| MD | HB1071 | Pass | Altering the maximum fines for smoking cannabis in a public place; prohibiting a law enforcement officer from initiating a stop or a search of a person, a motor vehicle, or a vessel based solely on certain factors; prohibiting, under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 802 |
| 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 | 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 | HB267 | Pass | Authorizing a court to order child abduction prevention measures if the court finds there is a credible risk of abduction of the child; authorizing certain parties to petition the court for child abduction prevention measures; requiring a petition to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 761 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB554 | Pass | Increasing the amount of a certain subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain military retirement income received by individuals under the age of 55 years to $12,500 and individuals at least 55 years of age to $20,000 during t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 613 |
| MD | HB548 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund as an instrumentality of the State for purposes of developing opportunities for banking institutions and credit unions to better serve the needs of low- to moderate-income tracts; providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 |
| MD | HB552 | Pass | Establishing the Build Our Future Grant Pilot Program in the Department of Commerce to provide funding for certain costs for infrastructure projects in eligible technology sectors; requiring certain grantees to provide matching funds and to demonstra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
| MD | HB551 | Pass | Requiring the Office of Statewide Broadband within the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct a study as to how the State can incentivize broadband service providers to expand broadband infrastructure to communities that are unser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 |
| 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 | HB669 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for a real estate appraisal license and for a certificate for residential or general real estate appraisal to include completion of certain criteria in the Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 387 |
| MD | HB440 | Pass | Requiring a court to schedule a hearing on a certain petition regarding the proposed relocation of a child who is the subject of a custody or visitation order on an expedited basis under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 403 |
| 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 | HB677 | Pass | Extending until fiscal year 2028 the appropriation of $500,000 from the Transportation Trust Fund that the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill for the operation of the replica sailing vessel known as the Pride of Baltimore II.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 131 |
| MD | HB843 | Pass | Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Task Force to study approaches to water and wastewater governance in the Baltimore region; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Mayor of Baltimore City, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 |
| 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 | HB339 | Pass | Extending the time for the submission of the final report of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission to December 1, 2025; and extending the termination date for the Commission to June 30, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 11 |
| 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 | HB138 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services to conduct a study on the implementation of a statewide 3-1-1 system to provide individuals with nonemergency government services, resources, and information, both as a standalone system and as part of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB255 | Engross
50% | 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 on or before July 1, 2024, and in accordance with certain requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (35-12) |
| MD | HB1220 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a commercial lease contain a clause that allocates the risk of loss if performance under the lease is hindered, delayed, or prevented due to certain events; requiring a certain force majeure clause to include certain events; and applyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1243 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Protecting Against Hate Crimes Grant Fund to make grants to nonprofit organizations, including faith-based organizations, to provide security enhancements to protect against hate crimes; requiring a minimum set-aside of $1,000,000 ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| 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 | HB332 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of General Services, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology, to negotiate certain contracts with third parties for the acquisition or maintenance of body-worn cameras, equipment, or technology for certa...
[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 | 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 | HB231 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to set a special property tax rate for a vacant lot or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use on a housing or building violation notice; and applying...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB980 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a court from revoking a defendant's pretrial release or finding that a defendant has violated probation, and the Maryland Parole Commission from finding that a parolee has violated parole, based solely on the use of cannabis or a positive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1077 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person, without the authority of the Secretary of State Police, from reproducing or distributing for commercial purposes a shield, badge, or shoulder patch adopted by the Department of State Police to be worn by its members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB859 | Engross
50% | Requiring a private home detention monitoring agency to immediately notify the court after a defendant subject to home monitoring as a condition of pretrial release has been missing for 24 hours; requiring a private home detention monitoring agency t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1210 | Intro
25% | Authorizing public institutions of higher education to offer full-time students and part-time students access to a student health insurance plan; specifying that enrollment of full-time students and part-time students in a student health insurance pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | 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 | HB975 | Intro
25% | Altering the reporting requirements of the Advisory Board on the Transfer of Control of the Police Department of Baltimore City by requiring the Board to submit a final report on or before December 1, 2023; and repealing a prohibition on certain Balt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB697 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local department of social services to maintain a secure Electronic Benefits Transfer card system, monitor Electronic Benefits Transfer card activity in a certain manner, provide certain notification to certain households, include a certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
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 |
| MD | HB1030 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Murder Prevention and Reduction in Maryland; requiring the Task Force to conduct a comprehensive examination of factors contributing to homicides in the State; and requiring the Task Force to submit a final report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1045 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to establish a Safe Neighborhoods Pilot Program to provide doorbell cameras or security systems with doorbell cameras to residents of high-crime areas; requiring the Offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1199 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB974 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Gun Violence Victim Relocation Program within the Victim Services Unit of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to provide certain victims of gun violence certain services and assistance related to rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB880 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum standards and county boards of education to develop and implement a curriculum for a course on the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction for public middle school students in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1122 | Intro
25% | Increasing the mandatory appropriation for the Maryland Construction Education and Innovation Fund that is required to be included in the annual budget bill by the Governor from $250,000 to $625,000 beginning in fiscal year 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1098 | Intro
25% | Providing additional funding for certain English learners subject to certain conditions; establishing the Dual Language Immersion Program in the State Department of Education to develop, fund, implement, scale up, and sustain the expansion of researc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1185 | Intro
25% | Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to a maximum of $25...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
