| SB274 | Pass | Altering requirements for the housing element of a charter county's comprehensive plan to include requirements related to affirmatively furthering fair housing; requiring the housing element of a comprehensive plan that is enacted or amended on or af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 89 |
| SB409 | Pass | Altering the licensure requirements that the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists may waive, and the circumstances under which the requirements may be waived, for applicants for a license to practice clinical marriage and family ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 46 |
| SB252 | Pass | Altering the 9-1-1 Trust Fund to authorize the use of certain allocated funds for the payment of the salary of certain personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 76 |
| SB341 | Pass | Altering the name of the museum operated by the Commission on African American History and Culture in certain provisions of law from the "Banneker-Douglass Museum" to the "Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 57 |
| SB303 | Pass | Altering the definition of "shellfish" as it relates to certain provisions of law governing aquaculture to include live bivalves and bivalve shells.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 114 |
| SB251 | Pass | Altering the composition and authority of the Division of Pretrial Detention and Services within the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; altering the authority of the Commissioner of the Division; establishing the Youth Detention C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 100 |
| SB234 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of Labor to exempt a federal civilian employee who has been furloughed from the requirement to be actively seeking work for unemployment insurance benefits eligibility if, during the furlough, the employee remains able to wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 103 |
| SB253 | Pass | Exempting pay-for-success contracts negotiated or entered into by the Department of Natural Resources from certain provisions of the General Procurement Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 88 |
| SB1188 | Pass | Establishing the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program and the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund to provide tuition assistance to a student who was a dependent or is the surviving spouse of a fallen transportation worker; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3 |
| SB411 | Pass | Renaming the Department of Veterans Affairs to be the Department of Veterans and Military Families; renaming the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to be the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families; requiring the Secretary to appoint a Deputy Secretar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 11 |
| SB215 | Pass | Altering the type of financial assistance that may be provided by eligible fund managers who receive grants from the Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account in the Department of Commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 |
| SB291 | Pass | Requiring a person to file a registration statement with the State Board of Elections within a certain time period after the award of a contract that causes the person to be doing public business; requiring persons doing public business to update inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 23 |
| SB459 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council by removing the Director of the Governor's Grants Office or the Director's designee and adding the Comptroller or the Comptroller's designee; requiring the Council to study ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 29 |
| SB226 | Pass | Altering the purpose of the Attendant Care Program to include the provision of financial assistance for ongoing additional supports that increase an eligible individual's independent performance of essential daily living activities and is requested b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 35 |
| SB248 | Pass | Increasing, from one member to two members, the number of public members from each area served by the participating library systems on the governing board for each regional resource center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 56 |
| SB88 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study and make recommendations for developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 10 |
| SB275 | Pass | Authorizing the recipient of a U.S. Department of Defense Next of Kin lapel button to apply for special registration plates; and waiving the initial vehicle registration fee associated with special registration plates issued to the recipient of a Gol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 25 |
| SB273 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from intentionally operating an unmanned aircraft over a correctional facility to record images of the facility without the authorization of the managing official of the correctional facility or the Secretary of Public Safety and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 101 |
| SB210 | Pass | Delaying the effective date to January 1, 2030, of certain provisions of law that repeal the authority of paramedics to administer influenza and COVID-19 immunizations under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 75 |
| SB232 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of the Public Employee Relations Act, including adding the definition of interested employee organization, altering the timing of exclusive representative access to new employees, clarifying the responsibilities of certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 52 |
| SB301 | Pass | Extending to June 30, 2027, the authorization of a leaseholder of certain aquaculture leases to, with prior written approval from the Department of Natural Resources, place shellfish, bags, nets, and structures on submerged aquatic vegetation, subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 113 |
| SB952 | Enroll
75% | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the maintenance and provision of certain agreements and documents;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Passed Enrolled |
| SB302 | Pass | Repealing certain buffer zones within which a commercial northern snakehead licensee may not fish using bowfishing gear; and requiring a licensee who fishes for northern snakehead to comply with Department of Natural Resources regulations governing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 110 |
| SB280 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that a notary public use a certain protest form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 95 |
| SB300 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources, with prior approval of the Maryland Historical Trust and after an internal departmental review, to authorize within the Belt Woods Wildland archeological inventories, studies, and research that involve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 112 |
| SB212 | Pass | Altering the membership and terms of members of the Behavioral Health Advisory Council; altering the membership of the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access; requiring the Commission, in coordination with the Council, to make reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 42 |
| SB478 | Pass | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 |
| SB297 | Pass | Reducing from 12 to 10 the number of years that an engineer member of the State Board for Professional Engineers must have practiced engineering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 107 |
| SB216 | Pass | Increasing, from $10,000 to $25,000, the cap on penalties for an employer's failure to secure required workers' compensation insurance or comply with an order of the State Workers' Compensation Commission regarding an employer's failure to secure req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 78 |
| SB228 | Pass | Repealing a certain provision of law providing that a qualified health plan is not required under certain circumstances to provide essential benefits that duplicate the minimum benefits of qualified dental plans; and repealing the authority of the Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 116 |
| SB266 | Pass | Providing that an individual serving as the State Superintendent of Schools shall immediately vest in the State Retirement and Pension System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 54 |
| SB254 | Pass | Requiring motor vehicle insurance companies to participate in the Administration's online verification program for vehicle insurance policies for law enforcement and administrative purposes; and requiring motor vehicle insurance companies to provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 74 |
| SB477 | Pass | Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| SB229 | Pass | Altering the maximum civil penalty to which an unauthorized insurer or person that violates certain provisions of State insurance law is subject for each violation; and altering the maximum civil penalty that the Maryland Insurance Commissioner may i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 120 |
| SB183 | Pass | Providing that certain provisions requiring prompt payments for State procurement contracts apply to payments owed by a contractor to a supplier.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 30 |
| SB309 | Pass | Repealing the Office of Smart Growth; repealing the position of Special Secretary of Smart Growth; renaming the Smart Growth Subcabinet to be the Sustainable Growth Subcabinet; and altering the membership and duties of the Subcabinet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 92 |
| SB476 | Pass | Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 |
| SB425 | Pass | Clarifying that secondary schools participating in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program may serve breakfast in any broadly accessible part of the school; and authorizing elementary schools participating in the Program, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 62 |
| SB243 | Pass | Continuing the Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee within the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2026, the termination pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 50 |
| SB209 | Pass | Altering certain requirements relating to industry representation on the Maryland Economic Development Commission and the purpose of the Commission; repealing a requirement that the Office of International Trade make a certain report to the Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 71 |
| SB305 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Geological Survey Fund to finance certain direct and indirect costs, including long-term budgeting and planning for survey projects, procurements, and equipment purchases; establishing the Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 86 |
| SB222 | Pass | Clarifying that a quorum of the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists consists of a majority of appointed members; altering the circumstances under which an applicant for licensure is qualified to take the examination by adding completion o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 49 |
| SB295 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that the Department of Planning prepare and periodically revise inventory lists of the natural resources of the State and certain public works and facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 93 |
| SB268 | Pass | Altering the enforcement and after-the-fact application approval procedures required as minimum elements of a local jurisdiction's Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area Program to apply to all critical area violations; repealing the 30-d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 80 |
| SB707 | Pass | Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26 |
| SB221 | Pass | Authorizing certain health occupations boards to adopt regulations establishing reciprocity for individuals licensed or certified in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 33 |
| SB283 | Pass | Authorizing an applicant for the homeowners' property tax credit to attest to gross income on an application in lieu of providing an income tax return to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation under certain circumstances; and applying the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 79 |
| SB284 | Pass | Authorizing the sale, barter, or exchange of a legally acquired mounted specimen of a game bird, excluding a migratory game bird, or game mammal from a decedent's estate and the specimen is part of the personal property being liquidated or distribute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 82 |
| SB1007 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor to appoint individuals to the State Board of Elections and the Accountability and Implementation Board during the recess of the Senate under certain circumstances; requiring the Governor to submit a certain nomination to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 40 |
| SB108 | Pass | Increasing, from $5,000 to $7,000, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying police auxiliary or reserve volunteer; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 16 |
