Maryland Senator Chris West [R]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
MD	SB380	Veto	Establishing the Police Recruitment and Retention Workgroup to study issues and factors potentially contributing to recruitment challenges and the decline in police officer retention statewide; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-23 Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative)
MD	SB319	Pass	Repealing and altering a reporting requirement to require the Maryland Judiciary, instead of the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before October 1 each year on the number of char... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 742
MD	SB379	Pass	Extending the Task Force to Study Crime Classification and renaming it to be the Task Force to Study Crime Reclassification and Penalties; requiring the Task Force to study the penalties for crimes and civil offenses under State law, the potential ne... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 935
MD	SB453	Pass	Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704
MD	SB470	Pass	Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; alter... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708
MD	SB475	Pass	Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local age... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707
MD	SB473	Pass	Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based startup companies that are founded by students of postsecondary institutions located in and ha... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 711
MD	SB822	Pass	Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $5,000 of income earned by certain law enforcement officers to include State law enforcement officers who reside in a political subdivision in which the crime rate exceed... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 908
MD	SB1091	Pass	Establishing requirements for each county board of education regarding provision of the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year by students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 750
MD	SB1099	Pass	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]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 764
MD	SB1036	Pass	Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 936
MD	SB113	Pass	Prohibiting an individual from knowingly and with a certain intent soliciting a minor or law enforcement officer posing as a minor to engage in certain prohibited sexual acts with the minor by a certain means. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 834
MD	SB130	Pass	Prohibiting a person from committing the common law crime of indecent exposure; prohibiting a person from, with prurient intent, committing the common law crime of indecent exposure when the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor is pres... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 859
MD	SB391	Pass	Altering the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of sexual extortion to be 5 years and the crime of stalking to be 10 years; providing that the State may institute a prosecution for revenge porn at any time; and providing that, for purpose... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 772
MD	SB134	Pass	Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office for fiscal year 2025 only; requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 836
MD	SB325	Pass	Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 588
MD	SB400	Pass	Altering certain definitions as they relate to certain Maryland business entities; authorizing a corporation to adopt certain emergency bylaws; authorizing a corporation to take certain actions during an emergency; limiting the liability of certain p... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 609
MD	SB472	Pass	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]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413
MD	SB482	Pass	Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to chair the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Office to staff the Children's C... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 408
MD	SB474	Pass	Altering and establishing the definition of "generating station" for the purpose of exempting the construction of certain generating facilities used to produce electricity for the purpose of on-site emergency backup and certain test and maintenance o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411
MD	SB544	Pass	Altering the process by which a defective corporate act may be ratified; and altering rules for certain legal actions by persons claiming to be adversely affected by a ratification. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604
MD	SB547	Pass	Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,00... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596
MD	SB571	Pass	Requiring a covered entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment on or before April 1, 2026, under certain circumstances; requiring certain privacy protectio... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 460
MD	SB575	Pass	Authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the protected individual on the Internet, s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 415
MD	SB793	Pass	Clarifying that a county is responsible for a certain tort claim against a sheriff or deputy sheriff under the Maryland Tort Claims Act; clarifying that, for certain tort claims against a sheriff or deputy sheriff, the State is the proper defendant; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 610
MD	SB818	Pass	Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and a certain assessment on or before certain dates; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain circumst... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496
MD	SB1074	Pass	Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 532
MD	SB442	Pass	Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for d... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 570
MD	SB15	Pass	Altering procedures for the dispute settlement mechanism under the Maryland Cooperative Housing Corporation Act and applying the mechanism to any complaint or demand formally arising on or after October 1, 2023, with a certain exception. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 255
MD	SB80	Pass	Authorizing only an interested person or unpaid claimant, rather than any person, to file an objection to the appointment of a personal representative of an estate of a decedent. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 318
MD	SB75	Pass	Increasing, from in excess of $10,000 to in excess of $25,000, the threshold amount for certain transfers by a personal representative, trustee, or conservator as a custodian for the benefit of a minor to require authorization by a court. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 314
MD	SB116	Pass	Altering a prohibition on judges of the orphans' court acting as attorneys to prohibit a judge of the orphans' court from acting as an attorney in matters related to the administration of an estate or a guardianship of a minor within the jurisdiction... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 200
MD	SB164	Pass	Altering the definition of "interested person" for purposes of provisions of law governing the estates of decedents, guardians of persons and property, trusts, and powers of attorney. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 317
MD	SB147	Pass	Altering the information relating to the Access to Counsel in Eviction Program required to be reported by the Maryland Legal Services Corporation each year to include the number of cases in which an individual was provided legal representation, the a... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 313
MD	SB50	Pass	Providing that a certain final order of the Commission on Civil Rights on a complaint alleging a discriminatory act is appealable in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 260
MD	SB413	Pass	Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323
MD	SB1178	Pass	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]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176
MD	SB668	Pass	Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child who is en... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 345
MD	SB1101	Pass	Altering the definition of an eligible institution for the Maryland Police Officers and Probation Agents Scholarship Program to include a community college in the State. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 252
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	SB478	Pass	Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6
MD	SB477	Pass	Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8
MD	SB476	Pass	Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14
MD	SB858	Engross Sine Die	Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; and altering the prohibition against revenge porn to prohibit a person from knowingly distributing a computer-generated visual representation that i... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Third Reading Passed (134-0)
MD	SB2	Engross Sine Die	Requiring an intake officer to file a petition alleging that a child under the age of 13 years is either delinquent or a child in need of supervision if the child is alleged to have committed an act that results in the death of a victim; and requirin... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Third Reading Passed (136-0)
MD	SB608	Engross Sine Die	Altering a requirement for a law enforcement agency to file administrative charges relating to alleged police officer misconduct that is required to be reviewed by an administrative charging committee within 30 days; requiring a law enforcement agenc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-08 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
MD	SB17	Engross Sine Die	Establishing that each domestic or farm animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for purposes of the sentencing guidelines stacking rule; and establishing that... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MD	SB479	Engross Sine Die	Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems to include certain distributions for highway and work zone safety purposes; clarifying that a work zone speed control system may be man... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-04 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MD	SB758	Intro Sine Die	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	SB471	Engross Sine Die	Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-02 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee