2005 Regular Session
Agriculture (M4)
Current Status of Legislation Total number of Bills: 33
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Department of Agriculture - Weights and Measures - Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Commission - Membership
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Easement Termination - County Notification
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Board of Trustees
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Animal Health - Administrative Penalties
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Commercial Feed and Fertilizer, Agricultural Liming Materials, and Pesticide Registration and Labeling Laws - Penalties
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Local Land Use
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Arbitration of Easement Values
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Secretary of Agriculture - Animal Health - Reports
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate McIntosh
- Entitled
- Maryland Tobacco Authority - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Moe, Bozman, Cardin, Conway, Costa, DeBoy, Donoghue, Feldman, Frush, Gaines, Griffith, Hammen, Hubbard, Kach, Kelly, Leopold, Madaleno, Malone, McConkey, McHale, Menes, Morhaim, Pendergrass, Petzold, Sophocleus, Trueschler, Vaughn, Weir, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Commercial Fertilizer - Ammonium Nitrate - Sale or Distribution Information
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Environmental Matters Committee and Chair, Ways and Means Committee
- Entitled
- Horse Industry Board - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters and Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Weir
- Entitled
- Agricultural Land Preservation - Termination of Agricultural Districts
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stull and Cane
- Entitled
- Department of Agriculture - Water Pollution Control - Cost Sharing
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Secretary of Agriculture - Regulation of Poultry to Control Avian Influenza
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stocksdale and Aumann
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Request for Release by Landowner's Estate
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stocksdale and Aumann
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Child Lot - Notice
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates O'Donnell and McIntosh
- Entitled
- Fish and Fisheries - Seafood - Aquaculture
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Cecil County Delegation
- Entitled
- Income Tax Checkoff - Cecil County Agricultural Preservation Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
HB 1051
Status as of April 7, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Sossi, Smigiel, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Commercial Fertilizer - Required Signage at Retail Outlets
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Cane, Stull, Bartlett, Bozman, Conway, Donoghue, Eckardt, Elliott, Elmore, Haddaway, Hogan, McKee, Rudolph, Shank, Sossi, Walkup, Weldon, Bobo, V. Clagett, Glassman, Jennings, Montgomery, Parker, and Weir
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Critical Farms Program
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conway, Bartlett, Bates, Bobo, Bohanan, Boutin, Bozman, Cardin, G. Clagett, V. Clagett, Costa, Eckardt, Edwards, Elliott, Elmore, Glassman, Haddaway, Hubbard, James, Jennings, Kelly, Kullen, McComas, McHale, McIntosh, McKee, Montgomery, Morhaim, Myers, Parrott, Petzold, Rudolph, Shank, Smigiel, Sossi, Stern, Stull, Walkup, Weldon, Wood, and Cane
- Entitled
- Renewable Fuels Promotion Act of 2005
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates V. Clagett, McIntosh, Bartlett, Bohanan, Cane, Cluster, Donoghue, Eckardt, Edwards, Glassman, Haddaway, Hogan, Impallaria, Jennings, Kach, Kaiser, Kullen, Mayer, McConkey, McDonough, McKee, Montgomery, O'Donnell, Parrott, Rudolph, Shank, Shewell, Stocksdale, Stull, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Fund and Council - Establishment
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stull, Cane, Bartlett, Elliott, Hogan, McKee, Myers, Shank, Sossi, Walkup, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Fund - Priority Preservation Areas - New Funding Sources
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger (Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee)
- Entitled
- Maryland Tobacco Authority - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Klausmeier, Brochin, Colburn, Dyson, Hogan, Kasemeyer, Middleton, and Schrader
- Entitled
- Fish and Fisheries - Seafood - Aquaculture
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 325
Status as of February 28, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Agricultural Land Preservation - Termination of Agricultural Districts
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger (Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee) and Senator Middleton (Chair, Finance Committee)
- Entitled
- Horse Industry Board - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
- Committee
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Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs and Finance
House: Environmental Matters and Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Cecil County Senators
- Entitled
- Income Tax Checkoff - Cecil County Agricultural Preservation Fund
- Committee
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Senate: Budget and Taxation
SB 470
Status as of March 8, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Grosfeld, Britt, Jones, Pinsky, and Stone
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Confinement of Pregnant Sows and Gilts - Minimum Enclosure Size
- Committee
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Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dyson , Middleton, Colburn, Harris, and Greenip
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Critical Farms Program
- Committee
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Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Munson
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Fund and Council - Establishment
- Committee
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Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Middleton, Brinkley, Colburn, Dyson, Gladden, Greenip, Hafer, Haines, Jacobs, Munson, Pipkin, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Renewable Fuels Promotion Act of 2005
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Environmental Matters
