| MD | HB93 | Pass | Limiting a tenant's liability for rent to not more than 2 months' rent after the date on which the tenant vacates a leased premises if a physician or psychologist completes a form specifying that the tenant has a mental disorder, the management of wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 290 |
| MD | HB486 | Pass | Requiring the seller of residential real property located within 1 mile of a National Priorities List (NPL) Superfund site to provide the buyer with an addendum to the contract for the sale of the property that contains the identification of the Supe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 351 |
| MD | HB7 | Pass | Establishing the Housing Innovation Fund to provide loans for local housing authorities and county governments to develop mixed-income, cross-subsidized housing; establishing the Housing Innovation Pilot Program in the Department of Housing and Commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 212 |
| MD | HB534 | Pass | Extending the termination date for the Live Near Your School program and a related homebuyer program from September 30, 2024, to September 30, 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 264 |
| MD | HB1117 | Pass | Establishing that a landlord that offers a residential dwelling unit for rent is deemed to warrant the dwelling fit for human habitation; authorizing multiple tenants to join as plaintiffs in a civil action against a landlord and authorizing a court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 125 |
| 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 | HB231 | 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 24 |
| MD | HB841 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a water bottle filling station be installed in certain new construction beginning October 1, 2024; requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a certain survey, gather certain data, and identify alternative methods for provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted |
| MD | HB836 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | HB1055 | Engross
50% | Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| MD | HB689 | Engross
50% | Repealing the electric vehicle excise tax credit; establishing the Electric Vehicle Rebate Program; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to establish a website to administer the rebate program; requiring a participating dealer to provide a reba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (33-11) |
| MD | HB181 | Engross
50% | Requiring the District Court to shield all court records within 60 days after the final resolution of a failure to pay rent proceeding under certain circumstances; authorizing the District Court to shield all court records relating to a failure to pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB344 | Engross
50% | Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation; requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 each year on the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB696 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB148 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees on the identification and reporting of human trafficking victims; requiring, by January 1, 2025, and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB477 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a county, including Baltimore City, to adopt by local law or ordinance provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; and establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB173 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1318 | Engross
50% | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities for on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue; establishing the Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB331 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "expenditure" to include reasonable expenses for caregiving services that a candidate incurs as a direct result of campaign activity and that are necessary to promote the candidacy of the candidate; and defining "caregiving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB620 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1320 | Intro
25% | Altering the disbursement of certain fee revenue deposited into the Bay Restoration Fund in a certain manner; and authorizing certain fee revenue deposited into the Fund to be used for certain costs attributable to the testing, engineering, or design...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB124 | Intro
25% | Altering the information that an applicant is required to provide in an application for an alcoholic beverages license; and authorizing a permanent legal resident of the United States to hold an alcoholic beverages license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1077 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Small Business Climate Change Coordinator in the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs in the Executive Department to support the State's small, minority, and women-owned business community on matters related to clima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1242 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to adopt certain regulations related to lead telecommunications cables; and requiring a company that applied for a grant through the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB853 | Engross
50% | Altering a prohibition concerning the maximum penalty for the late payment of rent that a landlord may charge in a residential lease to prohibit a penalty in excess of 5% of the amount of the unpaid rent rather than of the amount due.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1120 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Social Work Examiners to establish a process to review and approve certain persons as authorized sponsors of social work continuing education programs, subject to a requirement that at least one pathway for approval does...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB731 | Intro
25% | Altering the required contents of a certain plan that a gas company may file with the Public Service Commission for proposed eligible infrastructure replacement projects to include certain descriptions, demonstrations, analyses, and notifications; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB473 | Engross
50% | Altering, from 3 years to 2 years, the number of years before an academic year for which an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes to be eligible to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1250 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a landowner whose land is subject to an agricultural land preservation easement to use the land for the construction and use of a certain wood vault under certain circumstances; requiring a person to have a permit issued by the Secretary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ1 | Intro
25% | Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to affirm, by joint resolution, the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HJ9 | Intro
25% | Declaring the State of Maryland's support of and consent to admitting Washington, D.C. to the Union as a state of the United States of America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HJ7 | Intro
25% | Ratifying the federal Child Labor Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as proposed by U.S. House Joint Resolution 184 of 1924, to provide the U.S. Congress with the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under the age of 18 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB187 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a fina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB615 | Engross
50% | Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HJ3 | Intro
25% | Stating that the General Assembly joins seven other state legislative bodies and over 75 municipalities and counties in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB861 | Intro
25% | Establishing 3% as the overall percentage goal of the total dollar value of procurement contracts by a unit of State government to be made directly or indirectly with veteran-owned small business enterprises; and repealing a requirement that the Offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1241 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from using certain polyvinyl chloride or chlorinated polyvinyl chloride piping in the installation, repair, or replacement of a water pipe or plumbing intended to dispense water for human consumption beginning January 1, 2025; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB357 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1096 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB430 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which a person is disqualified from possessing a regulated firearm, a rifle, and a shotgun; prohibiting a person from wearing or carrying a firearm under certain circumstances unless the person has obtained certain li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB474 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a court from revoking a defendant's pretrial release or finding that a defendant has violated probation, and the Maryland Parole Commission from finding that a parolee has violated parole, based solely on the use of cannabis or a positive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB29 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain requirements for the prepayment of certain real property taxes do not apply to an instrument of writing transferring real property from the estate of a decedent to an heir of the decedent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB219 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a utility or local government to remove a tree or shrub on certain private property under certain circumstances, including requiring the utility or local government to provide certain notice to the owner of the property on which the tree ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB467 | Intro
25% | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by restaurants; specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; and prohibiting employers of tipped employees, beginning January 1, 2027, from includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1190 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2025, a person from selling a pesticide that has PFAS chemicals listed as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; and prohibiting, beginning December 31, 2025, a person from using a pesticide th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1355 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2029, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2029, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
