| MD | SB266 | Pass | Providing certain planning principles that are collectively intended to create sustainable communities and to protect the environment utilizing active public participation; altering the State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 64 |
| MD | HB286 | Pass | Providing certain planning principles that are collectively intended to create sustainable communities and to protect the environment utilizing active public participation; altering the State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 63 |
| MD | HB344 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service to include the Secretary of Planning or a designee and, as nonvoting members, one member from the Senate of Maryland and one from the Maryland House of Delegates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 48 |
| MD | SB315 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service; and providing that certain provisions of law relating to terms of members of the Board do not apply to the Secretary of Planning, certain legislative members, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 47 |
| MD | SB96 | Enroll
75% | Requiring at least one water bottle filling station or a combined water bottle filling station and drinking fountain to be installed in certain new construction or as part of certain renovations beginning October 1, 2025, subject to certain exception...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB149 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller, in coordination with the Department of the Environment and the Department of Commerce, to conduct a study to assess the total cost of greenhouse gas emissions in the State and report certain findings to certain committees o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB128 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller, in coordination with the Department of the Environment and the Department of Commerce, to conduct a study to assess the total cost of greenhouse gas emissions in the State and report certain findings to certain committees b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB117 | Enroll
75% | Prioritizing funding first to failing sewage systems and holding tanks in the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, second to those located within the Maryland Chesapeake Bay 8-digit watershed that have a relative effectiveness for tota...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB49 | Enroll
75% | Altering the requirements for certain regulations adopted by the Department of the Environment relating to building energy performance standards to include certain exclusions, considerations, and a certain annual reporting fee to cover certain costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB89 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to establish a certain process in collaboration with one or more boards under the Department's direction and control that requires a board to include a notation indicating veteran status on a professional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB168 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from processing or making any recommendation on a certain application submitted for the purpose of constructing a confined aquatic disposal cell from June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2029; and prohibiting th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB116 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of the Environment and the University of Maryland School of Business, in coordination with the Department of Legislative Services, to conduct an analysis of the likely environmental and economic impacts of data center develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB265 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Reservoir Augmentation Program in the Department of the Environment; defining "Reservoir Augmentation" as the planned placement of reclaimed water into a surface water reservoir used as a source for a drinking water treatment facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB250 | Enroll
75% | Altering the authorized uses of the Maryland Clean Air Fund to include certain activities relating to mitigating and reducing air pollution in the State; authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB425 | Enroll
75% | Altering the factors that the Department of the Environment is required to consider in establishing a certain fee; requiring the Department to use certain excess fees collected from certain generators of coal combustion by-products for certain purpos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB747 | Engross
50% | Requiring a landlord of property that is served by an on-site wastewater system to ensure, on or before July 1, 2028, and before each new tenant occupies the property thereafter, that the system has been inspected and pumped out in a certain manner; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted |
| MD | HB757 | Enroll
75% | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Program from $500,000 to at least $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary to use up to 20% of Program funds to support research centers, including the University...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB902 | Intro
25% | Providing that a certain base fee established by the Department of the Environment that is paid by a certain generator of coal combustion by-products is not less than $2.30 per ton; altering the factors that the Department is required to consider in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Korman) Adopted |
| MD | SB901 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain producers of covered materials, individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization, to submit a certain covered materials producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval on or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB930 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a person from performing groundwater augmentation except under certain circumstances; establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program; authorizing the Department of the Environment to review, permit, and regulate groundwater augme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB856 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Department of Health, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of General Services to develop a certain pamphlet and website; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB871 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1467 | Enroll
75% | Requiring interest earnings on money deposited for a certain taxing and assessment district to be credited to that district; specifying that a certain provision of law governing the petition process for the construction of an erosion prevention proje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1367 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a civil penalty not exceeding $50,000 for a person who falsifies information that is submitted in a report of the results of lead-contaminated dust testing or visual inspection of an affected property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB858 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB253 | Enroll
75% | Providing that certain provisions of law regarding chemical warfare material requirements under a controlled hazardous substance facility permit do not apply to the incineration of chemical warfare materials at a certain research facility if the inci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB270 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Energy Administration, and the University of Maryland School of Business, in coordination with the Department of Legislative Services, to conduct an analysis of the likely environmental, energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB480 | Enroll
75% | Applying certain provisions relating to the adoption of or revision or amendment to a county plan to county plans in St. Mary's County; and repealing certain provisions relating to public sewerage systems and water supply systems in St. Mary's County...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB671 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Office of Cemetery Oversight, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of the Environment, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB849 | Enroll
75% | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program from $500,000 to $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary of Health to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1062 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1155 | Enroll
75% | Defining the term "ecological restoration" as an activity undertaken with the goal of recovering, re-establishing, or enhancing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through improvements to physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB131 | Enroll
75% | Updating the funding priorities for failing sewage systems and holding tanks; requiring as a second priority those located within the Maryland Chesapeake Bay 8-digit watershed that have a relative effectiveness for total nitrogen reduction of 9.24 or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB452 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Green Building Council, on or before October 1, 2026, to update or develop guidance for the purchase of outdoor lighting fixtures in consideration of certain recommendations; prohibiting State funds from being used to install o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1124 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1556 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from implementing the Advanced Clean Trucks Program until a certain needs assessment and deployment plan is published, subject to certain conditions; authorizing the Department to apply certain enforcemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB277 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a water bottle filling station or a combined water bottle filling station and drinking fountain to be installed in certain new construction or as part of certain renovations beginning October 1, 2025, subject to certain exceptions; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB25 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Reservoir Augmentation Program in the Department of the Environment; defining "reservoir augmentation" as the planned placement of reclaimed water into a surface water reservoir used as a source for a drinking water treatment facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB338 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a conta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB1296 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a person from performing groundwater augmentation except under certain circumstances; establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program to regulate and evaluate the use of treated reclaimed water as a source for groundwater augmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB722 | Enroll
75% | Defining the term "ecological restoration" as an activity undertaken with the goal of recovering, re-establishing, or enhancing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through improvements to physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB964 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB84 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Transportation, as part of the planning and implementation of certain major highway expansion projects, to perform an impact assessment of the project and develop and implement a corresponding multimodal transportation pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB42 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to designate the watersheds of Carroll Creek in Frederick City and Frederick County, Gwynns Falls and Jones Falls in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, and Herring Run, including the Herring Run Stream in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB42 | Engross
50% | Establishing, beginning July 1, 2027, the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling, compost use, wasted food preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB386 | Engross
50% | Requiring, by January 1, 2032, the Department of Agriculture to develop, maintain, post on its website, and distribute to all certified applicators a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB878 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to engage in the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of oil or natural gas in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1135 | Intro
25% | Altering the uses of the Maryland Clean Water Fund to include activities that are related to urban forest management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1112 | Intro
25% | Altering the time limits for bringing an action for wrongful death or personal injury concerning exposure of a person to PFAS chemicals; and prohibiting a person, on or after July 1, 2026, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in the State a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1237 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, whenever required by certain statutes to publish notice for a permit, license, or other authorization in a newspaper of general circulation, to accept public comments on the application for the time period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
