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MDSB1Engross
50%
Altering a certain charge that may be assessed to a public service company; providing for the recovery of certain costs through rates; establishing an energy salesperson license for certain persons that offer or sell electricity or gas supply agreeme...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDSB974Engross
50%
Establishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDSB281Engross
50%
Authorizing certain persons to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetation in a certain manner and in accordance with certain requirements; authorizing a public utility company or telecommunications carrier to alter certain submerged aquatic vegetatio...
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed
MDSB295Engross
50%
Repealing a requirement that the Department of Planning prepare and periodically revise inventory lists of the natural resources of the State and certain public works and facilities.
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB1161Intro
25%
Requiring the Public Service Commission on June 1, 2024 to open a revised Round 2 proceeding to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; authorizing certain offshore wind projects to submit certain revised plans for project schedules, sizes, or prici...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB959Engross
50%
Requiring an investor-owned electric company to file certain time-of-use tariffs with the Public Service Commission by July 1, 2025; requiring an investor-owned electric company to attempt to achieve a reasonable enrollment target for the tariffs by ...
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2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB416Engross
50%
Establishing the Customer-Sited Solar Program in the Maryland Energy Administration for the purpose of increasing deployment of customer-sited solar energy generating systems and providing grants to eligible customer-generators; authorizing a third p...
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2024-03-16
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB474Engross
50%
Altering and establishing the definition of "generating station" for the purpose of exempting the construction of certain generating facilities used to produce electricity for the purpose of onsite emergency backup and certain test and maintenance op...
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2024-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB510Engross
50%
Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or donate to non...
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2024-03-08
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB696Intro
25%
Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or approval for the construction of a certain gen...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB920Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Electric Transmission Authority to serve as the lead State agency on issues related to electricity transmission; and requiring the Authority to advocate on, research, evaluate, and identify certain issues related to electric...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB918Intro
25%
Changing the name of the Retail Choice Customer Education and Protection Fund to the Education and Protection Fund; and modifying the purpose and uses of the Fund to include educating certain customers on certain energy choices and developing a certa...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB583Intro
25%
Applying certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on certain projects involving, and traffic control activities related to, any underground gas or electric infrastructure of an investor-owned gas company, electr...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1083Intro
25%
Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt certain regulations to oversee electric distribution system planning in the State on or before December 31, 2025; requiring electric companies in the State to submit to the Commission certain plans to ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1082Intro
25%
Authorizing a county to enact a local law creating a conservation and restoration fund for a certain purpose; establishing the Utility-Scale Solar Design and Siting Commission in the Power Plant Research Program to provide recommendations related to ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB570Intro
25%
Requiring each gas company to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems on or before October 1, 2024; requiring each gas company to submit a certain proposal or proposals to the Public Service Commission for approval on or b...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB783Intro
25%
Altering the maximum generating capacity authorized for certain net metered generating facilities; authorizing an eligible customer-generator participating in certain meter aggregation to receive excess generation from more than one generating system...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB861Intro
25%
Requiring a person that owns, operates, or controls a high energy use facility to ensure greenhouse gas emissions associated with the electricity used by the facility are reduced by certain amounts by certain years; prohibiting a person from using ce...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB814Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "qualified offshore wind project" for purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard and the development of offshore wind in the State.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1025Intro
25%
Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program to develop and submi...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB682Intro
25%
Prohibiting public service companies from recovering through rates certain costs; requiring certain public service companies to submit an annual report to the Public Service Commission regarding costs related to certain activities; requiring each ele...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB37Intro
25%
Finding that local governments pay electric companies large sums to light streets and are limited in how this public safety resource can be managed, the Act authorizes certain counties or municipalities to acquire certain street lighting equipment by...
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2024-01-29
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB505Intro
25%
Increasing the cap on the assessment a county or municipal corporation may impose on each transportation network service from 25 cents per trip to 50 cents per trip.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB548Intro
25%
Altering the required contents of a certain plan that a gas company may file with the Public Service Commission for proposed eligible infrastructure replacement projects to include certain descriptions, demonstrations, analyses, and notifications; an...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB146Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio s...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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