1997 Regular Session
Environment (M3)
Current Status of Legislation Total number of Bills: 62
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Taylor, Guns, Dewberry, Hurson, Arnick, Busch, Curran, Harrison, Hixson, Menes, Owings, Rawlings, and Vallario
- Entitled
- Environment - Permits - Standing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Taylor, Guns, Dewberry, Hurson, Arnick, Busch, Curran, Harrison, Hixson, Kopp, Menes, Owings, Rawlings, and Vallario
- 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
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Arnick, Minnick, Mohorovic, DeCarlo, Holt, and Weir
- Entitled
- Hart-Miller Island Dredged Material Containment Facility - Modification Requires Approval by the General Assembly
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates W. Baker, Guns, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Sewage Sludge Storage Facilities - Permit to Install, Alter, or Extend - Requirements for Issuance
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Brinkley, Hecht, Elliott, Stull, Snodgrass, Stup, and Stocksdale
- Entitled
- Lead Paint - Insurance - Definition of Affected Property
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Natural Wood Waste Recycling Facilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Land Reclamation Committee
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Landfills - Standards - Requirements for Security
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Maryland Water Quality Revolving Loan Fund and Maryland Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund - Conformance with Federal Safe Drinking Water Act
- Committee
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House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hammen, Krysiak, Dypski, Mohorovic, Minnick, and Arnick
- Entitled
- Incinerators - Authority to Prohibit
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
HB 396
Status as of February 24, 1997: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Commerce and Government Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Walkup
- Entitled
- Kent County - Decisions of the Sanitary Commission - County Commissioners or Designee May Hear Appeals
- Committee
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House: Commerce and Government Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns and Taylor and the Speaker (Administration) and Delegates Weir, Billings, D. Hughes, Mohorovic, D. Davis, Ciliberti, Redmer, Hammen, McHale, Stup, Nathan-Pulliam, Hubbard, Frush, Morhaim, Klausmeier, and Watson and the Committee on Ways and Means
- Entitled
- Brownfields - Voluntary Cleanup and Revitalization Programs
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Frush
- Entitled
- Environment - Air Quality Permits and Registrations - Revocation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Minnick (Baltimore County Administration) and Delegates Arnick, DeCarlo, Dypski, Hammen, Holt, Krysiak, Mohorovic, and Weir
- Entitled
- Environment - Dredge Spoil - Hart-Miller-Pleasure Island
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Schisler, Elliott, Redmer, Stull, and Stocksdale
- Entitled
- Scrap Tire Disposal - Use of Fund - Fee Termination
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Appropriations Committee (Departmental - Environment) and Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Maryland Water Quality Revolving Loan Fund and Maryland Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund
- Committee
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House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Benson
- Entitled
- Litter Control - Enforcement - County Powers
- Committee
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House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Workman, Taylor, and Edwards
- Entitled
- Lead Paint Hazards - Rent Escrow Law - Authority to Abate
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Wood, McClenahan, and Weir (Chesapeake Bay Commission) and Delegate W. Baker
- Entitled
- Natural Resources - Noncommercial Crabbing License
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Harkins and Fry
- Entitled
- Deep Water Wells - Effect on Aquifers Supplying Homeowner Wells - Department of Natural Resources to Study and Report
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stocksdale, Donoghue, Elliott, Hurson, and Getty
- Entitled
- Tire Recycling Fee - Disposition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Montgomery County Delegation
- Entitled
- Montgomery County - Sediment Control Plans MC 729-97
- Committee
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House: Commerce and Government Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Ozone Transport Assessment Group - Recommendations Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Elliott
- Entitled
- Department of Transportation - Study of Sites for Open Water Placement of Dredged Material - Inclusion of a Portion of the Deep Trough
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns, Walkup, Eckardt, D. Hughes, W. Baker, Conway, Edwards, Donoghue, Elliott, Getty, Hecht, McKee, Snodgrass, Stocksdale, Stull, Stup, Taylor, and Workman
- Entitled
- Lead Paint - Rent Escrow Law
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Weir
- Entitled
- Migratory Waterfowl Stamp - Migratory Waterfowl Advisory Committee
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, Morhaim, Owings, Frush, Oaks, Nathan-Pulliam, C. Mitchell, Kirk, Boston, Fulton, Bobo, Muse, Benson, Crumlin, R. Baker, Opara, Marriott, and Branch
- Entitled
- Childhood Lead Screening Program
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Walkup and W. Baker
- Entitled
- Redeposit of Spoil - Construction of an Artificial Island Prohibited
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - Alteration of Deadlines and Other Dates
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Natural Resources - New Fishery Management Plans for Certain Varieties of Fish
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Perry, Cadden, Walkup, Clagett, Pitkin, Conroy, Love, Rzepkowski, Proctor, Leopold, Bissett, Schade, M. Burns, Hubbard, Frush, Turner, Greenip, and Bobo
- Entitled
- Rubble Landfills
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate McHale
- Entitled
- Environment - Newsprint Recycling
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, Oaks, Billings, Frush, Watson, D. Davis, Hammen, McHale, Nathan-Pulliam, D. Hughes, Exum, C. Mitchell, Opara, Pitkin, R. Baker, Valderrama, Patterson, Crumlin, Proctor, Muse, Perry, Benson, B. Hughes, Turner, and Bobo
- Entitled
- Advisory Council on Environmental Justice
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Stup
- Entitled
- State Assumption of Waste Facilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Natural Resources - Fisheries Management - Black Bass
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns, W. Baker, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Queen Anne's County
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Guns, Morhaim, Hammen, Finifter, and Frank
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Enhanced Testing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Wood and Stup
- Entitled
- Mining Operations - Nuisance Actions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Minimum Repair Expenditure
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Childhood Lead Screening - Exemption for Religious Beliefs and Practices
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Billings, Hubbard, Bobo, Cadden, Grosfeld, Heller, Howard, Mandel, Menes, Muse, Pitkin, Rosapepe, Valderrama, Frush, and Marriott
- Entitled
- Constitutional Amendment for Environmental Rights
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Ozone Transport Assessment Group - Requiring Membership of State Elected Officials
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guns
- Entitled
- Particulate Matter - National Ambient Air Quality Standards
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
SB 9
Status as of February 10, 1997: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Stone
- Entitled
- Hart-Miller Island Dredged Material Containment Facility - Maximum Height of Dredged Material
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Munson
- Entitled
- Lead Paint - Insurance - Definition of Affected Property
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Trotter
- Entitled
- Litter Control - Enforcement - County Powers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- 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
- Senator Collins (Baltimore County Administration) and Senators Sfikas and Stone
- Entitled
- Environment - Dredge Spoil - Hart-Miller-Pleasure Island
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Frosh, Conway, Sfikas, Teitelbaum, Pinsky, Dyson, Hollinger, Collins, and Van Hollen
- Entitled
- Department of the Environment - Annual Enforcement Reports
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Frosh, Blount, the President (Administration) , and Senators Collins, Conway, Craig, Dyson, Hollinger, McCabe, Pinsky, Sfikas, and Stoltzfus
- Entitled
- Brownfields - Voluntary Cleanup and Revitalization Programs
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Neall
- Entitled
- Rubble Landfills - Liners - Local Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 457
Status as of February 5, 1997: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Sfikas and Stone
- Entitled
- Incinerators - Authority to Prohibit
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Currie
- Entitled
- Recycling Facility - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Hollinger, Green, Pinsky, Forehand, Van Hollen, Teitelbaum, Collins, and Sfikas
- Entitled
- Environment - Natural Wood Waste Recycling Facilities - Permits
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 623
Status as of February 17, 1997: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Environment - Special Medical Waste Incinerators - Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Incinerators - Special Medical Waste - Inspection
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Frosh
- Entitled
- Environment - Newsprint Recycling
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pinsky
- Entitled
- Water Resources - Projects and Activities - Notification and Review
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Baker
- Entitled
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - Alteration of Deadlines and Other Dates
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Della, Collins, Madden, Trotter, Stone, Van Hollen, Conway, Dorman, Frosh, Sfikas, Currie, Kelley, Pinsky, Jimeno, and Lawlah
- Entitled
- Toxics Safety Information Act
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Craig
- Entitled
- Scrap Tire Disposal - Use of Fund - Fee Termination
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Baker, Ferguson, Haines, Colburn, Derr, Munson, Collins, Middleton, Roesser, Boozer, McCabe, Dyson, Hogan, Hafer, Astle, and Bromwell
- Entitled
- Lead Paint - Rent Escrow Law
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
