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MDHB352PassEstablishing 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...
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2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604
MDSB931PassAltering 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...
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2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623
MDHB1036PassAltering 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...
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2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 624
MDHB128VetoRequiring 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...
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2025-05-16
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy)
MDSB149VetoRequiring 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...
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2025-05-16
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy)
MDSB73PassRenaming the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program to be the Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps Program.
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2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 533
MDHB506PassEstablishing 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...
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2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430
MDHB731PassEstablishing 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...
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2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549
MDHB717PassAltering 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...
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2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 443
MDHB894PassAuthorizing 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...
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2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551
MDSB946PassAuthorizing 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...
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2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 550
MDSB399PassExempting 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...
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2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572
MDSB722PassDefining 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...
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2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329
MDHB1155PassDefining 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...
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2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330
MDHB286PassProviding 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 ...
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2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 63
MDSB266PassProviding 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 ...
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2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 64
MDHB503Engross
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...
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2025-04-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB428Engross
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...
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2025-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB635Engross
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...
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2025-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1270Intro
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...
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2025-03-17
Motion Special Order until 03/27 (Delegate Crosby) Adopted
MDSB737Intro
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...
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2025-03-05
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB671Intro
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; ...
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2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB854Intro
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.
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2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB321Intro
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...
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2025-02-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB128Intro
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.
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2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB461Intro
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...
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2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1175Intro
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...
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2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1224Intro
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.
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2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1396Intro
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...
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2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB430Intro
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...
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2025-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1022Intro
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.
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2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB955Intro
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...
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2025-02-05
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB699Intro
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.
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2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB837Intro
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.
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2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB898Intro
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...
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2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB878Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to protect and preserve vernal pools.
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2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB631Intro
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.
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2025-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB34Intro
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...
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2025-01-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB640Intro
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...
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2025-01-23
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB189Intro
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.
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2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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