1996 Regular Session
Environment (H1)
Current Status of Legislation Total number of Bills: 52
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Curran, Taylor, Cummings, Hurson, Busch, Guns, Hixson, Rawlings, Vallario, and Rosenberg
- Entitled
- Review of License and Permit Applications - Timing of Review by the Department of the Environment
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
HB 4
Status as of February 7, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Curran, Taylor, Cummings, Hurson, Busch, Guns, Hixson, Rawlings, and Vallario
- Entitled
- Secretary of the Environment - Adoption of Regulations - Relationship to Federal Regulations
- Committee
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House: Commerce and Government Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns, Taylor, Cummings, Hurson, Busch, Hixson, Rawlings, Vallario, Owings, Klausmeier, Stup, Weir, Fulton, D. Davis, Redmer, D. Hughes, Frush, Billings, McHale, Hammen, Ciliberti, Morhaim, Stull, Oaks, Mohorovic, Finifter, Frank, Howard, and Harrison
- Entitled
- Brownfields - Voluntary Cleanup and Revitalization Programs
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Arnick and Guns
- Entitled
- Lead Paint - Affected Property - Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Arnick
- Entitled
- Lead Abatement - Definition and Exceptions
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Lead Functions - Transfer to Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Elliott and Schisler
- Entitled
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Reform - Disclosure of Condition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Stup
- Entitled
- Lead Poisoning - Reduction of Risk in Housing - Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Asbestos Control - Revisions to Accreditation Plan
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, D. Davis, Guns, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, and C. Mitchell
- Entitled
- Lead - Childhood Lead Screening - Work Practices and Accreditation Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Dypski, Hammen, and Krysiak
- Entitled
- Baltimore City - Incinerator Installation - Authority to Prohibit
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Water Quality - Grants and Loans for Projects - Expansion
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Small Pond Exemptions - Height Measurement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Environmental Noise Control - Repeal
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Hazardous Waste Management - Term of a Permit for Controlled Hazardous Substance Facilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Natural Wood Waste Recycling Facilities - Regulatory Requirements - Limited Repeal
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Elliott, Edwards, Snodgrass, Brinkley, Stull, Stocksdale, Ports, Klima, Hutchins, Schade, Rzepkowski, Greenip, Harkins, Eckardt, Beck, Mossburg, McKee, Stup, Getty, Holt, Redmer, Kelly, D. Murphy, Faulkner, Kittleman, La Vay, O'Donnell, Baldwin, Jacobs, Walkup, D. Hughes, and McClenahan
- Entitled
- Secretary of the Environment - Regulations - Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bissett (By Request of the Anne Arundel County Executive)
- Entitled
- Anne Arundel - Refuse Disposal - Host Community Benefit Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg and Hubbard
- Entitled
- Lead Poisoning Prevention - Lead Hazard Control Plan
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Perry, Cadden, Baldwin, Conroy, Proctor, Hammen, Kach, M. Burns, Rzepkowski, Love, Turner, Pitkin, Bissett, Clagett, Hubbard, Bobo, Frush, Leopold, Greenip, and Schade
- Entitled
- Rubble Landfills - Liners - Local Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Poole, Donoghue, Stull, Brinkley, Stocksdale, Elliott, Edwards, Workman, Getty, McKee, Snodgrass, Stup, and Taylor
- Entitled
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - Risk Reduction in Housing - Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Frush, Dembrow, Menes, Rosapepe, Hixson, and Franchot
- Entitled
- Environment - Sewage Sludge Facilities - Odor Zones
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Pitkin, Perry, Benson, E. Burns, Bobo, DeCarlo, Clagett, Dembrow, Faulkner, Frush, Hubbard, B. Hughes, Kopp, Love, Mandel, McIntosh, Marriott, Menes, Morgan, D. Murphy, Nathan-Pulliam, Parker, Patterson, Pendergrass, Turner, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Parents' Right to Know - Pesticide Applications - Schools and Child Care Centers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Taylor, Guns, and Owings
- Entitled
- Environmental Audits - Voluntary Disclosure
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Edwards
- Entitled
- Surface Coal Mining - Permit Revocation - Reinstatement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Billings
- Entitled
- Environment - Permits - Standing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bissett (By Request of the Anne Arundel County Executive)
- Entitled
- Anne Arundel County - Refuse Disposal - Host Community Benefit Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Air Quality - Construction and Modification of Sources
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
HB 1221
Status as of March 20, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Water Appropriation Permits - Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns, Owings, and Hubbard
- Entitled
- Environment - Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean-Up and Contingency Fund, Underground Storage Tank Upgrade and Replacement Fund, and Oil Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, Mohorovic, Morhaim, Frush, Oaks, Hammen, McHale, Nathan-Pulliam, Rosapepe, T. Murphy, Pitkin, Conroy, Crumlin, Rosenberg, Marriott, Proctor, R. Baker, Patterson, Clagett, Grosfeld, Bobo, Menes, Turner, Kagan, C. Mitchell, Franchot, Pendergrass, McIntosh, Poole, Dypski, Kelly, Kach, and Perry
- Entitled
- Environment - Permits - Standing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Owings
- Entitled
- Rubble Landfill Remediation Trust Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Owings
- Entitled
- Rubble Landfills - Environmental Inspectors
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Owings
- Entitled
- Rubble Landfills - Recycling Plan
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Taylor
- Entitled
- Maryland Environmental Trust - Establishment as an Independent Agency
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns and Rosenberg
- Entitled
- Lead Poisoning Prevention - Fees - Community Outreach and Education
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Lead Paint - Work Practices and Accreditation - Area Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns, McHale, Rawlings, Fry, Redmer, Hammen, Stup, Klausmeier, Ciliberti, and Elliott
- Entitled
- Port of Baltimore and Related Waterways - Dredging Maintenance and Improvement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Baker
- Entitled
- Cecil County - Construction on Piers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Frosh, Sfikas, Young, Stone, Van Hollen, Collins, Pinsky, Dorman, Teitelbaum, Kelley, Lawlah, Green, Roesser, Hollinger, Forehand, Currie, Kasemeyer, McFadden, Ruben, Madden, Dyson, and Astle
- Entitled
- Brownfields Revitalization and Voluntary Remediation Programs
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Sfikas, Collins, Teitelbaum, Hoffman, Green, McFadden, Forehand, Pinsky, Van Hollen, Frosh, and Hollinger
- Entitled
- Environment - Applications for Permits and Licenses
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Frosh and Roesser
- Entitled
- Environment - Water Appropriation or Use Permits
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Sfikas, McFadden, and Stone
- Entitled
- Baltimore City - Incinerators - Authority to Prohibit
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 488
Status as of February 14, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Frosh, Sfikas, Currie, Lawlah, Kelley, Dorman, Pinsky, Collins, Green, McFadden, and Van Hollen
- Entitled
- Department of the Environment - Permits - Standing
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
SB 536
Status as of March 5, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Frosh
- Entitled
- Underground Oil Storage Tanks - Site Rehabilitation - Recovery of Expenses
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Derr, Ferguson, Hafer, Haines, and Munson
- Entitled
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - Risk Reduction in Housing - Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Haines (Carroll County Delegation)
- Entitled
- Carroll County - On-Site and Small Community Wastewater Disposal Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 668
Status as of March 15, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Collins
- Entitled
- Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean-Up and Contingency Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Collins
- Entitled
- Air Quality - Construction and Modification of Sources
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 682
Status as of March 22, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Recommit to Committee Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Miller, Baker, and Haines
- Entitled
- Environmental Audits - Voluntary Disclosure
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Frosh
- Entitled
- Environment - Newsprint Recycling
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 765
Status as of March 14, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Miller
- Entitled
- Maryland Environmental Trust - Establishment as an Independent Agency
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
