Maryland Senator Benjamin Brooks [D]

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MDSB92Engross
50%
Requiring all motion picture houses to offer closed captioning for each screening of a motion picture; and requiring a place of public accommodation that controls, operates, owns, or leases at least two motion picture houses in the State to provide o...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (37-8)
MDSB325Engross
50%
Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requi...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB470Engross
50%
Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; requi...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB473Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB628Engross
50%
Altering the purposes of the Catastrophic Event Account and the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to provide financial assistance to noncivilian federal employees.
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB615Engross
50%
Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim July 11 as Maryland Veterans Suicide Awareness Day.
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (44-1)
MDSB337Engross
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.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB797Engross
50%
Establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; requiring certain information about the Program to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the A...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB1099Engross
50%
Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-loca...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB196Engross
50%
Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation...
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2024-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB165Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental ill...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB451Engross
50%
Altering the annual compensation of certain nonstudent members of the Baltimore County Board of Education from $7,500 to $16,500; providing that the chair of the county board is entitled to a certain annual compensation of $17,500; and increasing fro...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB477Engross
50%
Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB482Engross
50%
Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri...
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2024-03-16
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB540Engross
50%
Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the State Department of Education to provide funds to county Boards to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter school in the county to assist first responders in responding...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB738Engross
50%
Establishing the State standards for libraries for the operation of each library that receives funding from the State; altering the duties of the State Library Board, the State Library Agency, and regional resource centers to incorporate the State st...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB804Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Stadium Authority to conduct a certain feasibility study for developing, establishing, and operating a sports tourism facility at Reisterstown Regional Park in northwest Baltimore County; requiring the Authority to consult with...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1058Engross
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...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB567Engross
50%
Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw from the institution under extenuating circumstances and to refund the student for tuition and fees paid by the student for a certain semester ...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB883Engross
50%
Requiring a virtual tutoring service to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to child sexual abuse or sexual misconduct of the applicant; requiring certain former employers of...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB472Engross
50%
Altering the principal departments of the Executive Branch; requiring certain departments and independent units to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB450Engross
50%
Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply in Baltimore County; requiring all speed limit signs within certain segments of certain highways in Baltimore County to...
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2024-03-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB478Engross
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 ...
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2024-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB476Engross
50%
Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu...
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2024-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB474Engross
50%
Altering and establishing the definition of "generating station" for the purpose of exempting the construction of certain generating facilities used to produce electricity for the purpose of onsite emergency backup and certain test and maintenance op...
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2024-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB475Engross
50%
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affecte...
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB915Engross
50%
Altering the regulatory approach for controlling invasive plant species in the State, including repealing certain provisions of law relating to a two-tiered regulatory approach and requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a list of prohibi...
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2024-03-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB1026Engross
50%
Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt a process for the uniform and timely reporting of certain county board of education budget information to a county governing body; requiring a county board to post certain information in a certain manne...
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1067Engross
50%
Authorizing the placement and use of 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 by Baltimore County as a result of violations enforced by spe...
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2024-03-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB1178Engross
50%
Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB707Engross
50%
Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB982Engross
50%
Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; altering the authority of the Board of Public Works over certain information technology projects; establishing the Information ...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB448Engross
50%
Establishing the Commission to Study African American Civil War Soldiers in Maryland; requiring the Commission to study the history of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union Army; requiring the Commission to make certain recommendatio...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB818Engross
50%
Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments; requiring the Department of Information Technology to conduct certain monitoring and adopt certain policies and procedures; prohibiting a unit of State government...
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2024-03-15
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB906Engross
50%
Requiring each county and Baltimore City to inventory vacant commercial buildings, develop a plan to convert vacant commercial buildings for residential use, and submit a report to the Department of Housing and Community Development on or before Janu...
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2024-03-14
Third Reading Passed (44-0)
MDSB592Engross
50%
Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB50Engross
50%
Providing that a certain final order of the Commission on Civil Rights on a complaint alleging a discriminatory act is appealable in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
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2024-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB480Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ...
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2024-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB88Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study and make recommendations for developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislat...
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2024-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB341Engross
50%
Altering the name of the museum operated by the Commission on African American History and Culture in certain provisions of law from the "Banneker-Douglass Museum" to the "Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum".
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2024-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB411Engross
50%
Renaming the Department of Veterans Affairs to be the Department of Veterans and Military Families; renaming the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to be the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families; requiring the Secretary to appoint a Deputy Secretar...
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2024-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB879Engross
50%
Repealing a restriction on the harvesting of shellfish between the hours of sunset and sunrise from certain areas leased for aquaculture; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish by regulation the hours for harvesting shellfish ...
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2024-03-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB425Engross
50%
Clarifying that secondary schools participating in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program may serve breakfast in any broadly accessible part of the school; and authorizing elementary schools participating in the Program, su...
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2024-03-07
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB916Engross
50%
Requiring certain petitions to review the listing or unlisting of endangered or threatened species to contain certain information regarding the distribution, life, and habitat needs of the species and relevant information about the status of a specie...
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2024-03-04
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB148Engross
50%
Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities and areas in which over 90% of households are at extre...
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2024-03-01
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB564Engross
50%
Repealing certain processes regarding the expiration of certain licenses for real estate brokers, associate real estate brokers, and real estate salespersons; requiring that certain licenses expire on a staggered basis; modifying and setting certain ...
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2024-03-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB585Engross
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; ...
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2024-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB542Engross
50%
Requiring items to be included in a brokerage agreement between a real estate broker and a seller or lessor or a buyer or lessee.
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2024-02-28
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB918Intro
25%
Changing the name of the Retail Choice Customer Education and Protection Fund to the Education and Protection Fund; and modifying the purpose and uses of the Fund to include educating certain customers on certain energy choices and developing a certa...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1023Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, on or before certain dates and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, a requirement that new buildings meet all water and space heating demands of the building without the use of f...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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