| MD | HB999 | Enroll | Establishing a process for an electric cooperative to operate as a member-regulated cooperative in a certain area; specifying that the Public Service Commission does not have jurisdiction over a member-regulated cooperative, subject to certain except...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB987 | Enroll | Authorizing, subject to the approval of the Board of Public Works, the Maryland Stadium Authority to issue up to $375,000,000 of bonds for the redevelopment of the Laurel Park and Pimlico racing facilities; requiring the Authority, before issuing cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB89 | Enroll | Authorizing the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to designate an emergency snow route and to regulate travel and the presence of vehicles on an emergency snow route during a snow emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB722 | Enroll | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, in consultation with the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board to develop and adopt regulations, on or before October 1, 2022, that require employers to protect employees from heat-re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB406 | Engross | Prohibiting a person from leaving a dog outside and unattended for longer than 30 minutes without access to continuous suitable shelter during extreme weather conditions, subject to certain exceptions; making a violation a civil offense; applying cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1263 | Intro | Authorizing the driver of a vehicle to drive on the left side of the roadway in a no-passing zone to overtake and pass at a safe distance a pedestrian, a bicycle, an electric personal assistive mobility device (EPAMD), or a motor scooter traveling in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1434 | Intro | Establishing certain circumstances under which a leaseholder of certain aquaculture leases is not required to mark a lease area; repealing the authority of the Department of Natural Resources to waive the requirements for active use of a lease due to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1128 | Intro | Requiring a person seeking a certain water quality certification to submit a request to the Department of the Environment; requiring that a request for a water quality certification include certain information concerning the potential environmental i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB700 | Intro | Requiring that any new or replacement storm drain cover installed on a street or highway in the State prevent debris larger than 1 inch in height or circumference from passing through the storm drain; establishing the Task Force on Preventing Debris ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB333 | Intro | Repealing a certain exception that allowed an insurer to cancel or refuse to renew coverage for homeowner's insurance based on weather-related claims if there were three or more weather-related claims within a certain time period; and requiring that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB710 | Intro | Authorizing the driver of a vehicle to drive on the left side of the roadway in a no-passing zone to overtake and pass at a safe distance a bicycle, an EPAMD, or a motor scooter traveling in the same direction if the vehicle is driven in accordance w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB912 | Intro | Establishing a Climate Crisis Initiative in the Department of the Environment for certain purposes; requiring the Secretary of the Environment to administer certain schedules of greenhouse gas pollution fees; requiring the Secretary to delegate certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB172 | Engross | Altering the criteria for determining the use of funds in the Bay Restoration Fund for certain purposes in certain fiscal years to include climate resiliency and flood control; and specifying that certain grants to certain local governments may be us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB28 | Engross | Prohibiting a person who is at least 13 years old, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a nonprofit entity, the State, or any unit or political subdivision of the State from knowingly and intentionally releasing or causing to be released, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1250 | Intro | Authorizing a county board of education to decrease the length of the school year for each school day affected by a declared state of emergency for certain public schools without approval of the State Board of Education; and repealing a provision of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1270 | Intro | Authorizing a county board of education to develop a policy for public schools in the county to use home-based instructional days during the school year under certain circumstances; requiring a home-based instructional day policy to include certain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1543 | Intro | Establishing a Climate Crisis Initiative in the Department of the Environment for certain purposes; requiring the Secretary of the Environment to administer certain schedules of greenhouse gas pollution fees; requiring the Secretary to delegate certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HJ1 | Intro | Declaring that a climate and ecological emergency threatens the State, the nation, civilization, humanity, and the natural world; committing the State to a statewide climate mobilization effort to reverse global warming and the current ecological cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1206 | Intro | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities to designate certain communities as disadvantaged communities in accordance with certain criteria; requiring the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB740 | Intro | Requiring the Public Service Commission, for the 2021-2023 program cycle, by regulation or order, to the extent that the Commission determines that low-income programs are available, to require the Department of Housing and Community Development to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB965 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to reimburse day care centers for the elderly and day care centers for adults for a day of care even if the day care center could not provide the minimum 4 hours of care in a day because of a weather-relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB627 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from leaving a dog outside and unattended for longer than 30 minutes without access to continuous suitable shelter during extreme weather conditions; providing that a violation of the Act is a civil offense with a first violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB982 | Intro | Requiring the Public Service Commission, for the 2021-2023 program cycle, by regulation or order, to the extent that the Commission determines that low-income programs are available, to require the Department of Housing and Community Development to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB542 | Intro | Providing as the goal of the State that each public school student in elementary school be provided a daily program of at least 150 minutes each week of developmentally appropriate, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity that includes recess and at l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB562 | Intro | Authorizing a county board of education to apply to the State Board of Education to implement a policy for the use up to 5 flexible instructional days during the school year; defining "flexible instructional day" as one in which a public school provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB516 | Intro | Requiring a public school student in elementary school to be provided a daily program of physical activity totaling 150 minutes each week to include physical education and developmentally appropriate, moderate-to-vigorous activity, including recess a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB584 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to reimburse day care centers for the elderly and day care centers for adults for a day of care even if the day care center could not provide the minimum 4 hours of care in a day because of a weather-relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB540 | Intro | Establishing a process for a cooperative to operate as a member-regulated cooperative in a certain area; specifying that the Public Service Commission does not have jurisdiction over a member-regulated cooperative, subject to certain exceptions; proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB434 | Intro | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to adopt regulations, on or before October 1, 2022, that include a certain standard establishing certain heat stress levels and to ensure that all employers comply with certain requirements with respec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB336 | Intro | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain deposits into certain catastrophe savings accounts and the interest earnings of the account; providing for the maximum amount that may be maintained in a catastrophe saving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB345 | Intro | Repealing a certain exception that allowed an insurer to cancel or refuse to renew coverage for homeowner's insurance based on weather-related claims if there were three or more weather-related claims within the preceding 3-year period; and requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
