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Environment - Building Energy Performance Standards and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Targets (Clean Buildings Jobs Act of 2020)

Sponsor: Vaughn Stewart (District 19)Committee: Environment and TransportationSubject: EnvironmentStatus: Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation) (as of Nov 6, 2020)

What this bill does

Official synopsis

Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Building Codes Administration and the Maryland Energy Administration, to adopt regulations on monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions from certain buildings on or before a certain date; requiring the owners of certain buildings to monitor certain greenhouse gas emissions beginning on certain dates and to make certain reports on or before certain dates in certain years; etc.

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Testimony (17)

MGA witness list
FAV 7FavorableFWA 7Favorable with amendmentsUNF 1UnfavorableINFO 2Information only
PositionWitnessOrganizationTestimony
FAVParts, ChrisAIA MDWritten (PDF)
FAVHershkowitz, StevenCCANOral + Written (PDF)
FAVMyers, DougChesapeake Bay FoundationOral + Written (PDF)
FAVCavey, BrianHeat and Frost Insulators Local 24Oral + Written (PDF)
FAVColmers Cowan, EllyPreservation MarylandWritten (PDF)
FAVColmers Cowan, EllyPreservation MarylandPosition only
FAVDelegate Stewart, Delegate StewartlegislatorIndividualOral + Written (PDF)
UNFCastelli, BillMd RealtorsOral
FWABradley, ErinlobbyistAOBAWritten (PDF)
FWAGraf, LorilobbyistMaryland Building Industry AssociationWritten (PDF)
FWABallentine, TomNAIOPOral + Written (PDF)
FWABowles, SamNewport PartnersOral + Written (PDF)
FWATulkin, JoshlobbyistSierra ClubWritten (PDF)
FWAgreenfield, aaronlobbyistmmhaWritten (PDF)
FWALong, JessicaIndividualPosition only
INFOABBOTT, TYLERMDEWritten (PDF)
INFOFahrig, LandonMEAWritten (PDF)

Organizations on record

Registered lobbyists who testified

FWABradley, ErinAOBARegistered for: Planned Parenthood of Maryland
FWAGraf, LoriMaryland Building Industry AssociationRegistered for: Maryland Building Industry Association
FWATulkin, JoshSierra ClubRegistered for: Sierra Club Maryland Chapter
FWAgreenfield, aaronmmhaRegistered for: BTS Bioenergy; Baltimore Area Council Boy Scouts of America, Inc.; Embassy of Japan; Ernst & Young, LLP; FEi Systems; Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake