| MD | HB264 | Pass | Requiring a certain person that generates food residuals to separate the food residuals from other solid waste and ensure that the food residuals are diverted from final disposal in a refuse disposal system in a certain manner; applying the requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 439 |
| MD | HB204 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to receive and process complaints involving alleged violations of certain air and water quality requirements in a certain manner; requiring the Department to keep an electronic record of certain complaints ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 442 |
| MD | SB324 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to receive and process complaints involving alleged violations of certain air and water quality requirements in a certain manner; requiring the Department of the Environment to keep an electronic record of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 443 |
| MD | HB293 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from sponsoring, conducting, or participating in organized contests that have the objective of killing a coyote, fox, or raccoon for prizes or monetary awards; providing certain exceptions; establishing a $50 fine for each coyote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 684 |
| MD | SB282 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from conducting or contracting for animal testing in the development of a cosmetic; prohibiting a manufacturer from selling or offering for sale in the State a cosmetic under certain circumstances beginning July 1, 2022; providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 774 |
| MD | SB103 | Pass | Altering the definition of "retail pet store" to include a broker that transfers dogs or cats for resale by another person for purposes of certain provisions of law regulating retail pet stores; clarifying a certain prohibition on the sale of cats or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 448 |
| MD | HB581 | Pass | Requiring each essential employer to take certain actions related to occupational safety and health during an emergency; providing that an essential worker has the right to refuse to perform a certain task as provided under certain provisions of law;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 736 |
| MD | HB611 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from conducting or contracting for animal testing in the development of a cosmetic; prohibiting a manufacturer from selling or offering for sale in the State a cosmetic under certain circumstances beginning July 1, 2022; providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 773 |
| MD | SB483 | Pass | Requiring a certain person that generates food residuals to separate the food residuals from other solid waste and ensure that the food residuals are diverted from final disposal in a refuse disposal system in a certain manner; applying the requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 440 |
| MD | HB261 | Pass | Authorizing a local government to require that certain persons who provide battery-charged fence security systems comply with certain laws, require certain persons who operate or install certain security systems to obtain certain registrations or per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 407 |
| MD | HB234 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from willfully and maliciously killing, injuring, or interfering with the use of a certain service animal in a certain manner, or allowing a certain animal to kill, injure, or interfere with the use of a certain service animal in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 |
| MD | HB281 | Pass | Requiring a new officer of a humane society or animal control to receive at least 80 hours of training within the first 12 months of employment; requiring an officer of a humane society or animal control to complete at least 6 hours of continuing ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 226 |
| MD | SB159 | Pass | Requiring a new officer of a humane society or animal control to receive at least 80 hours of training approved by the appropriate unit of a county or municipality within the first 12 months of employment; requiring an officer of a humane society or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 227 |
| MD | HB269 | Pass | Establishing the Urban Agriculture Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to increase the viability of urban farming and improve access to urban-grown foods; establishing an Urban Agriculture Grant Fund to provide grants to nonprofit organiza...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 319 |
| MD | SB284 | Pass | Defining the terms "service dog", "support dog", and "therapy horse" for the purposes of the law governing the Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program in the Department of Veterans Affairs; defining "service dog" as one that is individually trained ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 308 |
| MD | HB660 | Pass | Defining the terms "service dog", "support dog", and "therapy horse" for the purposes of the law governing the Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program in the Department of Veterans Affairs; defining "service dog" as one that is individually trained ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 307 |
| MD | SB607 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from willfully and maliciously killing, injuring, or interfering with the use of a certain service animal, or willfully and maliciously allowing a certain animal to kill, injure, or interfere with the use of a certain service ani...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 |
| MD | SB533 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Maryland-Bred Race Fund Advisory Committee to include a member of and recommended by the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, Inc.; altering the circumstances under which a horse may be registered with the Mary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 204 |
| MD | HB482 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Maryland-Bred Race Fund Advisory Committee to include an individual who is a member of and recommended by the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, Inc.; altering the circumstances under which a horse may be reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 203 |
| MD | SB343 | Pass | Requiring a person to obtain a license from the Department of Natural Resources before catching shrimp for commercial purposes; and authorizing the Department to adopt certain regulations governing any aspect of the shrimp fishery, including regulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 119 |
| MD | SB200 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from sponsoring, conducting, or participating in organized contests that have the objective of killing a coyote, fox, or raccoon for prizes or monetary awards except under certain circumstances; and establishing a fine of $100 fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Kipke) Adopted |
| MD | HB1358 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the name of the Outreach and Advocacy Program in the Department of Veterans Affairs to be the Office of Communications and Public Affairs; requiring the Office, in collaboration with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, to actively help...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB948 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the name of the Outreach and Advocacy Program in the Department of Veterans Affairs to be the Office of Communications and Public Affairs; requiring the Office, in collaboration with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, to actively help...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB615 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on each Sunday of the deer hunting seasons in Prince George's County from the first Sunday in October through the second Sunday in January, inclusive; and adding Prince Ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-24
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB802 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt on each Sunday of the game bird and game mammal season in Calvert County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-22
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1163 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on each Sunday of the deer hunting seasons from the first Sunday in October through the second Sunday in January, inclusive, in Caroline County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-22
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1025 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Department of Natural Resources, to establish a certain program to address the illegal use of carbofuran and to eliminate stockpiles of carbofuran in the State; prohibiting a person fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB490 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified provisions of law related to the sale of livestock apply to specified deer; providing that the Maryland Wholesome Meat Act applies to specified deer; establishing the Deer Management Permit Pilot Program in Montgomery County ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB146 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Agriculture to report to the General Assembly by October 1, 2021, on spay and neuter programs that are not receiving funding from the Spay/Neuter Fund, the market capacity for increasing the fees assessed on each brand nam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB267 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to monitor effluent discharged from sewage treatment plants and evaluate whether the effluent impacts midge populations in the surrounding land and water areas; and requiring the Department to report to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB325 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on each Sunday of the deer hunting seasons from the first Sunday in October through the second Sunday in January, inclusive, in Talbot County; and authorizing the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that the prohibition against selling, offering for sale, bartering, or exchanging a game bird or game mammal taken from the wild does not apply to venison from a lawfully-harvested white-tailed deer that is donated to certain local venis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the processing of poultry litter for a certain alternative use, or the resulting product, to meet certain requirements; requiring a certain product to be able to be procured and handled or applied in a certain manner for a certain purpose; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt on each Sunday of the game bird and game mammal seasons in Worcester County; authorizing the Department to allow a person to hunt on public land designated for hunting by the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-02
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB455 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the processing of poultry litter for a certain alternative use, or the resulting product, to meet certain requirements; requiring a certain product to be able to be procured and handled or applied in a certain manner for a certain purpose; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that the prohibition against selling, offering for sale, bartering, or exchanging a game bird or game mammal taken from the wild does not apply to venison from a lawfully-harvested white-tailed deer that is donated to certain local venis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1362 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the State's renewable energy portfolio standard to be the clean and renewable energy standard; altering certain legislative findings regarding and purposes of the standard; requiring certain percentages of certain energy in the State to be d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt on each Sunday of the game bird and game mammal seasons in Worcester County; and authorizing the Department to allow a person to hunt on public land designated for hunting by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ4 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to evaluate the population of Atlantic menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay; and requiring the Commission to consider prohibiting the commercial reduction fishing of Atlantic menhaden, including th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt on each Sunday of the game bird and game mammal season in Calvert County; and authorizing the Department to allow a person to hunt on public land designated for hunting by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on each Sunday of the deer hunting seasons from the first Sunday in October through the second Sunday in January, inclusive, in Talbot County; authorizing the Department t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SJ6 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to evaluate the population of Atlantic menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay; and requiring the Commission to consider prohibiting the commercial reduction fishing of Atlantic menhaden, including th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB603 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on each Sunday of the deer hunting seasons from the first Sunday in October through the second Sunday in January, inclusive, in Caroline County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1080 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, if an animal is seized under a certain provision of law, certain individuals to file a petition for certain costs against a certain owner or custodian for certain costs of caring for the animal, including the provision of food, water, sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1282 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual to bring a nuisance action for damages caused by rodent harborage on real property against an owner of the property; defining "rodent harborage" as a condition that provides sustenance or shelter for rodents, promotes their ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB760 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, if an animal is seized under a certain provision of law, certain individuals to file a petition for certain costs against a certain owner or custodian for reasonable costs of caring for the animal, including the provision of food, water,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the size of the safety zone within which archery hunting may not take place except under certain circumstances in Baltimore County from 150 yards to 50 yards; and requiring an archery hunter in Baltimore County to use a tree stand when hunti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an essential employer to give a written statement regarding certain hazard pay paid to certain essential workers at certain intervals; requiring an essential employer to take certain actions related to occupational safety and health during ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an applicant to make a certain certification on an application for a certain local projects grant under Program Open Space; requiring each local governing body to submit to the Department of Natural Resources a policy of best practices of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
