| MD | HB1115 | Pass | Altering the requirements for governance of libraries designated as regional resource centers; and establishing a governing board for each regional resource center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 676 |
| MD | HB1084 | Pass | Increasing the amount of the inspection tax levied on marketable oysters shipped in the shell to any place outside the State from 30 cents to $1 per bushel; increasing the amount of the severance tax levied on oysters caught within certain natural oy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 781 |
| MD | HB1162 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, to conduct a study on the utilization of the expedited licensing process for service members, veterans, and military spouses for certain occupational...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 619 |
| MD | HB465 | Pass | Authorizing an individual under the age of 16 years to use a collapsible trap, net ring, handline, or dip net when catching or attempting to catch crabs in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries without a recreational crabbing lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 537 |
| MD | HB466 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person in Worcester County to hunt game birds and game mammals on a Sunday, subject to certain time restrictions, during the open season for that game bird or game mammal; authorizing the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 536 |
| MD | HB683 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue an apprentice hunting license to a person under the age of 17 years who has previously been issued an apprentice hunting license under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 555 |
| MD | HB389 | Pass | Establishing the State Specialist for Value-Added Agriculture as a position in the Department of Agriculture to serve as the primary point of contact for individuals engaging in, or interested in engaging in, value-added agriculture in the State; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
| MD | HB152 | Pass | Altering the purpose and contents of and the requirements and qualifications under the Urban Agriculture Grant Fund; requiring the Governor, in each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029, to include at least $100,000 for the Fund in the annual budget bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 519 |
| MD | HB675 | Pass | Establishing the Commission to Study Trauma Center Funding in Maryland to study the adequacy of trauma center funding across the State for operating, capital, and workforce costs; and requiring the Commission to reports its findings and recommendatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 341 |
| MD | HB240 | Pass | Authorizing an application for special death benefits to be made for the death of certain members of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 164 |
| MD | HB386 | Pass | Establishing a licensing and regulatory scheme to allow the commercial fishing of blue and flathead catfish in the tidal waters of the State using a finfish trotline.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 104 |
| MD | HB509 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections to publish municipal election results on its website immediately after a municipality submits its election results; and requiring, within 30 days after the results of a municipal election are certified, the muni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 162 |
| MD | HB608 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from discriminating in the sale or rental of, or otherwise making unavailable or denying, a dwelling to an individual with a disability who has, obtains, or retains a certain service dog.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 211 |
| MD | HB163 | Pass | Requiring membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System for certain local law enforcement officers of the Crisfield Police Department under certain circumstances; providing that a certain individual is entitled to eligibility service and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 72 |
| MD | HB487 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting certain regulations to implement certain new motor vehicle emissions standards and compliance requirements adopted by the California Air Resources Board unless certain analyses are prepared ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB678 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Comptroller, in consultation with certain entities, to study and report to the General Assembly by December 15, 2023, on exempting from the sales and use tax electricity used for agricultural purposes such as raising livestock or poultr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (136-0) |
| MD | HB467 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt turkey on each Sunday of the spring turkey hunting season on private property and public land designated by the Department for hunting in Worcester County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-30
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB799 | Intro
25% | Requiring, for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2027, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation in an amount equal to the low-density calculation for counties that have a population density amount of less than 100 and a full...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB931 | Engross
50% | Increasing, from 5% to 6%, the maximum hotel rental tax rate that counties in the Eastern Shore class of code counties may impose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB738 | Intro
25% | Beginning in fiscal year 2025, increasing from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 an annual appropriation to the Safe Schools Fund to provide grants to local school systems and local law enforcement agencies to assist in meeting an annual reporting requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB739 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "full-time equivalent enrollment" in the calculation for State education aid to include the average number of students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 on September 30, December 31, March 31, and the last day of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB958 | Intro
25% | Requiring that an abortion be performed by a physician, rather than a qualified provider; repealing certain provisions of law related to State interference with an abortion, regulations related to abortion, and liability or criminal punishment for ph...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1101 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Maternity Care Access Program in the Maryland Department of Health to develop and sustain pregnancy support centers in the State; establishing the Maryland Maternity Care Access Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1015 | Intro
25% | Increasing, from 106 to 120 days, the period during which an employer is not required to allow an employee to use earned sick and safe leave; altering the circumstances under which an employer is required to reinstate certain unused sick and safe lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB521 | Intro
25% | Increasing to $10,000 a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying public safety volunteer; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB932 | Intro
25% | Establishing the rotational harvest pilot program for oysters to be implemented by the Department of Natural Resources; requiring the Department to open certain areas of the Chesapeake Bay to the rotational harvest of oysters in certain manners; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB712 | Intro
25% | Requiring a farm equipment manufacturer to make available certain documentation, updates, or information to an independent repair provider or owner of farm equipment to allow for the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the farm equipment; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ2 | Intro
25% | Applying to the U.S. Congress for an amendments convention called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution that impose fiscal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB359 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions aga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB699 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State and the political subdivisions in the State from requiring an applicant for employment or an employee to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition for employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1100 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to local governments to train local fire departments on certain safety aspects associated with lithium-ion battery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1092 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of days from 8 to 4 on which early voting centers are required to be open before a primary or general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB952 | Intro
25% | Establishing, altering, and clarifying penalties for and elements of certain firearm-related crimes; prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a certain defendant charged with a certain firearm-related crime u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1199 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB926 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a voter to establish the voter's identity at the request of an election judge at a polling place by presenting the voter's registration card, a valid Maryland driver's license, or certain other identification that contains a photograph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB945 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person whose authorization to catch oysters is revoked under certain provisions of law to apply for reinstatement of the authorization after 5 years; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish an Oyster Harvester Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB936 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a credit against the State income tax for a certain small business that employs 50 or fewer employees for costs incurred by the small business during the taxable year for certain cybersecurity measures undertaken by the small business; ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1182 | Intro
25% | Requiring the University of Maryland, College Park Campus to hold a certain plastics innovation competition and to establish and administer procedures and rules for the competition; requiring the University to allocate $3,000,000 for the competition;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB935 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a student who is enrolled at a public high school to satisfy a graduation requirement to earn credits in mathematics by completing a credit in a certain college preparatory computer science or computer programming course if enrolled in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1185 | Intro
25% | Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to a maximum of $25...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1099 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from authorizing, and a person from undertaking, the construction of a solar energy generating station that uses a battery-based energy storage device unless the device will be, and is designed to be, protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB750 | Intro
25% | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalty for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 for a first offense, and imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceedin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB736 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a judicial officer from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant who is charged with a crime of violence if the defendant has a pending charge for a crime of violence or was convicted within the previous 10 years of a crime of viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB666 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB766 | Intro
25% | Exempting from the State transfer tax instruments of writing that transfer real property to individuals who will use the real property as a principal residence for consideration that is $350,000 or less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB767 | Intro
25% | Phasing in, over a period of 5 years, an increase in a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax to allow for a subtraction of all military retirement income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB730 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the General Assembly from providing, by law, for the alteration of the rate of an existing State tax based on inflation or formula ; and prohibiting a certain alteration to a rate of State tax from taking effect unless the General Assembl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB741 | Intro
25% | Decreasing, over 5 taxable years, the State corporate income tax rate from 8.25% to 6.25%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB737 | Intro
25% | Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, and based on certain star ratings, each county board of education to notify the parents or guardians of students in a failing school that the school is failing and provide a list of options; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB740 | Intro
25% | Altering the membership and qualifications of members of the Accountability and Implementation Board; and requiring the Accountability and Implementation Board Nominating Committee to submit a certain slate of nominees to the Governor on or before Au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
