| SB194 | Pass | Authorizing the Pricing and Selection Committee for Preferred Providers to grant a waiver from a certain requirement to use a certain preferred provider for the procurement of supplies and services under certain circumstances; requiring the Committee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 578 |
| SB616 | Pass | Altering prohibitions on grants from the Maryland Historical Trust; authorizing the Governor, for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Trust to be used to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 493 |
| SB337 | Pass | Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 478 |
| SB544 | Pass | Altering the process by which a defective corporate act may be ratified; and altering rules for certain legal actions by persons claiming to be adversely affected by a ratification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604 |
| SB1014 | Pass | Requiring the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to consult with each primary procurement unit to identify potential contracting opportunities for and increase outreach efforts to small businesses; requiring each unit, on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 584 |
| SB1118 | Pass | Requiring certain persons licensed or regulated with respect to fish and fisheries by the Department of Natural Resources to submit reports in accordance with regulations adopted by the Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520 |
| SB534 | Pass | Repealing the Electronic Transactions Protection Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 643 |
| SB547 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596 |
| SB589 | Pass | Increasing, from $900,000 to $1,000,000, the amount of an appropriation that the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill each year for the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; and repealing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 575 |
| SB559 | Pass | Establishing the Household Goods Movers Registration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring the Secretary of Labor to annually calculate certain costs; authorizing the Department to set by regulation certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 566 |
| SB891 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Institute at the University of Maryland to conduct a study to identify methods to improve the Maryland Transit Administration's ADA MobilityLink paratransit service; authorizing the Governor in fiscal year 2026 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 647 |
| SB489 | Pass | Clarifying the topics that may be included in certain training required for each trustee on the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System; and providing that the Board of Trustees may satisfy a requirement to provide each member ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 664 |
| SB793 | Pass | Clarifying that a county is responsible for a certain tort claim against a sheriff or deputy sheriff under the Maryland Tort Claims Act; clarifying that, for certain tort claims against a sheriff or deputy sheriff, the State is the proper defendant; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 610 |
| SB536 | Pass | Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 645 |
| SB149 | Pass | Authorizing a person who undertakes the towing or removal of a vehicle from a parking lot to notify the insurer of record electronically if that form of notice is agreed to by the tower and the insurer of record in a certain manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 601 |
| SB508 | Pass | Altering the fee for nonresident sika deer stamps from $25 to $200.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 591 |
| SB320 | Pass | Clarifying that the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System may pay certain incentive compensation to the Chief Investment Officer for the State Retirement and Pension System if the Chief Investment Officer retires from the Inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 663 |
| SB1056 | Pass | Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462 |
| SB922 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from taking any action to reduce or alter the boundaries of certain oyster sanctuaries until the Department has developed a certain updated fishery management plan for oyste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 |
| SB472 | Pass | Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| SB747 | Pass | Requiring 20% of State aid for the current fiscal year for highway user revenues and disparity grants to be discontinued if a county, municipality, or special taxing district does not submit a certain audit report within 2 calendar years after the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 |
| SB915 | Pass | Altering the regulatory approach for controlling invasive plant species in the State, including repealing certain provisions of law relating to a two-tiered regulatory approach and requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a list of prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 589 |
| SB587 | Pass | Requiring certain reporting relating to minority business participation in State procurement by industry type to include real property title insurance services, including commercial real property title insurance services; and prohibiting the Special ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 632 |
| SB781 | Pass | Renaming the Regional Additive Manufacturing Partnership of Maryland to be the Regional Advanced Manufacturing Partnership of Maryland; altering the purposes and duties of the Partnership and composition of the Executive Board of the Partnership; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 470 |
| SB1 | Pass | Altering a certain charge that may be assessed to a public service company; providing for the recovery of certain costs through rates; establishing an energy salesperson license for certain persons that offer or sell electricity supply agreements or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 537 |
| SB596 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 each year to the Department of Planning to be used as a grant to the Maryland Humanities Council for the Marilyn Hatza Memorial Strengthening Humanities Inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508 |
| SB270 | Pass | Altering provisions relating to the membership of, and the terms of members appointed to, adult public guardianship review boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 428 |
| SB1084 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing to study and make recommendations regarding certain services, programs, advocacy, outreach efforts, and other items to improve the quality of life of individuals who are deaf, de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 442 |
| SB504 | Pass | Requiring recreational vehicle dealers to hold a dealer agreement with a recreational vehicle manufacturer to sell the manufacturer's recreational vehicles in the State; establishing licensing requirements for a recreational vehicle manufacturer, dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 526 |
| SB1003 | Pass | Establishing that certain requirements for motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and factory branches to deliver new motor vehicles to licensed dealers apply after receipt of an electronic order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 659 |
| SB155 | Pass | Establishing a pilot program to authorize the use of noise abatement monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain motor vehicle noise requirements; requiring a county that authorizes a program of noise abateme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 625 |
| SB541 | Pass | Regulating the manner in which a controller or a processor in possession of a consumer's personal data may process the consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 455 |
| SB135 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Funding for the Westernport Wastewater Treatment Facility to identify and examine existing funding sources that support the Facility and study whether increased funding could enhance operations at the Facility, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 640 |
| SJ1 | Enroll
75% | Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish, without delay, the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to pass a joint resolution affirming the Equal Rights Amendm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 1 |
| SB150 | Pass | Altering the frequency of certain performance audits of the Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City to once every 6 years instead of 4 years, and the Board of License Commissioners for Prince George's County to at least once every 6 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 |
| SB571 | Pass | Requiring a covered entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment on or before April 1, 2026, under certain circumstances; requiring certain privacy protectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 460 |
| SB325 | Pass | Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 588 |
| SB558 | Pass | Increasing the minimum dollar amount of contracts for which the County Commissioners, or any employee of Garrett County, are required to advertise for bids from $25,000 to $50,000; exempting certain contracts for professional services from a requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 692 |
| SB457 | Pass | Specifying certain authorized uses of the Equitech Growth Fund in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 515 |
| SB854 | Pass | Requiring, instead of authorizing, the Secretary of Agriculture to implement, under certain circumstances, a program to use Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis to control or eliminate nuisance insects in the State; and requiring, instead of authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 681 |
| SB556 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the Secretaries of Budget and Management and General Services may request the Board of Public Works to authorize a certain expenditure from the Construction Contingency Fund to include consideration of price adj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 654 |
| SB960 | Pass | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to provide at least $1,200,000 in each fiscal year for fiscal ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 474 |
| SB573 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of State to furnish a State flag to drape the casket of an eligible decedent; establishing the process for a State flag to be claimed after burial; providing that only one flag may be provided for the death of an eligible dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480 |
| SB1068 | Pass | Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a 3-1-1 portal utilizing artificial intelligence and that the Department prioritize the creation of the portal if feasible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 |
| SB358 | Pass | Requiring an application for investment by the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to include an option for an applicant to provide certain demographic information of the applicant and the geographic area of the applicant's primary place of b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 634 |
| SB570 | Pass | Requiring certain gas companies and authorizing certain gas companies to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems by October 1, 2024; requiring a gas company that serves at least 75,000 customers in its distribution territo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 |
| SB764 | Pass | Establishing the Arts Incubator Workgroup to study how arts and cultural institutions can support local artists; and requiring the Workgroup to submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a preliminary report on its findings, including research, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 614 |
| SB835 | Pass | Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit, on or before December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for certain well ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 561 |
| SB533 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue certain complimentary fishing and hunting licenses to certain veterans who the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs determines are unemployable; and exempting certain veterans who the U.S. Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489 |
| SB1028 | Pass | Establishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 599 |
