File Code: Utility Regulation
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 368  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Pinsky, Garagiola,
Forehand, Frosh, King, Lenett, Madaleno, and Rosapepe
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative - Maryland Strategic Energy Investment
Program
 
Repealing the Maryland Renewable Energy Fund and establishing the
Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Program in the Maryland Energy
Administration; establishing the purpose of the Program; establishing
the duties of the Administration under the Program; establishing the
Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund; providing that the Fund is
a special, nonlapsing fund not subject to a specified law; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occuring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 1/25
 - First Reading Finance
 -      Motion Rules Suspended for late  introduction (Senator Klausmeier) Adopted
 -      Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.  (Finance)
 - 1/28
 - Re-assigned Finance & Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 3/31
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
 - 3/26
 - Favorable with Amendments
 -      Laid Over (Senator Brinkley) Adopted
 - 3/27
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Floor Committee Amendment (Finance) Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (17-29)
 -      Floor Committee Amendment (Education Health and Environmental Affairs) Rejected  (15-31)
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (19-27)
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/28
 - Third Reading Failed (21-25)
 - 3/29
 - Motion Reconsider Third Reading Failed (Senator Harrington)  Adopted (31-16)
 -      Motion Returned Second Reading (Senator Conway) Adopted
 -      Floor Committee Amendment (Education Health and Environmental Affairs)
 -      Motion Laid Over (Senator Stoltzfus) Withdrawn
 -      Floor Committee Amendment (Education Health and Environmental Affairs) Adopted (45-1)
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/30
 - Third Reading Passed (30-17)
 - 4/5
 - Senate Concur - House Amendments
 -      Third Reading Passed (30-16)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 
House Action
- 3/28
 - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
 - 4/5
 - Re-referred Economic Matters
 - 4/7
 - Hearing 4/7 at 10:00 a.m.
 -      Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
 - 4/4
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 -      Motion Rules Suspended two readings same day  (Delegate McHale) Adopted (118-21)
 -      Third Reading Passed with Amendments (113-25)
 
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 4/24
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 127
 
Sponsored by:
- President, The
 - Administration
 - Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
 - Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
 - Senator Rob Garagiola, District 15
 - Senator Nancy J. King, District 39
 - Senator Mike Lenett, District 19
 - Senator Richard S. Madaleno, Jr., District 18
 - Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
 - Senator Jim Rosapepe, District 21
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Administrative Agencies -see also- Electronic Government
 - Budgets -see also- Capital Budgets
 - Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
 - Conservation -see also- Soil Conservation
 - Contracts -see also- Land Installment Contracts; Procurement
 - Crimes and Punishments -see also- Penalties; Sentences; etc.
 - Disclosure
 - Electronic Government
 - Energy Matters -see also- Fuel; Power Plants; Solar Energy
 - Environmental Matters -see also- Conserv; Nat Resrce; Pollut
 - Fees -see also- Devt Fees and Taxes; Reimbursement Rates
 - Grants
 - Hearings
 - Loans -see also- Mortgages
 - Penalties
 - Pollution -see also- Sediment Control
 - Prices -see also- Consumer Price Index
 - Public Information
 - Reports
 - Revenue and Taxes -see also- Dev Fees &Taxes; specific tax
 - Rules and Regulations
 - Social Services -see also- Welfare
 - Solar Energy
 - Utilities -see also- High Voltage Lines; Telephones; Water
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Environment
 - (
 2-1002 ,
 2-107 ,
 2-107 
)
 -   Public Utility Companies
 - (
 7-701 ,
 7-701 ,
 7-705 ,
 7-707 
)
 -   State Government
 - (
 9-20B-12 ,
 9-20B-11 ,
 9-20B-10 ,
 9-20B-09 ,
 9-20B-08 ,
 9-20B-07 ,
 9-20B-06 ,
 9-20B-05 ,
 9-20B-04 ,
 9-20B-03 ,
 9-20B-02 ,
 9-20B-01 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Senate
- Number: 277971/02     Offered on: March 31, 2008      at:
9:40 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 - Number: 623521/01     Offered on: March 31, 2008      at:
9:46 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 - Number: 723824/01     Offered on: March 31, 2008      at:
10:08 p.m.     Status: Rejected
 - Number: 807172/01     Offered on: March 31, 2008      at:
9:07 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 - Number: 864333/01     Offered on: March 31, 2008      at:
9:54 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 - Number: 894938/03     Offered on: April 2, 2008       at:
11:11 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
House 
- Number: 503290/02     Offered on: April 7, 2008       at:
10:04 p.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 Senate
- March 27, 2008: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {623521/1 Rejected  (17-29)
 - March 27, 2008: Floor Committee Amendment (Education Health and Environmental Affairs) {864333/1 Rejected  (15-31)
 - March 27, 2008: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {723824/1 Rejected  (19-27)
 - March 28, 2008: Third Reading Failed  (21-25)
 - March 29, 2008: Motion Reconsider Third Reading Failed (Harrington) Adopted  (31-16)
 - March 29, 2008: Floor Committee Amendment (Education Health and Environmental Affairs) {894938/3 Adopted  (45-1)
 - March 30, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (30-17)
 - April 5, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (30-16)
 
House 
- April 4, 2008: Motion Rules Suspended two readings same day (McHale) Adopted  (118-21)
 - April 4, 2008: Third Reading Passed  (113-25)