File Code: Agriculture
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 226/97 - JPR
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Baldwin, W. Baker, McClenahan, Brinkley, Slade,
Greenip, Owings, O'Donnell, Wood, Linton, Hutchins, Stocksdale, Stull,
Elliott, Mossburg, DeCarlo, Opara, B. Hughes, Proctor, Klima, Conway,
V. Mitchell, Kittleman, Miller, Beck, M. Burns, La Vay, D. Hughes,
Ports, Stup, Eckardt, Jacobs, Rzepkowski, Harkins, Edwards, McKee, and
Rudolph
- Entitled:
-
Maryland Right to Farm Law
Expanding the types of agricultural operations and activities that are
subject to protection against specified private actions; and repealing
a requirement that an agricultural operation, or any change in the
operation, be under way for a specified period of time in order to be
protected.
House Action
- 2/13
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/19
- Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/24
- Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Robert C. Baldwin, District 33
- Delegate Wheeler R. Baker, District 36
- Delegate Raymond Beck, District 39
- Delegate David R. Brinkley, District 4A
- Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
- Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
- Delegate Diane DeCarlo, District 6
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37B
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
- Delegate Janet Greenip, District 33
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Brenda B. Hughes, District 25
- Delegate Don B. Hughes, District 37A
- Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
- Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Delegate Robert H. Kittleman, District 14B
- Delegate Martha S. Klima, District 9A
- Delegate Richard La Vay, District 15
- Delegate Samuel C. Linton, District 28
- Delegate Charles A. McClenahan, District 38
- Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
- Delegate Ellen L. Willis Miller, District 5
- Delegate Van T. Mitchell, District 28
- Delegate Mathew Mossburg, District 39
- Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell, District 29C
- Delegate Clay C. Opara, District 41
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate James F. Ports, Jr., District 8
- Delegate James E. Proctor, Jr., District 27A
- Delegate David D. Rudolph, District 35B
- Delegate James E. Rzepkowski, District 32
- Delegate John F. Slade, III, District 29B
- Delegate Nancy Reter Stocksdale, District 5
- Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
- Delegate J. Anita Stup, District 3
- Delegate John F. Wood, Jr., District 29A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AGRICULTURE -see also- FARMLAND
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- FARMLAND
- NUISANCES -see also- NOISE; WEEDS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Agriculture
- (
10-501
)
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
5-403
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
