| SB414 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Governor, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2028, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $200,000 for the Maryland Council on Economic Education to support economic and financial literacy education of school-age ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB855 | Engross
50% | Requiring that certain numbers of members of the Board of License Commissioners for Washington County shall belong to certain political parties based on the aggregated number of votes in the preceding election of the Board of County Commissioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB373 | Engross
50% | Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking a letter; prohibiting the theft of mail under certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from possessing an arrow key with the intent to use or allow the use of the arrow key in the commission of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1022 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each perform certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the workforce needs in the State and wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1094 | Engross
50% | Extending the termination date applicable to certain provisions relating to the purpose, use, and funding of the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB449 | Engross
50% | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB85 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the formation of limited worker cooperative associations; and establishing rules and procedures for the formation, governance, conversion, and dissolution of limited worker cooperative associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB864 | Engross
50% | Designating the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center as the State's Regional Higher Education Community of Innovation; and altering the purposes of the Universities at Shady Grove to include serving a diverse citizenry in an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB978 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain persons that publish, distribute, or disseminate or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated synthetic media to publish on their website the original content that was manipulated to generate the synthetic media; and requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB57 | Engross
50% | Providing that it is lawful for a person to intercept an oral communication if the person is working as a fair housing tester for a fair housing testing program operated by the federal government, the State, a local government, or a nonprofit civil r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB29 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a special election be held at the same time as the regular statewide primary and general elections that are held in the second year of a term to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senator in the General Assembly if the vacancy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB910 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Governor's Workforce Development Board, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Labor, to conduct a study on discrimination in employment opportunities in the State against individuals who do not hold a high school diploma or a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB262 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Secretary of State to suspend payment of certain late fees assessed to certain charitable organizations under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Secretary of State to cancel a charitable organization's registration or reinstat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB34 | Engross
50% | Providing that a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment exceeding 1 year and is currently serving the sentence imposed for the conviction, including a term of parole or probation, or has been convicted of a crime involvin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB827 | Engross
50% | Specifying the purpose of jury examination in any State court is to identify and remove prospective jurors who are unable to serve fairly and impartially and to allow the parties to obtain information that may provide guidance for the use of perempto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB115 | Engross
50% | Requiring a petitioner for a recount to select the method for conducting the recount; limiting the methods from which the selection must be made; requiring a local board of elections to preserve and store certain voter-verifiable paper records in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB23 | Engross
50% | Requiring that candidates for judge of the orphans' court appear on the ballot without party designation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB372 | Engross
50% | Requiring a candidate seeking a nomination for Governor in a primary election to designate a candidate for Lieutenant Governor within 2 days after certification of the primary election; requiring a candidate seeking a nomination for Governor by any m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB651 | Engross
50% | Establishing that certain provisions governing signage at retail service stations supersede inconsistent local law; altering a signage requirement for retail service stations relating to the price of regular gasoline so that the signage prominently d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB460 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a payment to an individual as compensation received for serving as an election judge for a local board of elections in the State from being included when computing the wages required to be subtracted from an eligible claimant's weekly ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB89 | Engross
50% | Requiring a local director of a local department of social services or the Secretary of Human Services to disclose certain reports and records of child abuse and neglect within 30 days after receiving a request if certain conditions are met; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB733 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Transparency in Tax Incentives to study and recommend a uniform process for evaluating tax increment financing, payments in lieu of taxes, the Enterprise Zone property tax credit, and the Brownfields Revitalizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB16 | Engross
50% | Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to draft committees and exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for draft and exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB91 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Leasing Training Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to train, prepare, and connect job seekers with careers in the residential rental housing industry; requiring the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB494 | Engross
50% | Altering the records and documents that a board of canvassers is required to investigate under certain circumstances; altering the responsibilities of the State Administrator, the State Board of Elections, and the Board of State Canvassers regarding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB495 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a certain statement included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about the purpose of a question on the ballot be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB458 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by certain individuals; prohibiting certain political organizations from employing certain individuals or allowing certain individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB71 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Division of Correction to allow a certain pregnant woman and a certain woman who recently gave birth to transfer to the prerelease unit for women for up to 1 year following the birth; establishing the Healthy Start Bonding Program to fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB557 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting an individual assisting a voter in marking or preparing a ballot at a polling place from assisting more than three unrelated voters during an election, unless the individual is an election judge, or from receiving compensation for assisti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB825 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a county, to delegate to the county the authority to conduct site visits and full surveys of nursing homes; and requiring that the Maryland Department of Health and certain counties equally share the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB25 | Engross
50% | Altering, for purposes of a certain property tax credit for a certain dwelling, the definition of "fallen law enforcement officer or rescue worker" to include disabled law enforcement officers or rescue workers who have died regardless of the cause o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB965 | Engross
50% | Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Carroll County to be $191,078.10 beginning in 2026 and $212,309 beginning in 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB416 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Customer-Sited Solar Program in the Maryland Energy Administration for the purpose of increasing deployment of customer-sited solar energy generating systems and providing grants to eligible customer-generators; authorizing a third p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB138 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of vacant lots or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB469 | Engross
50% | Authorizing certain individuals who are residents, commercial tenants who are not holders of or applicants for a license, or real estate owners, and who are located within 1,000 feet of the licensed premises to file a protest with the Maryland Cannab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB970 | Engross
50% | Extending for 2 years the termination date for a credit against the State income tax for the installation of energy storage systems in the State; and delaying for 2 years the establishment of the Energy Storage System Grant Program in the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB436 | Engross
50% | Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB510 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB509 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB501 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Secretary of State Police to annually publish, beginning October 1, 2024, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, a handbook summarizing the State laws relating to wearing, carrying, and transporting a handgun in public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB132 | Engross
50% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB26 | Engross
50% | Increasing the maximum period of imprisonment for a first conviction for manslaughter by vehicle or vessel from 10 years to 20 years and for a second or subsequent conviction, or having been previously convicted for certain other crimes, from 15 year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB4 | Engross
50% | Requiring a certain commitment unit to include in a notification given to a victim, victim's representative, or witness regarding the release from confinement of a sentenced defendant or child respondent the name and telephone number of the lead vict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB348 | Engross
50% | Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, own, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB169 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
