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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Advanced Clean Cars II Program and Advanced Clean Trucks Program - Implementation, Application, and Enforcement [HB-1556]
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from implementing the Advanced Clean Trucks Program until a certain needs assessment and deployment plan is published, subject to certain conditions; authorizing the Department to apply certain enforcement or penalty provisions to a motor vehicle manufacturer for failing to meet any requirements under the Advanced Clean Cars II Program for model years 2027 and 2028 only under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Second Reading Passed With Amendments on 04/04/2025
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Environment - Advanced Clean Cars II Program - Application and Enforcement [SB-1020]
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting the California Advanced Clean Cars II regulations to be effective before motor vehicle model year 2031; and prohibiting the Department from applying certain provisions of law governing enforcement and penalties under the California Advanced Clean Cars II Program to a motor vehicle manufacturer for failing to meet the minimum electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle delivery requirements for an applicable motor vehicle model year.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Hershey
First Reading Senate Rules on 02/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of the Environment - Public Comment Period - Requirement [HB-1237]
Requiring the Department of the Environment, whenever required by certain statutes to publish notice for a permit, license, or other authorization in a newspaper of general circulation, to accept public comments on the application for the time period specified in statute or regulation or, if no time period is specified, at least 14 days after the date of publication.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica Feldmark
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program - Establishment [HB-1296]
Prohibiting a person from performing groundwater augmentation except under certain circumstances; establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program to regulate and evaluate the use of treated reclaimed water as a source for groundwater augmentation through managed aquifer recharge permits; requiring the demonstration facility to address a groundwater supply or quality problem that is anticipated to occur in the next 25 years; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Lehman
Third Reading Passed (47-0) on 04/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environmental Permits - Requirements for Public Participation and Impact and Burden Analyses (Cumulative Harms to Environmental Restoration For Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) [HB-1484]
Applying certain public participation requirements to permits for projects that have been identified by the Department of the Environment as having an increased potential for adverse community environmental and public health impacts; requiring a person applying for certain environmental permits for certain projects with an increased potential to cause adverse community environmental and public health impacts to include in the permit application an environmental impact analysis; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jazz Lewis
Hearing Canceled (environment And Transportation) on 03/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Road Salt - Outdoor Storage [HB-1360]
Prohibiting certain persons from storing road salt uncovered outdoors; and requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to establish proper outdoor storage requirements for road salt and penalties for noncompliance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Cardin
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Building Energy Performance Standards and Energy Use Intensity Targets - Exemptions [HB-1415]
Exempting a certain covered building from compliance with certain building energy performance standards and energy use intensity targets until a certain occurrence.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Building Energy Performance Standards - Public Safety, Emergency, and Public Utility Buildings - Exclusion (Safe Solutions Now Act of 2025) [HB-1414]
Altering the definition of "covered building" for purposes of certain building energy performance standards to exclude certain public safety, emergency, and public utility buildings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Goods - Restrictions Based on Energy Source - Prohibition (Energy Equality Act of 2025) [HB-1258]
Prohibiting a local government or unit of State government from restricting the sale, purchase, or use of a certain consumer good solely on the basis of the energy source used to power the consumer good; repealing provisions of law requiring the Department of the Environment to establish and maintain a certain low emissions vehicle program; repealing provisions of law requiring the Department to establish requirements for the sale of new zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles; and applying the Act retroactively.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Hearing Canceled (environment And Transportation) on 03/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of the Environment - Definition of Ecological Restoration [HB-1155]
Defining the term "ecological restoration" as an activity undertaken with the goal of recovering, re-establishing, or enhancing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through improvements to physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or processes, returning natural or historical functions or services, or protecting or improving resiliency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Returned Passed on 04/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of the Environment - Community Water and Sewerage Systems - Cybersecurity Planning and Assessments [HB-1062]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage systems; establishing the roles and responsibilities of various State agencies with respect to regulating, assessing, and promoting cybersecurity efforts within the water and wastewater sector; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrea Harrison
Favorable With Amendments Report By Environment And Transportation on 04/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Dorchester County - Well and On-Site Sewage Disposal Activities - Privatization Program [HB-1124]
Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority by the Department, to establish a privatization program for the performance of activities associated with the well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority in Dorchester County.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Returned Passed on 04/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act) [HB-1035]
Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in coordination with the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, to pursue certain agreements with neighboring states and federal agencies related to the development of new nuclear energy generation stations; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Returned Passed on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Emission Standards, Ambient Air Quality Standards, and Solid Waste Management - Local Authority [HB-1058]
Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt ordinances, rules, or regulations that set emission standards or ambient air quality standards under certain conditions; specifying that the requirement for the Department of the Environment to approve a county water and sewerage plan does not limit certain authority of the county; requiring the Department to publish certain information on its website by October 1, 2025; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Coal Transportation Fee and Fossil Fuel Mitigation Fund (Coal Dust Cleanup and Asthma Remediation Act) [HB-1088]
Imposing a coal transportation fee on a person that transports coal in the State; providing that the rate of the coal transportation fee is $13 per short ton transported in the State; providing the fee does not apply to the transportation of coal that is solely for use on a farm and the carrier does not otherwise use or sell the coal; establishing the Fossil Fuel Mitigation Fund to support activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Hearing Canceled (environment And Transportation) on 03/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program - Funding [SB-849]
Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program from $500,000 to $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary of Health to use up to 20% of Program funds to support research centers in the collection, analysis, and processing of Program outcome data for the purposes of assessing, maximizing, and improving the effectiveness and clinical utility of the cancer screening funded by the Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy Guzzone
Passed Enrolled on 04/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Wetlands - Landward Boundaries [SB-959]
Requiring certain land created under a tidal wetlands license to be described by metes and bounds; and requiring the Department of the Environment to update, to a certain standard, the landward boundaries of certain wetlands following the completion of improvements consisting of certain shoreline stabilization measures.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Carozza
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Dorchester County - Well and On-Site Sewage Disposal Activities - Privatization Program [SB-964]
Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority by the Department, to establish a privatization program for the performance of activities associated with the well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority in Dorchester County.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Third Reading Passed (132-0) on 03/31/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Data Centers - Fast Track Pass for Co-Location and Sales and Use Tax [SB-903]
Establishing an expedited certificate of public convenience and necessity review process for certain co-located energy generation projects that have received a fast track pass; establishing a Data Center Fast Track Advisory Committee in the Public Service Commission to facilitate the application for and review and awarding of fast track passes; altering the requirements for qualified data center personal property to be eligible to be exempt from the sales and use tax; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Hearing Canceled (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 03/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environmental Permits - Requirements for Public Participation and Impact and Burden Analyses (Cumulative Harms to Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) [SB-978]
Applying certain public participation requirements to permits for projects that have been identified by the Department of the Environment as having an increased potential for adverse community environmental and public health impacts; requiring a person applying for certain environmental permits for certain projects with an increased potential to cause adverse community environmental and public health impacts to include in the permit application an environmental impact analysis; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025