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IntroducedFeb 12, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 20, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Maryland House Bill
Patuxent Research Refuge and Beltsville Agricultural Research Center - Zoning Classification (Protecting Patuxent Research Refuge Act)
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Mar 24, 2026: Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 1267
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 123
- Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk
- Conaway
- Hutchinson
- Patterson
- Stein
- Acevero
- Crutchfield
- Ivey
- Phillips
- Stewart
- Adams
- Cullison
- Jacobs
- Pippy
- Stinnett
- Addison
- Davis
- Johnson, A.
- Pruski
- Stonko
- Allen
- Ebersole
- Jones, D.
- Qi
- Taveras
- Alston
- Edelson
- Kaiser
- Queen
- Taylor
- Amprey
- Embry
- Kaufman
- Reilly
- Terrasa
- Anderson
- Fair
- Kerr
- Roberson
- Toles
- Arentz
- Feldmark
- Kipke
- Roberts
- Tomlinson
- Bagnall
- Fennell
- Korman
- Rogers
- Turner
- Baker
- Foley
- Lehman
- Rose
- Valderrama
- Barnes
- Forbes
- Lewis
- Rosenberg
- Valentine
- Bartlett
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- Long, J.
- Ross
- Vogel
- Beauchamp
- Ghrist
- Long, R.
- Ruff
- Watson
- Behler
- Griffith
- Lopez
- Ruth
- Wells
- Bhandari
- Guyton
- Martinez
- Sample-Hughes
- White Holland
- Boafo
- Guzzone
- McCaskill
- Schindler
- Wilkins
- Boyce
- Harrison
- McComas
- Schmidt
- Williams
- Buckel
- Hartman
- Mireku-North
- Shetty
- Wims
- Cardin
- Healey
- Moon
- Simmons
- Wivell
- Chang
- Hill
- Moreno
- Simpson
- Woods
- Charkoudian
- Hinebaugh
- Morgan, T.
- Smith
- Woorman
- Ciliberti
- Holmes
- Nkongolo
- Solomon
- Wu
- Clippinger
- Hornberger
- Odom
- Spiegel
- Ziegler
- Coley
- Howard
- Palakovich Carr
NOT VOTING: 6
Actions
- Mar 24, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- Mar 23, 2026 | Senate
- Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment
- Mar 20, 2026 | House
- Third Reading Passed (123-7)
- Mar 19, 2026 | House
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- Favorable with Amendments {773926/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Feb 17, 2026 | House
- Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
- Feb 12, 2026 | House
- First Reading Economic Matters and Environment and Transportation
Bill Texts
- Text - First - Patuxent Research Refuge and Beltsville Agricultural Research Center - Zoning Classification (Protecting Patuxent Research Refuge Act)PDF
- Amendments {773926/1 Adopted (House)PDF
- Text - Third - Patuxent Research Refuge and Beltsville Agricultural Research Center - Zoning Classification (Protecting Patuxent Research Refuge Act)PDF
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
- Vote - House - Committee - Economic MattersPDF
- Vote - House - Committee - Environment and TransportationPDF
- Video: Economic MattersHTML
- Video: Education, Energy, and the EnvironmentHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Delegate Lehman, Delegate Lehman
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Lambrow, Kathy (Baltimore Bird Club, Conservation Committee)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Solomon, Nancy
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Barnett, Susan
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- McCutchen, Susan (Maryland Coalition for Responsible Transit)
- ECM Testimony, FWA -- Smith, Marlene (Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay Chapter)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Carrington, Darrell (Carrington & Associates, LLC)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Brown, Michael
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- allen, gary (Maryland Forestry Foundation)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Bellamy, Lorenzo
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Fine, Maureen (Salutation)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Solomon, Julie (self)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Volodin, Stacey (Humane World for Animals)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Ghosh, Shantanu (Indivisible Howard County)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Taylor, Tom
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Brown, Jim (Audubon Mid-Atlantic)
- ECM Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Connelly, Laura (Self!)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Schwarz, Kurt (Maryland Ornithological Society)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Hoffman, Kirsten (Maryland Native Plant Coalition)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Wilpers, Michael (Sierra Club MD Chapter)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Rosenthal, Lore
- ECM Testimony, FWA -- McLaughlin, Michael
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Fulton, Judy (Maryland Native Plant Society)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Schomberg, Harry (USDA-ARS-BARC)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Bierer-Garrett, Lisa
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Bartolomeo, Kathleen (GCAN, MCRT)



