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Legislative
News
Legislative information is important to everyone in Maryland and the MRC is
committed to providing information as it becomes available. Provided, below, is
a
short synopsis of the Senate or House Bill and other valuable information.
Please feel free to contact the MRC if you have questions or comments about the
bill and also contact your local elected officials. A direct link to the
Maryland General Assembly's Legislative Office provides complete contact,
up to the minute information and historical background.
2007 Bills
- HB 488
Environment - Statewide Electronics Recycling Program
Synopsis: Altering a specified recycling program
to include specified electronic devices; authorizing a county to address
methods for the separate collection and recycling of specified
electronic devices in a specified recycling plan; requiring that
specified funds, in excess of a specified amount, revert to the General
Fund of the State; requiring manufacturers of specified electronic
devices to submit to the Department a specified registration and fee;
repealing the termination date of provisions of a specified Act; etc.
Sponsors: Delegates Morhaim, Bobo, and Montgomery
ACTION:
First Reading Environmental Matters (2/6/07)
Hearing 2/28/07 - 1 p.m.
Results of hearing posted: 3/16/07
Favorable with Amendments Report by
Environmental Matters
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
3/17 - Third Reader Passed
3/29 - Senate Scheduled Hearing (passed first
reader in the committee)
4/3 - 3rd Reader PASSED in the SENATE (45-2)
4/4 - Returned PASSED in the HOUSE (132-4; w/4
absences + 1 not-voting)
4/10 - awaiting Governors signing
4/24 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239
HB 839
Environment - Recycling - Bottle Deposits, Returns, and Refunds
Synopsis: Requiring bottle deposits, returns, and
refunds on specified beverage containers; requiring a specified person
to pay a refund under specified circumstances; providing for the duties
of a person that accepts specified containers from consumers; requiring
the State to pay a handling fee and refund value to a redemption center
under certain circumstances; altering the circumstances under which the
State Recycling Trust Fund receives and grants moneys; requiring
counties in the State to open at least one redemption center; etc.
Sponsors: Delegates Hammen, Ali, Barnes, Barve, Bromwell,
Conaway, Guzzone, Hucker, Kaiser, Lafferty, Mizeur, Morhaim, Niemann,
Olszewski, Rice, Rosenberg, Schuler, and Walker.
ACTION:
First Reading
Environmental Matters (2/9/07).
Hearing 3/7/07 - 1 p.m.
Senate - No Action
House - No Action
Updated: May 3, 2007
2005 Bills
HB 346
Procurement - Percentage Price Preference - Environmentally Preferable
Products or Equipment:
VETOED by Governor
Synopsis: Providing a specified price preference for
environmentally preferable products or equipment under specified
circumstances; requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt specified
regulations concerning the establishment of a specified percentage price
preference; requiring specified units of State government to establish a
list of acceptable environmentally preferable products or equipment; etc.
Sponsored by: Delegates Cardin, Bobo, Conroy, Heller, Hubbard, Leopold,
Mandel, Montgomery, and Morhaim
ACTION: Passed House (3/17/05);
Senate - Passed 3rd Reader: (4/6/05); Governor - Vetoed (5/20/05).
HB 575
Environment - Statewide Computer Recycling Program:
Synopsis: Establishing the Statewide Computer Recycling
Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Office of
Recycling in the Department to administer the Program; authorizing, on or
after January 1, 2006, computer manufacturers to submit a specified
environmental compliance plan for the manufacturer's computers; requiring
the Department, upon specified determinations, to certify and renew a
certification of a manufacturer's plan; etc.
Sponsored by: Delegates Morhaim, Bobo, McIntosh, and Montgomery
ACTION: Passed House (3/26/05);
Senate - Passed 3rd Reader: (4/8/05); Governor - Signed (5/10/05).
(Click to Read the May 12, 2005 WasteNews HB 575
story)
HB 614
Certification and Procurement - Environmentally Compliant Manufacturers of
Computers
- No Action
Synopsis: Establishing a certification process for
specified manufacturers of computers; allowing specified manufacturers of
computers to submit an environmental compliance plan to the Department of
the Environment; allowing the Department of the Environment to certify
specified manufacturers who submit a plan; establishing a specified
percentage price preference for procurements to specified manufacturers;
requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations by a specified
date; etc.
Sponsored by: Delegates Morhaim, Bobo, McIntosh, and Montgomery
ACTION: 3/22/05 Unfavorable (House)
NO ACTION (Senate)
SB 420
Recycling - Apartment Buildings and Complexes - No Action
Synopsis: Requiring the owners of certain apartment
buildings and complexes to provide for recycling at the building or complex;
requiring that the recycling under the Act be done in accordance with
specified recycling plans; providing for a civil penalty for a violation of
the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Senators Giannetti, Hooper, Pinsky,
Teitelbaum, Britt, Brochin, Exum, Gladden, Green, Grosfeld, Jacobs, Jimeno,
Jones, and Schrader
ACTION: Senate - Unfavorable Report
(3/8/05) NO ACTION
SB 990
Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - University of Maryland
Recycling Bins - No Action
Synopsis: Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in
the amount of $32,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of
Directors of the Maryland Public Interest Research Group, Inc. for the
purchase of indoor and outdoor recycling bins, to be located on McKeldin
Mall and Fraternity Row at the University of Maryland, College Park;
providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds; establishing a deadline
for the encumbrance or expenditure of the loan proceeds; etc.
Sponsored by: Senators Giannetti
ACTION: Senate - Re-referred to
Budget & Taxation (3/10/05) NO ACTION
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2003 Bills
SB 539 - State
Government - Green Building
SB 541 -
Procurement - Environmentally Preferable Products
SB 473 -
Procurement - Percentage Price Preference for Recycled Materials - Chicken
Litter
HB 911 - Solid
Waste Disposal - Cathode Ray Tubes
Senate Bill 539
State Government - Buildings -
Green Buildings
Sponsored By: Senators Brochin,
Garagiola, and Hollinger
Synopsis:
Requiring that the design, construction,
operations, maintenance, and deconstruction of specified new buildings conform
to a specified rating adopted by the Maryland Green Buildings Council; and
requiring that reasonable efforts be made by units of State government to
maximize the use of energy efficiency and resource conservation techniques in
specified existing State buildings.
Visit:
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/billfile/sb0539.htm for additional
information. (posted 3/4/03).
Senate Bill 541
Procurement - Environmentally
Preferable Products and Equipment - Report and Purchase
Sponsored By: Senator Grosfeld
Synopsis:
Requiring each State unit to purchase environmentally preferable products and
equipment if they meet or exceed specified performance standards; requiring the
Board of Public Works to adopt specified regulations by December 31, 2005 and to
maintain and make available a specified listing; requiring the Secretary of
General Services to review, evaluate, and report by October 1, 2004 regarding
specified aspects of the procurement and use of environmentally preferable
products and equipment; etc.
Visit:
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/billfile/sb0541.htm for additional
information. (posted 3/4/03).
Senate Bill 473
Procurement - Percentage Price
Preference for Recycled Materials - Chicken Litter
Sponsored By: Senators Colburn and
Stoltzfus
Synopsis:
Including processed and pasteurized chicken litter in the percentage price
preference for recycled materials.
Visit:
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/billfile/sb0473.htm for additional
information. (posted 3/4/03).
House Bill 911
Solid Waste Disposal - Cathode Ray Tubes -
Computer Monitors and Television Screens
Sponsored By: Delegates Morhaim and Hubbard
Synopsis:
Prohibiting any person from disposing of a cathode ray tube (CRT) from a
computer monitor or television in any location not designated by the Department
of the Environment for the management and recycling of used CRTs on or after
December 31, 2004; prohibiting any sanitary landfill, solid waste transfer
station, or incinerator from accepting a CRT on or after that date; requiring
the Office of Recycling to develop a method for the management and recycling of
used CRTs; authorizing the Department to adopt regulations; etc.
- No Action -
Visit:
http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/billfile/HB0911.htm for additional
information. (posted 2/28/03).
If you'd like to contact your local legislator, either by phone, by
mail or e-mail - visit: http://mlis.state.md.us/
and click on "Contact your legislators"
for more information.
2002 Bills
Senate Bill 243 / House Bill 299 (2002)
The Maryland Recyclers Coalition submitted a letter to
The Honorable John A. Hurson, Chairman of the Environmental Matters Committee,
House of Delegates of Maryland. In part it notes:
"MRC has always been supportive of efforts to expand
recycling, encourage source reduction, and promote "buy recycled,"
and, in so doing, we endorse the concept of increased funding for State efforts
in these areas. This would be consistent with the findings of the
Maryland Recycling Advisory Group and the Governor’s Solid Waste Management
Task Force (1998), both of which MRC participated in and which MRC
unanimously endorsed."
Read the entire letter HERE.
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