Maryland Senator Chris West [R]

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MDSB382Intro
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Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; pro...
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2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB483Intro
25%
Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap wi...
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2025-01-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB473Intro
25%
Expanding the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Mechanism Grant Program by making certain qualified suppliers eligible for grant funding; establishing the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Operating Fund; and requiring the Governor to...
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2025-01-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB429Intro
25%
Altering the definitions of target per pupil foundation amount, collaborative time per pupil amount, and special education per pupil amount for certain fiscal years; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB428Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with fulfilling the Program's purpose; alterin...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB427Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB432Intro
25%
Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor ...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB426Intro
25%
Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ...
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2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB431Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to waive the license examination requirement for a journey plumber license; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to waive the examination for certain licenses; altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship a...
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2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB336Intro
25%
Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalties for a first conviction of imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both, and for subsequent convictions, imprisonment not to exceed 10 years or a fine of u...
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2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB333Intro
25%
Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
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2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB338Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 in Baltimore County subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected in Baltimore County as a ...
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2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB287Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person, acting alone or with others, from preventing another from entering or exiting a religious facility; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment of up t...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB286Intro
25%
Clarifying required information for registering a domestic partnership or obtaining a marriage license; and requiring a declaration of domestic partnership filed with the register of wills to include the Social Security number of each domestic partne...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 11:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB352Intro
25%
Altering from four to three the number of members elected from each councilmanic district of Baltimore County to the Baltimore County Republican Party Central Committee.
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2025-01-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSJ2Intro
25%
Urging the U.S. Congress to pass H.R. 4052 to establish a national infrastructure bank to finance urgently needed infrastructure projects.
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2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 10:30 am]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB332Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study the Premature Retirement of Electricity Generation Facilities; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations to address challenges and enhance decision making regarding the premature retirement of electricity g...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB300Intro
25%
Establishing the felony of theft of a handgun; establishing a penalty for theft of a handgun of, for a first conviction, imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both and, for a second or subsequent conviction, imprisonment of up to...
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2025-01-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB141Intro
25%
Authorizing an individual who is at least 60 years old and has been imprisoned for at least 20 years to file a motion to reduce the duration of the individual's sentence; requiring the court to conduct a hearing on a motion to reduce the duration of ...
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2025-01-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB61Intro
25%
Establishing that it is lawful for a person to use a cellular telephone or another device to intercept an oral communication in public if the speaker should reasonably anticipate that the oral communication would be overheard or intercepted; and est...
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2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB135Intro
25%
Clarifying that a communication between an attorney and a client that acts as a fiduciary is subject to the attorney-client privilege even if fiduciary funds are used to compensate the attorney for services rendered to the client.
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB38Intro
25%
Reclassifying, as a misdemeanor instead of a felony, a certain offense relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing any wire, oral, or electronic communications.
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2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB126Intro
25%
Authorizing the trustee of a trust to resign under the Maryland Trust Act on 30 days' notice to qualified beneficiaries, the settlor, if living, all cotrustees, and any person that has a right to replace or appoint a successor to the resigning truste...
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB22Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland to examine and analyze the efficiency, uniformity, and quality of fiduciary adjudication in Maryland and make recommendations; requiring the orphans' courts, circuit courts, regi...
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB19Intro
25%
Clarifying the commissions that a guardian of the property may charge; authorizing a trustee of a trust to charge compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances; and authorizing trustees who are financial institutions or members of the Maryl...
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB12Intro
25%
Adding to the conditions under which an individual who creates a trust may not be considered the settlor of that trust with regard to the individual's interest in the trust; and providing that a creditor may not attach, exercise, reach, or otherwise ...
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB110Intro
25%
Prioritizing the payment of unpaid child support over certain other claims on an estate of a decedent with insufficient assets to pay all claims in full.
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB158Intro
25%
Specifying the manner in which notice regarding an exercise of the decanting power or the sending of a document under the Maryland Trust Decanting Act is required to be provided.
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB25Intro
25%
Specifying certain qualifications necessary for an individual to be appointed by a court as a custody evaluator.
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB112Intro
25%
Prohibits a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an official, an umpire, a referee, or a judge officiating at a sporting event; authorizes a police officer to arrest ...
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2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB44Intro
25%
Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good ...
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2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB170Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from knowingly recruiting, harboring, transporting, or obtaining an individual for the purpose of appropriating the government benefits of an individual for the benefit of the person or another through deception, coercion, exploi...
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2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB180Intro
25%
Establishing alternative expiration and renewal periods for a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer who retired in good standing from service with a law enforcement agency of the State or a county or municipal corporation of the ...
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2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB152Intro
25%
Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
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2025-01-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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