| MD | HB598 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB864 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1028 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1393 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1397 | Enroll
75% | 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
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB397 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1296 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1256 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB166 | Intro
25% | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB236 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations or orders regarding the marketing of and contracting for certain electricity supply.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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 |
