| MD | SB459 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council by removing the Director of the Governor's Grants Office or the Director's designee and adding the Comptroller or the Comptroller's designee; requiring the Council to study ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 29 |
| MD | SB88 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study and make recommendations for developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 10 |
| MD | SB341 | Pass | Altering the name of the museum operated by the Commission on African American History and Culture in certain provisions of law from the "Banneker-Douglass Museum" to the "Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 57 |
| MD | SB425 | Pass | Clarifying that secondary schools participating in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program may serve breakfast in any broadly accessible part of the school; and authorizing elementary schools participating in the Program, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 62 |
| MD | SB480 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 20 |
| MD | SB707 | Pass | Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26 |
| MD | SB783 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that certain home improvement contracts for the installation of a solar energy generating system on the roof of a building include the installation of a certain wildlife barrier under certain circumstances; requiring a county or municipalit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1090 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB148 | Enroll
75% | Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities and areas in which over 90% of households are at extre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1178 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB982 | Enroll
75% | Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; altering the authority of the Board of Public Works over certain information technology projects; renaming the Major Informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB448 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs, in coordination with certain entities, to conduct a study on the history of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union Army in Maryland and to make findings and recommendations regarding the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1099 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB975 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Reproductive Health Care Clinic Security Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Health to assist reproductive health care clinics in the State with costs associated with security improvements and safety operational expenses; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1068 | Enroll
75% | Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a 3-1-1 portal utilizing artificial intelligence and that the Department prioritize the creation of the portal if feasible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB540 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide funds to local school systems to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB492 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day in public middle and high...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB738 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB33 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain county boards of education to consider the pursuit of certain certificates, certifications, or apprenticeships as the equivalent of pursuing postsecondary education and provide a method for a student or a student's parent or guardia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB797 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB527 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, on or before August 1, 2025, each community college to develop and implement a plan to provide students with access to over-the-counter contraception; requiring each community college to submit a certain report to the Maryland Higher Educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB758 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of certain sexual crimes; altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB165 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental ill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB592 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB472 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB337 | Enroll
75% | Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB567 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw from the institution under extenuating circumstances and to refund the student for tuition and fees paid by the student for a certain semester ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB764 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Arts Incubator Workgroup to study how arts and cultural institutions can support local artists; and requiring the Workgroup to submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a preliminary report on its findings, including research, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB432 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researchi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB906 | Engross
50% | Requiring each political subdivision to inventory vacant commercial buildings, develop a plan to convert certain vacant commercial buildings for residential use, and submit a report to the Department of Housing and Community Development on or before ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB649 | Enroll
75% | Altering the purposes of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund to include funding the costs of telecommunications cardiopulmonary resuscitation training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB762 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1058 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB864 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB16 | Engross
50% | Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to draft committees and exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for draft and exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB29 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a special election be held at the same time as the regular statewide primary and general elections that are held in the second year of a term to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senator in the General Assembly if the vacancy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB115 | Engross
50% | Requiring a petitioner for a recount to select the method for conducting the recount; limiting the methods from which the selection must be made; requiring a local board of elections to preserve and store certain voter-verifiable paper records in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB372 | Engross
50% | Requiring a candidate seeking a nomination for Governor in a primary election to designate a candidate for Lieutenant Governor within 2 days after certification of the primary election; requiring a candidate seeking a nomination for Governor by any m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB460 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a payment to an individual as compensation received for serving as an election judge for a local board of elections in the State from being included when computing the wages required to be subtracted from an eligible claimant's weekly ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB651 | Engross
50% | Establishing that certain provisions governing signage at retail service stations supersede inconsistent local law; altering a signage requirement for retail service stations relating to the price of regular gasoline so that the signage prominently d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB458 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by certain individuals; prohibiting certain political organizations from employing certain individuals or allowing certain individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB494 | Engross
50% | Altering the records and documents that a board of canvassers is required to investigate under certain circumstances; altering the responsibilities of the State Administrator, the State Board of Elections, and the Board of State Canvassers regarding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB495 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a certain statement included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about the purpose of a question on the ballot be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB99 | Intro
25% | Authorizing unaffiliated voters to request to affiliate with a political party at an early voting center during a primary election and vote a provisional ballot for the voter's preferred political party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| MD | SB129 | Intro
25% | Requiring that each member of the State Board of Elections receive a stipend as provided in the State budget; requiring the State Administrator of Elections or the procurement officer for the State Board to disclose requests for proposals, invitation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB493 | Intro
25% | Requiring that, in the 2028 statewide primary election, each contest for the nomination by a political party of a candidate for the office of President of the United States be conducted using ranked-choice voting; and requiring the State Board of Ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB169 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB1143 | Intro
25% | Exempting nonprofit organizations qualified under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code from the requirement for a person providing lobbyist compensation to file a statement of political contributions with the State Board of Elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB642 | 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] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB709 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to submit a report on the costs and resources required to process Internet-delivered absentee ballots during elections in the State to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
