2002 Regular Session

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 15

JOINT RESOLUTION NUMBER: 18 File Code: Hunting and Fishing Crossfiled with: HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 12
Sponsored By:
Senator Frosh
Entitled:
Natural Resources - Mute Swans - Federal Agency Control Measures

Synopsis:

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.

History by Legislative Date

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

Documents:

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)