| MD | SB471 | Pass | Prohibiting the administration of a medically important antimicrobial drug in feed or water to cattle, swine, or poultry unless ordered by a licensed veterinarian through a certain prescription or a veterinary feed directive; exempting dairy cattle o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 679 |
| MD | SB483 | Pass | Expanding the purpose and use of the Maryland Farms and Families Fund to include grants to nonprofit farmers markets and local nonprofit organizations; authorizing the Department of Agriculture, when awarding grants, to consider a nonprofit organizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 575 |
| MD | HB84 | Pass | Expanding the purpose and use of the Maryland Farms and Families Fund to include grants to nonprofit farmers markets and local nonprofit organizations; authorizing the Department of Agriculture, when awarding grants, to consider a nonprofit organizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 574 |
| MD | SB546 | Pass | Requiring that a summary of each nutrient management plan be filed and updated with the Department of Agriculture at certain times; authorizing the Department to require an updated summary to take the form of an annual implementation report; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 760 |
| MD | HB652 | Pass | Prohibiting the administration of a medically important antimicrobial drug in feed or water to cattle, swine, or poultry unless ordered by a licensed veterinarian through a certain prescription or a veterinary feed directive; exempting dairy cattle o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 678 |
| MD | HB735 | Veto | Requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, in consultation with the Departments of Natural Resources, Environment, Planning, and Agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay Program to conduct a technical study to review changes in forest cover and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB729 | Pass | 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] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 405 |
| MD | HB403 | Pass | Altering the definition of "qualified farms", for purposes of a certain credit against the State income tax for certain food donations, to include farm businesses located in the State rather than in certain counties; extending the taxable years for w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 361 |
| MD | HB808 | Pass | Repealing a certain list of plants considered to be noxious weeds in the State; requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to adopt regulations to establish a list of plants considered to be noxious weeds in the State; altering a certain condition under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 278 |
| MD | HB1123 | Pass | Altering the name of the Industrial Hemp Pilot Program to be the Hemp Research Pilot Program; establishing the Hemp Farming Program to promote hemp as an agricultural commodity in the State, the commercial sale of hemp products within and outside the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 228 |
| MD | SB25 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, the Maryland Historical Trust, the Maryland Environmental Trust, certain other land trusts, a county, and the Department of Natural Resources to record notice of certain easements, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 127 |
| MD | SB56 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to provide an exemption from a certain annual licensing requirement to a certain live poultry market operator, production facility operator, or poultry dealer; providing that the Secretary may adopt a certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 128 |
| MD | HB50 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Produce Safety Program in the Department of Agriculture to reduce the risk of adverse impacts on human health from the consumption of contaminated produce; requiring the Program to conform with certain federal standards for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 131 |
| MD | HB954 | Pass | Prohibiting the Secretary of Agriculture from adopting regulations to establish or impose a per ton inspection fee on commercial compost distributed by a private entity in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 |
| MD | HB1353 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to implement, subject to available funding in the State budget, a program to use Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis to control or eliminate nuisance insects in the State; requiring the program to be implemente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 132 |
| MD | HB1174 | Intro | Requiring a certain dispensary or dispensary agent to ensure that medical cannabis grown using a pesticide and products containing medical cannabis grown using a pesticide have a label affixed at the time of sale stating that the medical cannabis was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB974 | Intro | Prohibiting certain departments or local licensing authorities that issue occupational licenses or certificates from denying an application for a license or certificate based on the applicant's criminal history if a period of 5 years has passed since...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB112 | Pass | Repealing certain reporting requirements that are obsolete, unnecessary, or duplicative; consolidating certain reporting requirements for efficiency; codifying certain reporting requirements for transparency; modifying certain reporting requirements ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 6 |
| MD | HB514 | Intro | Altering the publication requirements for the statewide greenhouse gas emissions inventory; requiring the Department of the Environment, beginning January 1, 2020, and on January 1 of each even-numbered year thereafter through 2030, to establish a gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB747 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Information Technology to take certain actions to include links to the online voter registration system on the websites of State agencies; requiring links to the online voter registration system on State agency websites to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB275 | Engross | Prohibiting, on or after December 31, 2020, the use of chlorpyrifos in the State, including insecticides containing chlorpyrifos and seeds treated with chlorpyrifos; authorizing the Department of Agriculture to grant a waiver, under certain circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB904 | Engross | Requiring that a summary of each nutrient management plan be filed and updated with the Department of Agriculture at certain times; authorizing the Department to require an updated summary to take the form of an annual implementation report; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB58 | Intro | Repealing certain reporting requirements that are obsolete, unnecessary, or duplicative; consolidating certain reporting requirements for efficiency; codifying certain reporting requirements for transparency; modifying certain reporting requirements ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB270 | Intro | Prohibiting, on or after January 1, 2020, the use of chlorpyrifos in the State, including insecticides containing chlorpyrifos and seeds treated with chlorpyrifos; and requiring the State Department of Agriculture, with existing budgeted resources, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
