| MD | HB136 | Pass | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 207 |
| MD | HB137 | Pass | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 243 |
| MD | HB309 | Pass | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 256 |
| MD | HB383 | Pass | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 |
| MD | HB649 | Pass | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 |
| 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 | HB1047 | Pass | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 262 |
| MD | HB1397 | Pass | 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; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377 |
| MD | HB385 | Pass | 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 306 |
| MD | HB1228 | Pass | 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 214 |
| 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 | HB252 | Pass | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 121 |
| MD | HB338 | Enroll 75% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB947 | Enroll 75% | Prohibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to a public nuisance through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requiring... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1063 | Enroll 75% | Altering the definition of "underlying crime" that is applicable to certain prohibitions against participation in criminal organizations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1062 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; establishing the statute of limitations for a certain prosecution relating to harassment by distribution of a deep fake image to begin at the time t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Pippy) Adopted |
| MD | HB991 | Enroll 75% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06 Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB832 | Enroll 75% | 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1101 | Enroll 75% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB382 | Enroll 75% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB664 | Enroll 75% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB801 | Enroll 75% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Returned Passed |
| MD | HB246 | Engross 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1182 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "restitution" to include disgorgement in certain provisions relating to remedies under the Maryland Antitrust Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB162 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1161 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1310 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1226 | Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB884 | Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1233 | Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB359 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB549 | Engross 50% | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB158 | Intro 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1173 | Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB368 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB984 | Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1383 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education to publish a policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions in procurement contracts; requiring each student transportation procurement contract en... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1126 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; and authorizing the State or a local government to bring a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB47 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions aga... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB1124 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain nonprofit organizations from aiding or abetting certain activity by the government of Israel or a citizen of Israel; authorizing the Attorney General or a certain person to bring a certain action against a nonprofit organization t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1191 | Intro 25% | Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; providing that certain provisions of law regarding the issuance of an initial teaching certificate do not apply to certain teachers u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1425 | Intro 25% | Requiring a certain provider of earned wage access services to register with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring a provider to file a certain surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Commissioner in a certain manner; re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1438 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1108 | Intro 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1156 | Intro 25% | Exempting consumer wire transaction from certain provisions of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code; limiting liability for damages resulting from consumer wire transfers; defining sufficient notice; requiring investigations; requiring decisions and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1152 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Prince George's County district council to require that a developer negotiate and enter into a community benefits agreement if at least 25% of the residents, landowners, or businesses within a 2-mile radius of the development site opp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB83 | Intro 25% | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB330 | Intro 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB595 | Intro 25% | Providing that certain civil enforcement actions brought by the Attorney General may be instituted at any time. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB555 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the unauthorized dissemination of certain personal identifying information without permission, with the intent to threaten, intimidate, abuse, harass or frighten a person, or place the person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Judiciary Committee |