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MDSB166Enroll
75%
Establishing the Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) Workgroup to study issues and factors regarding the feasibility of establishing a Waterway Incident Notification System to notify members of the public of certain active waterway emergenci...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB135Enroll
75%
Establishing the Workgroup to Study Funding for the Westernport Wastewater Treatment Facility; and requiring the Workgroup to report, on or before December 1, 2024, its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly.
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB148Enroll
75%
Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities and areas in which over 90% of households are at extre...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB449Enroll
75%
Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB457Enroll
75%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a system to track the chain of custody of synthetic turf installed on sports and playing fields; requiring the custodian of a synthetic turf sports or playing field in the State to report chain...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB653Enroll
75%
Providing certain persons standing in certain environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet certain standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, u...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB841Engross
50%
Requiring that a water bottle filling station be installed in certain new construction beginning October 1, 2024; requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a certain survey, gather certain data, and identify alternative methods for provi...
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2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted
MDHB836Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
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2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted
MDHB990Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "manufacturing" for purposes of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements to exclude the production of cement; altering the application of certain provisions of law regarding the reduction of greenhouse gas em...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB956Enroll
75%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to identify in a certain manner the significant industrial users that currently and intentionally use PFAS chemicals by October 1, 2024; requiring the Department to develop certain PFAS monitoring and testi...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1147Enroll
75%
Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to whi...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1055Engross
50%
Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal yea...
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2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted
MDHB1465Enroll
75%
Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1144Enroll
75%
Requiring the Department of the Environment, in entering into a certain contract under the Clean Water Commerce Account for the purchase of a certain environmental outcome, to allow certain nonuniform payment schedules for certain purposes; and autho...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1509Enroll
75%
Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Model Workgroup to study the regional water governance approach in the Baltimore region; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $500,000 in the annual budget bill for the Workgroup; ...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1174Engross
50%
Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Model Workgroup to study the regional water governance approach in the Baltimore region; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $500,000 in the annual budget bill for the Workgroup; ...
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2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB152Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Maryland Department of Labor, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcare and funeral practices in the Stat...
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2024-04-06
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators M. Washington, Hester and Simonaire)
MDHB991Enroll
75%
Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB992Enroll
75%
Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit, by December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for certain well and septic...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB1165Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1266Enroll
75%
Requiring the Department of the Environment, in entering into a certain contract under the Clean Water Commerce Account for the purchase of an environmental outcome, to allow for nonuniform payment schedules for certain purposes; and authorizing the ...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB1512Enroll
75%
Repealing the termination date for certain provisions of law that expand the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include certain costs associated with the connection of a property using an on-site sewage disposal system to a certain existi...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDSB1173Engross
50%
Repealing the termination date for certain provisions of law that expand the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include certain costs associated with the connection of a property using an on-site sewage disposal system to a certain existi...
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2024-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB343Enroll
75%
Requiring the Cox Creek Oversight Committee to provide input to the Maryland Port Administration regarding management of dredged material at the Cox Creek Dredge Material Containment Facility; authorizing the Department of the Environment to approve ...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB681Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan planning organization to perform an impact assessment under cert...
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2024-04-05
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
MDSB835Enroll
75%
Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit by December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for well and septic program ...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1074Enroll
75%
Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1101Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB680Enroll
75%
Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB777Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled
MDHB918Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB969Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled
MDSB196Enroll
75%
Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB337Enroll
75%
Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB325Enroll
75%
Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requi...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB536Enroll
75%
Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDHB78Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service to delegate certain responsibilities to an employee of the Service; altering the obligations of the Service after receiving a request for services and after ent...
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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1153Enroll
75%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to identify significant industrial users that currently and intentionally use PFAS chemicals by October 1, 2024; requiring the Department to develop certain PFAS monitoring and testing criteria for certain ...
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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1Enroll
75%
Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requi...
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDSB20Enroll
75%
Altering the membership of the Cox Creek Citizens Oversight Committee; and requiring the Committee to monitor and provide input and feedback to the Maryland Port Administration regarding the management of dredged material at the Cox Creek Dredged Mat...
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDHB256Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Emergency Management to study issues and factors regarding the feasibility of establishing a Waterway Incident Notification System to notify members of the public of certain waterway emergencies; and requiring the...
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDSB932Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Agricultural BMP Priority Environmental Stewardship Program to provide and prioritize the use of certain funding relating to agricultural best management practices and to increase the cost-effectiveness and environmental, so...
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2024-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB323Enroll
75%
Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
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2024-03-29
Returned Passed
MDHB1264Engross
50%
Altering the conditions under which a person is exempt from obtaining a permit from the Department of the Environment to construct or repair a reservoir, dam, or waterway obstruction.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB173Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a c...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB245Engross
50%
Authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site sewage disposal permits and individual well construction permits under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to establish by regulation a fee...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB353Engross
50%
Establishing the Confined Aquatic Disposal Task Force to study and review the overall concept, viability, and available options associated with confined aquatic disposal programs to meet the long-term dredged material placement needs of the State and...
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2024-03-21
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
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1318Engross
50%
Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities for on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue; establishing the Wa...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB24Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to perform a certain environmental justice evaluation of certain environmental permit applications under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to take certain actions on certain environmental pe...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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