| HB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a person who is convicted of first-degree murder may be sentenced to death under certain circumstances; and establishing certain procedures relating to custody, warrant of execution, incompetency, method of execution, witnesses, certif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that candidates for judge of the orphans' court appear on the ballot without party designation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB555 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
| HB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring law enforcement agencies to promptly notify owners of personal or real property regarding certain items or symbols being placed or inscribed on the property; requiring certain property owners to remove the items or symbols within 24 hours a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing certain local governments to allow, by law, a first-time homebuyer in the State to calculate the homestead property tax credit for property that includes a newly purchased dwelling using a certain method; requiring that the credit for a n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain political organizations from fraudulently claiming to be acting on behalf of a candidate or political party; prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the alcoholic beverage tax rates for ready-to-drink cocktails at 40 cents for each gallon or 10.57 cents for each liter; and defining "ready-to-drink cocktail" as a beverage that contains distilled spirits mixed with nonalcoholic beverag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a voter to establish the voter's identity at the request of an election judge at a polling place by presenting the voter's registration card, a valid Maryland driver's license, or certain other identification that contains a photograph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB202 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and, except under certain circ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB672 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a website operator or other person who displays, exhibits, sells, shows, or advertises for sale obscene material to adhere to certain age verification standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB563 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election based on certain criteria; requiring local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on certain projects involving, and traffic control activities related to, any gas or electric infrastructure of an investor-owned gas company, electric company, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB574 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulating commercial financing transactions, including by establishing requirements related to disclosures, calculations of annual percentage rates, terms of repayments, and other related items, and the extension of specific offers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the State transfer tax rate and the distribution of State transfer tax revenue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that certain requirements for the payment of certain taxes, assessments, and charges do not apply to an instrument of writing transferring real property from the estate of a decedent to an heir or legatee of the decedent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or donate to non...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB716 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a vehicle owned by an unemployable disabled veteran is exempt from vehicle registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections or a local board of elections, on request of a candidate, to provide the candidate with a list of registered voters who have requested an absentee ballot for an upcoming election; and requiring that the list of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid nongovernment-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB521 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual registered lobbyist who is engaged to lobby on behalf of any unit of the government of St. Mary's County from making a personal political contribution to a member of the General Assembly who represents any part of St. Mary's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county, notwithstanding a certain provision of law, to enact a local law to promote, protect, and support the population and habitat of beavers in the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits; and applyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB714 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from $15,000 to $20,000, the amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to an individual's employment as a public safety employee; and applying the Act to all taxable year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain employees, agents, or entities on any information technology owned or leased by a unit of State government from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeChat, or access any website developed by ByteDance Ltd. or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB719 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing certain eligible taxpayers who volunteer in a certain elementary and secondary school a credit against the State income tax in an amount equal to $20 for each volunteer hour, not to exceed $500; requiring the State Department of Education, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB652 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing plug-in electric drive vehicles and certain other electric vehicles to exceed gross, axle, tandem, and bridge weight limits by up to an additional 2,000 pounds total.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from exempting a person from the requirement to use certain shoreline stabilization measures for certain erosion protection projects solely on the basis of replacing a structural shoreline stabilization m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay nonparticipating health care providers for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that the Governor's proposed budget for each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028, include an 8% reimbursement rate increase for providers of certain health care services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB639 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, acquiring, leasing, or holding any property interest in agricultural land in the State; and requiring the Attorney General to enforce the Act in a certain manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB717 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $1,000,000 for the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund which provides funding for the Board; and requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of a subtraction modification from $12,500 to $20,000 under the Maryland income tax for military retirement income for individuals who are under the age of 55 years; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after Dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Transportation to include sufficient funds in the Consolidated Transportation Program for fiscal year 2025 and beyond for the planning, design, and reconstruction necessary for the conversion of Maryland Route 210 (Indian H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a certain person has a lien on a motor vehicle towed or removed from a privately owned parking lot for charges incurred for any towing, recovery, storage, or notice provided under certain circumstances; establishing the circumstance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of corrugated stainless steel tubing that does not meet a certain International Code Council standard; requiring certain tubing used in the construction of fuel gas piping systems in cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority; authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing requirements for the installation, inspection, and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire smoke dampers, and smoke control systems; requiring the State Fire Prevention Commission to adopt certain regulations relating to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to review the salaries of the sheriff in each county in the State and any other law enforcement position with similar responsibilities; and requiring the Workgroup to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB540 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the location of a school bus stop on any highway with five or more undivided traffic lanes in certain counties unless a school crossing guard is posted or a certain traffic control device is placed at the school bus stop.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from $7,000 to $10,000, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying public safety volunteer for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2024; requiring each police agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a school vehicle driver to pass an appropriate medical examination before employment and once during each 2 years of employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB674 | Intro
Sine Die | Including income from certain retirement plans within a certain subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for certain individuals who are at least 65 years of age or who are disabled or whose spouse is disabled; altering the maxi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding an exemption from the sales and use tax for the sale of certain baby products to include certain toilet training and child safety items, furniture, strollers, textiles, foods, and baby monitors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding eligibility for the Maryland earned income tax credit for individuals without qualifying children by altering the income thresholds at which the credit phases out; and providing that, after the 2023 tax year, the income threshold and phase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a refundable credit against the State income tax for nonpublic school student bus transportation expenses paid by an individual resident who is the parent or guardian of the student during the taxable year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB526 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Sports Wagering Application Review Commission, subject to certain limitations, to accept and consider applications for sports wagering facility licenses and mobile sports wagering licenses submitted before January 1, 2026; and altering...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
