| MD | HB853 | Pass | Authorizing a certain individual to file a motion to reduce the duration of a certain sentence if the individual was convicted between the ages of at least 18 and under 25, was not sentenced to life, is not a sex offender, has served at least 20 year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 96 |
| MD | HB1424 | Pass | Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs connected to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 97 |
| MD | HB185 | Enroll
75% | Altering the fiscal years to include fiscal year 2027 through fiscal year 2029, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB634 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Income Tax Reconciliation Program in the State to allow certain justice-involved individuals to establish installment payment plans and receive a waiver of any interest and penalties that accrue for unpaid income tax due for a taxabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB707 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that an original and renewal application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to choose to indicate on the document the applicant's nonapparent disability; requiring the Motor Vehicle Admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1126 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a Child Support Arrearage to Work Pilot Program within the Department of Labor to connect individuals who are unemployed and in arrears under a child support order with employment opportunities in the State; and requiring the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1473 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Department of Disabilities to convene the Maryland Language Advisory Group, by January 1, 2026, to make findings and recommendations on oversight, monitoring, investigation, and enforcement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1316 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and publish a youth-centric technology and social media resource guide by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1222 | Enroll
75% | Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State or local government that operate at certain sensitive lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1121 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to remove certain application barriers for parenting foster youth and increase eligibility access to the Child Care Schol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB782 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency; requiring the Center to request any avai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1475 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Department of Education to convene a workgroup to conduct an analysis of the mixed delivery, publicly funded prekindergarten system established under the Blueprint for Maryland's Future; and requiring the workgroup to submit a fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB879 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB983 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Language Assistance Program; requiring a local board of elections to participate in the Program if the State Board determines that there is a significant need for language assistance to voters in the county in a language other than E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1057 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to conduct a study to determine the types of State support, in the form of funding or otherwise, that would be appropriate and beneficial to assist private providers of treatment foster care homes in the pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB325 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to choose to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in either English or Spanish; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB197 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1204 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain public and nonpublic schools to notify a parent or guardian if a student attempts or accomplishes an elopement, the act of leaving the school campus without permission; requiring certain schools and individualized education program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB39 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB930 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1303 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Education to provide a pathway for individuals who are qualified to be child care teachers, but lack proof of necessary educational attainment, to attest to qualifying educational credentials to be a child care teacher t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1127 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board of education to develop certain instructional content on water safety for public school students in the county; and requiring that the instructional content be offered to students in elementary, middle, and high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB666 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage in accordance with the most recent guidelines issued by the American ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1352 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from denying access or services to a student based on the student's diagnosis of sickle cell disease; requiring an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations for students with s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1198 | Engross
50% | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1325 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; providing that the purpose of the Program is to facilitate the continuous operation of child care facilities in the State by ensuring that qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB493 | Engross
50% | Designating November 14 as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day to commemorate Ruby Bridges, who, on November 14, 1960, became the first African American student to integrate an all-while school in New Orleans, Louisiana; and requiring the State Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB937 | Intro
25% | Increasing the sales and use tax rate for sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 12%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB596 | Engross
50% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring the remote registration process to provide an opportunity for the service m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1129 | Intro
25% | Altering terminology in the Maryland Constitution that refers to constitutional officers to be gender-neutral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1306 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish certain specialized clinics for the management and treatment of sickle cell disease and establish a scholarship program for medical residents who specialize in benign or classical hematology wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1254 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program in the State Department of Education to provide funding to eligible schools that participate in the federal community eligibility provision of the child nutrition programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1513 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an individual assigned to be a school resource officer or a school security employee from being used for purposes of or otherwise engaging in certain federal immigration investigation and enforcement functions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1287 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, receiving, or transferring a certain convertible pistol; and defining "convertible pistol" as any semiautomatic pistol that can be converted into a machine gun solely by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HJ6 | Intro
25% | Stating that the General Assembly joins certain other state legislative bodies, counties, and municipalities in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's Congress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB578 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Board of Public Works to control certain procurement contracts by the Department of Transportation and Maryland Transportation Authority valued at or above $500,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB818 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in certain actions seeking to remedy a violation of a Maryland constitutional right; authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB837 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Forced Infant Separation From Incarcerated Individuals to study and make recommendations regarding methods to reduce forced infant separation in the State and facilitate bonds between postpartum incarcerated indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB940 | Intro
25% | Requiring a court to stay the entering of judgment, defer further proceedings, and place a defendant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or an intellectual disability on probation before judgment under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB709 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB55 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of any misdemeanor or felony conviction after the completion of the sentence, parole, probation, and any other form of mandatory treatment associated with the conviction; authorizing a court to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1422 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to study and make recommendations relating to appropriate benefits to be made to individuals whose ancestors were enslaved in the State or were impacted by certain inequitable government policies; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1431 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law to require a law enforcement agency or a unit of State or local government to deny access to certain databases by certain individuals seeking access for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration law, under certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB959 | Intro
25% | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1014 | Intro
25% | Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB387 | Intro
25% | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB69 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain producers of certain plastic products from selling, offering for sale, or distributing the products to any person in the State unless certain conditions are met; requiring certain producers of certain plastic products to, individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB232 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB696 | Intro
25% | Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
