1999 Regular Session
AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 34
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Department of Agriculture - Cost Sharing for Water Pollution Control
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Allegany County Delegation
- Entitled
- Allegany County Agricultural Expo and Fairgrounds
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Allegany County Delegation
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Allegany County Agricultural Expo and Fairgrounds
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Southern Maryland Delegation, Eastern Shore Delegation, Western Maryland Delegation, Harford County Delegation, and Anne Arundel County Delegation
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Fair Board - Grants
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate C. Davis
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Commercial Use of Industrial Hemp Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Easements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Carroll County Delegation
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Carroll County Agricultural Center
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Glassman and James
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Contract Purchasers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Washington County Delegation
- Entitled
- Washington County - Right to Farm
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Getty and Amedori
- Entitled
- Agricultural Land Preservation - Recreational Use
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Agriculture)
- Entitled
- Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation and Water Quality Plans - Use of Information
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hecht
- Entitled
- Pest Control - Neglected or Abandoned Orchards
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Taylor, Busch, Dewberry, Doory, Guns, Howard, Kopp, Menes, Montague, Rawlings, and Vallario
- Entitled
- Cigarette Restitution Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Stern
- Entitled
- State Highways - Truck Restrictions in Residential Communities - Exception
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Commerce and Government Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Benson and Cane
- Entitled
- Agricultural Migrant Workers - Salaries - Overtime Pay
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Southern Maryland Delegation
- Entitled
- Tobacco Settlement Moneys - Appropriation to Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Walkup
- Entitled
- Redeposit of Dredge Spoil - Conditions for Redeposit on Farm or Agricultural Use Land
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stull, Amedori, W. Baker, Baldwin, Bartlett, Boutin, Bozman, Brinkley, Cane, Donoghue, Eckardt, Edwards, Elliott, Getty, Guns, Hecht, J. Kelly, K. Kelly, Klausmeier, Love, McClenahan, McKee, Mitchell, Mohorovic, O'Donnell, Owings, Rudolph, Shank, Slade, Snodgrass, Stocksdale, Walkup, Weir, and Wood
- Entitled
- Property Tax Credit - Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means and Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rudolph and Hecht , the Eastern Shore Delegation, and the Western Maryland Delegation
- Entitled
- University of Maryland, Maryland Cooperative Extension - Dairy Farm Nutrient and Business Management Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conway, Cane, Eckardt, Bozman, McClenahan, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Wicomico County - Property Tax Credit - Agricultural Land and Easements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Walkup
- Entitled
- Hunting Licenses - Funds - Wildlife Habitat Improvement
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Eastern Shore Delegation
- Entitled
- Animal Waste Technology Fund - Phytase Projects - Eligibility
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Carroll County Delegation
- Entitled
- Carroll County Agricultural Center Loan of 1997
- Committee
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House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Carroll County Delegation
- Entitled
- Carroll County Agricultural Center Loan of 1996
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dyson , Middleton, Astle, Colburn, Hafer, Hooper, and Roesser
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Fair Board - Grants
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Ways and Means
SB 227
Status as of February 22, 1999: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Frosh
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Organically Produced Commodities
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Green
- Entitled
- Cigarette Restitution Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hafer
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Allegany County Agricultural Expo and Fairgrounds
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- Grain Dealers Licensing - Civil Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- Agricultural Land Preservation - Sand and Gravel Pilot Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 583
Status as of February 25, 1999: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Van Hollen, Frosh, Sfikas, and Pinsky
- Entitled
- Environment - Regulation of Poultry Processing Waste
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
SB 616
Status as of March 22, 1999: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Haines and Ferguson (Carroll County Senators)
- Entitled
- Carroll County - Forest Conservation Program - Agricultural Preservation Land - Exceptions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Haines and Ferguson (Carroll County Senators)
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Carroll County Agricultural Center
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Middleton and Dyson
- Entitled
- Tobacco Settlement Moneys - Appropriation to Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
