JOINT RESOLUTION NUMBER: 19
File Code: Hunting and Fishing
Crossfiled with: SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 15
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Weir and Hurson
- Entitled:
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Natural Resources - Mute Swans - Federal Agency Control
Measures
Urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to act with expedience to
craft and conduct appropriate regulatory processes which will allow
Maryland to establish a method of controlling the mute swan population
and to mitigate the mute swan population's impact permanently and
statewide; and urging the U.S. Department of the Interior to appeal
the holding of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
that declared the mute swan to be a migratory bird protected under
international treaties.
House Action
- 1/31
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/20
- Hearing 3/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/11
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/12
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/14
- Third Reading Passed (126-1)
- 4/5
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (127-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/16
- Signed by the President and the Speaker Joint Resolution 19
Senate Action
- 3/15
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/2
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/1
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
- Delegate John A. Hurson, District 18
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- APPEALS -see also- JUDICIAL REVIEW
- BIRDS
- COURT OF APPEALS
- ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS -see also- CONSERV; NAT RSRCES; POLLUT
- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 230311/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 12, 2002 at:
Noon Status: Adopted
- Senate
- Number: 784339/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 2, 2002 at:
1:17 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 14, 2002: Third Reading Passed (126-1)
- April 5, 2002: Third Reading Passed (127-0)
- Senate
- April 1, 2002: Third Reading Passed (46-0)