| SB1128 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the term of a member serving on the agricultural preservation advisory board in Howard County to 3 years; and authorizing members currently serving on the agricultural preservation advisory board in Howard County to complete their terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1121 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the accrual rate from 2.0% to 2.5% for service earned on or after July 1, 2024, for calculating the retirement allowance for certain retirees of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; altering the maximum benefit that certain retirees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1129 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Howard County Council to adopt a ranked-choice voting method for elections for the Howard County Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each village community association for a village of Columbia to require each candidate for election to the village board or the Columbia Council who receives donations or makes disbursements to file reports of the donations and disbursement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1133 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a Class BWLT beer, wine, and liquor tasting permit to be issued by the Board of License Commissioners for Allegany County; and establishing an annual fee for a Class BWLT beer, wine, and liquor tasting permit of $150 in addition to a one-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation from the Transportation Trust Fund of $80,533,314 for the Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1082 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to enact a local law creating a conservation and restoration fund for a certain purpose; establishing the Utility-Scale Solar Design and Siting Commission in the Power Plant Research Program to provide recommendations related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a list of diet pills, make the list publicly accessible on or before January 1, 2025, and update the list on a quarterly basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualified apprentices or journeymen necessary to meet a certain applicable percentage for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1131 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the terms of the members of the Howard County Board of Education; and establishing the Howard County Board of Education Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1126 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain congestion relief plans; establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region conge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Office of Trails in the Department of Transportation to develop and maintain the Maryland Trails Network, advance the development, maintenance, and use of trails in the State, develop a certain inventory and database, and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1089 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain operators of certain Internet sites, services, and applications to protect certain school employee information from unauthorized access, implement and maintain security procedures and practices, and delete school employee informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the date, to January 1, 2028, by which the Secretary of Health is required to establish a process by which death certificates can be filed electronically and requiring that the process allow all vital records to be filed electronically; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1063 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting the California Advanced Clean Cars II regulations to be effective before motor vehicle model year 2030; and prohibiting the Department from applying certain provisions of law governing enfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB641 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the contents and authorized uses of the Spay/Neuter Fund; requiring the Department of Agriculture to establish a process through which a person may make a voluntary donation to the Fund; requiring the Department to give additional considerat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB598 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, to allow completion of an eligible financial literacy courses to be applied toward fulfillment of the student service hours high school graduation requirement for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB772 | 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] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB909 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to establish a pilot program to operate one or more schools within the county using an innovative scheduling model including extended year, year-round school, or a 4-day school week; authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, except as authorized by federal law, a person from charging a fee or receiving compensation for providing or referring a certain individual to another person for the provision of veterans benefits services or veterans benefit appeals ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1045 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying to charter counties and the City of Baltimore certain provisions relating to a request for judicial review of certain decisions of a board of appeals or a zoning action; specifying when a person is aggrieved by a board of appeals decision or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB957 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, subject to a certain exception, an employer from using an automated employment decision tool to make certain employment decisions; and requiring an employer, under certain circumstances, to notify an applicant for employment of the emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB741 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each public senior higher education institution to adopt a policy regarding pregnant and parenting students using certain guidelines; and requiring each public senior higher education institution to post the policy on the institution's webs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB745 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the number of Maryland residents from 30 to 42 in the student body of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, contingent on certain agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a student to take reasonable action necessary to prevent violence on school premises or on a school-sponsored trip; authorizing a student to use reasonable force necessary to protect themselves or escape an attack under certain circumstan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB917 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the duties of behavioral health services coordinators and the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports regarding duties related to implementing Restorative Practices Schools throughout the State; requiring the State Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB980 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public high schools to promote and increase the enrollment of certain students in high school computer science courses; requiring, beginning on or before June 1, 2025, the State Board of Education to update computer science content standard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1043 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a public school employer from entering into a certain subcontracting agreement unless certain circumstances occur; specifying the requirements for a public school employer to enter into a certain subcontracting agreement; providing for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB637 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, from 3 years to 1 year, the number of years an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes before the academic year for eligibility to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB984 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Labor to prioritize activities, programs, and services that contribute to meeting a certain statewide goal when administering the business of the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring the State Board of Education, rather ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB851 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county board of education to waive a certain eligibility requirement for participation in interscholastic athletics at a Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association member school for students who attend certain public high sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services for a certain time period at certain anima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain dates related to the family share for Tier II children in publicly funded prekindergarten; altering certain dates related to the proportion of eligible private provider prekindergarten slots; repealing the authorization for the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB819 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a Baltimore City school police officer and a school resource officer to carry a firearm while present on the premises of the school to which the officer is assigned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Driver Education in Public Schools Grant Program to provide grants to public schools and nonprofit organizations to assist public schools in offering driver education courses to students; establishing the State-Aided Institutions Fie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Artificial Intelligence Advisory and Oversight Commission to guide the State in growing, developing, using, and diversifying artificial intelligence in the State; and requiring the Commission to report its findings and recom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB979 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the AI Subcabinet of the Governor's Executive Council, to develop and update guidelines on artificial intelligence for county boards of education and to develop a pilot program to supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing arbitration for disputes regarding certain applications for a certain permit, grant, tax credit, or authorization for a change or alteration of property subject to a certain historic easement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety, the State Department of Education, and the Interagency Commission on School Construction by July 1, 2025, and every 2 years thereafter, to review and promulgate guidelines on the state of physical secu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish a process by which an individual with disabilities may return a marked absentee ballot to a local board of elections electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each unit of State or local government responsible for the construction and maintenance of a playground to ensure that the playground is constructed and maintained in accordance with certain safety standards; and requiring a unit of State o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB992 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the limitation on the liability of a tenant for rent due under a lease due to the tenant's inability to live at the leased premises because of a medical condition to include individuals who will be under the care of a medical professional, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that an application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to indicate the applicant's nonapparent disability; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the license, identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB870 | 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] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
