File Code: Agriculture
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 898  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senator Dyson (Chair, Task Force on Incentives for Agriculture)
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Incentives for Agriculture Act of 2008
 
Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for fiscal
years 2010 through 2013 an appropriation of $1,250,000 for the Next
Generation Farmland Program; altering the Maryland estate tax to
exclude from the gross estate the value of specified agricultural
property; altering an income tax credit for donations of specified
interests in land; altering specified production credits for specific
ethanol and biodiesel products; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occuring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 1/31
 - First Reading Budget and Taxation & Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 2/20
 - Hearing 3/6 at 1:00 p.m.  (Budget and Taxation)
 
House Action
- No Action
 
Sponsored by:
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
 - Agriculture, Task Force on Incentives for
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Agriculture, Department of
 - Agriculture -see also- Farmland
 - Appropriations
 - Budget and Management, Department of
 - Comptroller
 - Conservation -see also- Soil Conservation
 - Easements
 - Estates and Trusts
 - Farmland
 - Forests and Parks -see also- Program Open Space; Trees
 - Fuel -see also- Coal
 - Gifts
 - Income Tax
 - Public Corporations and Instrumentalities
 - Reports
 - Revenue and Taxes -see also- Dev Fees &Taxes; specific tax
 - Rules and Regulations
 - Tax Credits -see also- Circuit Breaker
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Agriculture
 - (
 10-1501 ,
 10-1504 ,
 10-1505 ,
 10-1506 
)
 - Article - 41 Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments
 - (
 13-513 
)
 -   Tax - General
 - (
 7-309 ,
 7-309 ,
 10-723 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
 - Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments:
None offered