| MD | SB114 | Enroll | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations to conduct pilot projects to demonstrate and evaluate new approaches for the management and control of nuisance organisms; and authorizing the holder of a commercial northern snakeh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB142 | Enroll | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a process for an individual purchasing certain licenses and stamps in a certain manner to make a voluntary monetary donation to the Healing Hunting and Fishing Fund; requiring the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB236 | Enroll | Repealing a requirement that the Department of Natural Resources submit certain reports to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2019; and repealing the termination provisions for certain provisions of law relating to the is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB510 | Enroll | Establishing an exception to the prohibition against fishing with a haul seine; and providing that, if a haul seine is set on a Friday, a person may empty it during the period from 12:01 a.m. on the following Saturday until sunrise on the following M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1399 | Enroll | Establishing an exception to the prohibition against fishing with a haul seine; and providing that, if a haul seine is set on a Friday, a person may empty it during the period from 12:01 a.m. on the following Saturday until sunrise on the following M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1025 | Enroll | Establishing the Task Force on Fishing License Penalties to study fishing license penalty reciprocity between Maryland and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission, and, if Virginia participates, between Virginia and the Potomac River Fisheries Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB882 | Enroll | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to conduct a study on methods of obtaining more accurate harvest data for the recreational striped bass fishery; requiring the study to examine certain issues relevant to obtaining more accurate harvest d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB793 | Enroll | Providing that a boat or vessel used under a limited fishing guide license may be propelled by human power.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB808 | Enroll | Altering the date from June 1, 2019, to April 1, 2020, by which the Department of Natural Resources is required to convene in a certain manner the Oyster Advisory Commission; altering the version of the fishery management plan for oysters that the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1131 | Enroll | Providing that a boat or vessel used under a limited fishing guide license may be propelled by human power.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1397 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to conduct a study on methods of obtaining more accurate harvest data for the recreational striped bass fishery; requiring the study to examine certain issues relevant to obtaining more accurate harvest d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB86 | Engross | Stating certain findings of the General Assembly related to the value of fishing and hunting to the cultural and social heritage and the economy of the State; and establishing that it is the intent of the General Assembly that residents of the State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB25 | Engross | Repealing a requirement that the Department of Natural Resources submit a certain report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2019; and repealing the termination provision for certain provisions of law relating to the is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB257 | Engross | Requiring the Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission to study adverse impacts to fish species and aquatic habitat caused by lost and abandoned crab pots, identify and assess practices and measures that could be implemented or adopted to mitigate the pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB911 | Enroll | Altering the date from June 1, 2019, to April 1, 2020, by which the Department of Natural Resources is required to convene in a certain manner the Oyster Advisory Commission; altering the version of the fishery management plan for oysters that the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
Returned Passed |
| MD | SJ3 | Engross | Opposing certain inspection rules promulgated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that have drastically impeded the harvest and sale of blue catfish and thus rendered the State unable to adequately use the commercial harvest as a form of control ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1498 | Intro | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from revoking an authorization to catch oysters unless the Department first holds a certain hearing; prohibiting a certain hearing from being held more than a certain number of days after a certain offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB95 | Engross | Adding a haul seine to the list of methods a person may use to fish in certain waters of the Severn River under certain circumstances; repealing certain provisions of law that restrict the length of a haul seine that a person may use in certain water...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB689 | Intro | Establishing a minimum fine of $2,000 and maximum fine of $3,000 for unlawfully taking oysters from a submerged land lease or water column lease under certain circumstances; requiring a person who unlawfully takes oysters from a submerged land lease ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB948 | Intro | Removing the authorization to harvest oysters from the list of activities authorized under an unlimited tidal fish license; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to, by regulation, modify the total number of certain commercial oyster authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB351 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from using the term "farmers market" to describe certain venues; prohibiting a person from selling farm and food products at a farmers market unless 75% of the products offered were grown or processed by the person or under the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-03
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1167 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to implement certain programs to provide certain discounted licenses, stamps, and permits to Maryland residents who meet certain criteria; authorizing the Department to issue certain complimentary license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HJ3 | Intro | Opposing certain inspection rules promulgated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture which have drastically impeded the harvest and sale of blue catfish and thus rendered the State unable to adequately use the commercial harvest as a form of control o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1306 | Intro | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to adopt regulations to define and govern the use of hydraulic clam dredges, subject to certain requirements; increasing the frequency with which the Department of Natural Resources must update the delin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB437 | Intro | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from including the dredging of buried oyster shells on Man-O-War Shoals as part of a fishery management plan; and prohibiting the Department from dredging buried oyster shells on Man-O-War Shoals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB629 | Intro | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to adopt regulations to define and govern the use of hydraulic clam dredges, subject to certain requirements; increasing the frequency with which the Department of Natural Resources must update the delin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SJ4 | Intro | Requesting the Potomac River Fisheries Commission to take action, consistent with the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, to prohibit a person from participating in a fishery under the Commission's jurisdiction if the person's license to catch, sel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB856 | Intro | Establishing a minimum fine of $2,000 and maximum fine of $3,000 for unlawfully taking oysters from a submerged land lease or water column lease under certain circumstances; requiring a person who unlawfully takes oysters from a submerged land lease...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB162 | Intro | Repealing certain provisions of law that restrict the length of a haul seine that a person may use in certain waters of Anne Arundel County; and authorizing a person to use a haul seine to fish in the waters of Anne Arundel County except under certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
