CHAPTER NUMBER: 759 
File Code: Agencies, Offices, and Officials
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 508  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
The President (Administration) and Senators Blount,
 Collins, Conway, Frosh, Hollinger, Pinsky, and Sfikas
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
"Smart Growth" and Neighborhood Conservation - "Smart Growth"
Areas
 
Establishing priority funding areas in the State so as to preserve
existing neighborhoods and agricultural, natural, and rural resources;
prohibiting State agencies from approving specified projects that are
not in priority funding areas; providing for specified exceptions;
establishing a certification process for the designation of eligible
priority funding areas; requiring municipal corporations to adopt
specified development standards and assist counties in the collection
of fees to finance specified school construction; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/27
 - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs & Budget and Taxation
 -      Motion Rules Suspended for late introduction (Senator Trotter) Adopted (46-0)
 -      Referred Economic and Environmental Affairs Budget and Taxation
 - 2/5
 - Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/25
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
 -      Favorable with Amendments
 -      Laid Over (Senator W. Baker) Adopted
 - 3/26
 - Favorable with Amendments
 -      Committee Amendment (#1-7, 9-13) Adopted
 -      Committee Amendment (#8) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Neall) to Committee Amendment (#
 -      Special Order later (The President) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Neall) to Committee Amendment (# Rejected (21-24)
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted (40-5)
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Neall) Rejected (20-27)
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Neall) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator McCabe) Rejected (15-32)
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/27
 - Third Reading Passed (42-5)
 - 4/4
 - Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
 -      Senate Requests House Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Senators Frosh, Blount, Collins
 - 4/6
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (41-5)
 - 4/3
 - Passed Enrolled
 - 5/22
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 759
 
House Action
- 3/25
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 - 4/4
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
 - 3/31
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 -      Motion Rules Suspended 2rdgs same day (Delegate Hurson) Adopted (125-3)
 -      Third Reading Passed with Amendments (121-10)
 -      House Refuses to Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed ...
 -      Delegates Guns, Schisler, Weir
 - 4/3
 - Special Order later today (Delegate Billings) Adopted
 - 8)
 - 
 - 4/3
 - Conference Committee Report Adopted
 - 8)
 - 
 - 4/3
 - Third Reading Passed (126-15)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - President of the Senate
 - Administration
 - Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
 - Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
 - Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
 - Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
 - Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
 - Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
 - Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
 - COMMERCE AND BUSINESS -see also- SMALL BUSINESS
 - COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
 - CONSERVATION -see also- RECYCLING; SOIL CONSERVATION
 - COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
 - FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
 - LOANS
 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS
 - PLANNING, OFFICE OF
 - PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 - PUBLIC WORKS, BOARD OF
 - REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
 - TAX CREDITS
 - ZONING AND PLANNING
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 - Article - 23A Corporations - Municipal
 - (
 8C 
)
 -   State Finance and Procurement
 - (
 5-7B-01 ,
 5-7B-02 ,
 5-7B-03 ,
 5-7B-04 ,
 5-7B-05 ,
 5-7B-06 ,
 5-7B-07 ,
 5-7B-08 ,
 5-7B-09 ,
 5-7B-10 ,
 7-314 
)
 -   Transportation
 - (
 2-103.1 ,
 8-610 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- Senate
 - Number: 222092/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 26, 1997     at: 11:33
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 512492/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 26, 1997     at: 11:39
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 672797/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 26, 1997     at: 11:04
 Status: Rejected        
 - Number: 754807/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 26, 1997     at: 10:42
 Status: Incomplete      
 - Number: 962696/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 26, 1997     at: 11:40
 Status: Rejected        
 - House 
 - Number: 129574/2 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 4, 1997      at: 12:56
 Status: Adopted         
 
Conference Committee Documents:
- Report Number: 322298/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 7, 1997      at: 14:37
 Status: Adopted         
 - Amendment Number: 632396/2 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 7, 1997      at: 14:37
 Status: Incomplete