File Code: Environment
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Frosh, Sfikas, Conway, and Pinsky
- Entitled:
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Environmental Laws - Violations and Enforcement
Altering specified civil and criminal penalties for violations of
specified environmental laws; prohibiting a person from tampering,
attempting to tamper, or threatening to tamper with a public water
system; providing specified penalties; providing that attempts to
commit specified crimes are subject to the same penalty that applies
for commission of the crime; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/3 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/4
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 3/9 at 2:00 p.m.
- 3/18
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/19
- Favorable with Amendments
- Laid Over (Senator Frosh) Adopted
- 3/20
- Favorable with Amendments
- Motion Re-referred Judicial Proceedings (Senator Baker) Withdrawn
- Special Order 3/24 (Senator Baker) Adopted
- 3/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Frosh) Adopted
- Special Order later today (Senator Baker) Adopted
- 3/25
- Floor Amendment (Senator Baker) Rejected (16-26)
- Floor Amendment (Senator Baker)
- Laid Over (The President) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Baker) Rejected (15-25)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/27
- Third Reading Passed (39-8)
House Action
- 3/27
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 4/1
- Hearing 4/6 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/2
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 4/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ACCIDENTS
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES
- DEATH -see also- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES; WRONGFUL DEATH.
- ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS -see also- NAT. RESOURCES; POLLUTION
- PENALTIES
- POLLUTION -see also- SEDIMENT CONTROL
- UTILITIES -see also- HIGH VOLTAGE LINES; TELEPHONES; WATER
- WATER -see also- CHESAPEAKE BAY
- WETLANDS -see also- DREDGING
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Environment
- (
5-911 ,
9-343 ,
9-401 ,
9-413 ,
16-501
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 133101/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 24, 1998 at:
10:32 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 323502/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1998 at:
11:11 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 403008/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 1998 at:
10:09 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 784319/3 (PDF) Offered on: March 24, 1998 at:
10:32 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 25, 1998: Floor Amendment (Baker WA) {403008/1 Rejected (16-26)
- March 25, 1998: Floor Amendment (Baker WA) {323502/1 Rejected (15-25)
- March 27, 1998: Third Reading Passed (39-8)
