| MD | SB300 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 112 |
| MD | SB693 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $29,800,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County, and to effect such borrowing b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB808 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of Agriculture to coordinate with the Maryland Energy Administration, the Department of the Environment, the Department of Commerce, the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the University ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB915 | Enroll
75% | Altering the regulatory approach for controlling invasive plant species in the State, including repealing certain provisions of law relating to a two-tiered regulatory approach and requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a list of prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1028 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB290 | Enroll
75% | Altering the annual deadline, from July 31 to December 31, for the Office for the Certified Local Farm and Fish Program to submit to the Board of Public Works a report of waivers requested and waivers granted under the Certified Local Farm and Fish P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB589 | Enroll
75% | Increasing, from $900,000 to $1,000,000, the amount of an appropriation that the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill each year for the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; repealing the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1074 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB775 | Enroll
75% | Altering the requirements that certain officers and employees of the State be covered by certain surety bonds to allow the officers and employees to be covered by certain insurance policies; transferring certain duties and responsibilities of the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB777 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB854 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, instead of authorizing, the Secretary of Agriculture to implement, under certain circumstances, a program to use Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis to control or eliminate nuisance insects in the State; and requiring, instead of authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB969 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB32 | Enroll
75% | Altering a certain loan program to authorize the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans not exceeding $10,000 for each seasonal full-time job; expanding eligibility for the Maryland Watermen's Micro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB196 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB187 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the authority of the Division of Correction to arrange for inmates not needed or being used by the State Highway Administration to perform emergency road work to be employed in agricultural work during any part of the year at a camp in Quee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB746 | Enroll
75% | Altering procedures for the claiming and awarding of grants under the Winery and Vineyard Economic Development Grant Program to allow an individual or corporation who paid or incurred qualified capital expenses during the immediately preceding calend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1001 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain cultivation or production requirements applicable to a holder of a Class 4 limited winery license by basing them on certain agricultural products instead of grapes and other fruit; and altering the standards for the purchase of certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1009 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study and make recommendations related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB537 | Engross
50% | Altering the distance restrictions applicable to a licensed cannabis dispensary; prohibiting a political subdivision from establishing certain zoning requirements for licensed cannabis dispensaries and certain licensed cannabis growers that are more ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB178 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Highway Administration's pollinator habitat plan to include policies and procedures regarding the use of pollinator habitat areas along State highways; requiring the Administration to track and evaluate federal programs that provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB932 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1055 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting, unless authorized by the Department of Agriculture, a person from keeping more than 5 roosters per acre on a single property or more than a total of 25 roosters on a single property beginning January 1, 2026, subject to certain exception...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB936 | 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] | 2024-03-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB339 | 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] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB869 | Intro
25% | Clarifying a property owner's right to receive information on the calculation of an assessment; requiring owners of certain buildings to provide certain information to the supervisor of assessments within 90 days after construction of the buildings i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1182 | Intro
25% | Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB761 | Intro
25% | Requiring each testing facility in the State to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture to use animals in research, education, or testing; establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a testing facility; prohibiting a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1149 | 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] | 2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1153 | Intro
25% | Altering the boundary of the Frederick Soil Conservation District to include the Catoctin Soil Conservation District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB641 | Intro
25% | Altering the contents and authorized uses of the Spay/Neuter Fund; requiring the Department of Agriculture to establish a process through which a person may make a voluntary donation to the Fund; requiring the Department to give additional considerat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1082 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1128 | Intro
25% | Limiting the term of a member serving on the agricultural preservation advisory board in Howard County to 3 years; and authorizing members currently serving on the agricultural preservation advisory board in Howard County to complete their terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB745 | Intro
25% | Increasing the number of Maryland residents from 30 to 42 in the student body of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, contingent on certain agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB392 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, acquiring, leasing, or holding any property interest in agricultural land in the State; and requiring the Attorney General to enforce the Act in a certain manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB56 | 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] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB278 | Intro
25% | Altering and establishing renewal and reinstatement processes for horse establishment licenses; establishing certain duties and administrative penalties with respect to beekeeping activities; altering the administrative penalty structure for certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB193 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB306 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB311 | Intro
25% | Expanding the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Mechanism Grant Program by making qualified nonprofit organizations that operate a farm or community garden that is on at least 250 acres, grows between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 pounds of produce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB235 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "dispenser" for purposes of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to include certain licensed veterinarians when dispensing controlled substances for animals in the usual course of providing professional services; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
