Maryland legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Maryland HB533: Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund - Reporting
Status: Signed into law, April 28, 2026
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to include in an annual report to certain committees of the General Assembly the amount of proceeds from a certain agricultural land transfer tax that are attributable to the taxation of certain instruments of writing that transfer title to parcels of land that are entirely woodland that were distributed to the Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund during the immediately preceding fiscal year; and requiring the Department to report any uncertainties regarding certain amounts.
What the bill says
An act concerning Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund - Reporting FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Natural Resources to include in a certain annual report to the Senate Committee on Education, Energy, and the Environment and the House Environment and Transportation Committee the amount of proceeds from a certain agricultural land transfer tax that were distributed to the Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund during the immediately preceding fiscal year and any uncertainties regarding the amount distributed…
From the enrolled text, May 5, 2026:
AN ACT concerning Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund - Reporting FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Natural Resources to include in a certain annual report to the Senate Committee on Education, Energy, and the Environment and the House Environment and Transportation Committee the amount of proceeds from a certain agricultural land transfer tax that were distributed to the Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund during the immediately preceding fiscal year and any uncertainties regarding the amount distributed; and generally relating to the Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund. BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, Article - Natural Resources Section 5-307(a), (b), (c), and (f)(1)(i) Annotated Code of Maryland (2023 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Natural Resources Section 5-307(j) Annotated Code of Maryland (2023 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: Article - Natural Resources 5-307. (a) In this section, "Fund" means the Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund. (b) There is a Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund in the Department. (c) The purpose of the Fund is to finance: (1) The Woodland Incentives Program and the cost-share assistance established under this subtitle; and (2) The Mel …