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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
MDSB333Engross
50%
Repealing a requirement that the Department of Housing and Community Development identify certain property as suitable for use or redevelopment; prohibiting the Department from identifying certain property for use or redevelopment as affordable housi...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB428Engross
50%
Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Developmen...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB455Engross
50%
Requiring that returns for certain taxes and fees collected by the Comptroller be filed electronically, subject to certain exceptions; and altering certain requirements for electronic filing of returns for certain taxes.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB468Engross
50%
Establishing the Commission to Advance Lithium-Ion Battery Safety in Maryland; requiring the Commission to make legislative, regulatory, programmatic and other recommendations by December 1, 2025 to the Governor and the General Assembly.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB532Engross
50%
Establishing the Commission to Advance Lithium-Ion Battery Safety in Maryland; and requiring the Commission to study and make legislative, regulatory, programmatic, and other recommendations and, on or before December 1, 2025, report its findings and...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
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
MDHB598Engross
50%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB796Engross
50%
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $29,800,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County, and to effect such borrowing b...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB829Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitations of its budget, to provide a virtual mental health first aid training program for service sector employees; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitat...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance 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
MDSB892Engross
50%
Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB1076Engross
50%
Requiring the Comptroller to distribute to the Transportation Trust Fund revenue from the sales and use tax that is attributable to the sale of electricity used to charge an electric vehicle at an electric vehicle charging station or used to charge a...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDHB1028Engross
50%
Requiring the Comptroller to adopt regulations for the retail use of electric vehicle supply equipment in the State; and requiring the Comptroller, in consultation with the Public Service Commission, to submit a report on the development and enforcem...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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
MDHB1161Engross
50%
Authorizing the Dorchester County Council to, by public local law, abolish the Dorchester County Sanitary Commission, establish a department of public facilities and services, and provide for the department's abilities and functions, subject to certa...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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
MDHB1397Engross
50%
Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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
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
MDHB1512Engross
50%
Repealing the termination date for certain provisions of law that expand the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include certain costs associated with the connection of a property using an on-site sewage disposal system to a certain existi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB258Engross
50%
Altering the State's goals for reducing energy consumption in State buildings; requiring the Maryland Green Building Council to update the High Performance Green Building Program to ensure that the Program aligns with certain greenhouse gas emissions...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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
MDSB677Engross
50%
Requiring, beginning in calendar year 2026, that returns for certain taxes and fees collected by the Comptroller be filed electronically, subject to certain exceptions; and altering certain requirements for electronic filing of returns for certain ta...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB693Engross
50%
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $29,800,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County, and to effect such borrowing b...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB917Intro
25%
Requiring a utility owner to submit to the Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority, within 60 days after completion, certain information pertaining to the installation or relocation of facilities, infrastructure, or app...
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2024-03-16
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters
MDSB951Engross
50%
Requiring the Comptroller to adopt regulations for the retail use of electric vehicle supply equipment in the State; and requiring the Comptroller, in consultation with the Public Service Commission, to submit a report on the development and enforcem...
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2024-03-16
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB370Engross
50%
Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Developmen...
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations 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)
MDSB307Engross
50%
Extending the termination date for the Board of Boiler Rules to July 1, 2034.
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2024-03-14
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
MDHB243Engross
50%
Requiring that certain owner-occupied property be withheld from tax sale; authorizing a county or a municipal corporation to withhold from tax sale certain property designated for redevelopment purposes; altering certain provisions of law concerning ...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
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
MDHB1509Intro
25%
Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Model Workgroup to study the regional water governance approach in the Baltimore region; and requiring the Workgroup to report, on or before June 30, 2027, its findings to the Mayor of Baltimore Ci...
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2024-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB465Engross
50%
Altering certain requirements for procedures relating to electric vehicle recharging equipment; establishing requirements and procedures relating to an application to the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation to install or use electric ...
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2024-03-08
To House Environment and Transportation 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
MDSB1078Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force on Washington County Regional Water and Wastewater Governance to study the water supply, wastewater treatment, and approaches to water and wastewater governance in Washington County; requiring the Governor to include in th...
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2024-03-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1106Engross
50%
Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ...
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2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1061Intro
25%
Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations 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
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
MDHB908Intro
25%
Altering certain notice requirements that a supplier of water must give to the Department of the Environment and certain individuals and entities under certain circumstances; requiring a supplier of water to give notice to the Department of the Envir...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
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
MDHB139Engross
50%
Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of utility services for which certain landlords are required to provide a certain notice in a written lease and a copy of a certain receipt or bill summary under certain circumstances.
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2024-02-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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