File Code: Natural Resources - Generally
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 549  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Cane, Conway, Eckardt, Elmore, Haddaway, Haynes, Holmes, Malone,
Mathias, McConkey, Rice, Rudolph, Smigiel, Sophocleus, Sossi, and Walkup
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Sustainable Forestry Act of 2009
 
Declaring policy statements and findings relating to forests; revising
provisions of law relating to the protection of forestry practices
from specified private actions; establishing a Sustainable Forestry
Council; altering the uses of specified funds; requiring the Secretary
of Natural Resources to consider specified priorities when allocating
the State's share of Program Open Space funds; authorizing the
transfer of specified responsibilities from the Department of the
Environment to the Department; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 2/11
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 -      Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.
 
Senate Action
- No Action
 
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Rudolph C. Cane, District 37A
 - Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38B
 - Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
 - Delegate D. Page Elmore, District 38A
 - Delegate Jeannie Haddaway, District 37B
 - Delegate Keith E. Haynes, District 44
 - Delegate Marvin E. Holmes, Jr., District 23B
 - Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
 - Delegate James N. Mathias, Jr., District 38B
 - Delegate Tony McConkey, District 33A
 - Delegate Craig L. Rice, District 15
 - Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 34B
 - Delegate Michael D. Smigiel, Sr., District 36
 - Delegate Theodore Sophocleus, District 32
 - Delegate Richard A. Sossi, District 36
 - Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Agriculture -see also- Farmland
 - Annotated Code of Maryland
 - Civil Actions -see also- Small Claims
 - Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
 - Conservation -see also- Soil Conservation
 - Counties -see also- Chartered Counties; Code Counties
 - Energy Matters -see also- Fuel; Power Plants; Solar Energy
 - Environment, Department of
 - Environmental Matters -see also- Conserv; Nat Resrce; Pollut
 - Erosion -see also- Sediment Control; Shore Erosion
 - Farmland
 - Fees -see also- Devt Fees and Taxes; Reimbursement Rates
 - Forests and Parks -see also- Program Open Space; Trees
 - Grants
 - Higher Education -see also- Comm Colleges; Med Schools; etc.
 - Industry and Technology
 - Local Government Mandates
 - Municipal Corporations -see also- Annap; Balt; Hager; OC
 - Names -see also- Proper Names
 - Natural Resources, Department of
 - Nuisances -see also- Noise; Weeds
 - Pollution -see also- Sediment Control
 - Program Open Space
 - Reports
 - Revenue and Taxes -see also- Dev Fees & Taxes; specific tax.
 - Sediment Control
 - State Universities and Colleges
 - Trees
 - Water
 - Zoning and Planning
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Agriculture
 - (
 2-501 ,
 2-502 
)
 -   Business Occupations and Professions
 - (
 7-101 
)
 -   Courts and Judicial Proceedings
 - (
 5-403 
)
 - Article - 66B Land Use
 - (
 3.05 
)
 -   Natural Resources
 - (
 5-101 ,
 5-102 ,
 5-102.1 ,
 5-204 ,
 5-212 ,
 5-212 ,
 5-307 ,
 5-427 ,
 5-606 ,
 5-903 
)
 -   State Finance and Procurement
 - (
 5-7A-01 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
 - Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments:
None offered