| HB995 | Engross 50% | Requiring that a member of the Washington County Board of Education be a resident of Washington County for at least 6 months and the State for at least 12 months immediately preceding the date the member takes office; and requiring members of the cou... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB1486 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to administer the Cyber Maryland Fund and Program; authorizing the Fund to be used for administrative expenses of the Program, including hiring staff, consultants and other professionals as ne... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB2 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to set a special property tax rate for a vacant or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use on a housing or building violation notice; and applying the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB473 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation; establishing the Baltimore Innovation Initiative Pilot Program within the Maryland Innovation Initiative of the Corporation; requir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB723 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief on behalf of the State on the basis of an imminent or ongoing violation of certain rights of residents of certain health care facilities; authorizing the Attorney General to request a court t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1023 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Secretary of Transportation's designee to attend meetings of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Board of Directors on behalf of the Secretary when the Secretary is not available; authorizing the Washington Suburban Tra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB1122 | Engross 50% | Requiring a person, before making a contractual agreement for the acquisition of a nursing home, to submit a request for acquisition to the Maryland Health Care Commission and provide certain notice to residents and staff of the nursing home; establi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB890 | Engross 50% | Altering certain benefits that a certain individual who has been erroneously convicted of a crime is entitled to receive; requiring the State to notify a certain individual of certain information in writing under certain circumstances when the State ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB1037 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to identify reentry services in the State, develop a plan to establish a new division within the Department of Public Safety and Correctiona... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB465 | Engross 50% | Establishing certain criminal penalties for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees and contractors and subcontractors knowingly violating State prevailing wage laws; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Indus... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB541 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Student Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Educators to assist in the repayment of certain student loans owed by educators who meet certain eligibility requirements; providing the purpose of the program is to a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB743 | Engross 50% | Altering the promoter's permit in Frederick County to be a promoter's (on-sale) beer, wine, and liquor license; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Frederick County to issue the license to a certain for-profit organization under certai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB894 | Engross 50% | Repealing a prohibition on certain Baltimore City ordinances or acts of certain municipal officials from conflicting, impeding, obstructing, hindering, or interfering with the powers of the Baltimore City Police Commissioner. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB1281 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipality to designate, by law, an area within that political subdivision as a tourism zone under certain circumstances; authorizing a county or municipa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1476 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Governor to appoint the licensed audiologist members to the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists from a list submitted by the Maryland Academy of Audiology... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1440 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education, under certain circumstances, to publish on the website of the Howard County public school system a report that details the differences between the Howard County Superintendent of Schools' proposed capit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB281 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB973 | Engross 50% | Adding positive community feedback to the list of records that are not considered personnel records for certain purposes; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop a process for citizens to submit positive community f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB468 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Commission to Advance Lithium-Ion Battery Safety in Maryland; requiring the Commission to make legislative, regulatory, programmatic and other recommendations by December 1, 2025 to the Governor and the General Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB612 | Engross 50% | Repealing the requirement that a local authority in Montgomery County perform an engineering and traffic investigation before decreasing the maximum speed limit on a highway. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1482 | Engross 50% | Altering penalties for failing to maintain certain required security for certain motor vehicles; and altering the amount of the penalties that are required to be paid for fiscal year 2025 to the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund and the base amount ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB246 | Engross 50% | Subjecting certain earned wage access products to the Maryland Consumer Loan Law and other provisions that regulate entities that provide consumer credit, revolving credit, and closed end credit; restricting the acceptance of tips by certain lenders ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB203 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB337 | Engross 50% | Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB1014 | Engross 50% | Requiring each unit to publish on the unit's website annually a forecast listing all known and anticipated procurements to be made by the unit in the upcoming fiscal year; requiring the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to consult... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB507 | Engross 50% | Requiring the governing bodies of Allegany County and Garrett County and municipal corporations located in Allegany County and Garrett County to grant a property tax credit on certain newly constructed dwellings; allowing certain persons who construc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB902 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a provider in the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program to receive certain State funds under certain circumstances; and exempting providers in the Program from certain State requirements for eligible prekindergarten providers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB621 | Engross 50% | Reducing the annual fee for a stadium beer, wine, and liquor license in Harford County from $10,000 to $4,000. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB832 | Engross 50% | Defining "damages" or "losses" in statutory causes of action to protect civil rights or consumer rights and providing that "damages" or "losses" includes reasonable nominal damages. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1101 | Engross 50% | Requiring law enforcement agencies to develop and implement certain recruitment policies; clarifying that the Edward T. Conroy and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program and the Jean B. Cryor Memorial Scholarship Program include certain postseco... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB1396 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish by regulation standards relating to the discharge of patients from drug and alcohol treatment programs and certain referral services offered to patients by certain drug and alcohol treatment pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB547 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person from allowing for the performance of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of those animals in a certain traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty no... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB1049 | Engross 50% | Requiring a person who makes an automatic renewal offer to consumers to allow a consumer to cancel the automatic renewal in a certain manner; requiring automatic renewal offers to be displayed in a certain manner and contain certain information; and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1420 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Office of People's Counsel to hire at least one assistant people's counsel with cybersecurity expertise to perform certain duties; requiring certain public service companies to engage with a third party to conduct an assessment that ana... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB878 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Department of Health to conduct certain prevalence studies concerning problem and pathological mobile gambling, with an initial study to be completed by July 1, 2029; and altering the distribution of certain State lottery, fantasy compe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB282 | Engross 50% | Providing that a technician employed by an agency may sign the statement alleging a violation recorded by a speed monitoring system that must be included in a citation. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB589 | Engross 50% | Increasing, from $900,000 to $1,000,000, the amount of an appropriation that the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill each year for the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; repealing the t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB710 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Household Goods Movers Registration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring the Secretary of Labor to annually calculate certain costs; authorizing the Department to set by regulation certain... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB892 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB978 | Engross 50% | Requiring certain persons that publish, distribute, or disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated synthetic media, to publish on their website or submit to the State Board of Elections for publication certain original media c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (44-0) |
| SB333 | Engross 50% | Repealing a requirement that the Department of Housing and Community Development identify certain property as suitable for use or redevelopment; prohibiting the Department from identifying certain property for use or redevelopment as affordable housi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB864 | Engross 50% | Requiring each electric company, each gas company, and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets through certain program... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB891 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Institute at the University of Maryland to conduct a study to identify methods to improve the Maryland Transit Administration's ADA MobilityLink paratransit service; authorizing the Governor to include in the fis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB186 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB906 | Engross 50% | Altering the salary of the Sheriff of Garrett County; and repealing the requirement for the Garrett County Salary Study Commission to study and issue a report that contains recommendations relating to the salary of the Sheriff. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB793 | Engross 50% | Clarifying that a county assumes the responsibilities of a certain tort claim against a sheriff or deputy sheriff under the Maryland Tort Claims Act; clarifying that, for certain tort claims against a sheriff or deputy sheriff, the State is the prope... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB84 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Teacher Apprenticeship Startup Grant Program in the Department of Labor to provide high school and college students, and career changers opportunities to begin a career in education; requiring the establishment of apprenticeships tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB485 | Engross 50% | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB745 | Engross 50% | Adding stalking to the list of offenses for which a certain individual may petition for a protective order; and altering certain provisions of law relating to the issuance of a permanent protective order. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB614 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses and prostheses; requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |