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SB 841

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Property Tax - Community Solar Energy Generating Systems

Sponsor: Stephen S. Hershey, Jr. (District 36)Committee: Budget and TaxationSubject: Taxes - PropertyStatus: Hearing 3/30 at 1:30 p.m. (as of Dec 1, 2021)

What this bill does

Official synopsis

Establishing certain community solar energy generating systems as a subclass of personal property; providing that the county tax rate applicable to certain community solar energy generating systems may be a different rate from the county tax rate applicable to other personal property, subject to a certain limitation; authorizing a county or municipal government body to exempt, by law, personal property that is a certain community solar energy generating system from a county or municipal corporation property tax under certain circumstances; etc.

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Testimony (13)

MGA witness list
FAV 7FavorableFWA 3Favorable with amendmentsUNF 2UnfavorableINFO 1Information only
PositionWitnessOrganizationTestimony
FAVMurray, DavidlobbyistChesapeake Solar & Storage AssociationOral + Written (PDF)
FAVOlszewski, Sr., JohnOK Strategies, LLCOral
FAVGreenberg, NathanSummit Ridge EnergyOral + Written (PDF)
FAVDutta, RobinSunPower CorporationOral + Written (PDF)
FAVSenator Hershey, Senator HersheylegislatorIndividualOral
FAVSenator Hershey, Senator HersheylegislatorIndividualOral
FAVWyatt, AlexandraIndividualPosition only
UNFFiore, JustinMaryland Municipal LeagueOral + Written (PDF)
UNFFiore, JustinMaryland Municipal LeagueWritten (PDF)
FWAMeyer, IsaacCompass Government Relations PartnersWritten (PDF)
FWAKinnally, KevinMaryland Association of Counties (MACo)Oral + Written (PDF)
FWAKinnally, KevinMaryland Association of Counties (MACo)Written (PDF)
INFOFahrig, LandonMaryland Energy AdministrationWritten (PDF)

Organizations on record

Registered lobbyists who testified

FAVMurray, DavidChesapeake Solar & Storage AssociationRegistered for: TurningPoint Energy