| MD | SB5 | Pass | Providing that a person who is the victim of an act that would constitute a violation of certain hate crime laws may bring a civil action against the person or persons who committed the act in a court of competent jurisdiction; and authorizing the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 745 |
| MD | SB248 | Pass | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from refusing to provide a current or former student with a transcript or taking other punitive measures regarding a student's transcript request because the student owes a debt to the institution of hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 748 |
| MD | SB289 | Pass | Altering the name of the Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship to be the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 733 |
| MD | SB350 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Department of Education from increasing the copayment levels, reducing the reimbursement rates, reducing the income eligibility requirements, or implementing an enrollment freeze for the Child Care Scholarship Program in effect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 731 |
| MD | SB414 | Pass | Establishing the Commission to Advance and Strengthen Fire Fighting and Emergency Medical Services Within Maryland to study and make recommendations regarding the effectiveness and viability of certain incentives, offerings, or practices employed in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 |
| MD | SB840 | Pass | Establishing the Protecting Against Hate Crimes Grant Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to make grants to nonprofit organizations, including faith-based organizations, to provide security enhancements to protect against hate crimes; requiring the Ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 746 |
| MD | SB841 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include an appropriation in the annual budget bill of $500,000 for the State Department of Education to provide grants to local school systems for expenses related to student field trips to museums of cultural import.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 747 |
| MD | SB228 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Aging to oversee and train the staff of long-term care and dementia care navigation programs; requiring each area agency to develop a long-term care and dementia care navigation program that consists of new or existing ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 667 |
| MD | SB231 | Pass | Requiring, unless the child's family has requested that the child be removed, that a child on the registry for the Autism Waiver remain on the registry if the child's family relocates out of the State for military service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621 |
| MD | SB282 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Forestry Education Fund to expand and enhance the Maryland Forestry Foundation's capacity to provide certain education and resources to forest landowners, the ability of district forestry boards and the knowledge of local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480 |
| MD | SB320 | Pass | Increasing the membership of the Wildlife Advisory Commission; requiring the Governor to appoint a member to the Wildlife Advisory Commission who is an academic researcher with expertise in wildlife biology, wildlife conservation, wildlife management...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 |
| MD | SB526 | Pass | Altering the definition of "qualified conservation" for purposes of provisions of law related to forest mitigation banks; altering exemptions from certain afforestation, reforestation, and preservation requirements; altering certain methods of calcul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 542 |
| MD | SB273 | Pass | Altering the amount of a certain appropriation the Governor is required to make for the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund; and repealing a provision of law requiring 100% of the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 |
| MD | SB90 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from making certain telephone solicitations to a certain called party in a certain manner by restricting the methods, times, and identifying information that the person making the call may utilize; and making a violation of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| MD | SB188 | Pass | Establishing the Rare Disease Advisory Council to study and make recommendations on matters relating to individuals with rare diseases in the State; requiring the Council to convene public hearings, make inquiries, and solicit comments from the publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 361 |
| MD | SB299 | Pass | Requiring the owners and operators of grocery stores with annual gross incomes greater than $10,000,000 or restaurants with annual gross incomes of more than $1,000,000, beginning on January 1, 2025, to place an automated external defibrillator in a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 305 |
| MD | SB377 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the payment of a benefit by a governmental unit or quasi-public corporation to a covered employee offsets the liability for benefits under the workers' compensation law; and stating that it is the intent of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 410 |
| MD | SB460 | Pass | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2023, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide gender-affirming treatment in a nondiscriminatory manner; requiring that the gender-affirming treatment be assessed according to nondiscriminatory criteria th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 252 |
| MD | SB509 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to provide certain information regarding the acquisition of a nursing home to the Office of Health Care Quality; requiring the Secretary of Health to consider the information before taking action regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 288 |
| MD | SB624 | Pass | Allowing an individual or a business entity to claim a credit against the State income tax for the first $500 of the purchase price of an automated external defibrillator purchased for use at a restaurant location in the State with annual gross incom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 307 |
| MD | SB839 | Pass | Establishing that a hernia caused as a result of repetitive trauma may be considered an occupational disease and be compensable subject to certain provisions of the workers' compensation law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411 |
| MD | SB798 | Pass | Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's rights to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom; and prohibiting the State from, directly or indirectly, denying, burdening, or abridging the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor, assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to constitutional referendum - Chapter 244 |
| MD | SB234 | Pass | Requiring that the Health Services Cost Review Commission exercise its authority to consider certain standards when determining the reasonableness of certain rates in a manner that is consistent with the all-payer model contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 374 |
| MD | SB601 | Pass | Extending the termination date of certain provisions of law that establish and govern the funding for the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program; and requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, in consultation with the M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 256 |
| MD | SB79 | Pass | Authorizing a certain employee or certain exclusive representative to initiate a grievance procedure under certain provisions of law; requiring certain decision makers in a grievance procedure in certain higher education systems to award certain dama...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 232 |
| MD | SB379 | Pass | Requiring a local board of elections to send, not later than 43 days before an election, a ballot to voters who have made a request and qualify to vote by absentee ballot; altering the procedures for the canvassing of and curing of errors on absentee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| MD | SB959 | Pass | Abolishing and repealing the Maryland 529 Board; specifying that the State Treasurer is the successor to the Maryland 529 Board; transferring to the Office of the State Treasurer the responsibility for administering the Maryland 529 Program, includin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 113 |
| MD | SB974 | Pass | Requiring contractors operating State-owned nursing homes to promptly provide notice of certain deficiencies, enforcement actions, citations, and fines to the Governor, the State agency overseeing the nursing home, certain committees of the General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106 |
| MD | SB449 | Pass | Altering the definition of "hearing aid dispensing" to include certain actions taken for the purpose of ordering certain hearing instruments and specifying that certain hearing instruments include prescription hearing aids; altering the definition of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61 |
| MD | SB555 | Pass | Increasing the State minimum wage rate; repealing the authority of the Board of Public Works to temporarily suspend an increase in the minimum wage rate; and repealing the requirement that the Governor's budgets for certain fiscal years include certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| MD | SB842 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim January 27 as Maryland Holocaust Remembrance Day; and requiring the proclamation to include a declaration of the purposes of Maryland Holocaust Remembrance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 |
| MD | SB665 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, or the Office of Health Care Quality, to investigate whether residents in an assisted living program have been subject to neglect, exploitation, or abuse if the assisted living program is operating without...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| MD | SB613 | Engross
50% | Making permanent the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Pilot Program; requiring a community solar energy generating system to serve at least 40% of its kilowatt-hour output to low-income and moderate-income subscribers under certain circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB279 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Agriculture to develop, publish, and regularly update a fact sheet on the care and protection of pets in the event of an eviction or any other loss of possession of real property; requiring a landlord to provide a link to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB249 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to include in the curriculum for a standardized driver education program information on the laws relating to and the risks of driving while under the influence of cannabis or alcohol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | SB496 | Engross
50% | Requiring that certain revenue, fees, and examination and investigation fees and assessments relating to commercial financing transactions be credited to the Nondepository Special Fund; and regulating commercial financing transactions, including by e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB318 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Healthy Indoor Air Quality Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration; providing that the purpose of the Program is to improve indoor air quality by providing grants to qualified individuals or businesses to install indoor a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB562 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Small Food Banks Grant Program in the Department of Human Services; requiring the Department to give priority to nonprofit entities in the State that conduct assessments, with ongoing data collection to track success, and ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB838 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller for an investigation by the Field Enforcement Bureau certain complaints that allege a violation of certain tax laws under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB791 | Engross
50% | Altering the duties of an assistant principal on the career ladder; and providing that a requirement for a county board of education to select a certain teacher on the teacher leadership track of the career ladder to write certain curriculum and asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB52 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to apply for a waiver to allow benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to be used to purchase diapers or menstrual hygiene products, if the U.S. Department of Agriculture makes the waive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB867 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration, in consultation with the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, to design and issue a Maryland Heroes registration plate that features the images of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Dougla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB843 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB70 | Engross
50% | Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $5,000 of income earned by certain law enforcement officers to include State law enforcement officers who reside in a political subdivision in which the crime rate exceed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB401 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local department of social services to maintain a secure Electronic Benefits Transfer card system, monitor Electronic Benefits Transfer card activity in a certain manner, provide certain notification to certain households, include a certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB955 | Intro
25% | Altering, in 2024, the date of the statewide primary election and the primary election for municipal offices in Baltimore City to the third Tuesday in April.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB495 | Intro
25% | Requiring each research facility and testing facility in the State to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture to use animals in research, education, or testing; establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a research fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB475 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup on the Maryland 529 Prepaid College Trust Program; requiring the Workgroup to identify policies, procedures, and practices that led to issues relating to the earnings calculation formula and Maryland 529 account holders' in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB837 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop certain guidelines on or before January 1, 2024, and revise and enhance instruction about the Holocaust in public schools for certain elementary, middle, and high school grade levels; requiring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB845 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
