CHAPTER NUMBER: 757 
File Code: Natural Resources - Generally
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 507  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
The President (Administration) and Senators Collins, Blount,
Frosh, Hollinger, Craig, Green, Van Hollen, Dorman, and Middleton
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
"Smart Growth" and Neighborhood Conservation - Rural Legacy
Program
 
Creating a Rural Legacy Program to enhance natural resources,
agricultural, forestry, and environmental protection by providing
funds to purchase specified interests in real property; establishing a
Rural Legacy Board to administer the Program and an advisory committee
to make recommendations to the Board; specifying criteria the Board
will apply in administering the Program; providing for the funding of
the Program; specifying the amount of Program Open Space funds that
may be used for capital purposes; requiring a specified report; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/27
 - First Reading Budget and Taxation
 -      Motion Rules Suspended for late introduction (Senator Trotter) Adopted (46-0)
 -      Referred Budget and Taxation
 - 2/5
 - Hearing 2/26 at 1:30 p.m.
 - 2/21
 - Hearing cancelled
 -      Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/24
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
 - 3/25
 - Favorable with Amendments
 -      Laid Over (Senator Frosh) Adopted
 - 3/26
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Haines) Rejected (6-35)
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/27
 - Third Reading Passed (44-3)
 - 4/5
 - Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
 -      Senate Requests House Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Senators Amoss, Middleton, Lawlah
 - 4/6
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (43-4)
 - 4/3
 - Passed Enrolled
 - 5/22
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 757
 
House Action
- 3/25
 - First Reading Appropriations
 - 3/27
 - Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/3
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
 - 3/30
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/31
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (124-6)
 - 4/1
 - House Refuses to Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Delegates Edwards, Fry, Pitkin
 - 4/3
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (128-7)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - President of the Senate
 - Administration
 - Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
 - Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
 - Senator David R. Craig, District 34
 - Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
 - Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
 - Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
 - Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
 - Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
 - Senator Christopher Van Hollen, Jr., District 18
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
 - APPROPRIATIONS
 - BUDGETS
 - COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
 - CONSERVATION -see also- RECYCLING; SOIL CONSERVATION
 - COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
 - EASEMENTS
 - ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS -see also- POLLUTION
 - FARMLAND
 - GOVERNOR
 - NATURAL RESOURCES -see also- FORESTS AND PARKS
 - NATURAL RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF
 - PROGRAM OPEN SPACE
 - PUBLIC WORKS, BOARD OF
 - REAL PROPERTY
 - REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
 - TRANSFER TAX -see also- RECORDATION
 - TREES
 - ZONING AND PLANNING
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Natural Resources
 - (
 5-903 ,
 5-9A-01 ,
 5-9A-02 ,
 5-9A-03 ,
 5-9A-04 ,
 5-9A-05 ,
 5-9A-06 ,
 5-9A-07 ,
 5-9A-08 ,
 5-9A-09 
)
 -   Tax - Property
 - (
 13-209 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- Senate
 - Number: 789603/2 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 26, 1997     at: 10:53
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 852797/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 26, 1997     at: 10:54
 Status: Rejected        
 - House 
 - Number: 684037/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 3, 1997      at: 16:32
 Status: Adopted         
 
Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 392696/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 7, 1997      at: 15:34
 Status: Adopted         
 - Amendment Number: 062990/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 7, 1997      at: 15:34
 Status: Adopted