File Code: Environment
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 278
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Barve and the Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Delegates
Ali, Barkley, Barnes, Beidle, Benson, Bobo, Branch, Bronrott, Cane, Cardin,
Carr, V. Clagett, Feldman, Frick, Frush, Gaines, Gilchrist, Gutierrez, Guzzone,
Healey, Hecht, Holmes, Howard, Hubbard, Hucker, Ivey, Kaiser, Kramer,
Lafferty, Lee, Levi, Levy, Malone, Manno, McIntosh, Mizeur, Montgomery,
Morhaim, Niemann, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Ramirez, Reznik, Rosenberg, Ross,
Schuler, Stein, Stukes, Taylor, F. Turner, V. Turner, Valderrama, Vaughn,
Waldstreicher, Braveboy, Burns, Davis, Glenn, Harrison, Jameson, Kirk, Love,
Mathias, McHale, and Rudolph
- Entitled:
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act of 2009
Requiring the Department of the Environment to publish and update an
inventory of statewide greenhouse gas emissions for calendar year
2006; requiring the State to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions
by 25% from 2006 levels by 2020; requiring the State to develop and
adopt a specified plan, adopt specified regulations, and implement
specified programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 1/29
- First Reading Economic Matters & Environmental Matters
- 2/20
- Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m. (Environmental Matters)
- 3/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- 3/22
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Special Order 3/26 (Delegate McHale) Adopted
- 3/23
- Special Order next session (Delegate McHale) Adopted
- Floor Committee Amendment (Economic Matters) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell) Rejected (32-103)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate McDonough) Rejected (37-98)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/24
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (107-31)
- 4/10
- Returned Passed
Senate Action
- 3/27
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/13
- Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/8
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/9
- Third Reading Passed (41-6)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 5/7
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 171
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Kumar P. Barve, District 17
- Administration
- Delegate Saqib Ali, District 39
- Delegate Charles Barkley, District 39
- Delegate Ben Barnes, District 21
- Delegate Pamela Beidle, District 32
- Delegate Joanne C. Benson, District 24
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Talmadge Branch, District 45
- Delegate Aisha N. Braveboy, District 25
- Delegate William A. Bronrott, District 16
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Delegate Rudolph C. Cane, District 37A
- Delegate Jon S. Cardin, District 11
- Delegate Alfred C. Carr, Jr., District 18
- Delegate Virginia P. Clagett, District 30
- Delegate Dereck E. Davis, District 25
- Delegate Brian J. Feldman, District 15
- Delegate C. William Frick, District 16
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Tawanna P. Gaines, District 22
- Delegate Jim Gilchrist, District 17
- Delegate Cheryl D. Glenn, District 45
- Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, District 18
- Delegate Guy Guzzone, District 13
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22
- Delegate Sue Hecht, District 3A
- Delegate Marvin E. Holmes, Jr., District 23B
- Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Tom Hucker, District 20
- Delegate Jolene Ivey, District 47
- Delegate Sally Jameson, District 28
- Delegate Anne R. Kaiser, District 14
- Delegate Ruth M. Kirk, District 44
- Delegate Benjamin F. Kramer, District 19
- Delegate Stephen W. Lafferty, District 42
- Delegate Susan C. Lee, District 16
- Delegate Gerron S. Levi, District 23A
- Delegate Murray D. Levy, District 28
- Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
- Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
- Delegate Roger P. Manno, District 19
- Delegate James N. Mathias, Jr., District 38B
- Delegate Brian K. McHale, District 46
- Delegate Maggie McIntosh, District 43
- Delegate Heather R. Mizeur, District 20
- Delegate Karen S. Montgomery, District 14
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Doyle L. Niemann, District 47
- Delegate Joseline A. Pena-Melnyk, District 21
- Delegate Shane E. Pendergrass, District 13
- Delegate Victor R. Ramirez, District 47
- Delegate Kirill Reznik, District 39
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 41
- Delegate Justin D. Ross, District 22
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 34B
- Delegate Todd Schuler, District 8
- Speaker, The
- Delegate Dana Stein, District 11
- Delegate Melvin L. Stukes, District 44
- Delegate Herman L. Taylor, Jr., District 14
- Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13
- Delegate Veronica Turner, District 26
- Delegate Kriselda Valderrama, District 26
- Delegate Michael L. Vaughn, District 24
- Delegate Jeff Waldstreicher, District 18
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Administrative Agencies -see also- Electronic Government
- Agriculture, Department of
- Agriculture -see also- Farmland
- Annotated Code of Maryland
- Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
- Conservation -see also- Soil Conservation
- Energy Matters -see also- Fuel; Power Plants; Solar Energy
- Environment, Department of
- Environmental Matters -see also- Conserv; Nat Resrce; Pollut
- General Assembly -see also- AELR Cmte; Leg Policy Committee.
- Higher Education -see also- Comm Colleges; Med Schools; etc.
- Industry and Technology
- Pollution -see also- Sediment Control
- Publications -see also- Maryland Register
- Public Information
- Reports
- Rules and Regulations
- Sunset
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Environment
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2-1201 ,
2-1202 ,
2-1203 ,
2-1204 ,
2-1205 ,
2-1206 ,
2-1207 ,
2-1208 ,
2-1209 ,
2-1210 ,
2-1211
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- 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):
House
- Number: 333626/01 Offered on: March 26, 2009 at:
6:29 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 343525/01 Offered on: March 26, 2009 at:
6:32 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 583798/03 Offered on: March 25, 2009 at:
10:20 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 983994/01 Offered on: March 26, 2009 at:
6:22 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 23, 2009: Floor Amendment (ODonnell) {333626/1 Rejected (32-103)
- March 23, 2009: Floor Amendment (McDonough) {343525/1 Rejected (37-98)
- March 24, 2009: Third Reading Passed (107-31)
Senate
- April 9, 2009: Third Reading Passed (41-6)