| HB130 | Engross
50% | Altering the State's goals for reducing energy consumption in State buildings; requiring the Maryland Green Building Council to update the High Performance Green Building Program to ensure that the Program aligns with certain greenhouse gas emissions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB618 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Police Recruitment and Retention Workgroup to study issues and factors potentially contributing to recruitment challenges and the decline in police officer retention statewide; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB537 | Engross
50% | Altering the distance restrictions applicable to a licensed cannabis dispensary; prohibiting a political subdivision from establishing certain zoning requirements for licensed cannabis dispensaries and certain licensed cannabis growers that are more ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB1186 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Howard County Task Force to Study Revenue Options for School Capital Needs to identify capital needs of Howard County Public Schools and study options for closing any identified funding gaps through 2035; requiring the Howard County ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1067 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use 16 speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County, except that only 4 may be operated at any given time; requiring that fines collected in Baltimore County as a result of v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB902 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Highway Administration, to identify and prioritize certain species whose habitat or movement corridors intersect with State highways and develop tools, technology, and tec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB562 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to study the salaries of the sheriff in each county in the State and any other law enforcement position with similar responsibilities and preparation requirements as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB810 | Engross
50% | Exempting a lease of county property for a term of 5 years or less made by Dorchester County from certain notice requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB689 | Engross
50% | Establishing certain requirements relating to the installation of certain fire safety equipment in residential rental high-rise buildings and certain other property; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB432 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researchi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB906 | Engross
50% | Requiring each political subdivision to inventory vacant commercial buildings, develop a plan to convert certain vacant commercial buildings for residential use, and submit a report to the Department of Housing and Community Development on or before ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB101 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Governor, for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2027, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,500,000 to the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore; requiring the Schaefer Center, in consult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB74 | Engross
50% | Designating the American persimmon as the State fruit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB796 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program in the Department of Disabilities; requiring the Department to select a nonprofit training entity for participation in the Program; and establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB404 | Engross
50% | Establishing an exemption for a certain person who enters or trespasses on real property while wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB471 | Engross
50% | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB932 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Agricultural BMP Priority Environmental Stewardship Program to provide and prioritize the use of certain funding relating to agricultural best management practices and to increase the cost-effectiveness and environmental, so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1299 | Engross
50% | Altering the applicability of the Maryland Consumer Protection Act to include certain unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practices in trade or commerce, including any economic activity within the State that involves or relates to any commodity or se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB742 | Engross
50% | Increasing in Anne Arundel County the fees for certain Class C per diem alcoholic beverages licenses when issued for a 1-day event with more than 1,000 attendees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| HB633 | Engross
50% | Establishing a barbershop and beauty salon beer and wine license in Harford County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue the license to the holder of certain business permits; requiring the holder of the license ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB486 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Correctional Enterprises Management Council to research and review certain information relating to goods and services provided by Maryland Correctional Enterprises and report to the General Assembly on or before July 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB765 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Business Diversity Incubator Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish diverse and effective business incubators in the State; authorizing the Governor in each of fisca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB607 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the imposition of certain summary punishment of a police officer for a minor violation of law enforcement agency rules and regulations that does not involve an interaction between the police officer and a member of the public if the facts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1076 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Comptroller to distribute to the Transportation Trust Fund revenue from the sales and use tax that is attributable to the sale of electricity used to charge an electric vehicle at an electric vehicle charging station or used to charge a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB65 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from possessing more than 100 images of certain child pornography or possessing images of certain child pornography depicting a minor or an individual indistinguishable from an actual minor younger than 13 years of age; providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1066 | Engross
50% | Requiring, rather than authorizing, certain sports wagering licensees and sports wagering operators that advertise in the State to contract with certain independent evaluators to evaluate and rate the sports wagering licensee's sports wagering conten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB784 | Engross
50% | Altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 11%; and providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of certain firearm accessories and ammunition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB624 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Public Information Act Requests Made to Law Enforcement to review costs charged and procedures applied by law enforcement agencies in relation to the disclosure of records requested under the Maryland Public Infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB641 | Engross
50% | Requiring each local board of elections, at least 6 months prior to each statewide primary election, to designate an outside location for curbside voting, subject to the approval of the State Board; requiring a local board to take into account certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB84 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Teacher Apprenticeship Startup Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to provide high school and college students and career changers opportunities to begin a career in education; requiring a sponsor particpating in a teac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB585 | Engross
50% | Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB419 | Engross
50% | Altering the fiscal years, from through 2025 to through 2028, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1058 | Engross
50% | Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB538 | Engross
50% | Altering certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act only to causes of action arising after October 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1035 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Education to collaborate with the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Committee to develop and jointly approve a plan for career and technical education in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB78 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Baltimore County School Board Nominating Commission to publish the names of the candidates for appointment to the Baltimore County Board of Education on the Commission's website before interviewing the candidates; requiring meetings of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1102 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB762 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB21 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction to conduct a comprehensive study analyzing the current condition of public high school athletic and physical education facilities in the State and to report to the Governor and the General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB604 | Engross
50% | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| SB849 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "local government" under the Local Government Tort Claims Act to include the Hagerstown Multi-Use Sports and Events Facility, Inc., in Washington County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1145 | Engross
50% | Requiring law enforcement agencies and State's Attorneys to notify schools of certain information when a child is arrested for a sexual offense in the third degree; prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB148 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees on the identification and reporting of human trafficking victims; requiring, by January 1, 2025, and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1420 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Office of People's Counsel to retain or hire experts in the field of cybersecurity; requiring certain public service companies to engage with a third party to conduct an assessment that analyzes certain critical software; requiring ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB568 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim May 8th as Community Health Worker Appreciation Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and cultural organizations to observe community health workers with informative programs and activitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB566 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names to develop and implement a framework to identify real property owned by the State or a political subdivision that bears a Confederate name; and requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB993 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the first week of April as Maryland Climate Education Week; and requiring the proclamation to urge residents of all ages to participate in educational activities that promote awareness of climate change and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB1264 | Engross
50% | Altering the conditions under which a person is exempt from obtaining a permit from the Department of the Environment to construct or repair a reservoir, dam, or waterway obstruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB961 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Commission on New Americans to study and periodically report on the contributions of new Americans and the availability of government services for new Americans; and requiring the Commission to submit to the Governor and the General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB477 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a county, including Baltimore City, to adopt by local law or ordinance provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; and establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
