Maryland Senator Benjamin Kramer [D]

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MDSB784Engross
50%
Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State; etc.
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (28-17)
MDSB1056Engross
50%
Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain ...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (32-13)
MDSB1055Engross
50%
Prohibiting, unless authorized by the Department of Agriculture, a person from keeping a certain number of roosters on certain property beginning on January 1, 2026, subject to certain exceptions; and authorizing the Department to work in cooperation...
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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)
MDSB59Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a public awareness campaign to promote education regarding safe sleep for infants; establishing the Maryland Safe Sleep Certification Program and requiring child care centers to be ...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB614Engross
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 ...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB192Engross
50%
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain supervisory State employees; and requiring that certain supervisory State employees who are not confidential employees have separate bargaining units.
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
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
MDSB714Engross
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...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB825Engross
50%
Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a unit of local government, to delegate to the unit of local government the authority to inspect and to conduct site visits and full surveys of related institutions and nursing homes; and requiring rel...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations 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
MDSB571Engross
50%
Requiring a certain entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment by April 1, 2026; requiring a certain entity to maintain documentation of certain risks asso...
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2024-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB760Engross
50%
Requiring a merchant that conducts an online sale of a certain gift card to register with the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General as an online seller of gift cards; prohibiting a merchant from selling a gift card to ...
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2024-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB822Engross
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...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means 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
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
MDSB436Engross
50%
Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of L...
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2024-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB1057Intro
25%
Altering the financial eligibility criteria for the home- and community-based services waiver submitted by the Maryland Department of Health to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to include categorically needy individuals with an income ...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1117Intro
25%
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay in a certain manner; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each firefighter employed by the county or municipality; and authorizin...
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2024-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB715Intro
25%
Requiring a private construction contract to include a provision requiring the owner to pay the contractor within 45 days after the receipt of a proper invoice following completion of the work or, if the owner withholds all or part of an amount invoi...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB509Engross
50%
Regulating commercial financing transactions, including by establishing requirements related to disclosures, calculations of annual percentage rates, terms of repayments, and other related items, and the extension of specific offers.
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2024-03-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB600Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the feasibility of including removable full and partial dentures and setting adequate reimbursement rates for providers on a per-patient basis for house calls and extended care facility calls among...
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2024-03-01
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB864Engross
50%
Designating the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center as the State's Regional Higher Education Community of Innovation; and altering the purposes of the Universities at Shady Grove to include serving a diverse citizenry in an i...
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2024-02-29
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB169Engross
50%
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
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2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB761Intro
25%
Requiring each 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 testing facility; prohibiting a t...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1148Intro
25%
Altering, from intentional to reckless, the mental state required as an element of cruelty to animals owned or used by law enforcement units.
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2024-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB598Intro
25%
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB823Intro
25%
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1054Intro
25%
Requiring a county or municipality to implement a certain web-based platform for features supporting the tracking and approval of residential building permits for certain residential solar energy projects, residential energy storage projects, and mai...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB824Intro
25%
Requiring each local board of elections to send the absentee ballot application approved by the State Board of Elections to each eligible voter at least 60 days before each statewide primary election, unless the voter has permanent absentee ballot st...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB872Intro
25%
Establishing increased penalties of imprisonment for up to 3 years and a fine not to exceed $5,000 or both for the abuse or neglect of an animal if the abuse or neglect results in the death or euthanasia of the animal; and authorizing the court, as a...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB865Intro
25%
Expanding, renaming, and altering certain provisions relating to a certain truancy reduction program in certain juvenile courts; authorizing a county or circuit administrative judge to establish a certain Truancy Reduction and School Reengagement Pro...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB958Intro
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...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB713Intro
25%
Providing that an applicant for registration to provide security systems services may provide security system services and have access to circumventional information if the applicant applied for registration, received an application number confirming...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB871Intro
25%
Establishing that the disqualification from receiving unemployment insurance benefits due to a stoppage of work does not apply for any week beginning after the first 14 days of an individual's unemployment resulting from the stoppage of work that exi...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB431Intro
25%
Establishing that governmental essential workers are presumed to have an occupational disease that is compensable under workers' compensation law after being diagnosed with long COVID under certain circumstances; and applying the Act retroactively.
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB599Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process to receive federal financial participation for the payment of county or municipal general funds appropriated to community providers that serve individuals with developmental disabilitie...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB591Intro
25%
Authorizing employees of public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engage in goo...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB505Intro
25%
Increasing the cap on the assessment a county or municipal corporation may impose on each transportation network service from 25 cents per trip to 50 cents per trip.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB426Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland STEM Program in the State Department of Education to provide additional compensation to educators who teach STEM classes at nonpublic schools; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for the Program and requiring participatin...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB528Intro
25%
Providing a refundable credit against the State income tax for nonpublic school student bus transportation expenses paid by an individual resident who is the parent or guardian of the student during the taxable year; prohibiting a tax credit from exc...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB545Intro
25%
Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for all public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB388Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $1,000,000 for the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund which provides funding for the Board; and requiring t...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB346Intro
25%
Phasing in, over a period of 3 years, an increase in a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax to allow for a subtraction of all military retirement income beginning in taxable year 2026.
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2024-01-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB398Intro
25%
Authorizing the reimbursement of certain physicians, qualified health care providers, and hospitals by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for certain forensic examinations of and health care services provided to a victim of nonfatal strangulati...
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2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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