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*sb0622*
SENATE BILL 622
M5 6lr3192
By: Senators Watson, Muse, Brooks, and Salling
Introduced and read first time: February 5, 2026
Assigned to: Education, Energy, and the Environment
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund – Required Uses – Building 2
Electrification and Transportation Electrification 3
FOR the purpose of requiring the use of the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund 4
for providing loans and grants for building electrification and transportation 5
electrification; and generally relating to the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment 6
Fund. 7
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 8
Article – State Government 9
Section 9–20B–05(a) 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2021 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 12
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 13
Article – State Government 14
Section 9–20B–05(f)(13) and (14) 15
Annotated Code of Maryland 16
(2021 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 17
BY adding to 18
Article – State Government 19
Section 9–20B–05(f)(14) 20
Annotated Code of Maryland 21
(2021 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 22
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 23
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 24
Article – State Government 25
2 SENATE BILL 622
9–20B–05. 1
(a) There is a Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund. 2
(f) The Administration shall use the Fund: 3
(13) notwithstanding subsection (g) of this section, to pay costs associated 4
with the Air and Radiation Administration within the Department of the Environment; 5
[and] 6
(14) TO PROVIDE LOANS AND GRANTS FOR BUILDING 7
ELECTRIFICATION AND TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION; AND 8
[(14)] (15) to pay the expenses of the Program. 9
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 10
October 1, 2026. 11