| MD | HB865 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to prostheses; establishing that certain insurers, nonprofit health servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 822 |
| MD | HB581 | 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 to submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 412 |
| MD | HB1206 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland-Ireland Trade Commission in the Department of Commerce to study and make recommendations regarding bilateral trade relations and investment opportunities between Maryland and Ireland; and requiring the Commission by December...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 |
| MD | HB756 | 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 481 |
| MD | HB809 | Pass | Providing that a member of a board, committee, commission, task force, or workgroup created by State law may be removed or suspended for misconduct, incompetence, neglect of duties, or other good cause by the individual or entity that appointed the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 469 |
| MD | HB962 | Pass | Increasing a participation goal from a minimum of 15% to 20% for certain small businesses for certain procurement contracts; requiring the certification agency, in consultation with Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 583 |
| MD | HB850 | Pass | Requiring each procurement unit to establish a price preference for small businesses; and designating the Board of Public Works as the regulatory authority for the Small Business Preference Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 653 |
| MD | HB981 | Pass | Requiring, on or before July 1, 2025, the principal departments of the Executive Branch to fully implement certain provisions of law requiring equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 656 |
| MD | HB999 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network to identify and analyze options for establishing and maintaining an open access science, technology, and innovation network or hub of citizen sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 448 |
| MD | HB780 | Pass | Providing that competitive sealed proposals is the preferred procurement method for a contract for security services with an expected value that is greater than $1,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 |
| MD | HB877 | Pass | Requiring the Comptroller to develop and maintain on the Board of Public Works' website a procurement transparency data dashboard; establishing a governance committee composed of the liaisons to the Board from the offices of the Governor, the Comptro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 580 |
| MD | HB1069 | 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 443 |
| MD | HB426 | Pass | Requiring all motion picture houses to offer closed movie captioning for each screening of a motion picture, with a certain exception; and requiring, if a motion picture is produced and available to motion picture houses with open movie captioning, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 361 |
| MD | HB599 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments and financial assistance available in certain low-income communities in the State; expanding the eligible uses of the Strategic Demolition and Smart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 123 |
| MD | HB538 | Pass | Establishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 122 |
| MD | HB693 | Pass | Establishing the Office of Tenant and Landlord Affairs in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide certain educational resources and information to tenants; requiring the Office to develop and publish a Maryland Tenants' Bill of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 124 |
| MD | HB757 | Pass | Authorizing a supervised medical graduate to provide delegated duties under direct supervision in accordance with regulations adopted by the State Board of Physicians; prohibiting an individual from practicing as a supervised medical graduate for mor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 286 |
| MD | HB1002 | Pass | Authorizing the Office of the Attorney General, a Deputy Attorney General, or an Assistant Attorney General to issue a subpoena to a person to produce certain materials, answer written interrogatories, and give certain testimony in furtherance of an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 140 |
| MD | HB1103 | Pass | Establishing the Miriam Kelty Aging and Senior Social Connection Hub and Spoke Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Aging; establishing that the purpose and the goals of the Pilot Program are to support the "village" concept of local, voluntee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 341 |
| MD | HB1230 | Pass | Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, exposing for sale, or advertising for sale a tianeptine product to an individual; and establishing a penalty for a retailer who violates the Act of a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up to 90...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 249 |
| MD | HB76 | Pass | Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals at least 3 years old; and altering t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 231 |
| MD | HB1074 | Pass | Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 234 |
| MD | HB1304 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process for providing information about the availability of the State's earned income tax credits to individuals enrolled or participating in certain programs or services, or potential enrollee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 376 |
| MD | HB1388 | Pass | Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 378 |
| MD | HB68 | Pass | Requiring a provider to post the provider's most recent disclosure statement on the provider's website; increasing from yearly to quarterly the number of times a provider is required to hold a meeting open to all the provider's subscribers; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 258 |
| MD | HB598 | Pass | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 322 |
| MD | HB585 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 21 |
| MD | HB584 | 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 13 |
| MD | HB513 | Pass | Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that a system operator does not need to be pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17 |
| MD | HB580 | 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 7 |
| MD | HB55 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislative and budgetary recommendat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 9 |
| MD | HB390 | 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 58 |
| MD | HB342 | 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 31 |
| MD | HB418 | 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 28 |
| MD | HB1026 | 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 27 |
| MD | HB289 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting certain restrictive provisions limiting the power and rights of the State from being included in State contracts; specifying that certain provisions are void if included in a State contract; and specifying the applicable law and interpret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB1141 | Engross
50% | Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a virtual 3-1-1 portal as a source for Maryland residents to obtain nonemergency government information and services utilizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1263 | Engross
50% | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1188 | Engross
50% | Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; renaming the Major Information Technology Development Fund to be the Information Technology Investment Fund; requiring a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1271 | Engross
50% | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments by December 1, 2024, and annually thereafter; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB354 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to support certain students in licensed practical nursing education programs, alleviate the shortage of nursing professionals by increasing graduat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB464 | Enroll
75% | Altering the definition of "practice audiology" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure and regulation of audiologists to include certain procedures that do not require anesthesia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB604 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB961 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Commission on New Americans to study and periodically report on the contributions of new Americans and the availability of government services for new Americans; and requiring the Commission to submit to the Governor and the General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB566 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names to develop and implement a framework to identify real property owned by the State or a political subdivision that bears a Confederate name; and requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1327 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Body Altering Aesthetics Advisory Committee within the Maryland Department of Health to study whether the current health occupations licensing and certification system adequately regulates the body altering aesthetics industry in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1019 | Engross
50% | Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by the court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, but not to exceed a tot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB829 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitations of its budget, to provide a virtual mental health awareness and skills building training program for service sector employees; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB878 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain custodians to deny inspection of the part of a public record that contains personal information of a public official except under certain circumstances; authorizing a certain public official or certain immediate family member of a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1174 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Technology Advisory Commission to study and make recommendations on technology and science developments and use in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit a report on its activities and recommendations to the Governor and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
