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HB322Intro
25%
Repealing an exception to the requirement that a complaint that alleges the commission of an act by a child that would be a felony if committed by an adult must be forwarded to the State's Attorney under certain circumstances.
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
HB682Intro
25%
Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or approval for the construction of a certain gen...
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
HB802Intro
25%
Prohibiting employers from taking certain actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of...
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
HB747Intro
25%
Prohibiting, on or after January 1, 2025, a person from knowingly selling or distributing as a new manufactured product a screw- or bayonet-base type compact fluorescent lamp in the State; and prohibiting, on or after July 1, 2026, a person from know...
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
SB722Intro
25%
Increasing the amount of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit that the State is required to provide for a household that includes an individual who is at least 62 years old.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
HB236Intro
25%
Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations or orders regarding the marketing of and contracting for certain electricity supply.
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
HB169Intro
25%
Establishing a certain rebuttable presumption that a statement made by a minor during a custodial interrogation is involuntary and is inadmissible in a juvenile or criminal proceeding against the minor if the law enforcement officer intentionally use...
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
SB720Intro
25%
Establishing a program within the Division of Correction that provides formerly incarcerated individuals and individuals on probation with certain services; requiring the facility that administers the program to be located in Prince George's County; ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
SB717Intro
25%
Allowing, subject to certain limitations, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain personal casualty losses related to a theft or fraud scheme; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
SB768Intro
25%
Expanding to every roadway in the State the requirement that the driver of a vehicle traveling slower than the general speed of traffic drive the vehicle in the right-hand lanes if practicable as determined by the driver; and providing that, on a roa...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
HB445Intro
25%
Establishing a presumption that the sentencing of a minor convicted as an adult should be transferred to the juvenile court, under certain circumstances, and authorizing the court to do so; and requiring the juvenile court to make a juvenile determin...
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
SB788Intro
25%
Establishing the Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute to train local fire departments on certain safety aspects associated wit...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
HB708Intro
25%
Requiring institutions of postsecondary education to submit a report on institutional debt to the Maryland Higher Education Commission by October 1 each year, beginning in 2025; authorizing the Commission to assess a civil penalty, up to $10,000 per ...
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2024-02-01
To House Appropriations Committee
SB748Intro
25%
Altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
HB135Intro
25%
Repealing a prohibition on pedestrians using a highway of the Maryland Transportation Authority; altering a prohibition on bicycles using an Authority highway; requiring the Authority to construct separated or buffered bicycle ways and pedestrian wal...
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2024-02-01
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
HB725Intro
25%
Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from revoking a person's authorization to catch oysters, striped bass, or crabs unless the person has been convicted of or entered an accepted plea of nolo contendere to a certain crime; altering and es...
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2024-02-01
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
HB727Intro
25%
Requiring that the consultation with an attorney required when a law enforcement officer conducts a custodial interrogation of a child must be in person.
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
HB493Intro
25%
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part...
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2024-02-01
To House Appropriations Committee
SB727Intro
25%
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to make a digital photographic image or signature of an individual, or the actual stored data thereof, recorded by the Administration available to the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Dev...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
SB732Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services and the Maryland Department of Health to establish a certain inpatient program for children who have been adjudicated delinquent to provide rehabilitation, comprehensive care, and holistic therapies that ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
SB752Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024;...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
HB729Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to protect and preserve vernal pools; and requiring the Department to complete a plan for identifying vernal pools in the State.
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2024-02-01
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
HB170Intro
25%
Prohibiting the State and certain units and instrumentalities of the State from using any appropriation for a magnetic levitation transportation system in the State; and providing that the prohibition does not apply to certain expenditures for salari...
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2024-02-01
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
HB524Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030, an appropriation of $3,400,000 for the maintenance, capital preservation, and operations of the 7 historic ships stewarded by the Living Classroo...
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2024-02-01
To House Appropriations Committee
SB779Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to set a special property tax rate for improved residential property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use; establishing a subclass ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
HB798Intro
25%
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Montgomery County to issue one Class D beer and wine license to a holder of a Class 8 farm brewery license and a holder of a Class 4 limited winery license to sell products that the holder manufactur...
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
SB506Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Physicians to adopt regulations authorizing a licensed physician to file an application for administrative expungement of a disciplinary record with the Board and establishing a process for the grant or denial of an admin...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
HB744Intro
25%
Allowing a qualified investor that is a pass-through entity that pays a certain income tax on behalf of its members to receive and allocate in any manner a credit or refund of a credit under the Biotechnology Investment Incentive Tax Credit Program; ...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
SB610Intro
25%
Authorizing a person to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication if the person has a good faith belief that the person intercepting the communication or another person is in imminent danger of becoming the victim of a crime of violence, st...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
SB514Intro
25%
Repealing a requirement that a political subdivision maintain and repair certain sidewalks constructed by any developer of an industrial, commercial, or apartment area along a highway maintained by the State Highway Administration; and repealing a re...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
SB568Intro
25%
Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing ...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
HB48Intro
25%
Decreasing the term of office for the judges of the circuit courts; increasing the number of years between successive retention elections for judges of the Appellate Court of Maryland and justices of the Supreme Court of Maryland; providing for a tra...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
HB795Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content standards for a high school course on peace and conflict studies; requiring each county board of education to implement a course on peace and conflict studies in each public high sc...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
SB609Intro
25%
Including law enforcement officers within the scope of certain prohibitions against committing certain crimes against certain persons, damaging certain property of certain persons, burning certain objects, and damaging certain buildings with which ce...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
HB671Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "item" relating to the prohibition against displaying or distributing obscene material to minors to include a drawing or illustration; and prohibiting certain public schools from displaying certain obscene material under ce...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
SB739Intro
25%
Establishing the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; providing that the Fund includes all revenue received by the State from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media c...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
SB621Intro
25%
Authorizing the local governing body of a county, including Baltimore City, to authorize its police accountability board to exercise investigatory and subpoena powers; and authorizing a police accountability board to conduct an investigation of polic...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
HB828Intro
25%
Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fu...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
SB503Intro
25%
Establishing an exception to the prohibition against operating or riding on a motorcycle without certain protective headgear for an individual at least 21 years of age who has been licensed to operate a motorcycle for at least 2 years or has complete...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
SB716Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to reimburse physicians billing for maternal fetal medicine services at the rate set under the federal Medicare fee schedule.
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
HB405Intro
25%
Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings under ...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
HB789Intro
25%
Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
SB584Intro
25%
Prohibiting a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, a regulation, or a policy that requires payment of a fee for parking a motor vehicle in a parking space served by a parking meter if the motor vehicle has an individually-ea...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
HB553Intro
25%
Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbr...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
SB569Intro
25%
Requiring, on or before October 1, 2025, the Department of Budget and Management to identify units of State government or functions of State government for which a transition to a 4-day workweek is feasible for 60% of State employees; requiring the D...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
HB644Intro
25%
Requiring a local department of social services or a law enforcement agency to provide a certain notice to a parent or caretaker of a child at a certain time during an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect; and excluding evidence obtained...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
HB746Intro
25%
Providing that the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Education is a state educational authority under a certain federal law; providing that the Office is the State unit authorized to audit or evaluate certain education programs; prohibitin...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
SB427Intro
25%
Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
SB661Intro
25%
Altering certain provisions of law to require a certain law enforcement agency to require the use of body-worn cameras, subject to a certain policy, by each sworn law enforcement officer, regardless of rank, employed by the law enforcement agency whi...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
SB602Intro
25%
Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; establishing procedures for the au...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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