| 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] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted |
| 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 | 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 | 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Withdrawn by Sponsor |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 | 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Withdrawn by Sponsor |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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| MD | SB146 | 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] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
