1996 Regular Session
ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS -see also- NATURAL RES., POLLUTION
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 72
- 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
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Fry, Cadden, Ciliberti, Love, and Bonsack
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Enhanced Testing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Weir and D. Hughes
- Entitled
- Natural Resources - Phragmites - Cost Sharing Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Lead Functions - Transfer to Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Committee
Assignments -
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
- Delegates Stup and Guns
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Washington County
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Cadden and Love
- Entitled
- Enhanced Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Moratorium Extension
- 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
- Washington County Delegation
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Washington County
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (Administration)
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 1996, Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loans of 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995, General Construction Loan of 1987, Water Quality Loans of 1974 and 1983, Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Loans of 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988, Controlled Hazardous Substance Loans of 1986, 1987, and 1988 , and Law Enforcement and Correctional Training Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- 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
- Natural Wood Waste Recycling Facilities - Regulatory Requirements - Limited Repeal
- Committee
Assignments -
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
- Delegates Leopold and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning - Local Jurisdiction Rating Systems
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Elliott, Jacobs, Edwards, Snodgrass, Brinkley, Stull, Stocksdale, Ports, Klima, Cryor, Schade, Rzepkowski, Greenip, Harkins, Eckardt, Mossburg, Mohorovic, McKee, Stup, Getty, Holt, Redmer, Kelly, D. Murphy, Faulkner, La Vay, O'Donnell, Leopold, M. Burns, Walkup, McClenahan, Ciliberti, Beck, and Minnick
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Enhanced Testing - Indefinite Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Cryor, Beck, Mossburg, La Vay, Shriver, Genn, Goldwater, Kopp, and Barve
- Entitled
- Property Tax Relief - Potomac Conservancy
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- 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
- Washington County Delegation
- Entitled
- Washington County - Forest Conservation - Industrial and Commercial Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, Stup, and Pitkin
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Technician Certification and Repair Facilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Taylor, Guns, and Owings
- Entitled
- Environmental Audits - Voluntary Disclosure
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates W. Baker, Guns, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Queen Anne's County
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Edwards, Healey, and Cryor
- Entitled
- Property Tax Exemption for Coal Pollution Control Facilities and Coal Waste Disposal Power Projects
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Minnick, Arnick, Mohorovic, Weir, DeCarlo, Holt, Klausmeier, Redmer, and Ports
- Entitled
- Chesapeake Bay Critical Area - Impervious Surface Limits
- 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 Guns
- Entitled
- Air Quality - Construction and Modification of Sources
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Forest Conservation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Air Quality - Ozone Transport Region - Exclusions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- 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 Pitkin, Conroy, Hubbard, Crumlin, Rosapepe, Patterson, Menes, Valderrama, Muse, Frush, Hutchins, Holt, Vallario, Perry, Howard, Healey, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - Belt Woods Home Farm
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- 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 Clagett
- Entitled
- Noxious Weed - Purple Loosestrife
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates O'Donnell and Owings
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Calvert County
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Lead Paint - Work Practices and Accreditation - Area Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Green
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - Belt Woods Home Farm
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
SB 64
Status as of April 8, 1996: Bill is in the House - Favorable with Amendments Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Colburn and Derr
- Entitled
- Forest Conservation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Colburn
- Entitled
- Natural Resources - Phragmites - Cost Sharing Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Baker
- Entitled
- Cecil County - Construction on Piers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Astle
- Entitled
- Insurance - Elimination of the Pollution Exclusion for Residential and Commercial Property
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Jimeno, Colburn, Collins, Haines, Middlebrooks, Stone, and Bromwell
- Entitled
- Enhanced Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Moratorium Extension
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Stone, Baker, Jimeno, Bromwell, Della, Collins, Pica, Colburn, Ferguson, Forehand, Green, Haines, and Middlebrooks
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Voluntary Dynamometer Testing - Incentives
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Haines, Derr, Jimeno, Hafer, Stoltzfus, Stone, Munson, Della, Colburn, Middlebrooks, and Ferguson
- Entitled
- Enhanced Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Regional Contingency
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- 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, Lawlah, Forehand, and Collins
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Emissions Control Fee
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- 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
Assignments -
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
- The President (Administration)
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 1996, Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loans of 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995, General Construction Loan of 1987, Water Quality Loans of 1974 and 1983, Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Loans of 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988, Controlled Hazardous Substance Loans of 1986, 1987, and 1988 , and Law Enforcement and Correctional Training Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Roesser, Ruben, Frosh, and Forehand
- Entitled
- Property Tax Relief - Potomac Conservancy
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senators Colburn, Baker, Ferguson, Haines, Middlebrooks, and Stoltzfus
- Entitled
- Private Property Rights - Infringement - Compensation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 451
Status as of March 15, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Colburn
- Entitled
- Forest Conservation Law - Exemption for Certain Local Jurisdictions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
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
SB 648
Status as of March 15, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Haines (Carroll County Delegation)
- Entitled
- Carroll County - Forest Conservation - Declaration of Intent
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 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
- Sponsored By
- Senators Collins and Stone
- Entitled
- Chesapeake Bay Critical Area - Impervious Surface Limits
- 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
SB 744
Status as of March 15, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Colburn
- Entitled
- Forest Conservation - Alterations
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
