| MD | SB93 | Pass | Authorizing a person to operate or give permission to operate a vessel for certain purposes in a slalom ski course located in a controlled water ski area in Maynadier Creek during certain times on certain days; prohibiting a person from operating or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 747 |
| MD | SB234 | Pass | Requiring a person that is subject to the Forest Conservation Act to demonstrate that appropriate credits generated by a forest mitigation bank in the same county or watershed are not available before the person may pay money to a State or local fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 602 |
| MD | HB272 | Pass | Requiring a person that is subject to the Forest Conservation Act to demonstrate that appropriate credits generated by a forest mitigation bank in the same county or watershed are not available before the person may pay money to a State or local fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 601 |
| MD | SB448 | Pass | Establishing a network of oyster sanctuaries in the five tributaries identified by the Department of Natural Resources for large-scale restoration pursuant to the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement; codifying the boundaries of certain oyster san...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 754 |
| MD | SB546 | Pass | Requiring that a summary of each nutrient management plan be filed and updated with the Department of Agriculture at certain times; authorizing the Department to require an updated summary to take the form of an annual implementation report; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 760 |
| MD | HB199 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person in Wicomico County to hunt deer on private property on the second Sunday in deer firearms season from 30 minutes before sunrise until 10:30 a.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 592 |
| MD | SB143 | Veto | Extending the date, to on or before December 31, 2020, by which the Department of Natural Resources is required to prepare a certain fishery management plan for the cownose ray species, subject to available funding; continuing the prohibition on a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB488 | Veto | Establishing the Mel Noland Fellowship Program in the Department of Natural Resources to support students seeking careers in natural resources fields as they matriculate and graduate from institutions of higher education; requiring the Department and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB830 | Veto | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to convene the Oyster Advisory Commission, in coordination with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, on or before June 1, 2019; requiring the Department, in coordination with the U...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB720 | Veto | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to convene the Oyster Advisory Commission, in coordination with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, on or before June 1, 2019; requiring the Department, in coordination with the U...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB735 | Veto | Requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, in consultation with the Departments of Natural Resources, Environment, Planning, and Agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay Program to conduct a technical study to review changes in forest cover and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB729 | Pass | Requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, in consultation with the Departments of Natural Resources, the Environment, Planning, and Agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay Program to conduct a technical study to review changes in forest cover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 405 |
| MD | HB1427 | Pass | Altering the application of certain design and siting criteria established by the Coast Smart Council to apply only to certain State and local capital projects; extending the date the projects must comply with the criteria to July 1, 2020, and the da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 442 |
| MD | SB95 | Pass | Changing the name of the Recreational License Donation Fund to the Healing Hunting and Fishing Fund; extending the termination date for certain provisions of law establishing the recreational license donation program; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 261 |
| MD | HB213 | Pass | Extending the date, to on or before December 31, 2020, by which the Department of Natural Resources is required to prepare a certain fishery management plan for the cownose ray species, subject to available funding; and continuing the prohibition on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 343 |
| MD | HB349 | Pass | Specifying that a special charter boat license issued by the Department of Natural Resources is valid for all individuals on a single vessel operated by a certain licensed fishing guide and for certain individuals on a vessel under the guidance of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 259 |
| MD | HB406 | Pass | Specifying that the application fee for a structural shoreline stabilization project located on or adjacent to a State-owned lake may not exceed $250; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in conjunction with the Department of Natural Reso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| MD | HB417 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that a report of a sewer overflow or treatment plant bypass provided to the Department of the Environment by an owner or operator of certain sewer systems or wastewater treatment plants be made by telephone; specifying the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 310 |
| MD | SB361 | Pass | Specifying that a special charter boat license issued by the Department of Natural Resources is valid for all individuals on a single vessel operated by a certain licensed fishing guide and for certain individuals on a vessel under the guidance of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 260 |
| MD | SB390 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt game birds or mammals on a Sunday during the open season for that game bird or mammal on private property or certain public land in St. Mary's County under certain circumstance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 242 |
| MD | SB467 | Pass | Establishing the Mel Noland Fellowship Program in the Department of Natural Resources to support students seeking careers in fields related to natural resources; requiring the Department and its managing organization each year to select one fellow in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 223 |
| MD | HB841 | Pass | Authorizing a leaseholder of certain aquaculture leases to, with prior written approval from the Department of Natural Resources, place shellfish, bags, nets, and structures on submerged aquatic vegetation, subject to certain requirements and limitat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 238 |
| MD | HB28 | Pass | Exempting certain activities and the use of certain equipment that is associated with a shellfish nursery operation from the requirement to obtain certain licenses or permits; establishing that the use of certain equipment associated with a shellfish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 |
| MD | SB25 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, the Maryland Historical Trust, the Maryland Environmental Trust, certain other land trusts, a county, and the Department of Natural Resources to record notice of certain easements, c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 127 |
| MD | SB10 | Pass | Repealing a duplicative provision of law requiring a person to obtain a tidal fish license to catch certain oysters or clams for commercial purposes; altering the area within which a person is authorized to catch hard-shell clams using certain equipm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 81 |
| MD | HB242 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person in Cecil County to hunt any game bird or mammal, except migratory game birds, on a Sunday on certain land during the open season for that game bird or mammal; repealing an exception fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 171 |
| MD | HB619 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on private property on Sundays during the deer muzzle loader season in Dorchester County, subject to certain provisions of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 192 |
| MD | HB620 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on private property on the second and third Sunday of the deer firearms season in Dorchester County, subject to certain provisions of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 188 |
| MD | HB618 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on private property during the bow hunting season from the first Sunday in October through the second Sunday in January the following year, inclusive, in Dorchester County...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 190 |
| MD | SB889 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on private property during the bow hunting season from the first Sunday in October through the second Sunday in January the following year, inclusive, in Dorchester County...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 191 |
| MD | SB888 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on private property on the second and third Sunday of the deer firearms season in Dorchester County, subject to certain provisions of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 189 |
| MD | SB890 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on private property on Sundays during the deer muzzle loader season in Dorchester County, subject to certain provisions of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 193 |
| MD | SB7 | Pass | Repealing the termination provision for certain provisions of law governing the regulation and use of commercial finfish trotlines; repealing a provision of law prohibiting the installation and use of monofilament gill nets in the Chesapeake Bay; aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 80 |
| MD | HB298 | Pass | Establishing a network of oyster sanctuaries in the five tributaries identified by the Department of Natural Resources for large-scale restoration pursuant to the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement; codifying the boundaries of certain oyster san...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Gubernatorial Veto Override (Legislative date: 4/4/2019) - Chapter 17 |
| MD | HB669 | Intro | Requiring a person seeking to construct a natural gas pipeline to apply for a certain water quality certification and pay a nonrefundable fee; requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a certain fee for the submission and review of a w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB1001 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to require that a course of instruction in boating safety education include certain information relating to carbon monoxide poisoning; requiring the Department to adopt regulations requiring certain warni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB1051 | Intro | Establishing the Public Fishery Pilot Program; requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in coordination with the Oyster Advisory Commission, to develop and operate the Program; providing that the purpose of the Program is to increase oyster abu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m. |
| MD | HB1417 | Intro | Establishing the Task Force on Missing Persons to study best practices for conducting searches for missing persons and review the options for the establishment of a State Coordinator for Missing Persons to serve as a point of contact for the families...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB600 | Engross | Requiring the Power Plant Research Program to study and make recommendations regarding nuclear energy and its role as a renewable energy resource in the State; and requiring the Program to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by January 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1 | Intro | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from dredging buried oyster shells on Man-O-War Shoals; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB40 | Intro | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from dredging buried oyster shells on Man-O-War Shoals as part of carrying out certain duties calculated to increase the productivity or utility of oyster resources in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | SB213 | Engross | Increasing the amount of the appropriation, beginning in fiscal year 2021, that the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill for the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000; and altering the terminat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB410 | Intro | Establishing the Task Force on Prohibiting Debris From Entering Storm Drains or Stormwater Inlets; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving certain compensation; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1153 | Intro | Authorizing, rather than requiring, the Department of Natural Resources to revoke a person's authorization to catch oysters if the Department finds or concludes that the person has knowingly committed one of certain offenses; and authorizing a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | SB387 | Intro | Requiring a person seeking to construct a natural gas pipeline to apply for a certain water quality certification and pay a nonrefundable fee; requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a certain fee for the submission and review of a w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Young) |
| MD | HB747 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Information Technology to take certain actions to include links to the online voter registration system on the websites of State agencies; requiring links to the online voter registration system on State agency websites to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB760 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a Natural Resources Whistleblower Program; establishing the purpose of the Program; requiring the Program to provide rewards of financial compensation under certain circumstances to individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB904 | Engross | Requiring that a summary of each nutrient management plan be filed and updated with the Department of Agriculture at certain times; authorizing the Department to require an updated summary to take the form of an annual implementation report; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a Natural Resources Protection Program through a contractual relationship with a third-party organization to provide rewards of financial compensation to individuals and nonprofit organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB377 | Intro | Altering the definition of "SAV protection zone"; altering the requirements for the areas that must be included in updated designations of SAV protection zones; altering the circumstances under which a previously designated SAV protection zone may be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
