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Delegate Linda Foley proposes phased state ban and sale prohibition on gas leaf blowers in HB 701
Summary
Delegate Linda Foley told the House Economic Matters Committee HB 701 would require Maryland state agencies and state contractors to transition to electric leaf blowers and would ban retail sales of gas-powered leaf blowers beginning Jan. 1, 2027.
Delegate Linda Foley presented House Bill 701, called the Clean Air Quiet Communities Act, asking the Economic Matters Committee to require state agencies and state contractors to transition away from gasoline-powered leaf blowers and to prohibit retail sales of gas blowers beginning Jan. 1, 2027.
Foley said the bill would “slowly phase out the use of gas powered leaf blowers on state property by state agencies and state contractors,” with a target that the state would replace gas equipment with electric devices as units reach the end of useful life and reach all-electric on state property by Jan. 1, 2030. She included a retail sales prohibition in the bill and said the measure is not a statewide ban on…
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