| SB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a program within the Division of Correction that provides formerly incarcerated individuals and individuals on probation with certain services; requiring the facility that administers the program to be located in Prince George's County; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB717 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing, subject to certain limitations, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain personal casualty losses related to a theft or fraud scheme; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB768 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding to every roadway in the State the requirement that the driver of a vehicle traveling slower than the general speed of traffic drive the vehicle in the right-hand lanes if practicable as determined by the driver; and providing that, on a roa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute to train local fire departments on certain safety aspects associated wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB748 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to make a digital photographic image or signature of an individual, or the actual stored data thereof, recorded by the Administration available to the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB732 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services and the Maryland Department of Health to establish a certain inpatient program for children who have been adjudicated delinquent to provide rehabilitation, comprehensive care, and holistic therapies that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB752 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to set a special property tax rate for improved residential property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use; establishing a subclass ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB506 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Physicians to adopt regulations authorizing a licensed physician to file an application for administrative expungement of a disciplinary record with the Board and establishing a process for the grant or denial of an admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication if the person has a good faith belief that the person intercepting the communication or another person is in imminent danger of becoming the victim of a crime of violence, st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that a political subdivision maintain and repair certain sidewalks constructed by any developer of an industrial, commercial, or apartment area along a highway maintained by the State Highway Administration; and repealing a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB609 | Intro
Sine Die | Including law enforcement officers within the scope of certain prohibitions against committing certain crimes against certain persons, damaging certain property of certain persons, burning certain objects, and damaging certain buildings with which ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; providing that the Fund includes all revenue received by the State from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the local governing body of a county, including Baltimore City, to authorize its police accountability board to exercise investigatory and subpoena powers; and authorizing a police accountability board to conduct an investigation of polic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB503 | 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] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB716 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to reimburse physicians billing for maternal fetal medicine services at the rate set under the federal Medicare fee schedule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, a regulation, or a policy that requires payment of a fee for parking a motor vehicle in a parking space served by a parking meter if the motor vehicle has an individually-ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before October 1, 2025, the Department of Budget and Management to identify units of State government or functions of State government for which a transition to a 4-day workweek is feasible for 60% of State employees; requiring the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB427 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain provisions of law to require a certain law enforcement agency to require the use of body-worn cameras, subject to a certain policy, by each sworn law enforcement officer, regardless of rank, employed by the law enforcement agency whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB602 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; establishing procedures for the au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB606 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a police officer who is denied a certain right to apply to the circuit court at a certain time for an order that directs the law enforcement agency to show cause why the right should not be granted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation of custody or visitation between the parties that is in the best interest of the child, to consider the ability of each of the parties to meet the child's developmental needs, the relatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a prohibition on pedestrians using a highway of the Maryland Transportation Authority; altering a prohibition on bicycles using an Authority highway; requiring the Authority to construct separated or buffered bicycle ways and pedestrian wal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a presumption that the sentencing of a minor convicted as an adult should be transferred to the juvenile court, under certain circumstances, and authorizing the court to do so; and requiring the juvenile court to make a juvenile determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that individuals have access to legal representation in certain foreclosure proceedings; establishing the Access to Counsel in Foreclosure Proceedings Program to organize and direct services and resources to provide covered individuals with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process to receive federal financial participation for the payment of county or municipal general funds appropriated to community providers that serve individuals with developmental disabilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission to Study the Ability of the Department of Juvenile Services to Provide Effective Social Services to Juvenile Offenders; and requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB650 | 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] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB389 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual who is at least 60 years old and has been imprisoned for at least 20 years to file a motion to reduce the duration of the individual's sentence; requiring the court to conduct a hearing on a motion to reduce the duration of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "item" relating to the prohibition against displaying or distributing obscene material to minors to include a drawing or illustration; and prohibiting certain public schools from displaying certain obscene material under ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a certain prohibition against a law enforcement officer initiating a stop or a search of a motor vehicle based solely on the odor of burnt or unburnt cannabis; and repealing a certain provision of law rendering inadmissible certain evidenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a qualified investor that is a pass-through entity that pays a certain income tax on behalf of its members to receive and allocate in any manner a credit or refund of a credit under the Biotechnology Investment Incentive Tax Credit Program; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Comptroller, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to distribute a certain amount of abandoned property funds to the Tax Clinics for Low-Income Marylanders Fund; requiring the Governor to include $800,000 in the annual budget for the CASH Camp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding eligibility for a property tax exemption for the dwelling house of a disabled veteran to include veterans with at least an 80% service connected disability; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Transferring the regulation of satellite simulcast betting facilities in the State from the State Racing Commission to the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency; altering the definition of "satellite simulcast betting", for purposes of provisions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB576 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing certain regions for supervisors of real property assessments offices; altering the geographic jurisdiction of property tax assessment appeal boards from county to regional; establishing the membership of the regional boards; and prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the General Assembly may authorize, by law, the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain Internet gaming licenses; requiring certain implementation legislation to include certain criteria and specifications; declari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB588 | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Finding that local governments pay electric companies large sums to light streets and are limited in how this public safety resource can be managed, the Act authorizes certain counties or municipalities to acquire certain street lighting equipment by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Deafblind Co-Navigation Services Program in the Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to provide co-navigation services at no cost to deafblind individuals in the State; and defining "co-navigation services" as services providing visu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB392 | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership and responsibilities of the Modernize Maryland Oversight Commission; and requiring the Department of Information Technology to provide staff for the Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB622 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a certain amount of revenue from the State individual income tax and Maryland estate tax be distributed to the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund; altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting certain licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under certain circumstances in Frederick County and Washington County during deer hunting season.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB513 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an employer from discriminating against an individual because of the individual's use of cannabis products under certain circumstances; establishing that certain provisions prohibiting employment discrimination do not prohibit an employer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB582 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail to keep in stock and offer for sale at retail at least one kind of nicotine replacement therapy product and to post certain signs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
