JOINT RESOLUTION NUMBER: 18
File Code: Hunting and Fishing
Crossfiled with: HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 12
- Sponsored By:
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Senator Frosh
- 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.
Senate Action
- 2/1
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 2/13
- Hearing 3/5 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/11
- Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 3/12
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/14
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 4/4
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/16
- Signed by the President and the Speaker Joint Resolution 18
House Action
- 3/15
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 4/3
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/31
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/1
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (129-0)
- 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: 120514/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 3, 2002 at:
10:56 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 14, 2002: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- April 4, 2002: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- House
- April 1, 2002: Third Reading Passed (129-0)