Maryland Senate Bill 879 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 8 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-15 - Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Imposing a tax on the production of natural gas from specified wells in the State; setting the rate of the tax at 2.5% of gross fair market value of natural gas produced; providing for the administration of the tax by the Comptroller; providing for the distribution of revenue from the tax; establishing the Natural Gas Impact Account as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Oil and Gas Fund; requiring the Department of the Environment to administer the Account; specifying the contents of the Account; etc.

Natural Gas Severance Tax and Impact Account

Sen. George Edwards [R]

Sen. David Brinkley [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-15	Senate	Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
2013-02-20	Senate	Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
2013-02-08	Senate	First Reading Senate Rules

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0879?ys=2013rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2013RS/bills/sb/sb0879f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2013RS/fnotes/bil_0009/sb0879.pdf