| MD | SB144 | Veto | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to procure or provide for electricity customers energy efficiency and conservation programs and services designed to achieve certain target annual incremental gross energy savings for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| 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 | SB343 | Pass | Establishing certain procedures regarding the persons who may establish or receive distributions from an ABLE account in the Maryland ABLE Program for a certain eligible individual; and requiring the Maryland 529 Board to adopt certain procedures reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 637 |
| 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 | SB280 | Pass | Exempting certain family child care homes, large family child care homes, and child care centers that serve only dependent children of military personnel and are located on a military base or federal property or certified by a branch of the U.S. Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 658 |
| MD | SB1 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm in certain locations; prohibiting a person from wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm onto certain property unless the owner or owner's agent has given certain pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680 |
| MD | SB559 | Pass | Increasing the appropriation required by the Governor in the annual budget bill for the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program from $7,550,000 to $12,050,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 628 |
| MD | SB286 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to bury the eligible spouse or dependent of a veteran in a State veterans' cemetery without charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 616 |
| MD | SB143 | Pass | Authorizing a certain eligible customer-generator to accrue net excess generation for an indefinite period; requiring the Public Service Commission to establish a method for calculating the value of certain accrued net excess generation; and requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 458 |
| 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 | SB549 | Pass | Establishing the Build Our Future Grant Pilot Program in the Department of Commerce to provide funding for certain costs for infrastructure projects in eligible technology sectors; requiring certain grantees to provide matching funds and to demonstr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
| MD | SB823 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide a discount of at least $40 on annual State park passes for all first responders and law enforcement officers who are Maryland residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 511 |
| MD | SB699 | Pass | Establishing the Equitech Growth Fund in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to support the economic competitiveness and inclusive growth of emerging and advanced industries in the State through the creation of supporting infrastructure a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 461 |
| MD | SB550 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund as an instrumentality of the State to develop opportunities for banking institutions and credit unions to better serve the needs of low- to moderate-income tracts; providing for certain asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 433 |
| MD | SB124 | Pass | Establishing that the Maryland Food System Resiliency Council is in the Office of Resilience in the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; altering the membership of the Council to include a representative of the seafood industry; altering the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 574 |
| 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 | SB341 | Pass | Requiring, on or before August 1, 2024, certain public senior higher education institutions, in consultation with students, to develop and implement a reproductive health services plan; requiring the University of Baltimore, in lieu of developing and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 250 |
| 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 | SB516 | Pass | Renaming the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to be the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission; establishing the Maryland Cannabis Administration as an independent unit of State government; establishing a regulatory and licensing system for adult-us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 255 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB263 | Pass | Establishing the Access to Mental Health Advisory Committee within the Maryland Higher Education Commission to study the policies and procedures adopted by institutions of higher education in the State regarding access to mental health care and the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 401 |
| MD | SB497 | Pass | Designating Maryland Rye or Maryland Rye Whiskey as the State spirit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 308 |
| MD | SB223 | Pass | Requiring a principal department of the Executive Branch to give certain notice to the public, the General Assembly, and any exclusive representative with certain bargaining unit employees and hold a public hearing before changing the use, purpose, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 118 |
| MD | SB239 | Pass | Establishing that the terms "spouse", "family", "immediate family", "dependent", and any other terms that denote a spousal relationship shall be construed to include a party to a domestic partnership for purposes of the State Employee and Retiree Hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 120 |
| MD | SB269 | Pass | Prohibiting certain persons subject to campaign finance regulation from making or accepting monetary contributions or monetary donations using any currency other than United States currency; prohibiting a campaign finance entity or a person acting on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 167 |
| 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 | SB424 | Pass | Requiring producers of eligible materials to submit environmental product declarations to the Department of General Services by December 31, 2024; requiring the Department to assess and establish a maximum acceptable global warming potential for cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 201 |
| MD | SB551 | Pass | Establishing the Department of Service and Civic Innovation; providing that the purpose of the Department is to promote service and volunteerism in the State; establishing the Secretary of Service and Civic Innovation and the duties and responsibilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 99 |
| 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 | SB224 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations on or before December 1, 2023, establishing requirements for the sale of new zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles; requiring the Department, in consultation with certain units ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 96 |
| MD | SB781 | Pass | Requiring an application for any new qualified offshore wind project and a certain proposal for an offshore wind transmission facility to be subject to a certain community benefit agreement; requiring the Public Service Commission to request that PJM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 95 |
| MD | SB202 | Pass | Reestablishing the requirement that the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, draft a plan of action for implementing a process to set upper payment limits for certain prescription drug products; reestablishing the autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 40 |
| 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 | SB171 | Engross
50% | Converting enhanced underinsured motorist coverage from an opt-in offering of coverage into an opt-out coverage option under provisions of law establishing requirements for private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance; requiring the Maryland I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB477 | Engross
50% | Establishing and altering certain requirements related to the installation of equipment for the charging of electric vehicles during the construction of certain housing units; clarifying that a county or municipal corporation may require a greater nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB547 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Office of Statewide Broadband within the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct a study of broadband services, service providers, infrastructure, and private network investors and submit its findings and recommendati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| 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 | SB508 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a person to produce consumable help products for sale by the person; and requiring the person offering a consumable hemp product for sale to ensure that the consumable help product is tested by a State-authorized cannabis or hemp testing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-28
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB170 | Engross
50% | Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or an exemption from a certain requirement for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB735 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Wages of Education Support Professionals to determine what percentage of education support professionals in the State earn a living wage and to study increasing the wages of education support professionals to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To House Ways and Means 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 | SB663 | Engross
50% | Requiring each investor-owned electric company, on or before January 1, 2025, to file with the Public Service Commission an application for a pilot program to support residential customer adoption of beneficial electrification measures; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB793 | Engross
50% | Establishing consumer protections related to the repair or replacement of motor vehicle glass on motor vehicles equipped with an advanced driver assistance system; and establishing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-18
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB900 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center to provide early-stage funding for start-up companies focused on qualified projects in climate technologies; requiring the Center to report to the Governor and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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 |
