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Environment and Transportation Committee voting session: bills passed, amendments adopted
Summary
The committee completed a voting session that recorded favorable recommendations, amendments and recorded oppositions for multiple bills across natural resources, energy, transportation and local government topics. Several bills passed with named members recorded in opposition; one bill (local hiring preferences) was held for later consideration.
The Environment and Transportation Committee conducted a voting session that recorded committee actions on a range of bills spanning environmental regulation, transportation enforcement, local enabling measures and housing/land-use provisions. Most measures were reported favorably by the subcommittee with amendments and then passed by the full committee in the session recorded in the transcript.
Key outcomes (by bill number):
- House Bill 11 55 — Passed (subcommittee recommended favorable with amendments; amendment details were moved and passed). The committee reported the bill favorably with technical and policy amendments.
- House Bill 48 (Saint Mary's County water/sewer plan local review) — Passed as amended.
- House Bill 49 (building energy performance standards/BEPS revisions) — Passed as amended. Committee amended the bill to exclude hospitals from covered building lists and to add implementation flexibilities; several members recorded opposition (named in transcript).
- House Bill 494 (service member and veteran recreational benefits) — Passed as amended.
- House Bill 13 22 (carbon monoxide labels on gasoline-powered vessels manufactured after 07/31/2007) — Passed as amended.
- House Bill 717 (DNR land-acquisition/program open space changes) — Passed as amended.
- House Bill 84 (multi-modal offsets for major highway capacity projects) — Passed as amended (committee secondary).
- House Bill 182 (escalating penalties for automated enforcement) — Passed as amended.
- House Bills 225, 288, 313, 343, 348, 349, 450, 516, 844, 967, 1064, 1168, 1243, 1280, 1453 (transcript lists many departmental and local bills) — Each received committee action during the voting session and passed as recorded; some were straight favorable departmental bills, others passed with amendments. Several members recorded themselves in opposition on multiple bills (names recorded in transcript where noted).
One item (House Bill 14 43, local hiring and promotion preferences for veterans and spouses) was held for further clarification and the sponsor was to be notified; the chair said the committee would take that item up again on Thursday’s voting session.
How to read the roll calls: for many bills the committee used voice votes with a roll-call-style recording of members wishing to be recorded in opposition; the transcript records named members registered in opposition on several bills (for example, recurring names recorded in opposition include Delegate Jacobs, Delegate Otto, Delegate Siliberte, Delegate Naraki, Delegate Morgan and Delegate Baker on multiple items). The record in the excerpt does not provide full yes/no tallies for every member for each bill.
Ending: The committee closed the voting session and announced future subcommittee and committee meeting times.
