MD | HB352 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604 |
MD | SB931 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623 |
MD | HB1036 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 624 |
MD | HB128 | Veto | 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] | 2025-05-16 Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
MD | SB149 | Veto | 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] | 2025-05-16 Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
MD | SB73 | Pass | Renaming the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program to be the Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 533 |
MD | HB506 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
MD | HB731 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to foster collaboration among State and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders for the purpose of protecting endangered wildlife from habitat fragmentation; requiring t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549 |
MD | HB717 | Pass | Altering provisions of law regarding the acquisition of real property by the Department of Natural Resources; establishing a Land and Property Management Program in the Department to process certain transactions; authorizing the Department and the N... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 443 |
MD | HB894 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the northern long-eared bat, the tricolor bat, or the eastern small-footed bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secret... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 |
MD | SB946 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the eastern small-footed bat, the northern long-eared bat, or the tricolored bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 550 |
MD | SB399 | Pass | Exempting certain areas in the Big Savage Mountain Wildland, Bear Pen Wildland, and Dan's Mountain Wildland from being designated as a wildland area, subject to a certificate of public convenience and necessity being obtained for a certain transmissi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 |
MD | SB722 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329 |
MD | HB1155 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330 |
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 | HB503 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to periodically establish housing production targets for the State and certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish housing production targets on its website and notify... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
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 |
MD | SB635 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to foster collaboration among State and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders for the purpose of protecting endangered wildlife from habitat fragmentation; requiring t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
MD | HB1270 | Intro 25% | Exempting certain areas in the Big Savage Mountain Wildland, Bear Pen Wildland, and Dan's Mountain Wildland from being designated as a wildland area, subject to a certificate of public convenience and necessity being obtained for a certain transmissi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17 Motion Special Order until 03/27 (Delegate Crosby) Adopted |
MD | SB737 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State or any... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB671 | Intro 25% | Requiring, by January 1, 2026, a county water and sewerage plan to include a plan to minimize inundation risks to existing on-site sewage disposal systems and limit the installation of new on-site sewage disposal systems in climate vulnerable areas; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
MD | HB854 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to print an assigned permanent identification number in a certain manner for a person who completes the course of instruction in conservation and in competency and safety in the handling of firearms. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
MD | SB321 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-14 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
MD | SB128 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to print an assigned permanent identification number in a certain manner for a person who completes the course of instruction in conservation and in competency and safety in the handling of firearms. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
MD | SB461 | Intro 25% | Renaming the Maryland Water Quality Revolving Loan Fund to be the Maryland Water Quality Improvement Revolving Loan Fund; altering the conditions under which the Maryland Water Quality Improvement Revolving Loan Fund may be used to include supporting... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB1175 | Intro 25% | Authorizing, in accordance with technical specifications adopted by the Department of Agriculture, that State cost-share funding be made available for installing various vegetative buffer practices on land within the 100-foot tidal buffer on an agric... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | HB1224 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "linear project" under the Forest Conservation Act to exclude a project for a new transmission line or new distribution line constructed on or after October 1, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To House Economic Matters Committee |
MD | HB1396 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a certain generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To House Economic Matters Committee |
MD | SB430 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB1022 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from using federal funds for oyster restoration projects in State waters from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2030, both inclusive, subject to a certain exception. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | SB955 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a person constructing an overhead transmission line from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property encumbered by a conservation easement; authorizing a certain property owner to bring an action for damages incurred as a resul... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB699 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "linear project" under the Forest Conservation Act to exclude a project for a new transmission line or new distribution line constructed on or after October 1, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB837 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from using federal funds for oyster restoration projects in State waters from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2030, both inclusive, subject to a certain exception. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB898 | Intro 25% | Authorizing, in accordance with technical specifications adopted by the Department of Agriculture, that State cost-share funding be made available for installing various vegetative buffer practices on land within the 100-foot tidal buffer on an agric... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB878 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to protect and preserve vernal pools. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | HB631 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking certain property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 To House Economic Matters Committee |
MD | SB34 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and nec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB640 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and nec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23 To House Economic Matters Committee |
MD | SB189 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking privately owned property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |