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AN ACT concerning Electricity - Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Program and Property Taxes FOR the purpose of making permanent the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Pilot Program; requiring a community solar energy generating system under the Program to serve a certain percentage of its kilowatt-hour output to low-income and moderate-income subscribers under certain circumstances; authorizing a subscription coordinator to act on behalf of a subscriber organization; altering requirements related to the siting and size of certain community solar energy generating systems projects; authorizing the use of consolidated billing for certain subscription charges; prohibiting a subscriber organization or subscription coordinator from charging an LMI subscriber a certain subscription rate; requiring an electric company to provide certain data to a subscriber organization or subscription coordinator; authorizing an electric company to charge a certain fee for the use of consolidated billing; requiring a person constructing or operating a community solar energy generating system to address critical area, climate resilience, and forest conservation concerns in a certain manner; requiring the Public Service Commission to establish a stakeholder workgroup related to the development of certain regulations; requiring the Commission to adopt certain regulations making the pilot program permanent, allowing for the use of consolidated billing, and implementing the provisions of this Act; requiring the Commission to consider and implement certain methodologies to allow tenants of master-metered residential facilities to participate in the Program; repealing provisions related to maintenance of subscriptions if a subscriber has a change of address; prohibiting certain subscription rates and charges from being set at more Underlining indicates amendments to bill. Strike out indicates matter stricken from the bill by amendment or deleted from the law by amendment. SENATE BILL 613 than a certain amount; establishing certain prevailing wage or labor requirements for developers of certain community solar energy generating system projects; creating a full-time position within the Commission for a certain purpose; altering the personal property tax exemption for certain community solar energy generating systems; and generally relating to the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Program community solar energy generating systems. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Public Utilities Section 7-306.2 Annotated Code of Maryland (2020 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Tax - Property Section 7-237 Annotated Code of Maryland (2019 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) (As enacted by Chapters 38, 415, 658, and 659 of 2022)

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Ben Brooks (D)*,  Sarah Elfreth (D),  Brian Feldman (D),  Nancy King (D),  Ben Kramer (D),  Mary Washington (D),  Craig Zucker (D), 

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