregation to receive excess generation from more than one generating system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1367 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a person to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Public Service Commission before beginning construction of an energy storage device with a minimum energy storage capacity of 1 megawatt; and applying the Act pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the use of land that is acquired or developed with funds available under Program Open Space to be used for the generation of electricity from a solar or wind source and the storage of electricity in certain energy storage devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB861 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a person that owns, operates, or controls a high energy use facility to ensure greenhouse gas emissions associated with the electricity used by the facility are reduced by certain amounts by certain years; prohibiting a person from using ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
