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IntroducedFeb 06, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Passed House
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Maryland Senate 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
Senate • Feb 10, 2026: Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
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Summary
Comments on SB 781
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- Feb 10, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- Feb 06, 2026 | Senate
- First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy NotePDF
- Video: Education, Energy, and the EnvironmentHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Simon, Robert (Maryland Catholics for Our Common Home)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Kinsey, Kathy (Mobilize Frederick)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Lefstein, Gita
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Hinz, Andrew
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- McGilvray, Laurie (Climate Justice Wing of the Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Dahl, Elizabeth
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Greene, Susan (Nabbs/Stoney Creek resident)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Tulkin, Josh (MD Sierra Club)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- O'Halloran, Mike
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Girdner, Linnie
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Stewart, Frances (Elders Climate Action Maryland)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Porter, Phylicia (Baltimore City Council District 10)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Smith, Virginia (IndivisibleHoCoMD)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Valdivia, Kathleen (St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Bautista, Katie
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Hunt, Kelly (Riviera Beach)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Orellana, Marta
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Gasca, Veronica
- EEE Virtual - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Kamita Gray, Karyn Sonu or (Brandywine | TB Southern Region Neighborhood Coalition / Executive Community Citizen's Board (ECCB))
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Martinez, Sandra
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Dieguez, Andy
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- McCarthy, Angie (Nature Forward)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Sliviak, Gregory (Rock Creek)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Singer, Elizabeth (Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Federation of Howard County)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Krieger, Betsy (Be the Change Bmore)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Ostdahl, Maggie (National Aquarium)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Bucic, Sarah (Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE))
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Smith, Glenn (Reconnecting Communities in West Baltimore Coalition, Corporation)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Demiray, Sonia (Climate Communications Coalition)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Bartock, Laura (Maryland Climate Partners)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Mansour, Erinn Camp (Patapsco Friends Meeting)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Thompson, Tiffany (Community of Curtis Bay Association)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Sliviak, Ruth (Rock Creek Neighborhood)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Wills-Karp, Marsha (Johns Hopkins University)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Manzanares, Jaylyn (MDLCV)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Cruz, Kobe (MDLCV)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Novey, Joelle (Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA))
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Ibarra, Gabriela (Chispa)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Smith, Tim (Maryland Asphalt Association)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Ochsenhirt, Lisa (Maryland Association of Municipal Wastewater Agencies)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Middleton, Grayson (Delmarva Chicken Association)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Gately, Ursula (Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Held, Karl
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Hession, Melody (Delaware-Maryland Synod of the ELCA)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Cano, Felicita
- EEE Testimony, INFO -- Clark, Tiffany (Office of the Attorney General)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Gonzalez, Clara
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Webster, Phil (Legislative body for the Unitarian Universalist faith, C/O Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Brown, Jim (Audubon Mid-Atlantic)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Wainer, Allie
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Hegarty, Dawn (Myself)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Sakata, Michael (MTBMA)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Wang, Michelle
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Hough, Tyler (Maryland Farm Bureau)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Lopez, Roberto (MDLCV)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- De Leon Cabrera, Casandra (MDLCV)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Escobar, Cinthia (MDLCV)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Alvarez, Carlos (MDLCV)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Burke, Camille (Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Vetter, Drew
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Stegman, Matt (Chesapeake Bay Foundation)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Montufar, Nathaly (MDLCV)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Sanchez, Carlos
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Hunter, Casey (League of Women Voters of Maryland)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Butchko, Dominic (Maryland Association of Counties (MACo))
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Baker, Brittany (Chesapeake Climate Action Network)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Habib, Iman (Progressive Maryland)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Campbell, Shashawnda (South Baltimore Community Land Trust)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Graf, Lori (Maryland Building Industry Association)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Rehr, Rebecca (Maryland League of Conservation Voters)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Chandar, Subha
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Molina, Paulina
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Ballentine, Tom (NAIOP Maryland)
- EEE Testimony, UNF -- Themelis, Nina (Mayor's Office of Government Relations)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Kranz, Rhonda
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Varma, Nikhil
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Smith, Justin
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Allen, Hannah (Maryland Chamber of Commerce)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Tucker, Walter (Maryland Episcopal Public Policy Network)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- N/A, Healthy Climate Maryland (Healthy Climate Maryland)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Tosi, Jeff (Maryland Environmental Service)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Garofolo, John
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Johnson, Jeffrey
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Heaney, Christopher (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Duckett-Randolph, Neka (Out 4 Justice)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Laurens, Matthew (Matthew Laurens)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Baker, Jeremy D (Maryland Department of the Environment)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Brooks, Benjamin (Maryland State Senate)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Dunning, Bryan (Center for Progressive Reform)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Norton, Ruth Ann (Green & Healthy Homes Initiative)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Aubourg, Matthew (On behalf of Johns Hopkins Environmental Health and Engineering Students and Postdocs)
- EEE In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Casteel, Rachel (Sentinels of Eastern Shore Health)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Alvarenga, Jose
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Little, Kathryn
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Schoppert Devereux, Christina (Community Law Center, Inc.)
- EEE Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Kunze, Jennifer (Clean Water Action)
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Hoon, Evelyn
- EEE Testimony, FAV -- Agarin, Ufuoma O. (Legislative Black Caucus Of Maryland)
- EEE Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All

