Maryland Senate Joint Resolution 3 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on March 11 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-03-12 - Referred Rules and Executive Nominations
Pending: House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Opposing certain inspection rules promulgated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that have drastically impeded the harvest and sale of blue catfish and thus rendered the State unable to adequately use the commercial harvest as a form of control over the invasive blue catfish species; urging the U.S. Congress to amend 21 U.S.C. § 601(w) to exempt the wild catch of domestic catfish from certain inspection requirements; and requiring a copy of the Resolution to be forwarded to certain elected officials.

Natural Resources – Fishing – Wild–Caught Blue Catfish

Sen. Guy Guzzone [D]	Sen. Jack Bailey [R]	Sen. Mary Carozza [R]	Sen. Adelaide Eckardt [R]
Sen. Sarah Elfreth [D]	Sen. Arthur Ellis [D]	Sen. Jason Gallion [R]	Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]
Sen. Katie Hester [D]	Sen. Paul Pinsky [D]	Sen. Mary Washington [D]

2020-03-11 - Senate - Third Reading Passed (Y: 47 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-12	House	Referred Rules and Executive Nominations
2020-03-11	Senate	Third Reading Passed (47-0)
2020-03-09	Senate	Second Reading Passed
2020-03-09	Senate	Favorable Adopted
2020-03-06	Senate	Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2020-02-05	Senate	Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-01-31	Senate	First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs

SJ3 (Carry Over) 2020-03-12 - Referred Rules and Executive Nominations
HJ3 (Crossfiled) 2020-02-10 - Hearing 2/24 at 2:00 p.m.

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SJ0003?ys=2020RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sj/sj0003f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sj/sj0003t.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes_comm/sj0003_ehe.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/votes/Senate/0572.pdf