| HB692 | Intro
25% | Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority; authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB455 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a county board from charging fees to certain students related to enrollment in or completion of The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program or a comparable program consisting of Advanced Placement courses specified by the College Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB545 | Intro
25% | Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for all public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB512 | Intro
25% | Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB146 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB200 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county board of education each year to prepare and post to the county's website a report that identifies pathways that public school students may use to travel to school using only safe alternative routes under certain circumstances; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB502 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements for the installation, inspection, and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire smoke dampers, and smoke control systems; requiring the State Fire Prevention Commission to adopt certain regulations relating to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB578 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to review the salaries of the sheriff in each county in the State and any other law enforcement position with similar responsibilities; and requiring the Workgroup to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB540 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the location of a school bus stop on any highway with five or more undivided traffic lanes in certain counties unless a school crossing guard is posted or a certain traffic control device is placed at the school bus stop.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB523 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB626 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB528 | Intro
25% | Providing a refundable credit against the State income tax for nonpublic school student bus transportation expenses paid by an individual resident who is the parent or guardian of the student during the taxable year; prohibiting a tax credit from exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB515 | Intro
25% | Altering, from 16 years old to 15 years and 9 months old, the age at which an individual may register to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB433 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Soccer Opportunities Program in the State Department of Education to increase opportunities for minority students to participate in soccer in their communities; and requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2026, to include in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB426 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland STEM Program in the State Department of Education to provide additional compensation to educators who teach STEM classes at nonpublic schools; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for the Program and requiring participatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB420 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain provisions of law establishing Maryland Correctional Enterprises as a preferred provider of supplies and services for certain State procurements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB422 | Intro
25% | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain foreign service retirement income received by an individual during the taxable year; providing that foreign service retirement income that is included in the subtraction al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB364 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from willfully or knowingly casting a ballot in a general election in more than one state in the same year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB381 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions aga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishing the felony of theft of a handgun; and establishing a penalty for theft of a handgun of, for a first conviction, imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both and, for a second or subsequent conviction, imprisonment of u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB478 | Intro
25% | Requiring a school vehicle driver to pass an appropriate medical examination before employment and once during each 2 years of employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB386 | Intro
25% | Providing that student members on certain county boards of education may vote on certain matters and may attend certain executive or special sessions under certain circumstances; and providing that student members of county boards of education have c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB498 | Intro
25% | Altering the calculation of a certain credit against the State income tax for certain residents who are at least 65 years old; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB572 | Intro
25% | Requiring a water utility operating in the State to post on its website or provide to the Department of the Environment documents, data, and information required as part of the water utility's annual water quality consumer confidence report; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB674 | Intro
25% | Including income from certain retirement plans within a certain subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for certain individuals who are at least 65 years of age or who are disabled or whose spouse is disabled; altering the maxi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB606 | Intro
25% | Expanding an exemption from the sales and use tax for the sale of certain baby products to include certain toilet training and child safety items, furniture, strollers, textiles, foods, and baby monitors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB608 | Intro
25% | Expanding eligibility for the Maryland earned income tax credit for individuals without qualifying children by altering the income thresholds at which the credit phases out; and providing that, after the 2023 tax year, the income threshold and phase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB526 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain pharmacy benefits managers from requiring a beneficiary to use a specific pharmacy or entity for a specialty drug if the drug is dispensed by a physician, used in the treatment of a certain condition, and meets other requirements;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB487 | Intro
25% | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay nonparticipating health care providers for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB124 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB537 | Intro
25% | Providing a refundable credit against the State income tax for nonpublic school student bus transportation expenses paid by an individual resident who is the parent or guardian of the student during the taxable year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB388 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $1,000,000 for the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund which provides funding for the Board; and requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB526 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Sports Wagering Application Review Commission, subject to certain limitations, to accept and consider applications for sports wagering facility licenses and mobile sports wagering licenses submitted before January 1, 2026; and altering...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship Program Workgroup to study the feasibility of developing and implementing a registered nurse degree apprenticeship program in the State; and requiring the Workgroup, on or before April 1, 2025, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB359 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an advanced practice registered nurse to practice in a party state under certain scope of practice rules; establishing the Inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB356 | Intro
25% | Requiring local jurisdictions to establish and implement an expedited development review process for certain proposed affordable housing developments; applying the process to a charitable organization seeking to develop affordable housing on its own ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB374 | Intro
25% | Establishing a Class B-CL (cigar lounge) beer, wine, and liquor license in Prince George's County; excluding the license from certain distance restrictions; excluding a certain business that operates in the county under the license from the requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB204 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold interstate compact licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB520 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a retail business from charging a consumer a certain surcharge in excess of the amount required to reimburse the retail business for the cost of processing certain credit or debit transactions; and making a violation of this Act an unfair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB535 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for labor and delivery services without certain cost-sharing requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB482 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the reimbursement of certain physicians, qualified health care providers, and hospitals by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for certain forensic examinations of and health care services provided to a victim of nonfatal strangulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB438 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB447 | Intro
25% | Establishing a bill of rights for unit owners of a condominium, members of a cooperative housing corporation, and lot owners of a homeowners association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB488 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor to include a certain $1,000,000 in the annual budget bill for fiscal years 2026 through 2028 to provide grants to certain qualifying nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing training in automotive repair to incarcer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB402 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to bring a nuisance action for damages caused by rodent harborage on certain real property against certain individuals and authorizing a landlord to bring a breach of lease action against a tenant for behavior that causes or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB59 | Intro
25% | Designating motor vehicle theft as a certain crime of violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB301 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for first degree rape or first degree sexual offense as first degree sexual offense existed prior to October 1, 2017, from being entitled to diminution of the incarcerated individual's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB470 | Intro
25% | Altering, subject to certain limitations, the maximum tax rate that a county may impose on an individual's Maryland taxable income; limiting the number of brackets that a county that imposes the county income tax on a bracket basis may set; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB310 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB421 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to require certain persons who are convicted of, or granted probation before judgment for, certain criminal offenses related to driving while impaired by alcohol, a drug or drug combination, or a combination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
