Maryland Senate Bill 862 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 3 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-28 - Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a permit for the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of natural gas in the State until October 1, 2019, and only under specified circumstances; prohibiting a person from engaging in hydraulic fracturing in a local jurisdiction unless the local jurisdiction has submitted to a referendum of the voters of the local jurisdiction a specified question and a majority of the voters have voted in a specified manner; etc.

Environment - Hydraulic Fracturing - Moratorium and Referenda

Sen. Joan Conway [D]	Sen. Gail Bates [R]	Sen. Joanne Benson [D]	Sen. Ulysses Currie [D]
Sen. George Edwards [R]	Sen. William Ferguson [D]	Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]	Sen. Michael Hough [R]
Sen. J.B. Jennings [R]	Sen. Katherine Klausmeier [D]	Sen. Jim Mathias [D]	Sen. Nathaniel McFadden [D]
Sen. Thomas Middleton [D]	Sen. Thomas Miller [D]	Sen. Anthony Muse [D]	Sen. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam [D]
Sen. Wayne Norman [R]	Sen. Douglas Peters [D]	Sen. Justin Ready [R]	Sen. Edward Reilly [R]
Sen. Barbara Robinson [D]	Sen. Johnny Salling [R]	Sen. Stephen Waugh [R]	Sen. Ronald Young [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-28	Senate	Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-03	Senate	First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0862?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0862f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0002/sb0862.pdf