| MD | HB77 | Pass | Providing that attempted suicide is not a crime in the State; providing that the Act may not be construed to prohibit a person who commits one or more crimes in the course of attempting to commit suicide from being charged with the other crime or cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 571 |
| MD | HB88 | Pass | Making it a civil rather than a criminal offense to consume an alcoholic beverage in public under certain circumstances or possess an alcoholic beverage in an open container under certain circumstances; establishing the Task Force to Study Crime Clas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 578 |
| MD | HB87 | Pass | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to add a certified teacher who is actively teaching and a parent of a student enrolled in a public school in the State; requiring the Governor to appoint a teacher member with the advice and con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 576 |
| MD | HB109 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from selling in the State an expanded polystyrene food service product on or after July 1, 2020; prohibiting food service businesses or schools from selling or providing food or beverages in expanded polystyrene food service prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 579 |
| MD | HB248 | Pass | Altering the Governor's required appropriation of certain funds in the State budget, beginning in fiscal year 2021, to increase the Child Care Subsidy Program reimbursement rate to the 60th percentile of the most recent market rate survey or a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 595 |
| MD | HB286 | Pass | Providing an exception to the voter registration deadline to allow an individual to appear, on election day, at a precinct polling place in the individual's county of residence and apply to register to vote; requiring an applicant for voter registrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 609 |
| MD | HB259 | Pass | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of certain records based on a conviction for certain criminal boating offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 599 |
| MD | HB338 | Pass | Renaming the food stamp program to be the food supplement program; requiring the State to provide matching funds to counties for a supplement for each child in a household that receives federally funded benefits under the food supplement program; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 635 |
| MD | HB421 | Pass | Requiring an application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit to allow an applicant to indicate the applicant's sex as female, male, or unspecified or other; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 648 |
| MD | HB652 | Pass | Prohibiting the administration of a medically important antimicrobial drug in feed or water to cattle, swine, or poultry unless ordered by a licensed veterinarian through a certain prescription or a veterinary feed directive; exempting dairy cattle o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 678 |
| MD | HB768 | Pass | Establishing the Prescription Drug Affordability Board to protect State residents and certain stakeholders from the high costs of prescription drug products; requiring the Board to collect data and identify prescription drug products that may cause a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 692 |
| MD | HB725 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Education to provide technical assistance and training to county boards of education regarding the use of restorative approaches on request; requiring certain regulations to incorporate the use of restorative approaches; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 691 |
| MD | HB960 | Pass | Prohibiting the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City from transferring a license to another person until the resolution of pending criminal charges filed against the transferor that directly relates to the operation of the licensed premi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 707 |
| MD | HB874 | Pass | Authorizing a court to vacate a certain probation before judgment or judgment of conviction on the grounds that there is certain newly discovered evidence; establishing the requirements for a certain motion; requiring the State to notify a certain de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 702 |
| MD | HB790 | Pass | Authorizing the Commissioner of Labor and Industry or a court to require a certain employer to pay a civil penalty equal to 10% of the amount of damages owed by the employer for violating the Equal Pay for Equal Work Law two or more times within a 3-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 694 |
| MD | HB81 | Veto | Altering eligibility for a credit authorized against the county or municipal corporation property tax for the surviving spouses, who are at least 65 years of age, of certain veterans; providing that surviving spouses who are under the age of 65 and h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB113 | Veto | Altering the penalty for certain conduct relating to betting, wagering, or gambling; making certain conduct relating to betting, wagering, or gambling a civil offense; establishing that adjudication of a violation under a certain provision of the Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB138 | Veto | Requiring that, on or before February 1 each year, the Department of State Police submit a report on the acquisition of equipment by law enforcement agencies through federal surplus programs within the preceding calendar year to the Governor and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB262 | Veto | Altering the circumstances under which certain individuals are exempt from paying the out-of-state tuition rate at public institutions of higher education; altering the circumstances under which certain individuals are eligible to pay the resident tu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB364 | Veto | Prohibiting health care practitioners and certain students and trainees from performing certain examinations on a patient who is under anesthesia or unconscious unless informed consent has been obtained from the patient, the examination is within the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB1249 | Veto | Establishing the Pilot Program for Preventing HIV Infection for Rape Victims to be administered by the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention and to provide a victim of an alleged rape or sexual offense or a victim of alleged child sexual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB994 | Veto | Prohibiting employers who employ 15 or more full-time employees from requiring an applicant for employment, before the first in-person interview, to disclose certain information regarding the criminal record of the applicant except under certain circ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB810 | Veto | Increasing the maximum income limits on eligibility for a certain credit against the State income tax for certain child and dependent care expenses; making the credit refundable, subject to certain income limits; increasing, each year, certain income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB25 | Pass | Requiring, instead of authorizing, the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to review prescription monitoring data for indications of a possible misuse or abuse of a monitored prescription drug; requiring the Program to report the possible misuse or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 531 |
| MD | HB76 | Pass | Altering the penalties for a person convicted for possession of a canceled, revoked, or suspended driver's license to be a fine not exceeding $500 and an assessment of 3 points.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 |
| MD | HB214 | Pass | Authorizing, for purposes of filing a petition for U Nonimmigrant Status, a victim of qualifying criminal activity or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend to request a certifying official to certify victim helpfulness on a Form I-918, Supple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 422 |
| MD | HB245 | Pass | Establishing the Student Data Privacy Council to study the development and implementation of the Student Data Privacy Act of 2015 and review similar laws and best practices in other states and appropriate technologies; specifying the membership of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 398 |
| MD | HB659 | Pass | Prohibiting the continued detention, beyond emergency detention, of a child under the age of 12 years unless the child is alleged to have committed a certain act that, if committed by an adult, would be a crime of violence or the child is likely to l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560 |
| MD | HB697 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to establish a workgroup to carry out the finding and declaration of the General Assembly that it is in the public interest to ensure that the health care protections established ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 |
| MD | HB1268 | Pass | Establishing the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund to provide law enforcement agencies with funding to pay for testing of sexual assault evidence collection kits by forensic laboratories; requiring the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508 |
| MD | HB1253 | Pass | Stating the findings and intent of the General Assembly that any exposure to lead in drinking water is dangerous to children, that schools should be proactive in reducing lead in drinking water outlets to 5 parts per billion, and that State and feder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 557 |
| MD | HB814 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program to improve data collection on uninsured individuals and to maximize enrollment of eligible uninsured individuals in affordable insurance programs; requiring the Maryland Health Benefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 423 |
| MD | HB1144 | Pass | Requiring county boards of education to take certain reasonable steps to provide equal access to public services for certain individuals with limited English proficiency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 564 |
| MD | HB1001 | Pass | Expanding the entities required to submit a certain report relating to restrictive housing; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to compile and summarize certain information from each correctional unit in a report to the Ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 526 |
| MD | HB827 | Pass | Requiring a law enforcement officer who suspects that a child that has been detained is a victim of sex trafficking to notify a regional navigator; requiring a local department of social services that receives a report of suspected child abuse or neg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 559 |
| MD | HB213 | Pass | Extending the date, to on or before December 31, 2020, by which the Department of Natural Resources is required to prepare a certain fishery management plan for the cownose ray species, subject to available funding; and continuing the prohibition on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 343 |
| MD | HB251 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Aging to make grants to certain nonprofit organizations and area agencies on aging to expand and establish certain aging-in-place programs for seniors; requiring the Department to publicize the availability of the grants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 308 |
| MD | HB481 | Pass | Reclassifying, as a felony instead of a misdemeanor, the crime of selling, bartering, trading, or offering to sell, barter, or trade a minor for money, property, or anything else of value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 365 |
| MD | HB527 | Pass | Altering the definition of "cottage food product" to include nonhazardous food, as specified in regulations adopted by the Maryland Department of Health, that is sold in the State in accordance with certain laws and regulations to retail food stores ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 370 |
| MD | HB542 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Crime Classification and Penalties; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations on certain issues related to the classification ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 372 |
| MD | HB968 | Pass | Altering the maximum amounts of certain compensation awardable by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; authorizing the Board to negotiate a settlement with a person that has provided certain funeral or death-related services; altering the time w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 378 |
| MD | HB1010 | Pass | Authorizing the holder of a Class 5 brewery license to brew and bottle malt beverages at a location listed on an individual storage permit; authorizing a local licensing board to conditionally grant an applicant an on-site consumption permit or a Cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 317 |
| MD | HB885 | Pass | Establishing Vision Zero; providing the purpose of the program is for planning and developing a State highway system that has zero vehicle-related deaths or serious injuries; requiring the Department of Transportation to designate a coordinator to ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377 |
| MD | HB1027 | Pass | Altering certain definitions applicable to certain prohibitions against possessing, distributing, and creating child pornography; prohibiting a person from knowingly possessing and intentionally retaining a certain representation showing a computer-g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 325 |
| MD | HB135 | Pass | Authorizing a court to order a defendant convicted of a charge of animal cruelty under the Act, as a condition of sentencing, to participate in and pay for psychological counseling and to pay, in addition to any other fines and costs, all reasonable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61 |
| MD | HB240 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from threatening to commit certain hate crimes; and applying certain penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 28 |
| MD | HB307 | Pass | Establishing a Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission; authorizing the staff member provided by the Office of the Attorney General to issue certain subpoenas; requiring the Commission to hold certain public meetings in each county wher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| MD | HB641 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from engaging in sexual contact with an animal; defining "sexual contact with an animal"; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 72 |
| MD | HB734 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly taking, placing, harboring, persuading, inducing, or enticing another to provide services or labor by force, fraud, or coercion; prohibiting a person from knowingly receiving a benefit from the provision of service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 23 |
| MD | HB1007 | Pass | Requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to ensure that every child in the State has access to a child advocacy center; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to contract with an organization that meets...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 50 |
