| SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-08 Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted |
| SB618 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Stadium Authority to create a master plan to develop the Pimlico site property that does not include the racing facility site, conduct a certain economic market study, and hold a certain design competition for the site; requiri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB681 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan planning organization to perform an impact assessment under cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the prohibition against certain sex acts between a law enforcement officer and certain individuals; altering the penalty relating to sexual contact between a law enforcement officer and a person in the custody of the officer by making a viol... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of certain sexual crimes; altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force; and requir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure, a bridge or highway owned, controlled, or maintained by the State or a county or municipality, necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a viola... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining "supervisory employee" to clarify provisions of law relating to collective bargaining rights for certain community college employees as an employee who is authorized to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, reward, or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1064 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an inspector employed by the Board of License Commissioners in Cecil County to enter a licensed cannabis business for the purpose of observing whether the requirements of the license are being met, provided that the inspector makes a cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1187 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Governor to suspend State or local law if necessary for the restoration, repair, or replacement of critical infrastructure related to a declared state of emergency for not more than 1 year after the state of emergency is declared; aut... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1157 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that certain funds for the reserve account of a cooperative housing corporation, a residential condominium, or a homeowners association be deposited on or before the last day of each fiscal year; extending from 3 to 5 years the duration to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a hospital or an ambulatory surgical facility from employing or contracting with an individual to provide surgical technology services unless the individual completes certain educational requirements and holds a certain credential or prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1148 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, from intentional to reckless, the mental state required as an element of cruelty to animals owned or used by law enforcement units. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1167 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1158 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and, in addition to any other p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1161 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission on June 1, 2024 to open a revised Round 2 proceeding to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; authorizing certain offshore wind projects to submit certain revised plans for project schedules, sizes, or prici... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB1111 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the statute of limitations for a certain civil action for damages resulting from certain participation in a criminal organization; altering certain definitions of "criminal organization" and "underlying crime"; authorizing the filing of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony, and in addition to any other p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending the termination date for certain provisions of law that reduce the school facilities surcharge for certain multifamily housing, exempt certain dwelling units from the school facilities surcharge, authorize the governing body of Prince Georg... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for a certain adjustment to the State share percentage for a community college or a regional community college capital project if the county's median household income is in the bottom quartile in the State and the State share percentage for... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the knowing use, possession, or purchase of unauthorized registration plates for a vehicle; and providing a penalty for violation of the Act of imprisonment of up to 90 days or a fine not to exceed $10,000 or both. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a residential lease to include a requirement that a tenant hold a renter's insurance policy; prohibiting a lease from containing certain requirements regarding a renter's insurance policy; and requiring a landlord to acquire a renter's insu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to work on-site at the employer's workplace if the employee provides documentation from a physician or other licensed health care practitioner that the employee has been diagnosed with an autoimmune ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing unaffiliated voters to request to affiliate with a political party at an early voting center during a primary election and vote a provisional ballot for the voter's preferred political party. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| SB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain prohibition on advertising for cannabis licensees, products, or services by repealing a prohibition on certain outdoor advertising and instead prohibiting advertising within 500 feet of a substance use treatment facility, certain s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB1057 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the financial eligibility criteria for the home- and community-based services waiver submitted by the Maryland Department of Health to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to include categorically needy individuals with an income ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB794 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Social Work Examiners to establish a process to review and approve a person seeking to become an authorized sponsor of social work continuing education programs, subject to a requirement that at least one pathway for appr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Office of Domestic Terrorism Response within the Maryland Department of Emergency Management for the purpose of implementing measures to prepare for, prevent, and recover from domestic terrorism and hate crimes; requiring the Marylan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Stream Restoration Contractors Licensing Board; requiring a person to be licensed as a stream restoration contractor or be employed by an individual or entity that is licensed as a stream restoration contractor before the person perf... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the treasurer, tax collector, or director of finance for a county to provide a certificate enumerating certain taxes, assessments, and charges against a property and to establish certain procedures to facilitate the issuance of the certific... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB866 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to deem conclusively that a small halfway house or small private group home is a single-family dwelling or a multifamily dwelling for purposes of zoning. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Maryland Correctional Enterprises to develop a plan for program participants to obtain employment after release on parole or supervised mandatory release; requiring the Division of Parole and Probation to report on individuals who participa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1135 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing violations recorded by traffic control signal and speed monitoring systems occurring in Baltimore City to be treated as parking violations for the purpose of impoundment of certain vehicles if the owner has accrued $1,000 or more in unpai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Baltimore County to set a special property tax rate for a vacant lot or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use on a housing or building violation notice. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1117 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay in a certain manner; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each firefighter employed by the county or municipality; and authorizin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB836 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Washington County to acquire by purchase or condemnation certain property on which a cemetery is located if the acquisition is for certain preservation purposes and ownership of the property cannot be determine... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1104 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring out-of-network health care facilities to provide certain information to a consumer and obtain certain consent before providing a health care service; requiring that certain out-of-network status information be provided in a certain consent ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB912 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, clarifying, and expanding certain provisions of law relating to the immunity from liability of a parent who leaves an unharmed newborn with a responsible adult under certain circumstances; requiring the Secretary of Human Services to develo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing certain members of the State Retirement and Pension System to transfer certain prior service into the State Police Retirement System. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a landowner whose land is subject to an agricultural land preservation easement to use the land for the construction and use of a certain wood vault under certain circumstances; requiring a person to have a permit issued by the Secretary ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a mobile sports wagering licensee that is part of an ownership group that operates a video lottery facility in Prince George's County to pay each year $3,500,000 from the proceeds of mobile sports wagering to the Comptroller to be used for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that requirements for purchasing, leasing, changing the use of, or closing State facilities apply to facilities owned, leased, or operated for the purpose of providing benefits to clients; and requiring the Department of Human Services, on... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB1078 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on Washington County Regional Water and Wastewater Governance to study the water supply, wastewater treatment, and approaches to water and wastewater governance in Washington County; requiring the Governor to include in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB993 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of the Inspector General of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to complete a review of a certain facility within 60 days after receiving confirmation that the construction of the facility is complete; requiring the Washi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB833 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the scope of a certain provision prohibiting the retail delivery to a purchaser of alcoholic beverages under certain circumstances; providing that certain authorization for the holders of certain licenses to sell alcoholic beverages for off-... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from operating a vessel within 500 yards of a stationary blind or blind site that is occupied and being used for hunting migratory waterfowl during open season. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB942 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program; authorizing the Department of the Environment to review, permit, and regulate a process to test the use of treated reclaimed water from a demonstration facility as a source for groundwater augm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting the installation and maintenance of certain duck nest boxes from certain wetlands license requirements; defining a "duck nest box" as a nesting structure located on or over water that is provided for the purpose of sheltering domesticated d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the powers and duties of the Chesapeake Bay Trust by authorizing the Trust to retain outside counsel as necessary. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |