| MD | HB1320 | Intro
25% | Altering the disbursement of certain fee revenue deposited into the Bay Restoration Fund in a certain manner; and authorizing certain fee revenue deposited into the Fund to be used for certain costs attributable to the testing, engineering, or design...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1077 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Small Business Climate Change Coordinator in the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs in the Executive Department to support the State's small, minority, and women-owned business community on matters related to clima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1242 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to adopt certain regulations related to lead telecommunications cables; and requiring a company that applied for a grant through the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1250 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1404 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a political subdivision to enact a certain local law or ordinance regarding the storage of dissolved air flotation by-products that is equal to or more stringent than the permit requirements for a sewage sludge utilization permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1375 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to submit an annual report to the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 31, 2024, relating to the identification of overburdened and underserved communities, the percentage of spending for cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1360 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to funding and grants to transition to zero-emission vehicle school buses to include propane-powered school buses; and authorizing a county board of education, beginning in fiscal year 2030, to enter into a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1478 | Intro
25% | Altering the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include, beginning in fiscal year 2026, 100% of certain costs related to the decommissioning of certain wastewater treatment lagoons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB163 | Intro
25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB842 | Intro
25% | Requiring a State agency, in administering certain federal funds, to allocate 40% of those funds to infrastructure construction projects in overburdened communities and underserved communities and an additional 40% of those funds to infrastructure co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB931 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting, in making a decision on an application for a license or permit to construct a pier, the Department of the Environment from considering any vessel owned by the applicant as a condition for issuing the license or permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB908 | Intro
25% | Altering certain notice requirements that a supplier of water must give to the Department of the Environment and certain individuals and entities under certain circumstances; requiring a supplier of water to give notice to the Department of the Envir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB444 | Intro
25% | Exempting the installation and maintenance of certain duck nest boxes from certain wetlands license requirements; defining a "duck nest box" as a nesting structure located on or over water that is provided for the purpose of sheltering domesticated d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1131 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program; and authorizing the Department of the Environment to review, permit, and regulate a process to test the use of treated reclaimed water from a demonstration facility as a source for groundwater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1241 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from using certain polyvinyl chloride or chlorinated polyvinyl chloride piping in the installation, repair, or replacement of a water pipe or plumbing intended to dispense water for human consumption beginning January 1, 2025; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1247 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting the California Advanced Clean Cars II regulations to be effective before motor vehicle model year 2030; and prohibiting the Department from applying certain provisions of law governing enfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB305 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, on or before October 1, 2025, to develop outdoor lighting standards that consider energy consumption, the environment, and public health and safety; requiring the Department to consult with the Maryland De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1355 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2029, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2029, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1374 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from locating a new crematory within 1,000 feet of an assisted living or nursing facility, a property that primarily serves children, or a residential property that is designed primarily for human habitation; and prohibiting the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1284 | Intro
25% | Repealing an exemption for stream restoration projects from certain application fees for certain projects that impact a wetland or waterway; requiring a person applying for a wetlands and waterways authorization for a stream restoration project assoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1008 | Intro
25% | Imposing a fossil fuel transportation fee on a person that transports a fossil fuel in the State; providing that the rate of the fossil fuel transportation fee is 30 cents per million British thermal units of fossil fuels transported in the State; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1240 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the governing body of a county or municipality from prohibiting the use or installation of natural gas- and propane-powered appliances in a home t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1214 | Intro
25% | Extending for 2 years the termination date for a credit against the State income tax for the installation of energy storage systems in the State; and delaying for 2 years the establishment of the Energy Storage System Grant Program in the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1272 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in collaboration with the Maryland Commission on Climate Change, to develop a cap-and-invest program that reduces climate-altering emissions in the State on or before December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1193 | Intro
25% | Requiring the owner or operator of a coal combustion by-products unit to submit certain reports and plans to the Department of the Environment and the Power Plant Research Program in the Department of Natural Resources on or before certain dates; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1438 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1378 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Washington County Regional Water and Wastewater Governance to study the water supply, wastewater treatment, and approaches to water and wastewater governance in Washington County; requiring the Governor to include an ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1113 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to make the State dust-lead hazard standards and dust-lead clearance levels consistent with certain federal standards within 60 days after a regulation adopted by the U.S. Environmental...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1042 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB735 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB886 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Confined Aquatic Disposal Task Force to review the State's long-term strategies for maintaining functional and thriving ports in the State, the capacity limitations on the State dredged material sites and limitation to be placed on c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB910 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Water and Science Administration in the Department of the Environment to require Brookfield Power Piney & Deep Creek LLC to lower the level of Deep Creek Lake for at least 4 weeks between November 30 and February 28; requiring the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB91 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State from purchasing fossil fuel-powered lawn and garden care equipment beginning January 1, 2025, under certain circumstances; prohibiting the State from entering into or renewing a contract under which the contractor, or a subcontr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB830 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; repealing certain provisions of law relating to existing covered electronic takeback programs; repealing a certain provision of law authorizing a count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB752 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to transfer certain interest in land to a riparian landowner in fee simple if the landowner obtains a tidal wetland permit for the purpose of creating a living shoreline or other shoreline stabilization mea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB516 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Crisis Initiative in the Department of the Environment to provide for the assessment of greenhouse gas pollution fees, the provision of certain benefits to households and employers, and the funding of certain climate-related ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB729 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to protect and preserve vernal pools; and requiring the Department to complete a plan for identifying vernal pools in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB747 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting, on or after January 1, 2025, a person from knowingly selling or distributing as a new manufactured product a screw- or bayonet-base type compact fluorescent lamp in the State; and prohibiting, on or after July 1, 2026, a person from know...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB655 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from exempting a person from the requirement to use certain shoreline stabilization measures for certain erosion protection projects solely on the basis of replacing a structural shoreline stabilization m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB466 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of the Environment to study flooding in Montgomery County and Prince George's County; requiring the study to include an analysis of historic floo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB168 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain producers of certain plastic products from selling, offering for sale, or distributing the products to any person in the State unless certain conditions are met; requiring certain producers of certain plastic products to, individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
