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MDHB382Engross
50%
Establishing exceptions to certain criminal prohibitions against trespass on property and the civil tort of trespass for professional land surveyors, and agents and employees of professional land surveyors, who enter the property of another to practi...
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2024-03-29
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
MDSB575Engross
50%
Authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the protected individual on the Internet, s...
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2024-03-29
Favorable Report by Judiciary
MDHB252Enroll
75%
Requiring certain controlling persons of certain insurers in an insurance holding company system to file an annual group calculation as directed by the lead state commissioner of the insurance group; requiring certain controlling persons of certain i...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB344Engross
50%
Establishing exceptions to certain criminal prohibitions against trespass on property and the civil tort of trespass for professional land surveyors, and agents and employees of professional land surveyors, who enter the property of another to practi...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDHB309Engross
50%
Altering procedures for the dispute settlement mechanism under the Maryland Cooperative Housing Corporation Act; applying the dispute settlement mechanism established by the Act to apply to any complaint or demand formally arising on or after October...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed
MDSB27Engross
50%
Entering into the Cosmetology Licensure Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an individual practicing cosmetology to practice in a party state under certain circumstances; establishing the Cosmetology Licensure Compact...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDSB525Engross
50%
Altering the requirement that an employer disclose certain wage information to an applicant for employment; requiring an employer to disclose certain wage information in certain postings and to certain employees at certain times; requiring an employe...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDHB649Engross
50%
Altering the requirement that an employer disclose certain wage information to an applicant for employment; requiring an employer to disclose certain wage information in certain postings and to certain employees at certain times; requiring an employe...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDSB38Engross
50%
Requiring that a notice of the pay rate, regular paydays, and leave benefits provided to an employee at the time of hiring be written; requiring that the statement regarding earnings required to be provided to employees by employers be written on the...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDHB385Engross
50%
Requiring that a notice containing certain information provided to an employee at the time of hiring be written; requiring that the statement regarding earnings required to be provided to employees by employers be written on the physical pay stub or ...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDSB15Engross
50%
Altering procedures for the dispute settlement mechanism under the Maryland Cooperative Housing Corporation Act and applying the mechanism to any complaint or demand formally arising on or after October 1, 2023, with a certain exception.
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed
MDSB452Engross
50%
Establishing that a provision in a contract or agreement relating to the use of a recreational facility that purports to limit the recreational facility's liability, or release the recreational facility from or indemnify or hold harmless the recreati...
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2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB488Engross
50%
Prohibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to harm to the public through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requirin...
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2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB538Engross
50%
Altering certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act only to causes of action arising after October 1, 2024.
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2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB666Engross
50%
Altering certain maximum amounts of monetary relief the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights is authorized to award if the Commission finds that a respondent has engaged in a discriminatory act under provisions of law regarding public accommodations a...
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDHB693Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1117Engross
50%
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 ...
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2024-03-22
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB858Engross
50%
Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; and altering the prohibition against revenge porn to prohibit a person from knowingly distributing a computer-generated visual representation that i...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB1074Engross
50%
Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB1111Intro
25%
Establishing the statute of limitations for a certain civil action for damages resulting from certain participation in a criminal organization; altering certain definitions of "criminal organization" and "underlying crime"; authorizing the filing of ...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1101Engross
50%
Providing certain persons standing in environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, under certain cir...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1167Intro
25%
Authorizing a landlord to offer the payment of a fee in lieu of a security deposit in a residential lease subject to certain requirements; requiring a landlord to purchase certain insurance coverage using a fee in lieu of a security deposit; establis...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB136Engross
50%
Prohibiting employers from taking or threatening to take adverse action against an employee because the employee takes certain actions regarding rights and responsibilities, complaints, investigations, proceedings, or hearings; authorizing the Commis...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB182Engross
50%
Establishing requirements, procedures, and prohibitions relating to the use of facial recognition technology by a law enforcement agency under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to develop and a...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB551Engross
50%
Providing that certain provisions of the Maryland Rules relating to discovery in civil matters apply in a certain administrative proceeding; requiring a court that receives a certain report to promptly notify counsel of record for the committed perso...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB190Engross
50%
Requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a certain request for a wellness check of an individual to conduct a wellness check of the individual within a reasonable amount of time after receiving the request under certain circumstances.
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB246Engross
50%
Subjecting certain earned wage access products to the Maryland Consumer Loan Law and other provisions that regulate entities that provide consumer credit, revolving credit, and closed end credit; restricting the acceptance of tips by certain lenders ...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1228Engross
50%
Establishing that certain provisions of law that prohibit a person from making or causing to make a certain telephone solicitation that involves using a certain automated system or playing a recorded message do not apply to a noncommercial telephone ...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1182Engross
50%
Altering the definition of "restitution" to include disgorgement in certain provisions relating to remedies under the Maryland Antitrust Act.
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB162Engross
50%
Establishing that a provision in a contract or agreement relating to the use of a recreational facility that purports to limit the recreational facility's liability, or release the recreational facility from or indemnify or hold harmless the recreati...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB338Engross
50%
Establishing requirements, procedures, and prohibitions relating to the use of facial recognition technology by a law enforcement agency; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to administer a training program regarding...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB832Engross
50%
Defining "damages" or "losses" in statutory causes of action to protect civil rights or consumer rights and providing that "damages" or "losses" includes reasonable nominal damages.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB991Engross
50%
Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1047Engross
50%
Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1161Engross
50%
Authorizing the Dorchester County Council to, by public local law, abolish the Dorchester County Sanitary Commission, establish a department of public facilities and services, and provide for the department's abilities and functions, subject to certa...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1397Engross
50%
Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1310Engross
50%
Establishing the Baltimore City Coordinated Youth Violence Review and Response Team to examine and prevent violence against youth through intensive case management; requiring that the review team be provided with access to certain information and rec...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1226Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
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2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB884Intro
25%
Prohibiting an individual from committing or threatening certain actions, including certain actions related to sex trafficking, with the intent of coercing a pregnant woman to have an abortion; providing that a pregnant minor is considered an emancip...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB839Engross
50%
Defining "damages" or "losses" in statutory causes of action to protect civil rights or consumer rights and providing that "damages" or "losses" includes reasonable nominal damages.
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1233Intro
25%
Requiring that an abortion be performed by a physician, rather than a qualified provider; repealing certain provisions of law related to State interference with an abortion, regulations related to abortion, and liability or criminal punishment for qu...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB359Engross
50%
Authorizing a petitioner to request a stay of certain civil actions or proceedings on the filing of a petition for guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person; requiring, to effectuate service of process for certain civil actions again...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB137Engross
50%
Providing that a member of the administrative, educational, or support staff of any public, private, or parochial school, acting in an official capacity, is not civilly liable for personal injury or property damage resulting from intervention in a st...
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2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB549Engross
50%
Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB664Engross
50%
Authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the individual on the Internet, social medi...
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2024-03-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB158Intro
25%
Prohibiting a provision in a contract or agreement relating to architectural, engineering, inspecting, or surveying services that requires the promisor to defend a promisee against claims brought by a third party.
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1173Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in a certain year, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest the amount of th...
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2024-02-27
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB368Engross
50%
Altering certain maximum amounts of monetary relief the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights is authorized to award if the Commission finds that a respondent has engaged in a discriminatory act under provisions of law regarding public accommodations a...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB984Intro
25%
Establishing an apprenticeship preference program in State procurement; establishing a certain price preference for bids and proposals that will utilize registered apprentices in the performance of certain contracts; requiring contractors and certain...
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2024-02-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB994Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
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2024-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee
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