Committee restores 'maintaining' language in HB255 to expand community forestry program duties
Members amended HB255 to restore 'planting and maintaining' to the program purpose, responding to department testimony and Sierra Club concerns that Senate amendments removed maintenance language; the bill moved favorably to the full committee.
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The subcommittee amended HB255 to ensure Maryland's community forestry program explicitly includes both planting and maintaining native trees and shrubs.
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