2005 Regular Session File Code information current as of December 15, 2005 - 11:02 p.m.

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HB 71	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 349
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Department of Agriculture - Weights and Measures - Fees
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 73	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 350
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Maryland Agricultural Commission - Membership
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 74	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 351
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Easement Termination - County Notification
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 75	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 352
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Board of Trustees
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 76	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 353
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Agriculture - Animal Health - Administrative Penalties
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 77	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 354
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Agriculture - Commercial Feed and Fertilizer, Agricultural Liming Materials, and Pesticide Registration and Labeling Laws - Penalties
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 78	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 355
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Local Land Use
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 79	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 356
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Arbitration of Easement Values
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 104	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 358
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Secretary of Agriculture - Animal Health - Reports
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 285	Status as of May 26, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 530
Sponsored By	Delegate McIntosh
Entitled	Maryland Tobacco Authority - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 402	Status as of April 26, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 207
Sponsored By	Delegates Moe, Bozman, Cardin, Conway, Costa, DeBoy, Donoghue, Feldman, Frush, Gaines, Griffith, Hammen, Hubbard, Kach, Kelly, Leopold, Madaleno, Malone, McConkey, McHale, Menes, Morhaim, Pendergrass, Petzold, Sophocleus, Trueschler, Vaughn, Weir, and Zirkin
Entitled	Commercial Fertilizer - Ammonium Nitrate - Sale or Distribution Information
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 555	Status as of April 7, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - Senate Conference Committee Appointed
Sponsored By	Chair, Environmental Matters Committee and Chair, Ways and Means Committee
Entitled	Horse Industry Board - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters and Ways and Means Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 561	Status as of February 28, 2005: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate Weir
Entitled	Agricultural Land Preservation - Termination of Agricultural Districts
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 576	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 385
Sponsored By	Delegates Stull and Cane
Entitled	Department of Agriculture - Water Pollution Control - Cost Sharing
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 709	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 390
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture)
Entitled	Secretary of Agriculture - Regulation of Poultry to Control Avian Influenza
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 933	Status as of February 28, 2005: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Stocksdale and Aumann
Entitled	Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Request for Release by Landowner's Estate
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 934	Status as of February 28, 2005: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Stocksdale and Aumann
Entitled	Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Child Lot - Notice
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 971	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 405
Sponsored By	Delegates O'Donnell and McIntosh
Entitled	Fish and Fisheries - Seafood - Aquaculture
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 1039	Status as of April 11, 2005: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Cecil County Delegation
Entitled	Income Tax Checkoff - Cecil County Agricultural Preservation Fund
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 1051	Status as of April 7, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Delegates Sossi, Smigiel, and Walkup
Entitled	Agriculture - Commercial Fertilizer - Required Signage at Retail Outlets
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 1334	Status as of May 26, 2005: Vetoed by the Governor - Duplicative
Sponsored By	Delegates Cane, Stull, Bartlett, Bozman, Conway, Donoghue, Eckardt, Elliott, Elmore, Haddaway, Hogan, McKee, Rudolph, Shank, Sossi, Walkup, Weldon, Bobo, V. Clagett, Glassman, Jennings, Montgomery, Parker, and Weir
Entitled	Agriculture - Critical Farms Program
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 1346	Status as of May 26, 2005: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed
Sponsored By	Delegates Conway, Bartlett, Bates, Bobo, Bohanan, Boutin, Bozman, Cardin, G. Clagett, V. Clagett, Costa, Eckardt, Edwards, Elliott, Elmore, Glassman, Haddaway, Hubbard, James, Jennings, Kelly, Kullen, McComas, McHale, McIntosh, McKee, Montgomery, Morhaim, Myers, Parrott, Petzold, Rudolph, Shank, Smigiel, Sossi, Stern, Stull, Walkup, Weldon, Wood, and Cane
Entitled	Renewable Fuels Promotion Act of 2005
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 1450	Status as of May 26, 2005: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed
Sponsored By	Delegates V. Clagett, McIntosh, Bartlett, Bohanan, Cane, Cluster, Donoghue, Eckardt, Edwards, Glassman, Haddaway, Hogan, Impallaria, Jennings, Kach, Kaiser, Kullen, Mayer, McConkey, McDonough, McKee, Montgomery, O'Donnell, Parrott, Rudolph, Shank, Shewell, Stocksdale, Stull, and Weldon
Entitled	Agriculture - Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Fund and Council - Establishment
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

HB 1530	Status as of March 21, 2005: Bill is in the House - Re-referred Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Stull, Cane, Bartlett, Elliott, Hogan, McKee, Myers, Shank, Sossi, Walkup, and Weldon
Entitled	Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Fund - Priority Preservation Areas - New Funding Sources
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

SB 249	Status as of May 26, 2005: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed
Sponsored By	Senator Hollinger (Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee)
Entitled	Maryland Tobacco Authority - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
Committee Assignments	Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs House: Environmental Matters

SB 283	Status as of May 26, 2005: Vetoed by the Governor - Duplicative
Sponsored By	Senators Klausmeier, Brochin, Colburn, Dyson, Hogan, Kasemeyer, Middleton, and Schrader
Entitled	Fish and Fisheries - Seafood - Aquaculture
Committee Assignments	Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs House: Environmental Matters

SB 325	Status as of February 28, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Senator Klausmeier
Entitled	Agricultural Land Preservation - Termination of Agricultural Districts
Committee Assignments	Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

SB 446	Status as of April 7, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - Senate Conference Committee Appointed
Sponsored By	Senator Hollinger (Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee) and Senator Middleton (Chair, Finance Committee)
Entitled	Horse Industry Board - Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation
Committee Assignments	Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs and Finance House: Environmental Matters and Ways and Means

SB 459	Status as of March 21, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Cecil County Senators
Entitled	Income Tax Checkoff - Cecil County Agricultural Preservation Fund
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 470	Status as of March 8, 2005: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Senators Grosfeld, Britt, Jones, Pinsky, and Stone
Entitled	Agriculture - Confinement of Pregnant Sows and Gilts - Minimum Enclosure Size
Committee Assignments	Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs

SB 502	Status as of April 26, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 155
Sponsored By	Senators Dyson , Middleton, Colburn, Harris, and Greenip
Entitled	Agriculture - Critical Farms Program
Committee Assignments	Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs House: Environmental Matters

SB 566	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 320
Sponsored By	Senator Munson
Entitled	Agriculture - Maryland Wine and Grape Promotion Fund and Council - Establishment
Committee Assignments	Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs House: Environmental Matters

SB 740	Status as of May 10, 2005: Became Law - Chapter 332
Sponsored By	Senators Middleton, Brinkley, Colburn, Dyson, Gladden, Greenip, Hafer, Haines, Jacobs, Munson, Pipkin, and Teitelbaum
Entitled	Renewable Fuels Promotion Act of 2005
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Environmental Matters