Maryland Senate Bill 285 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-03-16 - Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prohibiting a landowner whose land is subject to an agricultural land preservation easement from granting, or allowing a person to establish, an overlay easement, a right-of-way, or any other servitude on the land without prior written permission of the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation; and authorizing the Foundation to approve an overlay easement, a right-of-way, or any other servitude on land subject to an agricultural land preservation easement under specified circumstances.

Agricultural Land Preservation Easements - Overlay Easements, Rights-of-Way, or Servitudes

Sen. Justin Ready [R]

Sen. Adelaide Eckardt [R]

Sen. George Edwards [R]

Sen. Johnny Salling [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-16	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn
2017-02-06	Senate	Hearing canceled
2017-02-07	Senate	Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-01-20	Senate	First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0285?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0285f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0005/sb0285.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/sb0285_ehe.pdf