| SB621 | Pass | Requiring each law enforcement agency, department, or entity providing security at a courthouse facility to submit a report by September 30, 2025, to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland; requiring the report include the current number ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 141 |
| SB814 | Pass | Requiring county governments to make a certain report by July 1 each year to the Department of Planning on the amount, use, and location of the use of county development impact fees, surcharges, and excise taxes; and requiring county governments to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 187 |
| HB300 | Pass | Altering the rate at which nonprofit organizations receiving State-funded grants or contracts may be reimbursed for indirect costs to match the rate established under relevant federal guidelines; requiring the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 162 |
| HB301 | Pass | Altering and clarifying the requirement that a sworn affidavit for judicial authorization to initiate forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) assert that the reasonable investigative leads have been pursued and failed to identify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 135 |
| HB575 | Pass | Altering the frequency, from every month to every 6 months, of the reports required to be submitted by the Attorney General to the General Assembly regarding the status of the recovery of economic damages arising from the closure of the Helen Delich ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 99 |
| SB178 | Pass | Altering the name of Arundel Habitat for Humanity, Inc., to be Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated, for purposes of a certain property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation tax imposed on the entity; authorizing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 |
| SB4 | Pass | Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority; requiring the Authority to take certain actions regarding the finances of the Authority; exempting the Autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 216 |
| HB492 | Pass | Authorizing the Director of Human Resources of Frederick County to request from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services a State and national criminal history records chec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 149 |
| SB811 | Pass | Extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to be October 31, 2026; and extending the termination date for the Task Force to be June 30, 202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 112 |
| SB274 | Pass | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases; requiring the testimony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| SB158 | Pass | Specifying the manner in which notice regarding an exercise of the decanting power or the sending of a document under the Maryland Trust Decanting Act is required to be provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 |
| SB271 | Pass | Providing that an employee of the office of a sheriff of a county or Baltimore City is immune from liability under the Maryland Tort Claims Act in the same manner as a sheriff or deputy sheriff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 133 |
| HB59 | Pass | Authorizing a tax collector to withhold from tax sale certain property occupied by an heir of a deceased owner of the property; requiring that certain owner-occupied property and certain property occupied by an heir of a deceased owner of the propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 231 |
| SB238 | Pass | Expanding the entities eligible to administer local rehabilitation programs to include certain nonprofit sponsors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 233 |
| HB877 | Pass | Extending the time for submission of the interim report and final report of the Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission by 3 years; and extending the termination date for the Commission by 3 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 110 |
| HB208 | Pass | Prohibiting a person that is a seller from advertising or offering for sale a digital good using certain terminology unless, before executing the sale, a certain affirmative acknowledgment is received from the purchaser or a certain clear and conspic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 206 |
| HB979 | Pass | Requiring a certain operator of a certain self-service storage facility to notify at least 10 days prior to conducting a sale of an occupant's personal property stored in certain leased space at the self-service storage facility of the time, place, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 210 |
| SB9 | Pass | Requiring certain nonpublic institutions of higher education to submit a certain letter of intent regarding intended new graduate level programs to the Maryland Higher Education Commission in a certain manner and every 6 months; repealing a provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 143 |
| HB209 | Pass | Repealing a duplicative provision of law requiring each county government, local school system, and local health department, in consultation with the local emergency manager, to create or update a cybersecurity preparedness and response plan and comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 166 |
| HB646 | Pass | Extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to be October 31, 2026; and extending the termination date for the Task Force to be June 30, 202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 113 |
| SB767 | Pass | Providing that full-time deputy sheriffs and correctional deputies at the rank of major and below in the Calvert County Sheriff's Office have the right to organize and negotiate with the County Administrator of Calvert County and the Calvert County S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 132 |
| SB689 | Pass | Requiring banking institutions, credit unions, mortgage lenders, mortgage lending businesses, and mortgage loan originators to include a certain provision in certain conventional home mortgage loans authorizing a certain borrower to purchase the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 203 |
| SB84 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to conduct an annual study examining and comparing certain data regarding an individual's residence prior to incarceration and on release from a State correctional facility; and requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 127 |
| SB348 | Pass | Altering the definition of "private place" as it relates to the prohibition on conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual without the consent of the individual; and altering the prohibition against conducting visual surveill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| HB442 | Pass | Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 147 |
| HB1016 | Pass | Requiring the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Redevelopment and Operating Authority Task Force to identify certain funding sources and mechanisms, and to submit a report to the Governor, the Mayor of Baltimore City, and the General Assembly on its f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 214 |
| HB1020 | Pass | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from furnishing any consumer report containing certain adverse information relating to a consumer's medical debt, or any collection action against a consumer for medical debt, or maintain a file on a consumer r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 121 |
| SB421 | Pass | Extending from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for prosecutions relating to destroying funerary objects and other elements of a cemetery to begin at the time local authorities knew or reasonably should have known of the violation; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 158 |
| HB1018 | Pass | Requiring banking institutions, credit unions, mortgage lenders, mortgage lending businesses, and mortgage loan originators to include a certain provision in certain conventional home mortgage loans authorizing a certain borrower to purchase the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 202 |
| SB49 | Pass | Requiring a person who makes an automatic renewal offer to consumers to allow a consumer to cancel the automatic renewal in a cost-effective, timely, and easy-to-use manner; requiring automatic renewal offers to be displayed in a certain manner and c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 204 |
| HB447 | Pass | Altering the name of Arundel Habitat for Humanity, Inc., to be Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated, for purposes of a certain property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation tax imposed on the entity; and authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 |
| SB418 | Pass | Repealing certain limitations on the prospective employees or volunteers of Carroll County for whom the Department of Human Resources of Carroll County may request a criminal history records check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 |
| HB241 | Pass | Clarifying that "spouse" includes a former spouse for purposes of disclosure of confidential communications occurring during marriage; and establishing that a spouse, who is the alleged victim, is competent to disclose a confidential communication be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 145 |
| SB131 | Pass | Authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County or of a municipal corporation in Anne Arundel County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the personal property tax imposed on personal property of a supermarket that completes certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176 |
| SB333 | Pass | Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 148 |
| SB784 | Pass | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 142 |
| HB598 | Pass | Authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County or of a municipal corporation in Anne Arundel County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the personal property tax imposed on personal property of a supermarket that completes certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 177 |
| HB15 | Pass | Authorizing the formation of limited worker cooperative associations; and establishing rules and procedures for the formation, governance, conversion, and dissolution of limited worker cooperative associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 198 |
| SB1026 | Pass | Providing that certain provisions of law governing the licensing of providers of certain financial services in the State do not apply to a certain person that acquires or is assigned a certain mortgage, mortgage loan, or installment loan under certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 118 |
| SB126 | Pass | Authorizing the trustee of a trust to resign under the Maryland Trust Act on 30 days' notice to qualified beneficiaries, the settlor, if living, all cotrustees, and any person that has a right to replace or appoint a successor to the resigning truste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 229 |
| SB327 | Pass | Authorizing an owner of real property used for rental housing and the governing body of a county to enter into a payment in lieu of taxes agreement for maintaining at least 25% of the rental housing units located at the real property as affordable dw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106 |
| SB334 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 190 |
| HB431 | Pass | Prohibiting a consumer contract from setting a shorter time to bring an action under or on the consumer contract than required by the law of the State; excluding certain entities from the application of this Act; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 194 |
| HB146 | Pass | Authorizing the trustee of a trust to resign under the Maryland Trust Act on 30 days' notice to qualified beneficiaries, the settlor, if living, all cotrustees, and any person that has a right to replace or appoint a successor to the resigning truste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 228 |
| HB88 | Pass | Specifying the manner in which notice regarding an exercise of the decanting power or the sending of a document under the Maryland Trust Decanting Act is required to be provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 221 |
| SB502 | Pass | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or muni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 130 |
| HB258 | Pass | Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority, subject to certain limitations; requiring the Authority to take certain actions regarding the finances of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 215 |
| SB239 | Pass | Repealing a duplicative provision of law requiring each county government, local school system, and local health department, in consultation with the local emergency manager, to create or update a cybersecurity preparedness and response plan and comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 167 |
| HB227 | Pass | Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or make donation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 212 |
| HB389 | Pass | Exempting personal property used in connection with certain large family child care homes from valuation and taxation; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or a municipal corporation to grant, by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 122 |
