| MD | SB144 | Veto | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to procure or provide for electricity customers energy efficiency and conservation programs and services designed to achieve certain target annual incremental gross energy savings for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB908 | Pass | Making permanent the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Pilot Program; requiring a community solar energy generating system to serve at least 40% of its kilowatt-hour output to low-income and moderate-income subscribers under certain circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| MD | HB169 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to procure or provide for electricity customers energy efficiency and conservation programs and services designed to achieve certain target annual incremental gross energy savings for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 |
| MD | SB469 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Solar Incentives to study the types and impact of solar energy incentives and make recommendations regarding measures and incentives needed to ensure that the State meets the solar energy goals established in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 545 |
| MD | HB692 | Pass | Establishing that a county or a municipal corporation has the authority to approve or deny any local permit required under a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Public Service Commission for generating stations, transmission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 515 |
| MD | HB834 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to expand the EV Pilot Program to allow participating electric companies to install EV charging stations in multifamily dwellings in underserved communities; requiring the Commission to terminate the expansion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 569 |
| MD | HB914 | Pass | Clarifying that a certain proceeding for judicial review of a final decision or order by the Public Service Commission may be instituted in a circuit court for a county in which the public service company that is a party to the proceeding provides se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 562 |
| MD | HB910 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish certain targets for the deployment of new energy storage devices in the State; requiring the Commission to establish and implement the Maryland Energy Storage Program to meet certain energy storage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 570 |
| MD | HB969 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to include on its staff one or more employees that are experts in cybersecurity to perform certain duties; requiring the Commission to establish, in coordination with the Office of Security Management, cybersec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 |
| MD | HB513 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to enforce certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on projects involving and traffic control activities related to underground gas or electric infrastructure of an inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 336 |
| MD | SB781 | Pass | Requiring an application for any new qualified offshore wind project and a certain proposal for an offshore wind transmission facility to be subject to a certain community benefit agreement; requiring the Public Service Commission to request that PJM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 95 |
| MD | SB131 | Pass | Modifying certain reporting requirements for practicability and efficiency; and repealing certain reporting requirements that are unnecessary, obsolete, duplicative, or inefficient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 48 |
| MD | HB124 | Pass | Modifying certain reporting requirements for practicability and efficiency; and repealing certain reporting requirements that are unnecessary, obsolete, duplicative, or inefficient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 47 |
| MD | SB489 | Engross
50% | Establishing that a county or a municipal corporation has the authority to approve or deny any local permit required under a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Public Service Commission for generating stations, transmission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB793 | Engross
50% | Requiring an application for any new qualified offshore wind project and a certain proposal for an offshore wind transmission facility to be subject to a certain community benefit agreement; requiring the Public Service Commission to request that PJM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (36-10) |
| MD | SB800 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to include on its staff a certain number of experts in cybersecurity to perform certain duties; requiring the Commission to establish, in coordination with the Office of Security Management, cybersecurity stand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1134 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, on or before January 1, 2024, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, a requirement that new buildings meet all energy demands of the building without the use of fossil fuels an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | SB950 | Engross
50% | Altering the composition of the Maryland Zero Emission Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council to include a representative of a light-duty plug-in electric drive vehicle manufacturer and a heavy-duty plug-in electric drive vehicle manufacturer and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1291 | Engross
50% | Altering the composition of the Maryland Zero Emission Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council; and altering the dates by which the Council must submit interim reports of its work and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1035 | Engross
50% | Requiring each electric company and 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 programs a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB697 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish certain targets for the deployment of new energy storage devices in the State; requiring the Commission to establish and implement the Maryland Energy Storage Program to meet certain energy storage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB613 | Engross
50% | Making permanent the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Pilot Program; requiring a community solar energy generating system to serve at least 40% of its kilowatt-hour output to low-income and moderate-income subscribers under certain circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1214 | Engross
50% | Requiring an electricity supplier that offers green power for sale to residential customers to purchase certain renewable energy credits; requiring certain electricity suppliers marketing and selling green power to residential customers to include a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB170 | Engross
50% | 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 an exemption from a certain requirement for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1186 | Engross
50% | Requiring each public service company that is a member of a regional transmission organization to submit to the Public Service Commission on or before February 1 each year a report on votes cast by the public service company at a meeting of the regio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB459 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB663 | Engross
50% | Requiring each investor-owned electric company, on or before January 1, 2025, to file with the Public Service Commission an application for a pilot program to support residential customer adoption of beneficial electrification measures; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB891 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to contract with an independent entity to conduct a study of the staffing capacity, organizational structure, processes, and strategic focus of the Commission; and requiring, on or before July 1, 2024, the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB444 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of the State Board of Electricians; and requiring the Board to license limited energy contractors and limited energy integrators as State licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1103 | Intro
25% | Requiring an electric company to include in a certain annual report the location of feeders in the service territory of the electric company that have experienced frequent service interruptions and to develop a plan to reduce frequent service interru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB905 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company and gas company and the Department of Housing and Community Development to procure or provide for its customers or certain individuals, beginning September 1, 2023, and every 3 years thereafter, certain energy efficien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB895 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of the State Board of Electricians; and requiring the Board to license limited energy contractors and limited energy integrators as State licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1100 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to local governments to train local fire departments on certain safety aspects associated with lithium-ion battery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1099 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from authorizing, and a person from undertaking, the construction of a solar energy generating station that uses a battery-based energy storage device unless the device will be, and is designed to be, protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB904 | Intro
25% | Altering the goals and requirements of certain energy efficiency programs to include certain greenhouse gas emissions reductions from electric companies and gas companies beginning January 1, 2024; requiring the EmPOWER Maryland Program to provide co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB839 | Intro
25% | Requiring each investor-owned electric company, on or before January 1, 2024, to file with the Public Service Commission an application for a pilot program to support residential customer adoption of beneficial electrification measures; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB689 | Intro
25% | Altering the goals and requirements of certain energy efficiency programs to include certain greenhouse gas emissions reductions from electric companies and gas companies beginning January 1, 2024; requiring the EmPOWER Maryland Program to provide co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB357 | Intro
25% | Altering the compliance fee for a shortfall from the required percentage of energy from Tier 1 renewable sources to be derived from solar energy for the renewable energy portfolio standard beginning in 2025 and later.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB511 | Intro
25% | Altering the compliance fee for a shortfall from the required percentage of energy from Tier 1 renewable sources to be derived from solar energy for the renewable energy portfolio standard beginning in 2025 and later.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
