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| 3 | 3 | | EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW. |
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| 4 | 4 | | [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. |
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| 5 | 5 | | *sb0308* |
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| 7 | 7 | | SENATE BILL 308 |
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| 8 | 8 | | M3 2lr1929 |
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| 9 | 9 | | HB 61/21 – ENT CF 2lr1930 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Senator Lam |
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| 11 | 11 | | Introduced and read first time: January 20, 2022 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Assigned to: Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 16 | 16 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | Environment – Statewide Green Business Certification Program 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of the Environment to establish and 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | administer a statewide green business certification program to recognize businesses 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | operating in a manner that reduces their environmental footprint and provide 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | consumers with information on how to identify those businesses; requiring the 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Department to update and enhance the green business certification program in 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | consultation with the Montgomery County Green Business Certification Program; 8 |
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| 26 | 26 | | and generally relating to the establishment of a statewide green business 9 |
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| 27 | 27 | | certification program. 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | BY adding to 11 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Article – Environment 12 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Section 1–901 to be under the new subtitle “Subtitle 9. Green Business Certification 13 |
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| 32 | 32 | | Program” 14 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 15 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2013 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 16 |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 17 |
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| 37 | 37 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 18 |
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| 39 | 39 | | Article – Environment 19 |
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| 41 | 41 | | SUBTITLE 9. GREEN BUSINESS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. 20 |
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| 43 | 43 | | 1–901. 21 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (A) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTA BLISH AND ADMINISTER A STATEWIDE 22 |
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| 46 | 46 | | GREEN BUSINESS CERTI FICATION PROGRAM . 23 |
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| 47 | 47 | | 2 SENATE BILL 308 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (B) THE GREEN BUSINESS CE RTIFICATION PROGRAM SHALL: 1 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (1) RECOGNIZE BUSINESSES THAT OPERATE IN A MA NNER THAT 2 |
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| 53 | 53 | | REDUCES THEIR ENVIRO NMENTAL FOOTPRINT ; AND 3 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (2) PROVIDE CONSUMERS WIT H A WAY TO IDENTIFY BUSINESSES 4 |
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| 56 | 56 | | THAT HAVE BEEN CERTI FIED AS GREEN BUSINE SSES. 5 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (C) THE DEPARTMENT MAY ADOPT REGULATIONS TO CARRY OUT THIS 6 |
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| 59 | 59 | | SECTION. 7 |
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| 61 | 61 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Department shall update 8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | and enhance the statewide green business certification program required under Section 1 9 |
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| 63 | 63 | | of this Act in consultation with the Montgomery County Green Business Certification 10 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Program. 11 |
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| 66 | 66 | | SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 12 |
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| 67 | 67 | | 1, 2022. 13 |
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