Noise
Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss [SB-843]
Altering the frequencies in which industrial noise must be for an employer to be required to provide workers' compensation to a covered employee for hearing loss; altering the method used to determine the percentage of hearing loss deafness for purposes of workers' compensation; and altering the method used to determine the deduction required to be made to allow for the average amount of hearing loss from nonoccupational causes in the population for purposes of calculating workers' compensation benefits for occupational deafness.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 283 on 04/25/2024
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Gettr Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Hearing Loss [HB-669]
Altering the frequencies in which industrial noise must be for an employer to be required to provide workers' compensation to a covered employee for hearing loss; altering the method used to determine the percentage of hearing loss deafness for purposes of workers' compensation; and altering the method used to determine the deduction required to be made to allow for the average amount of hearing loss from nonoccupational causes in the population for purposes of calculating workers' compensation benefits for occupational deafness.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew Pruski
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 282 on 04/25/2024
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Noise. [HB-2804]
Increases penalty fines for violations of leaf blower restrictions. Removes the exemption for government entities and their agents from leaf blower restrictions. Beginning July 1, 2027, prohibits the sale of any leaf blower or string trimmer that is rated by its manufacturer at greater than 65 weighted decibels (dBA) when measured at a distance of 50 feet. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Saiki
Received From House (hse. Com. No. 452). on 03/07/2024
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Noise. [SB-126]
Prohibits the operation of a vehicle sound amplification system that can be heard outside the vehicle from a distance of thirty feet or more while the vehicle is on a public roadway, street, or highway, or within any residential zone or district. Establishes penalties for violations. Makes certain exemptions
Sponsored by: Sen. Glenn Wakai
Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Law Enforcement - Sound Level Meters PG 305-24 [HB-388]
Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop and publish online a policy for the issuance and use of a sound level meter for measuring the intensity of noise and other sounds by a law enforcement officer that addresses certain matters; requiring the Prince George's County Police Department to require the use of sound level meters, subject to a certain policy, by certain law enforcement officers on or before January 1, 2025; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
First Reading Judiciary And Health And Government Operations on 01/17/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Noise Abatement Monitoring Systems - Pilot Program [HB-212]
Establishing a pilot program to authorize the use of noise abatement monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain motor vehicle noise requirements; requiring a county, before activating a noise abatement monitoring system, to publish notice of the locations of the systems on its website; requiring a county that authorizes a noise abatement monitoring program to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2025, on the implementation and costs of the program and revenues collected; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 624 on 05/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Noise Abatement Monitoring Systems - Pilot Program [SB-155]
Establishing a pilot program to authorize the use of noise abatement monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain motor vehicle noise requirements; requiring a county that authorizes a program of noise abatement monitoring systems to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2025, on the effectiveness, performance, appropriate locations, costs and revenues, and citations issued in relation to the program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo Washington
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 625 on 05/09/2024
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Requesting The Prohibition Of Commercial And Tour Flights Over Kunia, Oahu. [HCR-120]
Requesting The Prohibition Of Commercial And Tour Flights Over Kunia, Oahu.
Sponsored by: Rep. Elijah Pierick
Referred To Trn, Fin, Referral Sheet 20 on 03/15/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Department of State Police - Training Facilities With Firearm Range - Location [HB-1028]
Stating it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of State Police not locate training facilities with firearm ranges near any building, grounds, parking lot, or open space owned or occupied by a hospital, educational facility, correctional facility or juvenile facility; requiring the Governor to appropriate funds in certain years for the planning and relocation of certain training facilities of the Department; and requiring a certain annual report regarding the facilities be submitted by December 15, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marlon Amprey
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 04/10/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Modified Exhaust Systems and Noise Abatement Devices - Testing and Penalties [HB-966]
Requiring a police officer to issue a safety equipment repair order if the police officer observes a motor vehicle being driven with an unlawful modified exhaust system or noise abatement device; altering the penalties for driving a motor vehicle on a highway with an exhaust system or noise abatement device that is modified in a certain manner; and requiring the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program to test the exhaust sound level of a motor vehicle at an emissions inspection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tiffany Alston
Hearing 3/02 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 02/13/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Noise Abatement Monitoring Systems - Authorization, Use, and Penalties [HB-1130]
Authorizing a local government to use noise abatement monitoring systems, if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded in violation of certain motor vehicle noise requirements is subject to a citation and a certain civil penalty under certain circumstances; establishing certain defenses to a charge of an alleged violation recorded by a noise abatement monitoring system; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr
Hearing 3/02 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/13/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Modified Exhaust Systems and Noise Abatement Devices - Citations [SB-616]
Authorizing a police officer who observes a motor vehicle being operated with a modified exhaust system or noise abatement device that causes the motor vehicle to exceed a certain noise level in violation of law to stop the motor vehicle and requiring the officer to issue a citation for the violation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Corderman
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/07/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
State Employee Rights and Protections - Personnel Actions and Harassment - Complaints [SB-574]
Authorizing an applicant for State employment or a State employee to file a complaint alleging harassment by an employer within 2 years after the alleged violation that is the basis of the complaint; and increasing, from 30 days to 1 year, the period of time for an applicant or employee to file a complaint alleging certain prohibited personnel actions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 235 on 04/24/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Health Occupations - Environmental Health Specialists - Revisions [SB-399]
Altering the education requirements for an applicant for licensure as an environmental health specialist to include a minimum of 30 semester credit hours or the equivalent quarter credit hours in certain sciences and laboratory coursework as required in regulations adopted by the Board of Environmental Health Specialists; requiring the Board to administer examinations to applicants at least once a year; and altering the grounds for which the Board may take disciplinary action against an applicant or a licensee.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 318 on 05/03/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Health Occupations - Environmental Health Specialists - Revisions [HB-273]
Altering the education requirements for an applicant for licensure as an environmental health specialist; altering the grounds for which the Board may take disciplinary action against an applicant or a licensee to include misfeasance and malfeasance while performing the duties of an environmental health specialist; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 319 on 05/03/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Noise Limits and Modification of Exhaust Systems and Noise Abatement Devices [HB-304]
Establishing the Sound Measuring Equipment Grant Program in the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies for the purchase of equipment to measure the sound level of a motor vehicle in operation on a highway; establishing a maximum sound level limit that the Motor Vehicle Administration may set for motor vehicles; requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing 2/09 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 01/26/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Noise Abatement Monitoring Systems - Authorization, Use, and Penalties [SB-229]
Authorizing a local government in certain counties to use noise abatement monitoring systems, if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded in violation of certain motor vehicle noise requirements is subject to a warning notice; prohibiting a contractor that administers a noise abatement monitoring system from being compensated on a per-ticket basis on the number of warning notices issued; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Hearing 3/30 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/22/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Noise. [SB-126]
Prohibits the operation of a vehicle sound amplification system that can be heard outside the vehicle from a distance of thirty feet or more while the vehicle is on a public roadway, street, or highway, or within any residential zone or district. Establishes penalties for violations. Makes certain exemptions
Sponsored by: Sen. Glenn Wakai
Referred To Tca/psm, Jdc. on 01/20/2023
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Noise. [HB-2201]
Prohibits commercial vehicles from making pickups from, or deliveries to, business establishments during certain times of the day and within a certain proximity of single-family residences in the performance of the vehicles' pickup or delivery. Establishes fines.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregg Takayama
Referred To Hhh, Cpc, Referral Sheet 3 on 01/28/2022
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Noise. [SB-2749]
Prohibits commercial vehicles from making pickups from, or deliveries to, business establishments during certain times of the day and within a certain proximity of single-family residences in the performance of the vehicles' pickup or delivery. Exempts commercial vehicles operating in response to an emergency. Establishes fines. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura
Pass First Reading on 03/10/2022