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MDHB228Engross
50%
Extending the date by which the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund must be expended to July 1, 2029; authorizing the Park System Capital Improvements and Acquisition Fund to be used to expand public access to lands managed by the Department of Nat...
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2024-03-29
Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
MDHB109Engross
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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2024-03-28
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
MDHB117Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Geological Survey Fund to finance certain direct and indirect costs, including long-term budgeting and planning for survey projects, procurements, and equipment purchases; establishing the Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund ...
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2024-03-28
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
MDHB235Enroll
75%
Exempting pay-for-success contracts negotiated or entered into by the Department of Natural Resources from certain provisions of the General Procurement Law.
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB253Enroll
75%
Exempting pay-for-success contracts negotiated or entered into by the Department of Natural Resources from certain provisions of the General Procurement Law.
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB305Enroll
75%
Establishing the Maryland Geological Survey Fund to finance certain direct and indirect costs, including long-term budgeting and planning for survey projects, procurements, and equipment purchases; establishing the Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund ...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDHB45Engross
50%
Authorizing the sale, barter, or exchange of a legally acquired mounted specimen of a game bird, excluding a migratory game bird, or game mammal, from a decedent's estate and the specimen is part of the personal property being liquidated or distribut...
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2024-03-28
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
MDSB932Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Agricultural BMP Best in Show Program to provide and prioritize the use of certain funding relating to agricultural best management practices and to increase the cost-effectiveness and environmental, social, and health impac...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDSB284Engross
50%
Authorizing the sale, barter, or exchange of a legally acquired mounted specimen of a game bird, excluding a migratory game bird, or game mammal from a decedent's estate and the specimen is part of the personal property being liquidated or distribute...
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2024-03-27
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
MDSB585Engross
50%
Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; ...
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2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB969Engross
50%
Establishing the Stream Restoration Contractors Licensing Board; requiring a person to be licensed as a stream restoration contractor or be employed by an individual or entity that is licensed as a stream restoration contractor before the person perf...
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDHB293Intro
25%
Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to remove abandoned or sunken recreational vessels secured to certain apparatuses or left anchored and unattended for more than 60 days under certain circumstances; and requiring the Department to consi...
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2024-03-25
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1358Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and Baltimore City to convene focus group meetings on the establishment of the Gwynns Falls State Park with community members and stakeholders that reside or operate in the vicinity of the proposed State ...
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2024-03-22
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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
MDSB300Engross
50%
Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources, with prior approval of the Maryland Historical Trust and after an internal departmental review, to authorize within the Belt Woods Wildland archeological inventories, studies, and research that involve...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB299Engross
50%
Altering the duties of the Coast Smart Council to include the development of eligibility criteria, standards, and procedures for categorical exemptions from the application of the Coast Smart requirements for proposed capital projects that have been ...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB259Engross
50%
Extending the date by which the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund must be expended to July 1, 2029; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to expend up to $400,000 from the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund for a project that address...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB268Engross
50%
Altering the enforcement and after-the-fact application approval procedures required as minimum elements of a local jurisdiction's Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area Program to apply to all critical area violations; repealing the 30-d...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB683Engross
50%
Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees relating to tree expert licensing established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if th...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB674Engross
50%
Requiring the owner of a vessel that is required to be numbered to include certain contact information for each owner of the vessel with the application for a certificate of number; requiring the Department of Natural Resources, before and after seiz...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB807Engross
50%
Altering the definition of "aerial survey" for purposes of surveying submerged aquatic vegetation to include other surveys that encompass certain geographic areas and use certain methodologies; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to stu...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB740Engross
50%
Altering the time period within which a court may prohibit a person convicted under certain circumstances of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol from operating a vessel on the waters of the State; requiring the Department of Natur...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB837Engross
50%
Requiring the Water and Science Administration in the Department of the Environment, under certain circumstances to require Brookfield Power Piney & Deep Creek LLC to lower the level of Deep Creek Lake for at least 4 weeks between October 31 and Janu...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB918Engross
50%
Removing the State Treasurer from the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and repealing related authority and duties; removing the State Treasurer or the State Treasurer's designee from the Maryland Commission...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB902Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Highway Administration, to identify and prioritize certain species whose habitat or movement corridors intersect with State highways and develop tools, technology, and tec...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB916Engross
50%
Requiring certain petitions to review the listing or unlisting of endangered or threatened species to contain certain information regarding the distribution, life, and habitat needs of the species and relevant information about the status of a specie...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1101Engross
50%
Providing certain persons standing in environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, under certain cir...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1140Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "aerial survey" for purposes of surveying submerged aquatic vegetation to include other surveys that use certain data; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to study and report on the implications and feasibilit...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1511Engross
50%
Establishing a definition of "qualified conservation" for purposes of provisions of law related to forest mitigation banks; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to update a certain model local government ordinance and adopt certain regulatio...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1183Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish Gwynns Falls State Park as a partnership park between the Department and Baltimore City; requiring that Gwynns Falls State Park consist of certain properties in Baltimore City and include cer...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1094Engross
50%
Extending the termination date applicable to certain provisions relating to the purpose, use, and funding of the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027.
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB420Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and local governing bodies to construct communication boards in certain newly constructed public play areas; defining "communication board" as a device that displays photos, symbols, or illustrations to e...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB547Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from allowing for the performance of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of those animals in a certain traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty no...
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2024-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB777Engross
50%
Removing the State Treasurer from the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and repealing certain related authority and duties; removing the State Treasurer or the State Treasurer's designee from the Maryland Co...
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2024-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1165Engross
50%
Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB233Engross
50%
Authorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption to climate change relevant to the critical area, enhancing resilience in the critical are...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1250Intro
25%
Authorizing a landowner whose land is subject to an agricultural land preservation easement to use the land for the construction and use of a certain wood vault under certain circumstances; requiring a person to have a permit issued by the Secretary ...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB239Engross
50%
Altering and repealing certain definitions for purposes of the State Boat Act; repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing provisions of the State Boat Act; altering the fees for manufacturer an...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB345Engross
50%
Requiring certain petitions to review the listing or unlisting of endangered or threatened species to contain certain information regarding the distribution, life needs, habitat requirements, and status of the species; requiring the Secretary of Natu...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB936Intro
25%
Authorizing a landowner whose land is subject to an agricultural land preservation easement to use the land for the construction and use of a certain wood vault under certain circumstances; requiring a person to have a permit issued by the Secretary ...
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2024-03-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB329Intro
25%
Altering the powers and duties of the Chesapeake Bay Trust by authorizing the Trust to retain outside counsel as necessary.
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB590Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from operating a vessel within 500 yards of a stationary blind or blind site that is occupied and being used for hunting migratory waterfowl during open season.
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB924Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from operating a vessel within 500 yards of a stationary blind or blind site that is occupied and being used for hunting migratory waterfowl during open season.
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB379Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,00...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB561Engross
50%
Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if the license holder fails to maintain...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB433Intro
25%
Altering the powers and duties of the Chesapeake Bay Trust by authorizing the Trust to retain outside counsel as necessary.
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2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1168Intro
25%
Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to remove abandoned or sunken recreational vessels secured to certain apparatuses or left anchored and unattended for more than 60 days under certain circumstances; and requiring the Department to consi...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB219Intro
25%
Authorizing a utility or local government to remove a tree or shrub on certain private property under certain circumstances, including requiring the utility or local government to provide certain notice to the owner of the property on which the tree ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB530Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Office of Trails in the Department of Transportation to develop and maintain the Maryland Trails Network, advance the development, maintenance, and use of trails in the State, develop a certain inventory and database, and co...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
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