| MD | HB513 | Pass | Prohibiting, beginning January 1, 2027, a certain person from keeping a rooster movement-constrained through use of a certain enclosure or tether, subject to certain exceptions; establishing that a violation of the Act is a civil offense; and providi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 185 |
| MD | HB698 | Pass | Requiring county governments to make a certain report by July 1 each year to the Department of Planning on the amount, use, and location of the use of county development impact fees, surcharges, and excise taxes; and requiring county governments to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 186 |
| MD | HB1085 | Pass | Exempting certain real property owned by certain nonprofit entities created by public housing authorities from State and local property taxation; directing certain nonprofit entities created by public housing authorities to make payment in lieu of ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 169 |
| MD | HB1141 | Pass | Establishing an additional circumstance under which the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore County may approve a change of location for a certain alcoholic beverages license; and providing that the Board may approve a certain change if the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 193 |
| MD | HB1 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a training program for transportation sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims; requiring transportation secto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB505 | Engross
50% | Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB658 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Secretary of Higher Education and the State Superintendent of Schools to select a designee to serve on the Juvenile Services Education Board; altering the terms of membership for the Board; and altering certain requirements for meetin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB699 | Enroll
75% | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB767 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB888 | Enroll
75% | Altering the qualifications for an initial teacher certificate to include passing a portfolio-based assessment of a nationally accredited teacher preparation program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1222 | Enroll
75% | Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State or local government that operate at certain sensitive lo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1121 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to remove certain application barriers for parenting foster youth and increase eligibility access to the Child Care Schol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB782 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency; requiring the Center to request any avai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1475 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Department of Education to convene a workgroup to conduct an analysis of the mixed delivery, publicly funded prekindergarten system established under the Blueprint for Maryland's Future; and requiring the workgroup to submit a fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB328 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to issue certain fraternal organizations a license for not more than three instant ticket lottery machines; altering the distribution of proceeds from instant ticket lottery mach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB785 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a provision in certain documents of certain cooperative housing corporations from prohibiting or restricting the establishment or operation of certain family child care homes; prohibiting a provision in certain documents of certain cooper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1145 | Enroll
75% | Establishing in Baltimore County certain waiting periods for the application for or issuance of an alcoholic beverages license at a specific location if an application for a license at that location has been previously denied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB525 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from, with fraudulent intent, influencing or attempting to influence a voter's decision whether or not to cast a vote or how to vote on a candidate or ballot issue by disseminating a deepfake; and defining "deepfake" as an image,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB277 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a water bottle filling station or a combined water bottle filling station and drinking fountain to be installed in certain new construction or as part of certain renovations beginning October 1, 2025, subject to certain exceptions; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB325 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to choose to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in either English or Spanish; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB197 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1204 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain public and nonpublic schools to notify a parent or guardian if a student attempts or accomplishes an elopement, the act of leaving the school campus without permission; requiring certain schools and individualized education program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB930 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1512 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county board of education to reappoint an incumbent county superintendent in a certain manner; and authorizing a county board, at any point during the incumbent superintendent's term, to take action at a public meeting not later than Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1127 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board of education to develop certain instructional content on water safety for public school students in the county; and requiring that the instructional content be offered to students in elementary, middle, and high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB978 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and three systems on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County, subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected in Balt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB986 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; requiring a county board to provide suppl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1352 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from denying access or services to a student based on the student's diagnosis of sickle cell disease; requiring an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations for students with s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB386 | Engross
50% | Requiring, by January 1, 2032, the Department of Agriculture to develop, maintain, post on its website, and distribute to all certified applicators a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB587 | Engross
50% | Authorizing certain individuals honorably discharged from military service to obtain a high school diploma if the individuals withdrew from a full-time public or private high school to enlist in the armed forces of the United States during certain wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1325 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; providing that the purpose of the Program is to facilitate the continuous operation of child care facilities in the State by ensuring that qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1391 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to develop and periodically update certain guidance on artificial intelligence; requiring the Department to promote training and workforce development in artific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB493 | Engross
50% | Designating November 14 as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day to commemorate Ruby Bridges, who, on November 14, 1960, became the first African American student to integrate an all-while school in New Orleans, Louisiana; and requiring the State Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB596 | Engross
50% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring the remote registration process to provide an opportunity for the service m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1129 | Intro
25% | Altering terminology in the Maryland Constitution that refers to constitutional officers to be gender-neutral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1055 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission on Nondiscrimination to monitor and study nondiscrimination laws and regulations and the impacts of the actions of the federal government on those laws and regulations and to recommend legislation to address any deficienci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1140 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from operating, conducting, or promoting online sweepstakes games or supporting the operation, conducting, or promotion of online sweepstakes games; requiring the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to deny certain license ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1254 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program in the State Department of Education to provide funding to eligible schools that participate in the federal community eligibility provision of the child nutrition programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1462 | Intro
25% | Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1513 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an individual assigned to be a school resource officer or a school security employee from being used for purposes of or otherwise engaging in certain federal immigration investigation and enforcement functions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1328 | 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] | 2025-02-27
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB923 | Intro
25% | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include an educational support member who is actively working in a public school as a noncertificated, nonsupervisory public school employee and an administrator member that may be a principa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB686 | Intro
25% | Altering the criteria for determining whether a certain victim or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend shall be considered to be helpful, to have been helpful, or likely to be helpful to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB965 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2027, the Department of Transportation to establish a method to determine funding under the Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program that will result in a fair and equitable distribution of Program funds for e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1422 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to study and make recommendations relating to appropriate benefits to be made to individuals whose ancestors were enslaved in the State or were impacted by certain inequitable government policies; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB981 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation on the use and potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring that the evaluation consist of a survey of local school systems and a review of available system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB845 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1014 | Intro
25% | Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB958 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, blocking of railroad and highway grade crossings, the length of trains operating on a main or branch ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
