File Code: Utility Regulation
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1290  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Astle, Della, Exum, Garagiola, Glassman, Klausmeier, and Middleton
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Underground Facilities - Damage Prevention
 
Repealing provisions of Maryland's underground facilities damage
prevention laws; expanding the scope of the underground facilities
damage prevention laws to apply to an owner or lessee of a private
residence who performs an excavation or demolition on the land of the
private residence; establishing the Maryland Underground Facilities
Damage Prevention Authority; establishing the Maryland Underground
Facilities Damage Prevention Education and Outreach Fund; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
Senate Action
- 2/17
 - First Reading Senate Rules
 - 2/25
 - Re-referred Finance
 -      Hearing 3/9 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/30
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
 - 3/28
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Senator Astle)
 -      Special Order 4/2 (Senator Astle) Adopted
 - 3/31
 - Floor Amendment (Senator Astle) Withdrawn
 -      Committee Floor Amendment (Finance) Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/1
 - Third Reading Passed (47-0)
 - 4/7
 - Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
 -      Senate Requests House Recede
 -      Conference Committee Appointed
 -      Senators Astle, Della, and Pipkin
 - 4/10
 - Returned Passed
 
House Action
- 3/30
 - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
 - 4/7
 - Re-referred Economic Matters
 -      Hearing 4/8 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/10
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
 - 4/3
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/4
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0)
 - 4/7
 - Motion Recede (Delegate Davis) Adopted
 -      House Recede
 -      Third Reading Passed (140-1)
 
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 5/20
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 635
 
Sponsored by:
- Senator John C. Astle, District 30
 - Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 46
 - Senator Nathaniel Exum, District 24
 - Senator Rob Garagiola, District 15
 - Senator Barry Glassman, District 35
 - Senator Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
 - Senator Thomas M. Middleton, District 28
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Administrative Agencies -see also- Electronic Government
 - Appeals -see also- Judicial Review
 - Architects
 - Attorneys` Fees
 - Cable Television
 - Civil Actions -see also- Small Claims
 - Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
 - Construction
 - Counties -see also- Chartered Counties; Code Counties
 - Courts -see also- Circuit; Appeals; District; Orphans`; etc.
 - Electronic Government
 - Engineers
 - Equipment -see also- Motor Vehicle Equipment
 - Evidence
 - Fees -see also- Attys` Fees; Devt Fees & Taxes; Reimb Rates.
 - Flood Control
 - Hearings
 - Judicial Review -see also- Appeals
 - Landscape Architects
 - Liability -see also- Good Samaritan
 - Municipal Corporations -see also- Annap; Balt; Hager; OC
 - Notices
 - Penalties and Sentences -see also- Death Penalty
 - Public Information
 - Real Property
 - Records -see also- Land Records; Vital Records
 - Registration -see also- Motor Vehicle Registration
 - Reports
 - Revenue and Taxes -see also- Dev Fees &Taxes; specific tax
 - Safety -see also- Occupational Safety
 - State Employees
 - Surveyors
 - Telecommunications -see also- Telephones
 - Torts -see also- Libel and Slander; Med Malp; Wrongful Death
 - Transportation, Department of
 - Transportation -see also- Aircraft; Airports; Boats; etc
 - Utilities -see also- High Voltage Lines; Telephones; Water
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Public Utility Companies
 - (
 12-101 ,
 12-102 ,
 12-103 ,
 12-104 ,
 12-105 ,
 12-106 ,
 12-106 ,
 12-107 ,
 12-107 ,
 12-108 ,
 12-109 ,
 12-110 ,
 12-111 ,
 12-111 ,
 12-112 ,
 12-112 ,
 12-113 ,
 12-113 ,
 12-114 ,
 12-117 ,
 12-120 ,
 12-121 ,
 12-122 ,
 12-123 ,
 12-124 ,
 12-125 ,
 12-126 ,
 12-127 ,
 12-128 ,
 12-131 ,
 12-134 ,
 12-135 ,
 12-201 
)
 -   State Government
 - (
 12-101 
)
 
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note:
 Available
 - Attorney General Letter:
 Available 
 - Amendments:
 Senate
- Number: 257973/01     Offered on: March 30, 2010      at:
11:46 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 337276/01     Offered on: April 2, 2010       at:
12:39 p.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 593220/01     Offered on: April 2, 2010       at:
12:38 p.m.     Status: Withdrawn
 
House 
- Number: 113696/01     Offered on: April 10, 2010      at:
10:38 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- 
Committee Votes :
 
 Senate
- Finance
 
House 
- Economic Matters
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 Senate
- April 1, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (47-0)
 
House 
- April 4, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (137-0)
 - April 7, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (140-1)