| MD | HB170 | Engross | Altering the definition of "borrower" for the purpose of provisions of law governing the Jane E. Lawton Conservation Loan Program to include an eligible State agency; altering the purpose of the Jane E. Lawton Conservation Loan Program to include pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | SB203 | Engross | Altering the standard for achieving a no net loss of forest policy by altering the definition of "no net loss of forest" to mean that 40% of all land in Maryland is covered by forest as determined by data used in the most current Chesapeake Bay Water...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1350 | Engross | Expanding the definition of "conservation property" for property tax assessment purposes to include land subject to a perpetual conservation easement, including an easement sold or donated to the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB234 | Engross | Requiring a person that is subject to the Forest Conservation Act to demonstrate that appropriate credits generated by a forest mitigation bank in the same county or watershed are not available before the person may pay money to a State or local fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB729 | Engross | Requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, in consultation with the Departments of Natural Resources, the Environment, Planning, and Agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay Program to conduct a technical study to review changes in forest cover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1019 | Intro | Authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on real property that is located in a Rural Legacy Area and for which the property owner has sold certain developmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB760 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a Natural Resources Whistleblower Program; establishing the purpose of the Program; requiring the Program to provide rewards of financial compensation under certain circumstances to individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB735 | Engross | Establishing the Task Force on Forest Conservation in Maryland to undertake a technical review of existing forest cover in the State and an analysis of the health and quality of State forests; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a Natural Resources Whistleblower Program; establishing the purpose of the Program; requiring the Program to provide rewards of financial compensation under certain circumstances to individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB255 | Engross | Authorizing certain museums to claim title to certain property in the possession of the museum; requiring a museum, before taking title to certain property, to provide notice by certified mail; authorizing a museum, under certain circumstances, to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1220 | Intro | Authorizing a local jurisdiction to authorize a residential major subdivision served by on-site sewage disposal systems, community sewerage systems, or shared systems in Tier III and Tier IV areas under certain circumstances; exempting certain reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1302 | Intro | Authorizing certain museums to claim title to certain property in the possession of the museum; requiring a museum, before taking title to certain property, to provide notice by certified mail and under certain circumstances by publication; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB57 | Engross | Extending for a certain number of years the length of time a county may retain certain revenue from the agricultural land transfer tax for use in certain agricultural land preservation programs; requiring the Department of Planning and the Maryland A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB314 | Engross | Requiring the Department of General Services to establish certain standards for State buildings to conserve energy and minimize the risk of bird collisions; requiring each building constructed, acquired, or substantially altered by the Department to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations) |
| MD | SB744 | Engross | Establishing the Commission on the Development of a Blueprint for Solar Energy in Maryland to develop a comprehensive siting blueprint to guide units of State and local government in evaluating proposed solar energy projects, consistent with the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB348 | Intro | Establishing that the Department of Natural Resources may plant or allow to be planted only certain native oyster shell, including fossilized native oyster shell, of the species Crassostrea virginica for use as substrate for an oyster restoration, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB472 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to establish that every person has the right to a certain clean and healthy environment; authorizing the State, a political subdivision, and any person to enforce certain rights; establishing that e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB272 | Engross | Requiring a person that is subject to the Forest Conservation Act to demonstrate that appropriate credits generated by a forest mitigation bank in the same county or watershed are not available before the person may pay money to a State or local fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB362 | Intro | Establishing that the Department of Natural Resources may plant or allow to be planted only certain native oyster shell, including fossilized native oyster shell, of the species Crassostrea virginica for use as substrate for an oyster restoration, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB408 | Intro | Renaming the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be the Chesapeake Bay and State Waters Trust Fund; modifying the purpose of the Fund to include the restoration and protection of the health of the waters of the State; and expandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB621 | Intro | Requiring certain land use regulations applicable in Montgomery County to require that certain persons sign a certain certification under penalty of perjury for certain documents submitted to certain planning boards; and establishing the content of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB510 | Intro | Providing an exemption from the inheritance tax for property that passes from a decedent to or for the use of a niece or nephew of the decedent; repealing a certain exemption to the inheritance tax made obsolete by the Act; and applying the Act to de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB636 | Intro | Providing an exemption from the inheritance tax for property that passes from a decedent to or for the use of a niece or nephew of the decedent; repealing a certain exemption to the inheritance tax made obsolete by the Act; and applying the Act to de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB532 | Intro | Establishing the Commission on the Development of a Blueprint for Solar Energy in Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Commission to develop a certain blueprint to guide units of State and loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB849 | Intro | Requiring the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to establish, subject to the availability of funds, the Green Career Gender and Minority Empowerment and Training Pilot Program on or before January 1, 2020, to encourage young women and minoriti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB120 | Intro | Altering the standard for achieving a no net loss of forest policy by altering the definition of "no net loss of forest" to mean that 40% of all land in Maryland is covered by forest land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB136 | Intro | Requiring the Department of General Services to establish certain standards for State buildings to conserve energy and minimize adverse impacts on birds; requiring each building constructed, acquired, or substantially altered by the Department to mee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations) |
