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HB457 - Environment - Synthetic Turf - Disclosure and Study
Mary A. Lehman, Gabriel Acevero, Jackie Addison
Last updated 5 months ago
58 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with representatives of the industry, local environmental and community stakeholders, and synthetic turf producers, retailers, and users, to conduct a study on the synthetic turf industry in the State and report its findings to certain committees of the General Assembly by July 1, 2026.
STATUS
Passed
HB544 - Criminal Law - Sexual Extortion, Stalking, and Revenge Porn - Statute of Limitations and In Banc Review
Vanessa Atterbeary, Charlotte Agnes Crutchfield, Catherine M. Forbes
Last updated 5 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Altering the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of sexual extortion to be 5 years; altering the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of stalking to be 10 years; providing that the State may institute a prosecution for revenge porn at any time; and providing that, for purposes of the Maryland Constitution, a person who commits revenge porn shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor whose punishment is confinement in the penitentiary and may reserve a point or question for a certain in banc review.
STATUS
Passed
HB1008 - Fossil Fuel Transportation Fee and Mitigation Fund (Climate Pollution Reduction Fund Act)
Dana M Stein
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Imposing a fossil fuel transportation fee on a person that transports a fossil fuel in the State; providing that the rate of the fossil fuel transportation fee is 30 cents per million British thermal units of fossil fuels transported in the State; providing the fee does not apply to the transportation of a fossil fuel that is solely for use on a farm and the carrier does not otherwise use or sell the fossil fuel; establishing the Fossil Fuel Mitigation Fund to support activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the State; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB992 - Environment - Delegated Authorities - Well and Septic Program Permits
Dana M Stein
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit, by December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for certain well and septic program permits for approval; and requiring a local health department or county government to submit well and septic program permit data to the Department for review beginning 3 months after the original schedule submission approved by the Department and every 3 months thereafter.
STATUS
Passed
HB993 - Commemorative Weeks - Maryland Climate Education Week
Dana M Stein
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the first week of April as Maryland Climate Education Week; and requiring the proclamation to urge residents of all ages to participate in educational activities that promote awareness of climate change and take action toward the State's climate commitments.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB990 - Environment - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions - Manufacturers
Dana M Stein
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering the definition of "manufacturing" for purposes of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements to exclude the production of cement; altering the application of certain provisions of law regarding the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing sector to apply only to persons that engaged in manufacturing in 2023; requiring the Department of the Environment to make certain considerations and consult with certain stakeholders related to the regulation of the production of cement; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB323 - Environment - Commission on Climate Change Membership - Addition
Michele Guyton, Mary A. Lehman, Sara Norris Love
Last updated 5 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
STATUS
Passed
HB7 - Housing Innovation Pilot Program and Housing Innovation Fund - Establishment (Housing Innovation Pilot Program Act of 2024)
Vaughn Stewart, Jackie Addison, Nick Allen
Last updated 5 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Housing Innovation Fund to provide loans for local housing authorities and county governments to develop mixed-income, cross-subsidized housing; establishing the Housing Innovation Pilot Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to assist public housing authorities and county governments in increasing housing production and to reward counties pursuing solutions to the problem of housing scarcity; authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Fund in certain fiscal years; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB1096 - Public Health - Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program
Joseline A Pena-Melnyk, Gabriel Acevero, Jackie Addison
Last updated 8 months ago
28 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide sterile needles, administer first aid, and certain other services; authorizing a Program to bill the insurance carrier of an individual who uses the services; authorizing the Department to approve not more than six programs, preferably two in urban, two in rural, and two in suburban areas; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1147 - Environment - Playground Surfacing Materials - Prohibitions
Michele Guyton, Mary A. Lehman, Nick Allen
Last updated 5 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to which PFAS chemicals were previously intentionally added for certain purposes; prohibiting a county, municipality, or unit of local government from adopting any ordinance, rule, or regulation related to playground surfacing materials that is less stringent than of the Act; etc.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Maryland district HD-011
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Dana M. Stein is a member of the Rhode Island State Senate, representing District 29. She assumed office on January 6, 2021. Stein earned her BA in Environmental Studies from Brown University in 1994. Stein previously served on the Rhode Island House of Representatives, representing District 27 from January 2009 to January 2021. She also served on the Coventry Town Council from 2000 to 2008.read less
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Maryland House from Maryland
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