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IntroducedFeb 05, 2024
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Passed HouseMar 15, 2024
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Passed SenateMar 29, 2024
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Signed into LawMay 09, 2024
Agriculture - Invasive Plant Species - Regulation (Biodiversity and Agriculture Protection Act)
Last Action See all actions
executive • May 09, 2024: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 590
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Official Summary/Bill Text
Comments on HB 979
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Steincosponsor
Votes
YES: 105
- Speaker
- Crutchfield
- Hutchinson
- Moon
- Stein
- Acevero
- Cullison
- Ivey
- Morgan, T.
- Stewart
- Addison
- Davis
- Jackson
- Palakovich Carr
- Taveras
- Allen
- Ebersole
- Jacobs
- Pasteur
- Taylor
- Alston
- Edelson
- Johnson, A.
- Patterson
- Terrasa
- Amprey
- Embry
- Johnson, S.
- Pena-Melnyk
- Toles
- Attar
- Fair
- Jones, D.
- Phillips
- Turner
- Atterbeary
- Feldmark
- Kaiser
- Pruski
- Valderrama
- Bagnall
- Fennell
- Kaufman
- Roberson
- Vogel
- Barnes
- Foley
- Kerr
- Roberts
- Watson
- Bartlett
- Forbes
- Kipke
- Rogers
- Wells
- Bhandari
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- Korman
- Rosenberg
- White Holland
- Boafo
- Grossman
- Lehman
- Ruff
- Wilkins
- Boyce
- Guyton
- Lewis, J.
- Ruth
- Williams
- Cardin
- Guzzone
- Lewis, R.
- Schmidt
- Wilson
- Chang
- Harris
- Long, J.
- Shetty
- Wims
- Charkoudian
- Healey
- Lopez
- Simmons
- Wolek
- Ciliberti
- Henson
- Love
- Simpson
- Woods
- Clippinger
- Hill
- Martinez
- Smith
- Wu
- Conaway
- Holmes
- McCaskill
- Solomon
- Young
- Crosby
- Hornberger
- Mireku-North
- Spiegel
- Ziegler
NO: 30
ABSENT: 5
NOT VOTING: 1
YES: 45
- Mr. President
- Elfreth
- Hester
- Lam
- Simonaire
- Augustine
- Ellis
- Hettleman
- Lewis Young
- Smith
- Bailey
- Feldman
- Jackson
- Mautz
- Sydnor
- Beidle
- Folden
- James
- McCray
- Waldstreicher
- Benson
- Gallion
- Jennings
- McKay
- Washington, A.
- Brooks
- Gile
- Kagan
- Muse
- Washington, M.
- Carozza
- Guzzone
- Kelly
- Ready
- Watson
- Carter
- Hayes
- Klausmeier
- Rosapepe
- West
- Charles
- Hershey
- Kramer
- Salling
- Zucker
NO: 0
Actions
- May 09, 2024 | executive
- Approved by the Governor - Chapter 590
- Apr 01, 2024 | House
- Returned Passed
- Mar 29, 2024 | Senate
- Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- Mar 28, 2024 | Senate
- Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment
- Favorable Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- Mar 18, 2024 | Senate
- Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment
- Mar 15, 2024 | House
- Third Reading Passed (105-30)
- Mar 14, 2024 | House
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Mar 13, 2024 | House
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation
- Favorable with Amendments {203422/1 Adopted
- Motion Special Order until 3/14 (Delegate Ghrist) Adopted
- Feb 07, 2024 | House
- Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- Feb 05, 2024 | House
- First Reading Environment and Transportation
Bill Texts
- Text - First - Agriculture - Invasive Plant Species - Regulation (Biodiversity and Agriculture Protection Act)PDF
- Amendments {203422/1 Adopted (House)PDF
- Text - Third - Agriculture - Invasive Plant Species - Regulation (Biodiversity and Agriculture Protection Act)PDF
- Text - Chapter - Agriculture - Invasive Plant Species - Regulation (Biodiversity and Agriculture Protection Act)PDF
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
- Vote - House - Committee - Environment and TransportationPDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Education, Energy, and the EnvironmentPDF
- Video: Environment and TransportationHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- McDonagh, Meredith
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- LAPORTE, MARIE
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Schwarz, Kurt (Maryland Ornithological Society)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Soreng, Robert
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Hoffman, Kirsten (Green Towson Alliance)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Caprioglio, Lisa
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Tobian, Jennifer
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Reilly, Kathleen
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Broadman, Dorothy
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Rogers, Jimmy (Laurel for the Patuxent)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Lieurance, Deah
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Colangelo, Diana
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Oehme, Roland (Roland Oehme Landscape Architecture)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Hubbard, Adreon (Habitat Stewards of Overlook Park)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Myers, Doug (Chesapeake Bay Foundation)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Carr, Megan (Maryland Forestry Foundation)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Brown, Jim (Audubon Mid-Atlantic)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Matthews, Barbara (Town of Garrett Park)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Woolridge, N Virginia (Save Our Trees)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Fredriksson, Ryan (National Aquarium)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Marshall, John (Marshalls' Riverbank Nurseries)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Mochel, Patty
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- iliff, jesse (Severn River Association)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Wray, Amanda (WildOnes Greater Baltimore)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Knebel, Sarah (Scenic Rivers Land Trust)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Tallamy, Doug
- ENT Testimony, INFO -- Hough, Tyler (Maryland Farm Bureau)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Foley, Linda
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Smith, Virginia (Indivisible HoCo Maryland)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Loll, Michael (Green Team of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Thompson, Lindsay
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Olszewski, Marisa (Maryland League of Conservation Voters)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Dietz, Michelle (The Nature Conservancy)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- johnson, barbara (Blue Water Baltimore)
- ENT Testimony, FWA -- Stovall, Terence (National Associational of Landscaping Professionals)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Henderson, Jane (Chesapeake Natives)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Ginter, Elizabeth (CCLC)
- ENT Testimony, INFO -- Helm, Pilar (Maryland Department of Transportation)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Kulp, Robert
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Fulton, Judith (Sierra Club)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Mays, Billy Paul (Farm Bureau)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Tidd, Jeremy (Bona Terra LLC)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, INFO -- Jones, Rachel (Maryland Department of Agriculture)
- ENT Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Farrow, John (Holly Hill Farms)
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