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                        IntroducedFeb 03, 2025
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                        Passed SenateApr 01, 2025
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                        Passed HouseApr 05, 2025
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                        Signed into LawMay 20, 2025
 
                    
                    
                    Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)
                
                
            
        Last Action See all actions
                         executive • May 20, 2025: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
                        
                        
                        
            Summary/Bill Text
Comments on SB 931
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Whip Lists
Sponsors
                Votes
                        NO: 25
                                            ABSENT: 1
                                                        NO: 27
                                            ABSENT: 1
                                                        NOT VOTING: 7
                                                        YES: 97
                                                
                                        - Speaker
 - Crutchfield
 - Johnson, S.
 - Qi
 - Taylor
 - Acevero
 - Davis
 - Jones, D.
 - Roberson
 - Terrasa
 - Addison
 - Ebersole
 - Kaiser
 - Roberts
 - Toles
 - Allen
 - Edelson
 - Kaufman
 - Rogers
 - Turner
 - Alston
 - Embry
 - Kerr
 - Rosenberg
 - Valderrama
 - Amprey
 - Fair
 - Korman
 - Ross
 - Vogel
 - Atterbeary
 - Feldmark
 - Lehman
 - Ruff
 - Watson
 - Bagnall
 - Fennell
 - Lewis, J.
 - Ruth
 - Wells
 - Barnes
 - Foley
 - Lewis, R.
 - Schindler
 - White Holland
 - Bartlett
 - Forbes
 - Lopez
 - Shetty
 - Wilkins
 - Behler
 - Fraser-Hidalgo
 - Martinez
 - Simmons
 - Williams
 - Bhandari
 - Guyton
 - Mireku-North
 - Simpson
 - Wilson
 - Boafo
 - Guzzone
 - Moon
 - Smith
 - Wims
 - Boyce
 - Harris
 - Palakovich Carr
 - Solomon
 - Wolek
 - Cardin
 - Harrison
 - Pasteur
 - Spiegel
 - Woods
 - Chang
 - Healey
 - Patterson
 - Stein
 - Woorman
 - Charkoudian
 - Hill
 - Pena-Melnyk
 - Stewart
 - Wu
 - Clippinger
 - Holmes
 - Phillips
 - Stinnett
 - Young
 - Conaway
 - Ivey
 - Pruski
 - Taveras
 - Ziegler
 - Crosby
 - Johnson, A.
 
NO: 39
                                            NOT VOTING: 1
                                                        Actions
            - May 20, 2025 | executive
- Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623
 
 - Apr 07, 2025 | Senate
- Senate Concurs House Amendments
 - Third Reading Passed (33-10)
 - Passed Enrolled
 
 - Apr 05, 2025 | House
- Third Reading Passed (97-39)
 
 - Apr 04, 2025 | House
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 
 - Apr 03, 2025 | House
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
 - Favorable with Amendments {163720/1 Adopted
 - Motion Special Order until 04/04 (Delegate Crosby) Adopted
 
 - Apr 02, 2025 | House
- Referred Rules and Executive Nominations
 - Rereferred to Economic Matters
 
 - Apr 01, 2025 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments {113024/1 Adopted
 - Floor Amendment {743821/1 (Senator Mautz) Rejected (11-25)
 - Floor Amendment {963629/1 (Senator Hershey) Rejected (12-27)
 - Floor Amendment {663325/1 (Senator Hester) Adopted
 - Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - Third Reading Passed (35-11)
 
 - Mar 31, 2025 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment
 - Favorable with Amendments {113024/1
 - Motion Laid Over (Senator Feldman) Adopted
 
 - Feb 10, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing 2/28 at 1:30 p.m.
 
 - Feb 03, 2025 | Senate
- First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment
 
 
Bill Texts 
        
            - Text - First - Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)PDF
 - Amendments {113024/1 (Senate)PDF
 - Floor Amendment {743821/1 (Senator Mautz) Rejected (11-25) (Senate)PDF
 - Floor Amendment {963629/1 (Senator Hershey) Rejected (12-27) (Senate)PDF
 - Floor Amendment {663325/1 (Senator Hester) Adopted (Senate)PDF
 - Text - Third - Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)PDF
 - Amendments {163720/1 Adopted (House)PDF
 - Text - Enrolled - Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)PDF
 - Text - Chapter - Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)PDF
 
Documents
        
            - Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
 - Vote - Senate - Committee - Education, Energy, and the EnvironmentPDF
 - Vote - House - Committee - Economic MattersPDF
 - Video: Education, Energy, and the EnvironmentHTML
 - Witness ListHTML
 - EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Lewis, Frank (None)
 - EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Murray, David (TurningPoint Energy)
 - EEE Testimony, INFO -- Hurley, Laura
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- barnes, irene
 - EEE Testimony, INFO -- Soreng, Nancy
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Howard, Lillian
 - EEE Testimony, FAV -- Lewis, James (Farmer)
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Wolf, Tyler
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Cahall, Marshall (Chesterville Bridge Farm, LLC)
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Ebron, Lory (Somerset County Government)
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Jarrell, Stephanie (Queen Anne's County Commissioners)
 - EEE Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
 - EEE Testimony, FWA -- Manno, Roger (Manno & Associates LLC)
 - EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Feinstein, James
 - EEE Testimony, INFO -- Seamans, Dan (Boyds Civic Association)
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Seigler, Jane (Maryland Horse Council)
 - EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Landis-Smith, Donna (Queen Anne's County Soil Conservation)
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Guy, Randy (Commissioners of St. Mary's County)
 - EEE Testimony, INFO -- Gramp, Kathleen (Advocates for Herring Bay)
 - EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Moredock, Amy (Queen Anne's County Government)
 - EEE Testimony, FAV -- Tabuteau, Richard (Tabuteau, LLC)
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Fry, Megan
 - EEE Testimony, INFO -- Troxell, Timothy (FirstEnergy / Potomac Edison)
 - EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Christensen-Lewis, Janet (Kent Conservation and Preservation Alliance)
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Cassilly, Robert (Harford County Government)
 - EEE Testimony, UNF -- Schmid, Mary
 - EEE Testimony, FWA -- Cohn, Debbie
 - EEE Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
 

