Environment, Department Of The
Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Maryland Council on Health in All Policies - Establishment [HB-1528]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing the Maryland Council on Health in All Policies to employ a Health in All Policies framework, a public health framework through which public and private policymakers and stakeholders use a collaborative approach to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequities in the State; providing, to the extent practicable, Council members are to reflect the geographic, racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity of the State; requiring the Council to submit a report by December 1 each year on the Council's activities; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robbyn Lewis
Hearing 3/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/14/2020
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School Buildings - Drinking Water Outlets - Elevated Level of Lead (Safe School Drinking Water Act) [HB-1475]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Water ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the definition of "elevated level of lead" for purposes of certain provisions of law requiring the periodic testing for the presence of lead in drinking water outlets in occupied public and nonpublic school buildings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar Barve
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 02/10/2020
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Climate Solutions Act of 2020 – Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act [HB-1425]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
[Air Quality ]
Increasing the greenhouse gas emissions reductions that the State must achieve by 2030; requiring the State to achieve net-zero statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2045; requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt a final plan that reduces statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030 and sets the State on a path toward achieving net-zero statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, on or before December 31, 2020; establishing the Climate Jobs Working Group; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar Barve
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 02/10/2020
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Environment – Water Quality Certifications – Requests
(Water Quality Certification Improvement Act) [HB-1128]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Air Quality ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring a person seeking a certain water quality certification to submit a request to the Department of the Environment; requiring that a request for a water quality certification include certain information concerning the potential environmental impacts of certain projects; requiring the Department to begin reviewing a request immediately on receipt of the request; requiring the Department to issue a decision on a request in accordance with the timeline for environmental review provided under the federal Clean Water Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation; Withdrawn on 03/12/2020
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Bay Restoration Fund – Use of Funds – Municipal Wastewater Facilities [HB-1035]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Expanding 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 an existing municipal wastewater facility that has signed a funding agreement with the Department of the Environment and is under construction to achieve enhanced nutrient removal or biological nutrient removal level treatment; specifying that these costs may be provided only if certain conditions are met; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 413 on 05/08/2020
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Solid Waste Management - Refuse Disposal Systems - Incinerators, Scrap Tires, and Local Authority [HB-1032]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Prohibiting the Secretary of the Environment from issuing a permit to install, materially alter, or materially extend incinerators; prohibiting a person that stores scrap tires from returning the scrap tires to the marketplace for use as artificial turf; prohibiting a person from incinerating tires; specifying the authority of a political subdivision to regulate refuse disposal systems and solid waste; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nick Mosby
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2020
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Industrial Partnerships - Sustainable Materials Management Program - Established [SB-980]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program to enter into a certain memorandum of understanding with certain agencies to establish a Sustainable Materials Management Program; requiring the Governor to appropriate a certain amount in certain fiscal years to the Maryland Technology Development Corporation for a certain program; requiring the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to distribute certain funds to the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Hearing Canceled (education, Health, And Environmental Affairs) on 02/24/2020
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Environment – Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Construction or Expansion – Manure Transport Plan Requirement [SB-928]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Animals ]
On or after October 1, 2021, prohibiting the Department of the Environment from approving coverage under a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) Discharge permit for a certain CAFO, unless the permit applicant submits a certain manure transport plan to the Department as part of the permit application; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Pinsky
Unfavorable Report By Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn on 03/03/2020
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Climate Solutions Act of 2020 – Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act [SB-926]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
[Air Quality ]
Increasing the greenhouse gas emissions reductions that the State must achieve by 2030; requiring the State to achieve net-zero statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2045; requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt a final plan that reduces statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030 and sets the State on a path toward achieving net-zero statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, on or before December 31, 2020; establishing the Climate Jobs Workgroup; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Health, And Environmental Affairs) on 02/05/2020
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Public Water Systems - Supplier Requirements (Water Quality Accountability Act of 2020) [SB-820]
[Water ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring a supplier of water to inspect certain valves in a public water system in a certain manner, repair or replace certain valves, inspect certain fire hydrants, formulate and implement a certain plan, identify the locations of certain valves, and record certain characteristics and identifiers of certain valves; requiring a supplier of water to develop a certain cybersecurity program by February 1, 2021; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2020
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Water Pollution Control - Discharge Permits - Industrial Poultry Operations [SB-841]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Agriculture ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing certain discharge permits to a person for a new industrial poultry operation or for the purpose of extending or expanding an industrial poultry operation in operation on or before September 30, 2020.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing Canceled on 02/06/2020
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Environment - Climate Crisis and Education Act [SB-912]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
[Air Quality ]
[Education ]
Establishing a Climate Crisis Initiative in the Department of the Environment for certain purposes; requiring the Secretary of the Environment to administer certain schedules of greenhouse gas pollution fees; requiring the Secretary to delegate certain collection and benefit functions to the Comptroller; requiring the Comptroller to carry out certain functions; requiring the collection of a certain greenhouse gas pollution fee on certain fuels for certain purposes; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Kramer
Hearing 3/11 At 1:00 P.m. (budget And Taxation) on 02/18/2020
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School Buildings - Drinking Water Outlets - Elevated Level of Lead (Safe School Drinking Water Act) [SB-992]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Water ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the definition of "elevated level of lead" for purposes of certain provisions of law requiring the periodic testing for the presence of lead in drinking water outlets in occupied public and nonpublic school buildings; and requiring by August 1, 2021, a school to take certain remedial measures on a drinking water outlet tested on or before June 1, 2020, if the test indicated a concentration of lead that was more than 5 parts per billion but less than 20 parts per billion.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory McCray
Referred Environment And Transportation Ways And Means on 02/28/2020
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Maryland Council on Health in All Policies - Establishment [SB-716]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing the Maryland Council on Health in All Policies to employ a health in all policies framework, a public health framework through which public and private policy makers and stakeholders use a collaborative approach to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequities in the State; providing, to the extent practicable, Council members are to reflect the geographic, racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity of the State; requiring the Council to submit a report by December 1 each year on the Council's activities; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. (finance) on 02/05/2020
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Emergency Management - Chief Resilience Officer - Appointment and Duties [SB-721]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Economic Development ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Requiring the Director of the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to appoint a Chief Resilience Officer to be responsible for coordinating State and local efforts to build resilience to risks identified in the Maryland Hazard Mitigation Plan; providing that the Chief Resilience Officer serves at the pleasure of the Director; establishing additional duties of the Chief Resilience Officer as identification of funding streams and technical assistance and working with leaders of vulnerable industries; requiring a certain report; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing Canceled on 03/16/2020
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Environment - Statewide Green Business Certification Program - Establishment [HB-896]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Small Business ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish and administer a statewide green business certification program; requiring the green business certification program to recognize businesses operating in a way that reduces their environmental footprint and to provide consumers with information how to identify those businesses; requiring the Department to update and enhance the statewide green business certification program in consultation with the Montgomery County Green Business Certification Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Referred Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs on 03/11/2020
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Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Electric Facilities - Study and Procedures [SB-741]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Secretary of Natural Resources to require the Department of Natural Resources, within 60 days of the filing of a certain application with the Public Service Commission, to complete an independent environmental and socioeconomic project assessment report and any other additional required study; requiring the Secretary of Natural Resources and the Secretary of the Environment to forward certain information to the Public Service Commission in accordance with a certain procedural schedule adopted by the Commission; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2020
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Utility Regulation - Consideration of Climate and Labor [SB-656]
[Energy ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Climate Change ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Secretary of the Environment to prepare a certain recommendation in connection with certain issues considered by the Public Service Commission; requiring the Secretary of Natural Resources to incorporate an evaluation of the impact of certain electric power plants on climate change into the Power Plant Research Program; requiring the Commission to consider the maintenance of fair and stable labor standards and the protection of the global climate in supervising and regulating certain public service companies; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Referred Economic Matters Environment And Transportation on 03/12/2020
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Sewage Treatment Plants - Effluent Discharges - Impacts on Midge Populations [HB-836]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Science ]
[Public Health ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to monitor effluent discharged from sewage treatment plants and evaluate whether the effluent impacts midge populations in the surrounding land and water areas; and requiring the Department to report to the General Assembly on or before October 1, 2021 and each year thereafter.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
Third Reading Passed (134-0) on 03/17/2020
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Department of the Environment - Nontidal Wetlands - Study of Vernal Pools [HB-854]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Science ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to study vernal pools, unique small-scale ecosystems that contribute to the biodiversity in the State; requiring the Department, in conducting the study, to complete a certain inventory, identify certain protection and management measures, and make certain recommendations; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before October 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation; Withdrawn on 03/09/2020