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IntroducedFeb 12, 2026
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Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Maryland House Bill
Environmental Permits - Requirements for Burden Analysis, Issuance and Renewal, and Public Participation (Cumulative Harms for Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act)
Last Action See all actions
House • Mar 13, 2026: Hearing 3/13 at 1:30 p.m.
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 1268
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors



- Allencosponsor
- Ampreycosponsor
- Bartlettcosponsor
- Boafocosponsor
- Charkoudiancosponsor
- Coleycosponsor
- Foleycosponsor
- Fraser-Hidalgocosponsor
- Holmescosponsor
- Iveycosponsor
- A. Johnsoncosponsor
- S. Johnsoncosponsor
- D. Jonescosponsor
- Lehmancosponsor
- Lewiscosponsor
- McCaskillcosponsor
- Pasteurcosponsor
- Phillipscosponsor
- Rogerscosponsor
- Rosscosponsor
- Ruffcosponsor
- Ruthcosponsor
- Smithcosponsor
- Taverascosponsor
- Wilkinscosponsor
- Williamscosponsor
Votes
Actions
- Mar 13, 2026 | House
- Hearing canceled
- Hearing 3/13 at 1:30 p.m.
- Mar 06, 2026 | House
- Hearing canceled
- Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- Feb 17, 2026 | House
- Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- Feb 16, 2026 | House
- Hearing canceled
- Feb 13, 2026 | House
- Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- Feb 12, 2026 | House
- First Reading Environment and Transportation
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy NotePDF
- Video: Environment and TransportationHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Baker, Jeremy D (Maryland Department of the Environment)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Kinsey, Kathy (Mobilize Frederick)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Simon, Robert (Maryland Catholics for Our Common Home)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Wilson, Maryrose
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Simpson, Kylan (Maryland Department of Health)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Anderson, Patti (Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Lefstein, Gita
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Bautista, Katie
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Cano, Felicita
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Feeley, Kathryn (Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Valdivia, Kathleen (St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Demiray, Sonia (Climate Communications Coalition)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Girdner, Linnie
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Escobar, Cinthia (MDLCV)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Alvarez, Carlos (MDLCV)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Lopez, Roberto (MDLCV)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Orellana, Marta
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- De Leon Cabrera, Casandra (MDLCV)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Gasca, Veronica
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Montufar, Nathaly (MDLCV)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Tulkin, Josh (MD Sierra Club)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Singer, Elizabeth (Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Federation of Howard County)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Dunning, Bryan (Center for Progressive Reform)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Wharton, Leslie (Elders Climate Action)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Cruz, Kobe (MDLCV)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Manzanares, Jaylyn (MDLCV)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Gately, Ursula (Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Martinez, Sandra
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Dieguez, Andy
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Gonzalez, Clara
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Garofolo, John
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- McGilvray, Laurie (Climate Justice Wing of the Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Sliviak, Gregory (Rock Creek)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Sliviak, Ruth (Rock Creek Neighborhood)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Hession, Melody (Delaware-Maryland Synod of the ELCA)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Smith, Tim (Maryland Asphalt Association)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Hough, Tyler (Maryland Farm Bureau)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Sakata, Michael (MTBMA)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Smith, Virginia (IndivisibleHoCoMD)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Fraley, Jeff
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Habib, Iman (Progressive Maryland)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Orozco, Andrea (Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVa))
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Taylor, Tom
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Johnson, Jeffrey
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Hunter, Casey (League of Women Voters of Maryland)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Bucic, Sarah (Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE))
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Sanchez, Carlos
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Stegman, Matt (Chesapeake Bay Foundation)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Benko, Brian (Smith Industries, Inc.)
- ENT Testimony, FWA -- Cotton, Natalie
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Ostdahl, Maggie (National Aquarium)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Webster, Phil (Legislative body for the Unitarian Universalist faith, C/O Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Vetter, Drew
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Rehr, Rebecca (Maryland League of Conservation Voters)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Bartock, Laura (Maryland Climate Partners)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Agarin, Ufuoma (Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Burke, Camille (Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Ochsenhirt, Lisa (Maryland Association of Municipal Wastewater Agencies)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Brown, Jim (Audubon Mid-Atlantic)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Organization, HoCo Climate Action (HoCo Climate Action)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Rosenstein, Madeline (The Access to Justice Clinic (Environmental Policy Division) within the Jacob Burns Community Legal Clinics of the George Washington University Law School)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Hegarty, Dawn (Myself)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Middleton, Grayson (Delmarva Chicken Association)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Kelly, Leah (Environmental Integrity Project)
- ENT Testimony, FWA -- Leith, Jackson
- ENT Virtual - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Kamita Gray, Karyn Sonu or (Brandywine | TB Southern Region Neighborhood Coalition / Executive Community Citizen's Board (ECCB))
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Latino Caucus, Maryland Legislative
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Kranz, Rhonda
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Anglin, Micah (Green & Healthy Homes Initiative)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- N/A, Healthy Climate Maryland (Healthy Climate Maryland)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Labruto, Nicole (Johns Hopkins University)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- O'Halloran, Mike
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Bergman, Steven
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- O'Malley, Peter (American Sugar Refining, Inc.)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Duckett-Randolph, Neka (Out 4 Justice)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Aubourg, Matthew (On behalf of Johns Hopkins Environmental Health and Engineering Students and Postdocs)
- ENT Virtual - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Tosi, Jeff (Maryland Environmental Service)
- ENT Testimony, FWA -- Themelis, Nina (Mayor's Office of Government Relations)
- ENT Testimony, FWA -- Ghrist, Jeff (Rural Caucus)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Graf, Lori (Maryland Building Industry Association)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Butchko, Dominic (Maryland Association of Counties (MACo))
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Ibarra, Gabriela (Chispa)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Little, Kathryn
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Held, Karl
- ENT Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Kunze, Jennifer (Clean Water Action)
- ENT Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Casteel, Rachel (Sentinels of Eastern Shore Health)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Ballentine, Tom (NAIOP Maryland)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Allen, Hannah (Maryland Chamber of Commerce)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Guttam, Rishit (Illuminate Maryland)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Molina, Paulina
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Stewart, Frances (Elders Climate Action Maryland)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Ulman, Abigail
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Hoon, Evelyn
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Thompson, Tiffany (Community of Curtis Bay Association)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Richards, Annie (ShoreRivers)
- ENT Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
- ENT Testimony, INFO -- Gray, Kamita (Brandywine BTB Coalition)
