| MD | SB54 | Pass | Repealing the crime of unnatural or perverted sexual practice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 797 |
| 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 | 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 | SB228 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Aging to oversee and train the staff of long-term care and dementia care navigation programs; requiring each area agency to develop a long-term care and dementia care navigation program that consists of new or existing ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 667 |
| MD | SB231 | Pass | Requiring, unless the child's family has requested that the child be removed, that a child on the registry for the Autism Waiver remain on the registry if the child's family relocates out of the State for military service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621 |
| MD | SB48 | Pass | Adding certain State employees to certain provisions of law authorizing disaster service leave with pay; authorizing certain appointing authorities to waive certain requirements for disaster service leave and to increase the number of days of disaste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 |
| MD | SB162 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Aviation Commission to consider information and advice from certain additional stakeholders when carrying out the Commission's duties; requiring the Commission to consider the aviation, economic, business, environmental, health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 564 |
| MD | SB320 | Pass | Increasing the membership of the Wildlife Advisory Commission; requiring the Governor to appoint a member to the Wildlife Advisory Commission who is an academic researcher with expertise in wildlife biology, wildlife conservation, wildlife management...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 |
| MD | SB526 | Pass | Altering the definition of "qualified conservation" for purposes of provisions of law related to forest mitigation banks; altering exemptions from certain afforestation, reforestation, and preservation requirements; altering certain methods of calcul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 542 |
| 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 | SB200 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners to take disciplinary action against an applicant or a licensee for failing to comply with a Board order; authorizing the Board to grant a stay of enforcement of a Board order in accordance with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| MD | SB188 | Pass | Establishing the Rare Disease Advisory Council to study and make recommendations on matters relating to individuals with rare diseases in the State; requiring the Council to convene public hearings, make inquiries, and solicit comments from the publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 361 |
| MD | SB258 | Pass | Requiring that the credential reappointment process for physician staff included in certain minimum standards for hospitals licensed in the State be conducted in accordance with standards of the accreditation body that accredits a hospital, rather th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 358 |
| 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 | 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 | SB515 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, or health maintenance organizations to establish a certain process for requesting an exception to a step therapy or fail-first protocol; prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 364 |
| MD | SB626 | Pass | Requiring that the members of the Health Services Cost Review Commission be appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate of Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 366 |
| MD | SB772 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Nursing to appoint peer advisory committees to provide advice related to midwifery; authorizing registered nurses certified as nurse-midwives and licensed certified midwives to personally prepare and dispense a starter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 367 |
| 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 | SB234 | Pass | Requiring that the Health Services Cost Review Commission exercise its authority to consider certain standards when determining the reasonableness of certain rates in a manner that is consistent with the all-payer model contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 374 |
| 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 | SB90 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from making certain telephone solicitations to a certain called party in a certain manner by restricting the methods, times, and identifying information that the person making the call may utilize; and making a violation of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| MD | SB514 | Pass | Requiring that a county or municipality that operates a minority business enterprise utilization program for county or municipal procurements and has a process for the certification of minority business enterprises shall accept as certified a person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 205 |
| MD | SB773 | Pass | Requiring the Board of Public Works, in consultation with the Procurement Improvement Council, to publish a model policy on or before January 1, 2024, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions in procurement contracts; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 206 |
| 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 | SB552 | Pass | Altering the percentage of the federal earned income tax credit used for determining the amount that an individual may claim as a refund under the Maryland earned income tax credit under certain circumstances; repealing a certain limitation on the am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3 |
| MD | SB555 | Pass | Increasing the State minimum wage rate; repealing the authority of the Board of Public Works to temporarily suspend an increase in the minimum wage rate; and repealing the requirement that the Governor's budgets for certain fiscal years include certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| MD | SB665 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, or the Office of Health Care Quality, to investigate whether residents in an assisted living program have been subject to neglect, exploitation, or abuse if the assisted living program is operating without...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| MD | SB92 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of General Services to establish and update standards for State buildings to conserve energy and minimize adverse impacts on birds; requiring the Maryland Green Building Council to include the standards in any requirements es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Lam) Adopted |
| MD | SB367 | Engross
50% | Consolidating and altering certain laws governing collective bargaining for certain public employees, including laws related to the establishment of bargaining units, elections and certification of exclusive representatives, employee and employer rig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To House Appropriations 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 | SB647 | Engross
50% | Altering the membership of the State Board of Pharmacy to include a registered pharmacy technician; authorizing a licensed pharmacist, under certain circumstances, to delegate the entry of certain data into databases or patient charts to be performed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB562 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Small Food Banks Grant Program in the Department of Human Services; requiring the Department to give priority to nonprofit entities in the State that conduct assessments, with ongoing data collection to track success, and ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB52 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to apply for a waiver to allow benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to be used to purchase diapers or menstrual hygiene products, if the U.S. Department of Agriculture makes the waive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB585 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of the Career and Technical Education Committee; altering the Committee's duties and authorized actions to include the perspective of career colleges and skilled trade organizations; and requiring the Committee to develop and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Hester) Adopted |
| MD | SB120 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board of education, before the start of the 2024-2025 school year, to adopt, implement, and publish guidelines in accordance with the State school health service guidelines to reduce the risk of exposure to anaphylactic major fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| MD | SB893 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish specific goals for the recruitment and retention of teachers in teacher preparation programs; transferring the administration of the Teaching Fellows for Maryland program to the Department and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB852 | Intro
25% | Requiring a ticket issuer, primary ticket sales platform, or secondary ticket exchange to implement a certain refund policy for tickets to certain entertainment events; prohibiting a ticket issuer or seller from restricting the resale, transfer, or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB845 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB628 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide coverage for sports physicals performed by school-based health centers; requiring the Secretary of Health to include certain infrastructure needs in guidelines on the expansion of school-ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB488 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services to complete a study on the creation of an electronic ballot return system on or before December 1, 2023; and requiring the State Board of Elections to issue a request for proposals for an electronic ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB629 | Intro
25% | Altering certain requirements for a model policy prohibiting bullying, harassment, or intimidation in public and nonpublic schools; requiring that if the act of bullying, harassment, or intimidation is determined to be motivated by the alleged victim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB456 | Intro
25% | Requiring a railroad employer to provide a railroad employee with unpaid earned sick and safe leave under the Healthy Working Families Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB625 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to certain conditions, to adopt 12-month continuous eligibility for children under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Maryland Children's Health Program; and requiring the Department, subj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB774 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Program in the Maryland Department of Health; requiring the Secretary of Health to establish a certain pilot program before implementing the Program statewide; requiring the Secretary to report annually to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB627 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, beginning on January 1, 2025, to provide coverage for dialysis services to certain noncitizen individuals under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB604 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to increase the hourly reimbursement rate for certain personal assistance services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to a minimum of $25 per hour; requiring provider agencies to pay the greater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB548 | Intro
25% | Altering the Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment Program by extending the duration of the Program, repealing the rebates that may be issued to retail service station dealers, and repealing the limitation on the total amount of rebates that the Mary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB512 | Intro
25% | Requiring an owner or operator of a public water system to maintain a detectable residual disinfectant level of at least 0.5 milligrams per liter of chlorine, not to exceed the maximum residual disinfectant level set by the U.S. Environmental Protect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
