| MD | HB1467 | Pass | 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] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 168 |
| MD | HB114 | Pass | Establishing requirements for the commercial application of general use pesticides, the commercial application of restricted use pesticides, and the private application of restricted use pesticides; requiring a certified private applicator to ensure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| MD | SB249 | Pass | Establishing requirements for the commercial application of general use pesticides, the commercial application of restricted use pesticides, and the private application of restricted use pesticides; requiring a certified private applicator to ensure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 42 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB116 | 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] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| 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 | 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 | SB102 | Enroll
75% | Altering the definition of "public entity" to include a Resilience Authority for purposes of insurance pooling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB352 | Enroll
75% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| 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 | HB505 | Engross
50% | Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB427 | Engross
50% | Altering the designation, administration, and purposes of and eligibility for certain economic development programs; redesignating the Maryland Economic Development Assistance Authority to be the Maryland Economic Competitiveness Fund; repealing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB909 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB937 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB931 | Enroll
75% | Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1035 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1037 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1036 | Enroll
75% | Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1111 | Enroll
75% | Providing that solar energy generating systems located on or over certain water retention ponds or quarries are eligible for the Small Solar Energy Generating System Incentive Program; and authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or t...
[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 | SB683 | Engross
50% | Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs in connectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB1195 | Enroll
75% | Requiring one of the three commissioners from Montgomery County on the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to be the Director of the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection or a designee; requiring the Commission to submit a long...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Returned Passed |
| 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 | HB506 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the defin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB971 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park Advisory Committee to provide advice on the planning of the Park; requiring the Advisory Committee to make recommendations to ensure that the Park focuses on mental and physical ...
[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 | SB428 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with fulfilling the Program's purpose; definin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
