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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Task Force on the Forest Conservation Act Offset Policy [SB-610]
Establishing the Task Force on the Forest Conservation Act Offset Policy to study and review certain issues related to certain changes to forested lands in the State due to certain circumstances; requiring the Task Force to develop findings and recommendations regarding forest conservation in Maryland and to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2018; authorizing the Task Force to consult with the Chesapeake Bay Program, the U.S. Forest Service, and certain governmental entities and academic institutions; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Third Reading Passed With Amendments (103-36) on 04/09/2018
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Forest Conservation – Technical Study and Programmatic Review [HB-766]
Requiring the Department of Legislative Services, in consultation with certain entities, to undertake a technical study to review changes in forest cover and tree canopy in the State; requiring the study to include surveys and mapping and certain analyses related to forest conservation; requiring the Department to submit the study and a certain programmatic review to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 15, 2018; requiring the Department to convene a work session by November 30, 2018, to consider certain findings; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Favorable With Amendments Report By Environment And Transportation on 04/09/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Electric Companies - Vegetation Management - Notice to Municipal Corporations [HB-423]
Requiring an electric company, before performing certain vegetation management within a municipal corporation, to provide notice of the proposed vegetation management to the municipal corporation where the vegetation management will be performed.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Luedtke
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 02/15/2018
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Technical Study on Changes in Forest Cover and Tree Canopy in Maryland [SB-729]
Requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, in consultation with the Departments of Natural Resources, the Environment, Planning, and Agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay Program to conduct a technical study to review changes in forest cover and tree canopy in the State; providing for the scope of the study; and requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology to submit a report of the findings of the technical study to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2019.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 405 on 05/13/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Natural Resources - State and Local Forest Conservation Funds [SB-234]
Requiring a person that is subject to the Forest Conservation Act to demonstrate that appropriate credits generated by a forest mitigation bank in the same county or watershed are not available before the person may pay money to a State or local forest conservation fund to meet certain requirements; prohibiting a local authority from collecting money into its forest conservation fund unless it has submitted to the Department of Natural Resources the mitigation plan and accounting procedures; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 602 on 05/25/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Technical Study on Changes in Forest Cover and Tree Canopy in Maryland [HB-735]
Requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, in consultation with the Departments of Natural Resources, Environment, Planning, and Agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay Program to conduct a technical study to review changes in forest cover and tree canopy in the State; providing for the scope of the study; and requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology to submit a report of the findings of the technical study to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2019.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/24/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Natural Resources - State and Local Forest Conservation Funds [HB-272]
Requiring a person that is subject to the Forest Conservation Act to demonstrate that appropriate credits generated by a forest mitigation bank in the same county or watershed are not available before the person may pay money to a State or local forest conservation fund to meet certain requirements; prohibiting a local authority from collecting money for deposit into its forest conservation fund unless it has submitted to the Department of Naural Resources the mitigation plan and accounting procedures; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 601 on 05/25/2019
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Creation of a State Debt - Baltimore City - Cylburn Arboretum Carriage House and Nature Museum [SB-918]
Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Cylburn Arboretum Association, Incorporated for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Cylburn Arboretum Carriage House and Nature Museum, located in Baltimore City; providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lisa Gladden
Hearing 3/12 At 9:00 A.m. on 03/12/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Transportation - Installation of Brick Security Mailboxes Within Rights-of-Way [SB-596]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to allow the installation of brick and stone security mailbox supports and parcel drop boxes on specified residential streets under specified circumstances; requiring that the brick and stone security mailboxes conform to specified federal guidelines; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/25/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Creation of a State Debt - Baltimore City - Cylburn Arboretum Carriage House and Nature Museum [HB-942]
Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Cylburn Arboretum Association, Incorporated for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Cylburn Arboretum Carriage House and Nature Museum, located in Baltimore City; providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Unfavorable Report By Appropriations on 04/11/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Liability for Personal Injury or Property Damage Caused by Tree [HB-818]
Establishing that a land owner is liable for damages for personal injury or property damage on adjoining residential property caused by a defect in the condition of a tree on the land owner's land under specified circumstances; requiring a homeowner's insurance policy issued or renewed on or after October 1, 2016, for property located in or adjacent to a residential area to include coverage for potential liability under the Act; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Turner
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary; Withdrawn on 03/07/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Tree Expert License - Application and Renewal - Repeal of Sunset Provision [HB-65]
Repealing the termination provision of specified provisions of law relating to the application for and renewal of a tree expert license; requiring a licensed tree expert to complete the professional development curriculum established by the Department of Natural Resources after September 1, 2017; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 87 on 04/12/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Electric Companies - Vegetation Management - Local Law, Rule, Regulation, or Other Action [HB-435]
Repealing a prohibition against a county or municipal corporation taking specified actions that interfere with, or materially increase costs of, compliance with specified vegetation management standards under specified circumstances; requiring an electric company to attempt to work out a specified agreement with a county or municipal corporation to mitigate the impact of a local law, rule, regulation, or other action on efforts to comply with specified other vegetation management standards; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tawanna Gaines
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 02/16/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Roadside Trees - Preservation and Protection [HB-178]
Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue a permit for roadside tree maintenance or removal only for public health and safety purposes or if the tree is dead or dying; prohibiting the Department from issuing a permit for roadside tree maintenance or removal for aesthetic purposes; requiring a person who removes a roadside tree to replace the roadside tree within 2 months after its removal; requiring the Department to ensure that all required replacement trees are planted; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 03/19/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
State Government - Pollinator Habitat Plans [HB-132]
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, the Maryland Environmental Service, and the State Highway Administration, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, to each establish a specified pollinator habitat plan by July 1, 2017, and to make each plan available to the public on each State agency's web site by September 1, 2017; requiring specified State agencies to report to specified committees of the General Assembly by January 1, 2018, on the implementation of each pollinator habitat plan; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Bromwell
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 614 on 05/19/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Forest Conservation Act - Net Tract Area PG/MC 114-16 [HB-1197]
Altering the defined term "net tract area" as it applies in Prince George's County to afforestation and reforestation requirements under the Forest Conservation Act to include, under specified circumstances, existing forested land that is located in a 100-year floodplain.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 3/31 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/31/2016
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Board of Tree Experts - Establishment [SB-903]
Establishing the State Board of Tree Experts in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; providing for the composition of the Board and the qualifications, appointments, removal, terms, and expenses of the Board members; requiring the Board to adopt a code of ethics for practicing as a tree expert; prohibiting a person from practicing as a tree expert in the State without a license issued by the Board, subject to specified exceptions; establishing specified qualifications for a license; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 3/17 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/17/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Electric Companies - Vegetation Management [SB-747]
Requiring the Public Service Commission, in adopting specified vegetation management regulations, to require that an electric company's vegetation management program comply with the International Society of Arboriculture's Best Management Practices for Utility Pruning of Trees; and prohibiting an electric company from removing a tree on private property unless the tree is hazardous and the private property owner has consented to removal of the hazardous tree.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Unfavorable Report By Finance; Withdrawn on 03/18/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2015 [SB-57]
Authorizing or altering the distribution of specified revenue; altering or repealing specified required appropriations; authorizing the use of specified funds for specified purposes; providing for the transfer of specified funds; repealing a specified requirement for a specified notice relating to abandoned property to be published in specified newspapers; requiring the Comptroller to maintain a specified abandoned property database; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Miller
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/04/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard - Thermal Energy [SB-154]
Altering the renewable energy portfolio standard for specified years; providing for specified thermal energy sources to be thermal tier energy sources; requiring an electricity supplier to meet the renewable energy portfolio standard by accumulating a specified amount of renewable energy credits and thermal renewable energy credits; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Hearing 2/17 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/17/2015