| MD | HB397 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-29 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB505 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-29 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB682 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting public service companies from recovering through rates certain costs; requiring certain public service companies to submit an annual report to the Public Service Commission regarding costs related to certain activities; requiring each ele... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB1256 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB1296 | Engross 50% | 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 pric... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB1 | Engross 50% | 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 or gas supply agreeme... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB413 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1420 | Engross 50% | 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 50% | 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 25% | 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 | SB959 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-19 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1228 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB598 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1028 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework and recommendations to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Economic Matters Committee on or before... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1393 | Engross 50% | 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 relat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1397 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB951 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework and recommendations to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Economic Matters Committee on or before... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB474 | Engross 50% | 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 onsite emergency backup and certain test and maintenance op... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1242 | Intro 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 | SB1106 | 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] | 2024-03-06 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB993 | Intro 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 | SB590 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB583 | Intro 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 25% | 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 | SB783 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB861 | Intro 25% | 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 |
| MD | SB814 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "qualified offshore wind project" for purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard and the development of offshore wind in the State. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1025 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB579 | Intro 25% | 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 onsite emergency backup and certain test and maintenance op... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB267 | Intro 25% | Establishing an energy salesperson license for certain persons that offer or sell electricity or gas supply agreements to customers in the State; providing for the terms of electricity supplier, energy salesperson, and gas supplier licenses issued by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB682 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2024-02-01 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB554 | Intro 25% | Applying certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on certain projects involving, and traffic control activities related to, any gas or electric infrastructure of an investor-owned gas company, electric company, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29 To House Economic Matters Committee |