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MDHB458PassProviding that a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case may not disclose or allow inspection of an electronic or paper court filing to a nonparty to the case unless the court or the party disclosing or allowing inspection of the ...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 878
MDHB496PassRequiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of determining certain sexual crimes; altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 761
MDHB582PassEstablishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based start-up companies founded by students from institutions located in the Baltimore-Columbia-Tow...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 710
MDHB597PassAltering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; alter...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709
MDHB575PassAltering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 705
MDHB576PassAuthorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish the program by...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 703
MDHB565PassRequiring the Department of State Police to investigate any death of an incarcerated individual suspected to be a homicide that occurs while the individual is in the custody of the Division of Correction whether within or outside a correctional facil...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 956
MDHB583PassEstablishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local age...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 706
MDHB947PassProhibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to a public nuisance through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requiring...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 714
MDHB1105PassRequiring an individual, subject to certain exceptions, to be certified as an advanced practice registered nurse before practicing advanced practice registered nursing in the State.
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 890
MDHB1078PassRequiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests if the patient is in a residence or a location other than the office of the patient's provider and the provider follows the sam...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 889
MDHB1076PassEstablishing requirements for each county board of education regarding provision of the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year for students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinat...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 749
MDHB1472PassAuthorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 783
MDHB1081PassAltering the definition of "historical data" to include automatic license plate reader data stored by cloud computing; establishing that certain captured automatic license plate reader data is the property of a certain law enforcement agency and may ...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 875
MDHB763PassAltering the membership of the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention.
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 939
MDHB115PassRequiring a certain commitment unit to include in a notification given to a victim, victim's representative, or witness regarding the release from confinement of a sentenced defendant or child respondent the telephone number of the Maryland Crime Vic...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 758
MDHB432PassReplacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law.
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 444
MDHB457PassRequiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with represe...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567
MDHB573PassAltering the membership of the Citizens Committee for the Enhancement of Communities Surrounding Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport by increasing the total number of members from 11 to 12 and requiring the Committee to inclu...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 471
MDHB581PassRequiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and to submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 412
MDHB738PassIncreasing from $50,000 to $500,000 the amount of general liability insurance that an applicant for a home improvement contractor license or a licensed home improvement contractor must maintain.
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 530
MDHB664PassAuthorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the individual on the Internet, social medi...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 414
MDHB973PassAdding positive community feedback that was not solicited by the police officer who is the subject of the feedback to the list of records that are not considered personnel records; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to de...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 548
MDHB385PassRequiring that a notice containing certain information provided to an employee at the time of hiring be written; requiring that the statement regarding earnings required to be provided to employees by employers be written on the physical pay stub or ...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 306
MDHB599PassEstablishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments and financial assistance available in certain low-income communities in the State; expanding the eligible uses of the Strategic Demolition and Smart...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 123
MDHB541PassEstablishing the Anne Arundel County Student Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Educators to assist in the repayment of certain student loans owed by educators who meet certain eligibility requirements; providing that the purpose of the Program is...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 364
MDHB571PassModifying provisions of law governing application, administration, and enforcement of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, including provisions related to the payment of contributions, the calculation of the average weekly wage, the submis...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 267
MDHB538PassEstablishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 122
MDHB693PassEstablishing the Office of Tenant and Landlord Affairs in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide certain educational resources and information to tenants; requiring the Office to develop and publish a Maryland Tenants' Bill of...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 124
MDHB1304PassRequiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process for providing information about the availability of the State's earned income tax credits to individuals enrolled or participating in certain programs or services, or potential enrollee...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 376
MDHB1397PassAltering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability; ...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377
MDHB542PassRequiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child in foster...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346
MDHB833PassEstablishing a presumption that placement with a child's parent is in the best interest of the child, the child is receiving proper care and attention, and there is not a certain emergency situation if the child's parent is receiving certain substanc...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371
MDHB585PassProhibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 21
MDHB584PassProviding that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 13
MDHB513PassAltering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that a system operator does not need to be pre...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17
MDHB580PassIncreasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7
MDHB646PassIncreasing, from $5,000 to $7,000, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying police auxiliary or reserve volunteer.
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 15
MDHB770Engross

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Altering the time period within which a court may prohibit a person convicted under certain circumstances of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol from operating a vessel on the waters of the State; requiring the Department of Natur...
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2024-04-06
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB696Engross

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Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
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2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB604Engross

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Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ...
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2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
MDHB485Engross

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Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
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2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1522Intro

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Requiring, to address a certain funding disparity, that the Governor include at least $5,000,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the annual budget bill each fiscal year until a total amount of $321,181,312 is appropriated; and authoriz...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB321Engross

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Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB550Engross

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Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to include system upgrades required to allow for automated expungement of charges and partial expungement of charges in certain vendor contracts.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1316Engross

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Requiring a District Court to hold a hearing on a tenant holding over within 45 days after a landlord makes a complaint if the landlord or the landlord's spouse is on active duty with the United States military; and authorizing a private process serv...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB295Intro

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Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day.
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1054Intro

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Exempting a foreign practicing physician applicant for a license from certain education requirements under certain circumstances; requiring the State Board of Physicians to establish a consortium of postgraduate medical education programs for the pur...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1120Intro

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Requiring the State Board of Social Work Examiners to establish a process to review and approve certain persons as authorized sponsors of social work continuing education programs, subject to a requirement that at least one pathway for approval does...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB820Intro

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Establishing the Nuclear Energy Development Task Force to study and make recommendations on the deployment of nuclear power generation resources and other related technologies in the State and the establishment of a permanent nuclear energy commissio...
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2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
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