| MD | HB4 | Pass | Repealing a certain prohibition on prosecuting a person for rape or a certain sexual offense against a victim who was the person's legal spouse at the time of the alleged rape or sexual offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 728 |
| MD | HB185 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Board of Education from issuing a certificate of approval to noncollegiate educational institutions that do not have a policy prohibiting the administration of corporal punishment; requiring regulations adopted by the State Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 671 |
| MD | HB243 | Pass | Transferring the Baltimore City Young Readers Program and the Young Readers Matching Grant Program to the Maryland State Library Agency; requiring program grant applicants to include the distribution of books to children in low-income zip codes with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
| 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 | HB923 | Pass | Providing that the Secretary of Higher Education is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Governor; requiring each institution of higher education to adopt a written policy that provides reasonable academic accommodations for students to pra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 634 |
| 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 | HB1237 | Pass | Authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and related costs to the parent of a child with a disability who is the prevailing party in a certain special education proceeding; prohibiting a court from awarding attorney's fees and related ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 |
| MD | HB104 | Pass | Modifying the manner in which the chief executive officer of a municipality may fulfill certain notice requirements concerning proposed municipal charter amendments; and requiring the municipality to maintain certain records or receipts and make the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 507 |
| MD | HB626 | Pass | Establishing the Human-Relevant Research Fund under the administration of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants and loans to promote State-funded research intended to develop human-relevant alternatives to using nonhuman a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 447 |
| 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 | HB673 | Pass | Repealing certain requirements that the Maryland Transit Administration increase fares for certain transit services according to the Consumer Price Index; and repealing certain provisions prohibiting the Administration from increasing fares under cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484 |
| MD | HB781 | Pass | Establishing the Equitech Growth Fund in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to support the economic competitiveness and inclusive growth of emerging and advanced industries in the State through the creation of supporting infrastructure a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462 |
| MD | HB1125 | Pass | Establishing the Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program in the Department of Transportation; and authorizing program funds to be sourced from federal and State public transportation programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB184 | Pass | Authorizing a certain employee or certain exclusive representative to initiate a grievance procedure under certain provisions of law; requiring certain decision makers in a grievance procedure in certain higher education systems to award certain dama...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 231 |
| MD | HB192 | Pass | Prohibiting certain persons subject to campaign finance regulation from making or accepting monetary contributions or monetary donations using any currency other than United States currency; prohibiting a campaign finance entity or a person acting on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 166 |
| MD | HB276 | Pass | Providing certain funding for each county public library system for fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 158 |
| MD | HB984 | Pass | Consolidating and altering certain laws governing collective bargaining for certain public employees, including laws related to the establishment of bargaining units, election and certification of exclusive representatives, employee and employer righ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 114 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB208 | Engross
50% | Altering certain penalties and the points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB514 | Engross
50% | Increasing the appropriation required by the Governor for the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program from $7,550,000 to $12,050,000 in the annual budget bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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 | 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 | HB515 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Department of Education to adopt regulations to incorporate active shooter safety drills or trainings in the annual schedule of drills for local school systems; requiring local school systems to take certain actions regarding ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1060 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Director of the Office of Cemetery Oversight and the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors to adopt regulations establishing a process for regulating crematories that utilize natural organic reduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Finance 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 | HB901 | Engross
50% | Requiring a business that offers an online product likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment by April 1, 2025, under certain circumstances; prohibiting a business from offering a certain online product ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB517 | Intro
25% | Requiring manufacturers of certain drugs to operate a certain drug take-back program or enter into a certain agreement with a drug take-back organization or the Maryland Department of Health, in conjunction with the Department of the Environment; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | 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 | HB1187 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain provisions of law authorizing a peer-to-peer car sharing program's motor vehicle liability insurance policy on a replacement vehicle to be secondary coverage for a shared vehicle driver; altering certain motor vehicle liability insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB995 | Intro
25% | Regulating the collection and use of consumer health data by private entities; prohibiting a private entity from certain collection and use of certain health data without the consent of the consumer; authorizing consumers to exercise certain rights i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | HB1292 | Intro
25% | Requiring the installation of smoke alarms in public corridors accessible by units in high-rise buildings; prohibiting a landlord from requiring a deaf or hard of hearing tenant to pay for the cost of a notification appliance or to provide supporting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB933 | 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] | 2023-02-17
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB953 | 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] | 2023-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB40 | Intro
25% | Requiring that single-occupancy public restrooms be marked with gender-inclusive signage that does not indicate a specific gender, contains certain descriptive language, and contains a picture or icon that does not indicate a specific gender in certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1201 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Public-Private Partnership Oversight Review Board to review public-private partnership presolicitation reports and make certain recommendations; requiring a certain reporting agency to include in presolicitation reports for public-pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1023 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1038 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Tourist Area and Corridor Signage Program to create a system of supplemental guide signs to direct motorists to eligible individual attractions by directing the motorists first to groups of attractions; requiring the Administration t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
