File Code: Municipal Corporations
Prior Year Introduction As: 
HB 857/08 - ENV
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 350  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Carr, Ali, Healey, Montgomery, and Shewell
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Municipal Corporations - Annexations - Small Parcels
 
Providing that specified consent provisions and specified referendum
provisions do not apply to a proposed annexation by a municipal
corporation of a parcel that is 5 acres or less and is part of a lot
that contains at least one other parcel that is already within the
municipal corporate area under specified circumstances; prohibiting a
municipal corporation from annexing more than 25 acres; providing that
the Act does not apply to land zoned for agricultural use; and
terminating the Act at the end of September 30, 2011.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 1/28
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 - 1/30
 - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 2/23
 - Favorable Report by Environmental Matters
 - 2/24
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 2/26
 - Third Reading Passed (135-0)
 - 4/3
 - House Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      Third Reading Passed (135-0)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 
Senate Action
- 2/27
 - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 4/6
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 4/3
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/4
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 5/19
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 535
 
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Alfred C. Carr, Jr., District 18
 - Delegate Saqib Ali, District 39
 - Delegate Anne Healey, District 22
 - Delegate Karen S. Montgomery, District 14
 - Delegate Tanya T. Shewell, District 5A
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Annexation
 - Boundaries
 - Farmland
 - Municipal Corporations -see also- Annap; Balt; Hager; OC
 - Referendum
 - Sunset
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 23A Corporations - Municipal
 - (
 19 ,
 19 
)
 
- 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: 884136/01     Offered on: April 7, 2009       at:
9:29 a.m.      Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- February 26, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (135-0)
 - April 3, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (135-0)
 
Senate
- April 4, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (47-0)