| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing alternative expiration and renewal periods for a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer who retired in good standing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the governing body of a common ownership community to develop a smoking policy if the property subject to the control of the governing body is a multifamily dwelling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a law enforcement officer to make a certain report to a local department of social services after a certain arrest of a certain child under the age of 13 for purposes of a neglect investigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalty for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 for a first offense, and imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceedin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain requirement that the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services annually report to the General Assembly about opioid use disorder among incarcerated individuals in local correctional facilities by repealing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees, taxicab drivers, and transportation network operators on the identification and reporting of suspecte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance, long-term care insurance, and disability insurance policies or contracts from taking certain action regarding coverage based on whether an applicant or a policy or contract holder has requeste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering provisions of law relating to the juvenile intake process such that certain complaints and case files are required to be forwarded to the State's Attorney under certain circumstances; and altering provisions of law relating to the length of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to establish that the juvenile court has exclusive original jurisdiction over a child who is at least 10 years old alleged to have committed a crime involving the use or possession of a firearm; and alt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to ride a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area unless prohibited by local ordinance; and requiring a person riding a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area or in or through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB314 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the joint and several civil liability of a parent, guardian, or custodian of a minor who commits an act of willful misconduct that results in the death or injury of an individual or damage to property, subject to a certain exception; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the collective bargaining process for State employees, including by requiring the selection of a neutral arbitrator to oversee all aspects of collective bargaining, establishing a process of arbitration in the event of impasse, and providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning in fiscal year 2026, increasing from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 an annual appropriation to the Safe Schools Fund to provide grants to local school systems and local law enforcement agencies to assist in meeting an annual reporting requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-14
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB98 | 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 visual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-14
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing Baltimore City, a county, or a municipal corporation to grant the property tax credit to offset increases in local income tax revenues to the owner-occupied property of a homeowner for taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022, but befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "gross income" to exclude certain public assistance received in a cash grant for purposes of the renters' property tax relief program and the homeowners' property tax credit program; increasing the combined gross income lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB323 | 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] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB328 | 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's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 5% to 6%, the maximum hotel rental tax rate that counties in the Eastern Shore class of code counties may impose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the imposition of an excise tax or title fee for the transfer of certain vessels to a trust or from a trust to certain beneficiaries under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Making technical and clarifying changes to the administration of certain food supplement benefits for children; and increasing the amount the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill for certain food supplement benefits for children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Mechanism Grant Program by making qualified nonprofit organizations that operate a farm or community garden that is on at least 250 acres, grows between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 pounds of produce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the composition of the Cox Creek Citizens Oversight Committee; and requiring the Committee to monitor the management of certain dredged material, provide input and feedback to the Maryland Port Administration regarding the management of cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023, but before January 1, 2029, a credit against the State income tax for certain qualified taxpayers if, for at least 6 months of the taxable year, the taxpayers were not listed as an insure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering and establishing renewal and reinstatement processes for horse establishment licenses; establishing certain duties and administrative penalties with respect to beekeeping activities; altering the administrative penalty structure for certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, when a child is born at a health care facility, the attending physician to offer to the presumed father of the child the option to take a paternity test; requiring that the offer to take a paternity test be made orally and in writing and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering and repealing certain definitions for purposes of the State Boat Act; repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing provisions of the State Boat Act; altering the fees for manufacturer an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB218 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting eligibility for a credit against the State income tax for certain long-term care insurance premiums paid by a taxpayer for long-term care insurance purchased before January 1, 2005, to taxpayers who are at least 85 years old with a Maryland ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting employers from taking or threatening to take adverse action against an employee because the employee takes certain actions regarding rights and responsibilities, complaints, investigations, proceedings, or hearings under certain provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; prohibiting certain employers of tipped employees, beginning July 1, 2027, from including a tip credit amount as part of the employees' wages and requiring the employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Entrepreneurial Leave Tax Credit Program in the Department of Commerce to encourage employers to implement leave policies that provide unpaid leave for employees for the purpose of establishing or expanding an employee business in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing certain caregivers a credit against the State income tax equal to 30% of certain qualified expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year that exceed $2,000 to provide care or support to certain qualified family members; and applying the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting residents who are eligible for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or Medicaid from the annual fee for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB254 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from engaging in certain activities to evade certain requirements relating to lending or the extension of credit; establishing that a person is a lender subject to certain statutory requirements under certain circumstances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the quorum threshold for the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service; authorizing the Secretary of the Board to delegate certain responsibilities to an employee of the Service; altering the obligations of the Service after r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain HIV and syphilis reporting and testing requirements for hospitals and health care providers for pregnant women and newborns, including by requiring that the pregnancy status of certain individuals be included in certain reports and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption to climate change relevant to the critical area, enhancing resilience in the critical are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring county boards of education to develop and adopt a policy that prohibits students from using a cellular phone during instructional time unless a teacher expressly directs the student to use a cellular phone for educational purposes; and exem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the annual registration fees for passenger, certain truck, and multipurpose vehicles based on certain vehicle weight classifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the eligibility requirements for an individual to be certified by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission as a police officer to remove certain citizenship requirements for an individual who is a permanent legal resident of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB217 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual from smoking, vaping, or consuming cannabis in the passenger area of a motor vehicle if a minor is an occupant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB49 | 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] | 2024-01-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB77 | 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 a certain individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing members of a State or local retirement or pension system to receive service credit for volunteer service in the Peace Corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding the crime of knowingly being a participant in a straw purchase of a regulated firearm to the list of crimes subject to warrantless arrest; and providing a penalty on conviction of imprisonment not to exceed 10 years or a fine of up to $25,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering eligibility for the vehicle excise tax credit for the purchase of certain electric vehicles to include certain vehicles purchased used and titled on or after July 1, 2024, but before July 1, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a prohibition against using the number of arrests made, investigations conducted, citations issued, or warrants served or executed by a law enforcement officer as a criterion for the evaluation, compensation, discipline, promotion, demotion,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB218 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and reorganizing certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professions; altering p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
