| MD | HB209 | Engross | Prohibiting a store from distributing plastic carryout bags to a customer at the point of sale; requiring a store to charge and collect at least 10 cents for each durable carryout bag the store provides to a customer; authorizing a store to retain al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB847 | Enroll | Establishing the State Coordinator for Autism Strategy in the Department of Disabilities and the Advisory Stakeholder Group on Autism-Related Needs; requiring the State Coordinator, in consultation with the Advisory Stakeholder Group, to identify and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB540 | Engross | Allowing certain qualified businesses impacted by the construction of the Purple Line light rail project in Montgomery County and Prince George's County a credit against the State income tax; requiring the Department of Commerce, in consultation with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB837 | Enroll | Altering the purposes of the Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Professional Competency Program; requiring the Program to establish and provide an evidence-based implicit bias training program for health care professionals involved in the perinatal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1196 | Enroll | Repealing an exemption for certain check cashing services from provisions of law governing the licensure of check cashing services; authorizing a person to provide check cashing services without obtaining a certain license by registering each year wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1514 | Enroll | Requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services to take certain actions related to certain protections and remedies for certain employees; prohibiting a supervisor, appointing authority, or the head of a principal unit of State government from taking or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1336 | Enroll | Authorizing a person to file a petition for a partial expungement of certain criminal records under certain circumstances; establishing procedures for the filing of a petition for partial expungement; authorizing a person to file a petition for expun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB514 | Enroll | Establishing the Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program to foster job creation and economic development in the State by promoting commercialization of research, facilitating technology transfer, and enco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB852 | Enroll | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from applying a deductible, a copayment, or coinsurance to coverage for certain preventive care screening services for prostate cancer; and applying th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB917 | Enroll | Altering the basis on which a person is prohibited from taking certain actions against a certain person or group, to include certain actions motivated either in whole or in part by another person's or group's race, color, religious beliefs, sexual or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1075 | Engross | Repealing a prerequisite that a public school employee who is subject to a certain prohibited personnel action relating to an act of whistleblowing must exhaust any administrative remedies before instituting a civil action against a public school emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1249 | Engross | Requiring the public-private partnership agreement for the I-495 and I-270 Public-Private Partnership Program to include certain provisions; authorizing certain revenues derived from certain tolls to be distributed to a certain special fund to be bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Third Reading Passed (97-36) |
| MD | HB1300 | Enroll | Repealing, altering, and adding certain provisions of law to implement The Blueprint for Maryland's Future, which is intended to transform Maryland's early childhood, primary, and secondary education system to the levels of high-performing systems ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1444 | Enroll | Defining "race", for the purposes of certain laws prohibiting discrimination, to include certain traits associated with race, including hair texture and certain hairstyles; and defining "protective hairstyle" as a hairstyle including braids, twists, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB521 | Enroll | Establishing the Maryland Small Business Innovation Research Technical Assistance Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide technical assistance to small businesses in the State seeking grants under certain federal program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB328 | Engross | Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website; requiring certain discipline-related data to be available as a data download; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1022 | Engross | Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, to report certain data and information for each alternative school within its jurisdiction to the State Department of Education; requiring the Department, on or before ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB565 | Engross | Repealing certain provisions of law authorizing and governing a credit against the State income tax for certain expenses incurred for certain cellulosic ethanol technology research and development activities; prohibiting the Secretary of Commerce fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB764 | Engross | Prohibiting a law enforcement officer from engaging in certain sexual acts, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a victim, witness, or suspect in an investigation during the course of an investigation that the officer is conducting, supervisin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB460 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Human Services to post on its website a free online course on the identification, prevention, and reporting of child abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1011 | Engross | Repealing the termination date of certain provisions of the Maryland Higher Education Outreach and College Access Pilot Program; altering the title of the Program; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $100,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1113 | Engross | Requiring the Procurement Improvement Council to provide a forum to discuss the use of eMaryland Marketplace and compliance with certain provisions of law; and requiring the Council to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1204 | Engross | Prohibiting a county board, public or nonpublic prekindergarten programs, and public or nonpublic primary or secondary schools that receive State funds from discriminating against a person because of certain factors, refusing enrollment of, expelling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB224 | Engross | Requiring certain taxpayers to add a certain deduction for gains from sales or exchanges of qualified opportunity zone property back to federal adjusted gross income to determine Maryland adjusted gross income; requiring certain taxpayers to add a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross | Prohibiting a local school system from charging a student a fee for enrollment in a summer school course if the student attends a school in the local school system, credit for the course is a high school graduation requirement, and the student has pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB706 | Engross | Establishing the Commission on LGBTQ Affairs in the Governor's Office of Community Initiatives; providing for the appointment, qualifications, terms, and removal of Commission members; requiring the Commission to elect annually a chair and vice chair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB951 | Engross | Altering the manner in which the State Board of Elections is authorized to impose fees for the late filing of certain statements of contributions by persons doing public business; requiring certain persons who violate certain provisions of law requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1079 | Engross | Requiring the Statewide Steering Committee on Services for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease to work in conjunction with members of the medical community in leading a certain comprehensive education and treatment program; requiring the Maryland Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB896 | Engross | Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish and administer a statewide green business certification program; requiring the green business certification program to recognize businesses operating in a way that reduces their environmental f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB711 | Engross | Including placement data from State-sponsored out-of-home care organizations in the data collected, organized, managed, disaggregated, and analyzed by the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center; altering the purpose of the Center to include generat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB699 | Engross | Establishing the Special Education Ombudsman in the Office of the Attorney General to serve as a resource for information and support to parents, students, and educators regarding special education rights and services; requiring the Ombudsman to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1094 | Engross | Requiring early voting centers to be open in elections during the hours between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. each early voting day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB334 | Intro | Defining "mortgage lender" to mean a person that is duly licensed under certain provisions of the Financial Institutions Article; clarifying the definition of "consumer claim"; and declaring the intent of the General Assembly that the Act be construe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB715 | Intro | Prohibiting the State and certain units and instrumentalities of the State from using any appropriation for a magnetic levitation transportation system in the State; prohibiting a public or private entity that receives money from the State from autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1628 | Intro | Altering the definitions of "taxable price" and "taxable service" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the sales and use tax to impose the tax on certain labors and services; altering the rate of the sales and use tax; altering the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB849 | Intro | Prohibiting certain rates from taking effect without prior approval from the Maryland Insurance Commissioner; altering the definition of "insurer" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the People's Insurance Counsel to include prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB660 | Intro | Establishing the Lifeline Low-Cost Automobile Insurance Program to offer certain low cost insurance policies to residents of Baltimore City and Prince George's County who are in households with a gross annual household income not exceeding 300% of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB731 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Transportation, the Maryland Transit Administration, and Purple Line Transit Partners, LLC, to donate any property acquired but not used for the construction or operation of the Purple Line light rail project to the govern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1347 | Intro | Requiring each county board of education to keep a record of the race and gender of all applicants for a position with the local school system and of any individuals who are hired for a position with the local school system, compile the information i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB166 | Intro | Providing that a police officer is justified in using force under certain circumstances; providing that a police officer is justified in using deadly force under certain circumstances; requiring a trier of fact to consider certain factors when assess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1057 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to work with the historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the State to approve and prioritize certain academic programs and to promote the overall competitiveness of the HBCUs; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1112 | Intro | Entering into the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact; stating the purpose of the Compact; requiring a state to meet certain requirements to participate in the Compact; requiring certain audiologists and speech-language patholo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB464 | Intro | Authorizing the establishment of an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program by a community-based organization to provide a place for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide sterile needles, administer first aid, and provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB839 | Intro | Establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program to provide temporary benefits to a covered individual who is taking leave from employment; establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund; requiring, beginning January 1, 2021, cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1086 | Intro | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Basic Economic Security; providing for the composition, cochairs, and staffing of the Workgroup; establishing the duties of the Workgroup; prohibiting a member of the Workgroup from receiving compensation, but auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1087 | Intro | Increasing, from $5,000 to $50,000, the maximum estimated cost in labor and materials for the alteration of a certain existing building or structure for which a person is not required to employ a licensed architect under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1065 | Intro | Prohibiting a public service company and a contractor from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to a third party a customer's personal information, subject to a certain exception; prohibiting a public service company and a contractor f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1195 | Intro | Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, to submit a report on or before April 30 each year to the State Board of Education and the General Assembly on computer science courses offered in public schools in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HJ7 | Intro | Supporting the fundamental requirements for United 2026 as laid out in FIFA's "Proposal for a United Human Rights Strategy"; and encouraging all host stadiums, cities, ports of entry, and fan zones to provide certain atmospheres, experiences, and pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB818 | Intro | Prohibiting the exclusion of individuals based on citizenship status from certain population counts used for redistricting congressional districts and certain legislative districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
