| SB621 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| HB828 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB503 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 |
| HB405 | Intro
25% | Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB789 | Intro
25% | Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB584 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| HB553 | 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] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB569 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| HB644 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local department of social services or a law enforcement agency to provide a certain notice to a parent or caretaker of a child at a certain time during an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect; and excluding evidence obtained...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB746 | Intro
25% | Providing that the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Education is a state educational authority under a certain federal law; providing that the Office is the State unit authorized to audit or evaluate certain education programs; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB427 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 |
| HB803 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB599 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 |
| HB706 | Intro
25% | Repealing the prohibition against a person using or possessing with intent to use, delivering or selling under certain circumstances, or manufacturing or possessing with intent to deliver or sell under certain circumstances drug paraphernalia to inje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB572 | Intro
25% | Providing that during the trial of a criminal case in which a defendant is charged with an assault in the second degree, a certain statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule if the statement is offered against a party that has engaged in, directed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB324 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| HB547 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 |
| HB441 | Intro
25% | Substituting civil penalties in place of criminal penalties for certain offenses relating to possessing, possessing with the intent to distribute, and cultivating cannabis and manufacturing cannabis products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB702 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 |
| HB446 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment exceeding 1 year and is currently serving the sentence imposed for the conviction, including a term of parole or probation, or has been convicted of a crime involvin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB639 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| HB724 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual who is serving a term of confinement to petition a court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the individuals term of confinement and at least 3 years have passed since the court decided a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB595 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain civil enforcement actions brought by the Attorney General may be instituted at any time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB659 | 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] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB87 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person who is convicted of first-degree murder may be sentenced to death under certain circumstances; and establishing certain procedures relating to custody, warrant of execution, incompetency, method of execution, witnesses, certif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB677 | Intro
25% | Requiring that candidates for judge of the orphans' court appear on the ballot without party designation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB555 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the unauthorized dissemination of certain personal identifying information without permission, with the intent to threaten, intimidate, abuse, harass or frighten a person, or place the person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB627 | Intro
25% | 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 |
| HB699 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB220 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain local governments to allow, by law, a first-time homebuyer in the State to calculate the homestead property tax credit for property that includes a newly purchased dwelling using a certain method; requiring that the credit for a n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB494 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain political organizations from fraudulently claiming to be acting on behalf of a candidate or political party; prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB576 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 |
| HB663 | Intro
25% | Establishing the alcoholic beverage tax rates for ready-to-drink cocktails at 40 cents for each gallon or 10.57 cents for each liter; and defining "ready-to-drink cocktail" as a beverage that contains distilled spirits mixed with nonalcoholic beverag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB660 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB142 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a voter to establish the voter's identity at the request of an election judge at a polling place by presenting the voter's registration card, a valid Maryland driver's license, or certain other identification that contains a photograph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
