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SB546 - Environment - State Wetlands - Shoreline Stabilization Measures
Sarah K. Elfreth, Pamela G Beidle, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 10 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from exempting a person from the requirement to use certain shoreline stabilization measures for certain erosion protection projects solely on the basis of replacing a structural shoreline stabilization measure with the same or similar type of structural shoreline stabilization measure; and authorizing the Tidal Wetlands Compensation Fund to include grant funding for the replacement of structural shoreline stabilization measures with nonstructural shoreline stabilization measures.
STATUS
Introduced
SB439 - Family Law - Victims of Domestic Violence Program - Certification and Grant Fund
Sarah K. Elfreth, Shelly Hettleman, Ariana M. Kelly
Last updated 6 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a victims of domestic violence program to be certified by the federally recognized State domestic violence coalition as a comprehensive domestic violence program; establishing the Victims of Domestic Violence Program Grant Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Fund.
STATUS
Passed
SB547 - Wildlife - Traveling Animal Acts - Prohibition
Sarah K. Elfreth, Brian J. Feldman, Shelly Hettleman
Last updated 6 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,000 per violation.
STATUS
Passed
SB642 - Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program
Benjamin T. Brooks, James C. Rosapepe, Charles Anthony Muse
Last updated 10 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a producer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing in or importing into the State a redeemable beverage container unless the producer is registered with the Department of the Environment, pays a certain fee, and is part of a certain stewardship organization; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB598 - State Board of Education - Membership - School Principal
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Michael A. Jackson
Last updated 10 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
STATUS
Introduced
SB414 - Education - Maryland Council on Economic Education - Funding
Craig Zucker, Nancy King, Katherine Ann Klausmeier
Last updated 9 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2028, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $200,000 for the Maryland Council on Economic Education to support economic and financial literacy education of school-age children in the State; and providing that the funding may be used only to improve students' economic and personal finance understanding, provide free resources to public and nonpublic school special education financial literacy instructors, and assist with certain curriculum development.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB169 - Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program and Fund
Cheryl C. Kagan, Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey
Last updated 9 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and installation of qualifying energy systems; establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Fund; authorizing, in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Fund; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB440 - Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation
Sarah K. Elfreth, Jack Bailey, Paul Corderman
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Allowing an individual, subject to certain requirements and limitations, to claim a credit against the State income tax for certain qualified expenses if the individual harvests an antlerless deer and donates the deer meat to certain organizations; limiting the amount of credits certain individuals may claim to a maximum of $300; and requiring by January 31 each year each venison donation program that received certain donations to report certain information about each donor who intended to claim the credit to the Comptroller.
STATUS
Passed
SB148 - Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities
Alonzo T. Washington, Malcolm L. Augustine, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 6 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual State budget an appropriation of up to $20,000,000 for the comprehensive flood management grant program in fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter.
STATUS
Passed
SB181 - Qualifying Nonprofit Organizations - Training and Reentry Services - Funding
Cory V. McCray, Jack Bailey, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 6 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $1,000,000 in the annual budget bill for fiscal years 2026 through 2028 to provide operating grants to certain qualifying nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing training in automotive repair to incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals; and requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to administer the grant funds.
STATUS
Passed
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