| MD | HB131 | 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 796 |
| MD | HB127 | Pass | Prohibiting the District Court, in aid of enforcement or execution of a money judgment resulting from a certain small claim action, from ordering the appearance of an individual for an examination or ordering an individual to answer interrogatories.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709 |
| MD | HB189 | Pass | Clarifying the language of provisions of law requiring the expungement of certain records maintained by the State or a political subdivision of the State relating to the charging of certain offenses under certain circumstances and notification of a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 684 |
| MD | HB193 | Pass | Authorizing a court to stay the entering of a conviction, defer further proceedings, and place a certain defendant on probation subject to reasonable conditions if the court finds facts justifying a finding of guilt; authorizing the State and a certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 710 |
| MD | HB297 | Pass | Altering procedures that a law enforcement officer and a court are required to follow when the law enforcement officer or court has reason to believe that a child who has been detained is a victim of sex trafficking or a victim of human trafficking; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687 |
| MD | HB495 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Department of Education from increasing the copayment levels, reducing the reimbursement rates, reducing the income eligibility requirements, or implementing an enrollment freeze for the Child Care Scholarship Program in effect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 732 |
| MD | HB874 | Pass | Establishing the Environmental and Natural Resources Crimes Unit of the Office of the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute cases against persons that violate State criminal environmental and natural resources laws; and requiring the Attorney...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 690 |
| MD | HB1219 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for early childhood education teacher certification completed through an alternative teacher preparation program; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 627 |
| MD | HB1066 | Pass | Establishing the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention to develop strategies to prevent and respond to hate crime activity and evaluate State laws and policies relating to hate crimes; and requiring the Commission to report to the General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 773 |
| MD | HB824 | Pass | Altering the penalty for a violation of the prohibition on wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun; requiring the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy to annually report certain information to the Governor and General Assembly; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 651 |
| MD | HB1191 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force on Preventing and Countering Elder Abuse to study existing laws, policies, and practices relating to elder abuse and crimes commonly committed against older adults; and requiring the Task Force to submit a final report by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707 |
| MD | HB188 | 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 491 |
| MD | HB36 | Pass | Requiring, in certain actions to repossess residential rental property, a landlord to submit to the clerk of the court evidence of compliance with local rental property licensure requirements and demonstrate that the landlord is compliant with the li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 |
| MD | HB283 | Pass | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2024, 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 253 |
| MD | HB705 | 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 245 |
| MD | HB800 | Pass | Specifying that 25% of the net recovery by the debtor on a claim for workers' compensation is subject to execution on a judgment for a child support arrearage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 320 |
| MD | HB814 | 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 257 |
| MD | HB1148 | Pass | Establishing the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access to make recommendations to provide appropriate, accessible, and comprehensive behavioral health services that are available on demand to individuals in the State; establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 291 |
| MD | HB808 | Pass | Prohibiting a judge from requiring a person to give certain testimony or a statement or to produce evidence for a case involving an alleged violation of the criminal law of another state relating to health care that is legally protected in the State;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 247 |
| MD | HB150 | Pass | Establishing that adaptive reuse, retrofitting, and repurposing of existing buildings to develop new affordable multifamily housing is an eligible use of certain financial assistance provided by the Department of Housing and Community Development; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 174 |
| MD | HB535 | Pass | Requiring a local board of elections to send, not later than 43 days before an election, a ballot to voters who have made a request and qualify to vote by absentee ballot; altering the procedures for the canvassing of and curing of errors on absentee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| 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 | HB230 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations on or before December 1, 2023, establishing requirements for the sale of new zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in the State; defining a "heavy-duty vehicle" as one with a gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 97 |
| MD | HB550 | Pass | Altering the Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment Program by extending the duration of the Program through fiscal year 2026, repealing the rebates that may be issued to retail service station dealers, and increasing the limitation on the total amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 98 |
| MD | HB547 | 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 4 |
| MD | HB1 | Pass | Altering the definition of "sexual abuse" for purposes relating to civil actions for child sexual abuse to include any act that involves an adult allowing or encouraging a child to engage in certain activities; establishing certain limitations on dam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 |
| MD | HB135 | Engross
50% | Specifying that manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing certain large quantities of certain controlled dangerous substances is a felony; authorizing a certain person serving a certain term of confinement for an offense relating to volu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (32-14) |
| MD | HB191 | Engross
50% | Providing an addition modification under the Maryland income tax for the amount of certain trade or business expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year that are deducted under the Internal Revenue Code for the payment of certain fines, penalti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (35-12) |
| MD | HB207 | Engross
50% | Establishing that a provision in a contract or agreement relating to the use of a recreational facility that purports to release the recreational facility from, or indemnify or hold harmless the recreational facility against, liability for bodily inj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (46-1) |
| MD | HB307 | Engross
50% | Altering a certain provision relating to the storage of firearms and ammunition in a location that can be accessed by an unsupervised child; and requiring the Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services to develop a youth suicide prevention and firea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB793 | Engross
50% | Requiring an application for any new qualified offshore wind project and a certain proposal for an offshore wind transmission facility to be subject to a certain community benefit agreement; requiring the Public Service Commission to request that PJM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (36-10) |
| MD | HB284 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "organics recycling" to include the processing of certain compostable packaging materials; establishing a producer responsibility advisory council to provide advice and make recommendations regarding establishing a producer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB760 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Affordable Life, Wills, and Estate Planning for Seniors Grant Program in the Maryland Legal Services Corporation to provide eligible seniors access to affordable civil law-related services; and requiring the Governor to provide an ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB97 | Engross
50% | Providing that any unpaid court fees or costs are not a bar to a certain expungement; requiring a court to waive any court fees and costs associated with the charge being expunged when ordering or effecting a certain expungement; adding malicious des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB223 | Engross
50% | Establishing requirements, procedures, and prohibitions relating to the use of facial recognition technology by a law enforcement agency under certain circumstances; requiring, by October 1 each year, a law enforcement agency that uses or contracts f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
Third Reading Passed (47-0) |
| MD | HB136 | Intro
25% | Altering the duties of certain licensing authorities in provisions of law relating to the suspension or denial of a license due to child support arrearages to provide for the disclosure of the taxpayer identification number of a licensee or an applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB269 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a municipality from authorizing a property owner who is not a resident of the municipality to vote in a municipal election; and prohibiting a municipality from authorizing a person who is not an individual to vote in a municipal election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB546 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Corps Program; requiring the Department of Service and Civic Innovation to administer and provide staff for the Program; requiring a Program participant to work at least 30 hours per week and partner with an on-site mentor w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Third Reading Passed (39-7) |
| MD | HB1143 | Engross
50% | Requiring an authorized custodian of a recording of a court proceeding to make available on request a copy of the recording; requiring the authorized custodian to ensure that certain portions of a provided recording are redacted; and requiring the au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB336 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a court from requiring a letter of exception for an individual to testify in a criminal proceeding as an expert witness if the individual is reviewing the data, opinion, interpretation, or conclusion of another expert witness or forensic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB849 | Engross
50% | Requiring a law enforcement agency to issue a warning for certain first violation on State highways enforced by school bus monitoring cameras; and requiring the State Highway Administration to develop a certain plan for improved safety measures at ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB461 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Education and nonpublic schools that hold a certificate of approval from the State Board and participate in the Nonpublic Schools Textbook and Technology Grants Program to develop and implement a program of age-appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB299 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a system to track the chain of custody of synthetic turf installed on sports and playing fields in the State; requiring the custodian of a synthetic turf sports or playing field installed in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB329 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission on Universal Health Care to develop a plan for the State, by July 1, 2026, to establish a universal health care program to provide health benefits to all residents of the State through a single-payer system; requiring a me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB162 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a firearm; prohibiting a dealer or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB181 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Four-Day Workweek Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Labor for the purpose of promoting, incentivizing, and supporting the experimentation and study of the use of a 4-day workweek by private and public employers; allowing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB645 | 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] | 2023-03-13
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB721 | Intro
25% | Requiring, for a motor vehicle liability insurance policy with multiple named insureds, an insurer to provide an identification card that indicates all named insureds or separate insurance identification cards for each named insured on the policy on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB145 | Engross
50% | Altering the eligibility requirements for an individual to be certified by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission as a police officer to remove a certain requirement for an individual who is a permanent legal resident of the United Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB173 | Engross
50% | Repealing the prohibition against a person using or possessing with intent to use, delivering or selling under certain circumstances, or manufacturing or possessing with intent to deliver or sell under certain circumstances drug paraphernalia to inje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
