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Environment

Number	Legislature	Summary	Subjects
HB-4484	State (West Virginia)	Relating to the Hazardous Waste Management Fund Republican: 66% (6) Democrat: 33% (3) 66% Republican support 33% Democrat support	Environment
SB-295	State (Maryland)	Authorizing a person that plants rye or two-row barley cover crops as a best management practice to sell the harvested cover crop to a malting facility in the State or to a person that will process the cover crop for sale in the State to a person that holds a certain alcoholic beverages license. Republican: 100% (1) 100% Republican support	Agriculture Environment Alcoholic Beverages - Statewide Bills
SB-323	State (Maryland)	Requiring the Department of the Environment to consider and, as appropriate and to the extent consistent with State and federal law, use certain supplemental environmental projects as part of a settlement or enforcement action concerning an alleged violation of certain water pollution, sediment control, or water appropriation laws; requiring the Department to conduct a study to determine the level at which certain fees would need to be set and to report to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 31, 2020; etc. Republican: 100% (1) 100% Republican support	Environment Committees And Commissions Environment, Department Of The Environmental Matters Examinations General Assembly Penalties And Sentences Reports Revenue And Taxes
HB-4443	State (West Virginia)	Shifting funding from the Landfill Closure Assistance Fund to local solid waste authorities Democrat: 54% (6) Republican: 45% (5) 54% Democrat support 45% Republican support	Environment
HB-4446	State (West Virginia)	Relating to inspections of surface coal mining operations Republican: 100% (11) 100% Republican support	Environment
SB-552	State (West Virginia)	Requiring contracts of $25,000 or more be competitively bid Republican: 100% (2) 100% Republican support	Environment
HB-363	State (Maryland)	Altering the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean and renewable energy standard"; altering the eligibility of certain sources of energy for the creation of credits under the clean and renewable energy standard; removing certain sources from the definition of a Tier 1 renewable source; altering provisions relating to the intent of the General Assembly; altering and extending the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from certain energy sources in certain years; etc. Democrat: 12% (1) Republican: 87% (7) 12% Democrat support 87% Republican support	Environment Renewable Energy Sources Commerce And Business Credit Energy Matters Environmental Health Environmental Matters Equipment Fees Fuel
SB-265	State (Maryland)	Altering the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean and renewable energy standard"; altering the eligibility of certain sources of energy for the creation of credits under the clean and renewable energy standard; removing certain sources from the definition of a Tier 1 renewable source; altering provisions relating to the intent of the General Assembly; altering and extending the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from certain energy sources in certain years; etc. Democrat: 11% (1) Republican: 88% (8) 11% Democrat support 88% Republican support	Environment Renewable Energy Sources Commerce And Business Credit Energy Matters Environmental Health Environmental Matters Equipment Fees Fuel
SB-281	State (Maryland)	Requiring the Department of the Environment to waive certain application fees for applicants intending to use certain contaminated properties for clean or renewable electrical generation sites under certain circumstances; requiring the Department to adopt certain regulations; requiring that the owner of a certain eligible property that wants to change the use of the eligible property be liable for certain fees waived under the Act under certain circumstances; etc. Democrat: 7% (1) Republican: 92% (12) 7% Democrat support 92% Republican support	Environment Renewable Energy Sources Certifications Energy Matters Environment, Department Of The Environmental Health Environmental Matters Fees Mining Parking
HB-336	State (Maryland)	Requiring the Department of the Environment to waive certain application fees for applicants intending to use certain contaminated properties for clean or renewable electrical generation sites under certain circumstances; requiring the Department to adopt certain regulations; requiring that the owner of a certain eligible property that wants to change the use of the eligible property be liable for certain fees waived under the Act under certain circumstances; etc. Democrat: 8% (2) Republican: 92% (23) 8% Democrat support 92% Republican support	Environment Renewable Energy Sources Certifications Energy Matters Environment, Department Of The Environmental Health Environmental Matters Fees Mining Parking
HB-354	State (Maryland)	Prohibiting an owner, an operator, or a manager of a lodging establishment from providing a certain personal cleansing product in a certain small plastic bottle under certain circumstances; authorizing an owner, an operator, or a manager of a lodging establishment to provide a certain personal cleansing product in a certain small plastic bottle under certain circumstances; providing for the enforcement of the Act; establishing certain penalties; etc. Democrat: 100% (20) 100% Democrat support	Environment Business Regulation And Occupations Attorney General Environment, Department Of The Fines Hotels And Motels Penalties And Sentences Plastics
SB-535	State (West Virginia)	Eliminating minimum spacing requirements for drilling of deep wells by oil and gas operators Republican: 100% (1) 100% Republican support	Environment
HB-296	State (Maryland)	Prohibiting, beginning January 1, 2021, a food service business from providing a single-use plastic straw to a customer dining in the food service business unless the customer requests a straw; and applying the Act. Democrat: 100% (11) 100% Democrat support	Environment Business Regulation And Occupations Beverage Containers Commerce And Business Environmental Matters Equipment Food Restaurants
SB-254	State (Maryland)	Prohibiting an individual from engaging in the business of inspecting an on-site sewage disposal system unless the person holds a septic inspection license issued by the Department of the Environment on or after May 1, 2021; requiring the Department to adopt regulations establishing certain eligibility criteria and training requirements for septic inspection licenses on or before January 1, 2021; requiring an applicant for a certain license to submit a certain application and pay a certain fee; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Environment Counties Environment, Department Of The Fees Fines Forms Inspections Liability Licenses Penalties And Sentences
SB-531	State (West Virginia)	Shifting funding from Landfill Closure Assistance Fund to local solid waste authorities Republican: 100% (2) 100% Republican support	Environment
HJR-1	State (Maryland)	Declaring that a climate and ecological emergency threatens the State, the nation, civilization, humanity, and the natural world; committing the State to a statewide climate mobilization effort to reverse global warming and the current ecological crisis, end statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, draw down carbon from the atmosphere, and accelerate the development and implementation of adaptation and resilience strategies; etc. Democrat: 100% (24) 100% Democrat support	Environment Emergencies Environmental Matters Federal Government International Affairs Pollution Weather
HB-165	State (Maryland)	Establishing a solar photovoltaic recycling fee; requiring a person installing a solar electric generating facility in the State to pay the fee beginning October 1, 2020; establishing the Solar Photovoltaic Recycling Fund; requiring 20% of the first sale price of each renewable energy credit sold to be deposited into the Fund; providing that the purpose of the Fund is to provide funding for technologies and processes that assist with the recycling of solar photovoltaic systems; etc. Republican: 100% (6) 100% Republican support	Environment Energy Utility Regulation Renewable Energy Sources Appropriations Budgets Comptroller Counties Credit Energy Matters
HB-156	State (Maryland)	Authorizing a person that plants rye or two-row barley cover crops as a best management practice to sell the harvested cover crop to a malting facility in the State or to a person that will process the cover crop for sale in the State to a person that holds a certain alcoholic beverages license. Democrat: 60% (3) Republican: 40% (2) 60% Democrat support 40% Republican support	Agriculture Environment Alcoholic Beverages - Statewide Bills Alcoholic Beverages Licenses Alcoholic Beverages Manufacturing Commerce And Business Farmland Soil Conservation
HB-179	State (Maryland)	Altering the definition of "recyclable materials" under the Maryland Recycling Act to exclude incinerator ash; and repealing the authority of a county to utilize a resource recovery facility to meet 5% of the waste reduction required to be achieved through recycling in the county's recycling plan. Democrat: 100% (21) 100% Democrat support	Environment Recycling Refuse Disposal
HB-136	State (Maryland)	Establishing the State Board of On-Site Wastewater Professionals in the Department of the Environment to regulate individuals who perform on-site wastewater services in the State and to establish minimum standards for certain on-site waste water systems; requiring a county to enforce and adopt certain standards related to certain on-site wastewater systems; requiring the Board to set reasonable fees for the issuance and renewal of licenses and other services provided by the Board; establishing the On-Site Wastewater Professionals Fund; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Environment Business Regulation And Occupations Appeals Appropriations Budgets Certifications Commerce And Business Committees And Commissions Comptroller Contractors

Title: Relating to the Hazardous Waste Management Fund

Session: West Virginia 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-4484

Subjects: Environment

Republican: 66% (6) Democrat: 33% (3)

Title: Agriculture - Cost-Sharing Program - Sale of Harvested Cover Crops

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-295

Subjects: Agriculture, Environment, Alcoholic Beverages - Statewide Bills

Republican: 100% (1)

Title: Environment – Supplemental Environmental Projects and Study on Discharge Permit Fees

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-323

Subjects: Environment, Committees And Commissions, Environment, Department Of The, Environmental Matters, Examinations, General Assembly, Penalties And Sentences, Reports, Revenue And Taxes

Republican: 100% (1)

Title: Shifting funding from the Landfill Closure Assistance Fund to local solid waste authorities

Session: West Virginia 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-4443

Subjects: Environment

Democrat: 54% (6) Republican: 45% (5)

Title: Relating to inspections of surface coal mining operations

Session: West Virginia 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-4446

Subjects: Environment

Republican: 100% (11)

Title: Requiring contracts of $25,000 or more be competitively bid

Session: West Virginia 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-552

Subjects: Environment

Republican: 100% (2)

Title: Clean and Renewable Energy Standard (CARES)

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-363

Subjects: Environment, Renewable Energy Sources, Commerce And Business, Credit, Energy Matters, Environmental Health, Environmental Matters, Equipment, Fees, Fuel

Democrat: 12% (1) Republican: 87% (7)

Title: Clean and Renewable Energy Standard (CARES)

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-265

Subjects: Environment, Renewable Energy Sources, Commerce And Business, Credit, Energy Matters, Environmental Health, Environmental Matters, Equipment, Fees, Fuel

Democrat: 11% (1) Republican: 88% (8)

Title: Renewable Energy Development and Siting (REDS) – Evaluations and Tax and Fee Exemptions

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-281

Subjects: Environment, Renewable Energy Sources, Certifications, Energy Matters, Environment, Department Of The, Environmental Health, Environmental Matters, Fees, Mining, Parking

Democrat: 7% (1) Republican: 92% (12)

Title: Renewable Energy Development and Siting (REDS) – Evaluations and Tax and Fee Exemptions

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-336

Subjects: Environment, Renewable Energy Sources, Certifications, Energy Matters, Environment, Department Of The, Environmental Health, Environmental Matters, Fees, Mining, Parking

Democrat: 8% (2) Republican: 92% (23)

Title: Solid Waste Management - Personal Cleansing Products Provided at Lodging Establishments - Prohibition

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-354

Subjects: Environment, Business Regulation And Occupations, Attorney General, Environment, Department Of The, Fines, Hotels And Motels, Penalties And Sentences, Plastics

Democrat: 100% (20)

Title: Eliminating minimum spacing requirements for drilling of deep wells by oil and gas operators

Session: West Virginia 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-535

Subjects: Environment

Republican: 100% (1)

Title: Environment - Single-Use Plastic Straws - Use in a Food Service Business

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-296

Subjects: Environment, Business Regulation And Occupations, Beverage Containers, Commerce And Business, Environmental Matters, Equipment, Food, Restaurants

Democrat: 100% (11)

Title: On-Site Sewage Disposal Systems - Inspection - Licensing

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-254

Subjects: Environment, Counties, Environment, Department Of The, Fees, Fines, Forms, Inspections, Liability, Licenses, Penalties And Sentences

Democrat: 100% (1)

Title: Shifting funding from Landfill Closure Assistance Fund to local solid waste authorities

Session: West Virginia 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-531

Subjects: Environment

Republican: 100% (2)

Title: Declaration of a Climate Emergency and Implementation of a Climate Mobilization Effort

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HJR-1

Subjects: Environment, Emergencies, Environmental Matters, Federal Government, International Affairs, Pollution, Weather

Democrat: 100% (24)

Title: Solar Photovoltaic Recycling

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-165

Subjects: Environment, Energy, Utility Regulation, Renewable Energy Sources, Appropriations, Budgets, Comptroller, Counties, Credit, Energy Matters

Republican: 100% (6)

Title: Agriculture - Cost-Sharing Program - Sale of Harvested Cover Crops

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-156

Subjects: Agriculture, Environment, Alcoholic Beverages - Statewide Bills, Alcoholic Beverages Licenses, Alcoholic Beverages Manufacturing, Commerce And Business, Farmland, Soil Conservation

Democrat: 60% (3) Republican: 40% (2)

Title: Maryland Recycling Act - Recyclable Materials and Resource Recovery Facilities - Alterations

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-179

Subjects: Environment, Recycling, Refuse Disposal

Democrat: 100% (21)

Title: Environment - On-Site Wastewater Services - Regulation

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-136

Subjects: Environment, Business Regulation And Occupations, Appeals, Appropriations, Budgets, Certifications, Commerce And Business, Committees And Commissions, Comptroller, Contractors

Democrat: 100% (1)

Environment

HB-4484

State (West Virginia)

SB-295

State (Maryland)

SB-323

State (Maryland)

HB-4443

State (West Virginia)

HB-4446

State (West Virginia)

SB-552

State (West Virginia)

HB-363

State (Maryland)

SB-265

State (Maryland)

SB-281

State (Maryland)

HB-336

State (Maryland)

HB-354

State (Maryland)

SB-535

State (West Virginia)

HB-296

State (Maryland)

SB-254

State (Maryland)

SB-531

State (West Virginia)

HJR-1

State (Maryland)

HB-165

State (Maryland)

HB-156

State (Maryland)

HB-179

State (Maryland)

HB-136

State (Maryland)