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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
MDHB376Engross
50%
Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to hire an independent consultant to study and make recommendations on the feasibility of relocating the Prince George's County public school system headquarters and to report its recommendation...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB362Engross
50%
Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
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2024-03-18
Motion Special Order until 3/20 (Delegate Barnes) Adopted
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)
MDSB536Engross
50%
Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (39-6)
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
MDSB837Engross
50%
Requiring the Water and Science Administration in the Department of the Environment to require Brookfield Power Piney & Deep Creek LLC to lower the level of Deep Creek Lake for at least 4 weeks between November 30 and February 28; requiring the Depar...
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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
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
MDHB1296Engross
50%
Requiring the Public Service Commission on June 1, 2024 to open a revised Round 2 proceeding to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; authorizing certain offshore wind projects to submit certain revised plans for project schedules, sizes, or prici...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
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
MDHB990Engross
50%
Altering the definition of "manufacturing" for purposes of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements to exclude the production of cement; altering the application of certain provisions of law regarding the reduction of greenhouse gas em...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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
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
MDSB960Engross
50%
Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment F...
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2024-03-16
To House Appropriations Committee
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
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)
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
MDHB155Engross
50%
Establishing the Carbon Capture Opportunity Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to assist nonprofit and for-profit businesses engaged in carbon capture projects or carbon capture research; and requiring the Administration to establish appli...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB680Engross
50%
Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB970Engross
50%
Extending for 2 years the termination date for a credit against the State income tax for the installation of energy storage systems in the State; and delaying for 2 years the establishment of the Energy Storage System Grant Program in the Maryland En...
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2024-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1077Intro
25%
Establishing the Small Business Climate Change Coordinator in the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs in the Executive Department to support the State's small, minority, and women-owned business community on matters related to clima...
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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
MDHB396Engross
50%
Altering a certain provision of law relating to the use of certain revenue from the sales and use tax on energy and fuel in Prince George's County by allowing the revenue to be used to meet certain education funding requirements for the county; and r...
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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
MDHB820Intro
25%
Establishing the Nuclear Energy Development Task Force to study and make recommendations on the deployment of nuclear power generation resources and other related technologies in the State and the establishment of a permanent nuclear energy commissio...
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2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB245Engross
50%
Authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site sewage disposal permits and individual well construction permits under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to establish by regulation a fee...
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2024-03-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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
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
MDSB696Intro
25%
Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or approval for the construction of a certain gen...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
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
MDHB366Engross
50%
Prohibiting a restriction on land use that increases the cost of installing a solar collector system by at least 5% over a certain cost or that reduces the efficiency of the system by at least 10% under a certain energy generation level; authorizing ...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB206Engross
50%
Authorizing the board of directors of a condominium, by a majority vote, to grant leases in excess of 1 year or similar interests affecting the common elements of the condominium for the installation and use of leased clean energy equipment.
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2024-02-28
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
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
MDSB1023Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, on or before certain dates and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, a requirement that new buildings meet all water and space heating demands of the building without the use of f...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB352Intro
25%
Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB842Intro
25%
Requiring a State agency, in administering certain federal funds, to allocate 40% of those funds to infrastructure construction projects in overburdened communities and underserved communities and an additional 40% of those funds to infrastructure co...
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB159Engross
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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2024-02-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1221Intro
25%
Establishing the Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute to train local fire departments on certain safety aspects associated wit...
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2024-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB216Engross
50%
Authorizing certain governing bodies of a condominium to grant certain interests affecting the common elements of the condominium for the installation and use of leased clean energy equipment.
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB210Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, on or before January 1, 2025, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, a requirement that new buildings meet all energy demands of the building without the use of fossil fuels an...
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2024-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB169Engross
50%
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
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2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB305Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of the Environment, on or before October 1, 2025, to develop outdoor lighting standards that consider energy consumption, the environment, and public health and safety; requiring the Department to consult with the Maryland De...
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2024-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB409Intro
25%
Finding that local governments pay electric companies large sums to light streets and are limited in how this public safety resource can be managed, the Act authorizes certain counties or municipalities to acquire certain street lighting equipment by...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1265Intro
25%
Requiring a county or municipality to implement the web-based platform SolarAPP+ for features supporting the tracking and approval of residential building permits for certain residential solar energy projects, residential energy storage projects, and...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB1161Intro
25%
Requiring the Public Service Commission on June 1, 2024 to open a revised Round 2 proceeding to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; authorizing certain offshore wind projects to submit certain revised plans for project schedules, sizes, or prici...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1054Intro
25%
Requiring a county or municipality to implement a certain web-based platform for features supporting the tracking and approval of residential building permits for certain residential solar energy projects, residential energy storage projects, and mai...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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