---
type: "Bill"
title: "Invasive and Native Plants - Classification, Listing, and Use"
description: "Invasive and Native Plants - Classification, Listing, and Use"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 15"
citation: "Maryland HB 15 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Jones", "Luedtke"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-10-21"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/746c7e61-7ca0-4188-948e-fd540d6e1f77"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0015?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b540fe7b9ddd6c53a22310b0e48d40555fef73c1fa5d7b35dd9dd8246b3ac4f3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 15 (2022) — Invasive and Native Plants - Classification, Listing, and Use

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Invasive and Native Plants - Classification, Listing, and Use** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_551_hb0015t.pdf)
2. **First - Invasive and Native Plants – Classification, Listing, Use, and Sales and Use Tax** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0015f.pdf)
3. **Third - Invasive and Native Plants - Classification, Listing, and Use** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0015t.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 15 HB 359 HB 546 HB 749 HB 869 HB 1300 — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Luedtke — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-10-21** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** First Reading Ways and Means and Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-07** Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2022-01-18** Hearing canceled (Ways and Means)
- **2022-01-18** Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 551 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/746c7e61-7ca0-4188-948e-fd540d6e1f77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).