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MDSB281Engross
50%
Authorizing certain persons to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetation in a certain manner and in accordance with certain requirements; authorizing a public utility company or telecommunications carrier to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetatio...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB505Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB864Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB933Engross
50%
Establishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1112Engross
50%
Requiring the Public Service Commission to determine whether the deployment of energy storage devices could help to avoid or limit a reliability-must-run agreement with an energy generating system or facility in the State under certain circumstances;...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1228Engross
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 ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1256Engross
50%
Requiring the Public Service Commission, on or before December 31, 2025, to adopt a transition plan requiring each electric company to transition customers to a certain time-of-use tariff on or before September 1, 2028; requiring the Commission to ad...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1393Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1296Engross
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 prici...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1420Engross
50%
Requiring the Office of People's Counsel to hire at least one assistant people's counsel with cybersecurity expertise to perform certain duties; requiring certain public service companies to engage with a third party to conduct an assessment that ana...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB101Intro
25%
Requiring the State Highway Administration to provide certain notices to the owner or operator of a utility facility for the removal, relocation, or adjustment of the utility facility for a State highway project; requiring the owner or operator of th...
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2024-03-16
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters
MDSB416Engross
50%
Establishing the Customer-Sited Solar Program within the Maryland Energy Administration for the purpose of increasing deployment of customer-sited solar energy generating system and providing grants to eligible customer-generators for certain solar e...
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2024-03-16
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB974Engross
50%
Establishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;...
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2024-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB474Engross
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...
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2024-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB959Engross
50%
Requiring the Public Service Commission, on or before December 31, 2025, to adopt a transition plan requiring each electric company to transition customers to a certain time-of-use tariff on or before September 1, 2028; requiring the Commission to ad...
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2024-03-15
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDHB1242Intro
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...
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2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB1315Intro
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...
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2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB397Engross
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 ...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB731Intro
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...
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2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDSB1Engross
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...
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2024-03-11
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB510Engross
50%
Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or donate to non...
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2024-03-08
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB518Intro
25%
Requiring the Public Service Commission to study the feasibility of and develop a framework for transitioning to performance-based utility regulation in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024, and a fi...
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2024-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDSB696Intro
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...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB920Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Electric Transmission Authority to serve as the lead State agency on issues related to electricity transmission; and requiring the Authority to advocate on, research, evaluate, and identify certain issues related to electric...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB918Intro
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...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB109Engross
50%
Authorizing certain persons to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetation in a certain manner and in accordance with certain requirements; authorizing a public utility company or telecommunications carrier to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetatio...
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2024-02-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB295Engross
50%
Repealing a requirement that the Department of Planning prepare and periodically revise inventory lists of the natural resources of the State and certain public works and facilities.
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB219Intro
25%
Authorizing a utility or local government to remove a tree or shrub on certain private property under certain circumstances, including requiring the utility or local government to provide certain notice to the owner of the property on which the tree ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB409Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1161Intro
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...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB166Intro
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...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB583Intro
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...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1083Intro
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 ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1082Intro
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 ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1133Intro
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.
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1046Intro
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...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1328Intro
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 ...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1407Intro
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...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1435Intro
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...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1367Intro
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...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB570Intro
25%
Requiring each gas company to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems on or before October 1, 2024; requiring each gas company to submit a certain proposal or proposals to the Public Service Commission for approval on or b...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB783Intro
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB861Intro
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB814Intro
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.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1025Intro
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB579Intro
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...
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2024-02-02
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB682Intro
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...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB236Intro
25%
Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations or orders regarding the marketing of and contracting for certain electricity supply.
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB258Intro
25%
Establishing the Customer-Sited Solar Program within the Maryland Energy Administration for the purpose of increasing deployment of customer-sited solar energy generating system and providing grants to eligible customer-generators for certain solar e...
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB267Intro
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...
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
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