File Code: Environment
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 445  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Pinsky, Frosh,
Madaleno, Montgomery, and Raskin
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Sustainable Growth and Agricultural Preservation Act of 2012
 
Authorizing a local jurisdiction to adopt specified growth tier
designations; requiring a local jurisdiction under specified
circumstances to alter the contents of a specified plan; authorizing a
local jurisdiction to submit proposed tier designations to the
Department of Planning before adoption for specified purposes;
establishing mandatory and discretionary provisions relating to the
adoption of specified tiers by local jurisdictions; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
For explanation of terms 
click here.
Senate Action
- 1/20
 - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 1/25
 - Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/19
 
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 3/17
 - Favorable with Amendments {774530/2
 -      Laid Over (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
 - 3/18
 - Favorable with Amendments {774530/2
 -      Special Order until 3/22 (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
 - 3/19
 - Favorable with Amendments {774530/2
 -      Special Order until 3/23 (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
 - 3/20
 - Favorable with Amendments {774530/2 Report Adopted
 -      Floor Committee Amendment (Education Health and Environmental Affairs) {264238/1  Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Middleton)  {813228/1
 -      Special Order until p.m. session  (Senator Middleton) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Middleton)  {813228/1
 -      Special Order until later today  (Senator Frosh) Adopted
 - 3/21
 - Floor Amendment (Senator Middleton)  {813228/1 Adopted (31-14)
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Frosh) {503027/1  Rejected (16-28)
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Glassman) {813320/2  Rejected (19-24)
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Reilly) {383822/1  Rejected (13-29)
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Reilly) {503529/1  Rejected (13-31)
 -      Motion Special Order until 3/26 (Senator Reilly)  Rejected (16-28)
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/22
 - Special Order until later today  (Senator Reilly) Adopted
 -      Special Order until 3/27 (Senator Reilly) Adopted
 - 3/23
 - Motion limit debate (Senator Garagiola)  Adopted (31-14)
 -      Third Reading Passed (32-14)
 - 4/1
 - Senate Concur - House Amendments
 -      Special Order until later today  (Senator Pipkin) Adopted
 - 4/2
 - Special Order until 4/9 (Senator Pipkin) Adopted
 - 4/3
 - Senate Concur - House Amendments
 -      Third Reading Passed (32-15)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 
House Action
- 3/25
 - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
 - 3/30
 - Re-referred Environmental Matters
 - 4/2
 - Hearing 4/4 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/5
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
 - 3/31
 - Favorable with Amendments {840412/1 Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/1
 - Motion Special Order until 4/7 (Delegate Eckardt)  Rejected (47-89)
 -      Motion vote previous question  (Delegate Mizeur) Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed with Amendments (93-45)
 
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/2
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 149
 
Sponsored by:
- President, The
 - Administration
 - Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
 - Senator Richard S. Madaleno, Jr., District 18
 - Senator Karen S. Montgomery, District 14
 - Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
 - Senator Jamie Raskin, District 20
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Agriculture -see also- Farmland
 - Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
 - Counties -see also- Chartered Counties; Code Counties
 - Disclosure
 - Electronic Government
 - Environment, Department of
 - Environmental Matters -see also- Conserv; Nat Resrce; Pollut
 - Farmland
 - Hearings
 - Land Records -see also- Deeds
 - Laws and Ordinances -see also- Pub Local Laws; Uniform Laws.
 - Licenses -see also- Alcoholic Bev Lic; Drivers' Licenses
 - Local Government Mandates
 - Maps and Charts
 - Municipal Corporations -see also- Annap; Balt; Hager; OC
 - Notices
 - Planning, Department of
 - Pollution -see also- Sediment Control
 - Public Information
 - Recordation
 - Reports
 - Rules and Regulations
 - Sewage
 - Water
 - Zoning and Planning
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 66B Land Use
 - (
 1.00 
,
 1.03 
,
 1.05 
,
 1.06 
)
 -   Environment
 - (
 9-206 
,
 9-206 
,
 9-1110 
)
 -   Land Use
 - (
 1-401 
,
 1-501 through 1-509 
,
 5-104 
)
 
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note:
 Available
 - Amendments:
 Senate
- Number: 264238/01     Offered on: March 23, 2012      at:
12:23 p.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 383822/01     Offered on: March 23, 2012      at:
8:07 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 - Number: 503027/01     Offered on: March 23, 2012      at:
7:50 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 - Number: 503529/01     Offered on: March 23, 2012      at:
8:10 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 - Number: 774530/02     Offered on: March 23, 2012      at:
12:22 p.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 813228/01     Offered on: March 23, 2012      at:
7:19 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 - Number: 813320/02     Offered on: March 23, 2012      at:
8:02 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 
House 
- Number: 840412/01     Offered on: April 5, 2012       at:
11:43 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- 
Committee Votes :
 
 Senate
- Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
 
House 
- Environmental Matters
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 Senate
- March 21, 2012: Floor Amendment (Middleton) {813228/1 Adopted  (31-14)
 - March 21, 2012: Floor Amendment (Frosh) {503027/1 Rejected  (16-28)
 - March 21, 2012: Floor Amendment (Glassman) {813320/2 Rejected  (19-24)
 - March 21, 2012: Floor Amendment (Reilly) {383822/1 Rejected  (13-29)
 - March 21, 2012: Floor Amendment (Reilly) {503529/1 Rejected  (13-31)
 - March 21, 2012: Motion Special Order until 3/26 (Reilly) Rejected  (16-28)
 - March 23, 2012: Motion limit debate (Garagiola) Adopted  (31-14)
 - March 23, 2012: Third Reading Passed  (32-14)
 - April 3, 2012: Third Reading Passed  (32-15)
 
House 
- April 1, 2012: Motion Special Order until 4/7 (Eckardt) Rejected  (47-89)
 - April 1, 2012: Third Reading Passed  (93-45)
 
 
 
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