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AN ACT concerning Public Eligible Projects - Global Warming Potential of Materials Procurement of Construction Materials (Buy Clean Maryland Act) FOR the purpose of requiring producers of eligible materials to submit certain declarations to the Department of General Services by a certain date; requiring the Department to assess and to establish a maximum acceptable global warming potential for certain categories of eligible materials used in certain eligible projects; requiring the Department to review the maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials and authorizing the Department to make certain adjustments according to a certain schedule; prohibiting the Department from increasing the maximum acceptable global warming potential for a category of eligible materials; requiring a unit of State government to specify the eligible materials that will be used in an eligible project in the solicitation for an eligible project; requiring a successful bidder or offeror of an eligible project to submit certain information about each eligible material proposed to be used in an eligible project; prohibiting a contractor from installing any eligible materials on an eligible project until the contractor submits the required information for the eligible material; authorizing the Department to waive certain requirements concerning the use of eligible materials on eligible projects under certain circumstances; providing that the Department shall strive to achieve a continuous reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over time; establishing an Environmental Product Declaration Assistance Fund for a certain purpose; and generally relating to the global warming potential of materials in public eligible projects. BY adding to Article - State Finance and Procurement Section 4-901 through 4-905 to be under the new subtitle “Subtitle 9. Buy Clean Maryland Act” Annotated Code of Maryland (2021 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement)

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Ken Kerr (D)*,  Heather Bagnall (D),  Harry Bhandari (D),  Bonnie Cullison (D),  Kris Fair (D),  Pamela Guzzone (D),  Terri Hill (D),  Steve Johnson (D),  Anne Kaiser (D),  Robbyn Lewis (D),  Lesley Lopez (D),  Ashanti Martínez (D),  Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D),  Sandy Rosenberg (D),  Deni Taveras (D),  Jennifer White Holland (D),  Jamila Woods (D), 

Approved by the Governor - Chapter 202 (on 04/24/2023)

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