| MD | HB798 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 690 |
| MD | HB425 | Pass | Exempting certain auctioneers from certain provisions of the State Boat Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 556 |
| MD | HB580 | Pass | Replacing obsolete references to the Maryland State Firemen's Association with references to the Maryland State Firefighters Association; and replacing related terminology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 514 |
| MD | HB894 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the northern long-eared bat, the tricolor bat, or the eastern small-footed bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 |
| MD | HB893 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to suspend for up to 5 years for a first violation, rather than revoke, a person's oyster authorization for knowingly committing certain violations; providing for the reinstatement for certain persons of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 552 |
| MD | HB857 | Pass | Authorizing a person who is authorized by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer and who wounds a deer during legal hunting hours to pursue and kill the deer after legal hunting hours using the means authorized for the applicable hunting se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 553 |
| MD | HB1236 | Pass | Authorizing municipalities in Queen Anne's County to decrease the maximum speed limit to not less than 15 miles per hour on highways without performing an engineering and traffic investigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 557 |
| MD | HB375 | Pass | Authorizing a person to ride a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area unless prohibited by local ordinance; and requiring a person riding a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area or in or through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558 |
| MD | HB446 | Pass | Establishing the Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program in the Department of Natural Resources to curb the spread of the invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries; requiring the Department to expand the use of practices determined ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 172 |
| MD | HB397 | Pass | Altering a certain loan program to authorize the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans in an amount up to $25,000 for certain seasonal full-time jobs; and reducing, from 5 years to 3 years, the num...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 |
| MD | HB892 | Engross
50% | Requiring, during the migratory Canada goose (Atlantic population) hunting season, the bag limit for all Canada geese in certain areas of the State, including geese found in the Atlantic Flyway Resident Population Hunt Zone and the Atlantic Populatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1558 | Intro
25% | Altering the entities with respect to which certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials are prohibited from taking certain actions related to fundraising during a regular session of the General Assembly; and prohibiting certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB889 | Engross
50% | Expanding the scope of the annual young-of-the-year juvenile survey of striped bass or rockfish by requiring the Department of Natural Resources to conduct the survey at at least a certain number of additional sampling sites in the central region of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB649 | Intro
25% | Requiring a child placement agency to provide a background report concerning a child to a foster parent before the foster parent may consent to the placement of the child with the foster parent; and requiring the report to indicate whether the child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1374 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "Tier I child" for purposes of publicly provided prekindergarten to not include 3-year-olds and only include certain 4-year-olds; authorizing an eligible private prekindergarten provider to elect to enroll 3-year-olds in pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB403 | Intro
25% | Requiring a State or local correctional facility with custody of an undocumented immigrant who is serving a sentence in the facility for conviction of a crime, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer the undocumen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB653 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain State or local correctional facility, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer a certain undocumented immigrant to the United States Department of Homeland Security under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB975 | Intro
25% | Increasing to two the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB982 | Intro
25% | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; establishing a penalty for a first conviction for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; and establishing a penalty for subsequent convictions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB760 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipality to approve a certain project that was previously denied by the Maryland Historical Trust under certain circumstances; and requiring a local planning commission to hold a certain public hearin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1215 | Intro
25% | Extending from 3 to 5 fiscal years the time in which the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation, condominium, or homeowners association is required to attain a certain recommended annual reserve funding level following an initial reserve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1263 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in consultation with the Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission, to identify by regulation the public clam fishery area in the Chesapeake Bay based on commercial harvesting activity during the 3 years prece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1260 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to remove abandoned or sunken recreational vessels secured to certain apparatuses or left anchored and unattended for more than 60 days under certain circumstances; requiring the Department to consider ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1451 | Intro
25% | Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB989 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from limiting the amount of revenue the holder of an on-farm home processing license may derive from food processed under the license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB734 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB622 | Intro
25% | Altering a certain provision of law authorizing a law enforcement officer to conduct an otherwise lawful custodial interrogation of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian consents to the custodial interrogation of the child without the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB652 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Juvenile Services from hiring or retaining an individual convicted of certain crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB903 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or a local government, or an agency of the State or a local government, from filing an action for monetary damages or alleged economic damages against a business for the adverse effects of global warming or climate change in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB885 | Intro
25% | Requiring that all investigation records relating to a complaint of misconduct by a police officer be removed from the police officer's personnel record 3 years after an administrative charging committee or a trial board issues a finding that the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB773 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1184 | Intro
25% | Altering the size and scope of the Port of Deposit State Historical Park; extending the deadline for the Bainbridge Development Corporation to transfer certain property to the Department of Natural Resources to June 1, 2026; and altering the purpose ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1345 | Intro
25% | Requiring, to make a claim under a warranty for certain agricultural equipment, a consumer to provide written notice to certain parties to report a nonconformity, defect, or condition occurring in certain agricultural equipment; requiring certain par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1396 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a certain generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1249 | Intro
25% | Establishing that regulations of the Department of Natural Resources governing the catching of blue catfish shall establish a pilot program authorizing the use of electrofishing, shall authorize the use of finfish trotlines of up to 2,400 feet in len...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1414 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "covered building" for purposes of certain building energy performance standards to exclude certain public safety, emergency, and public utility buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1235 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the governing body of Queen Anne's County from allowing licensed cannabis processors to locate within 1,000 feet of child care facilities and certain pre-existing public places in the county; and altering certain distance requirements app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1022 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from using federal funds for oyster restoration projects in State waters from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2030, both inclusive, subject to a certain exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1024 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to take extraordinary measures to control local deer populations and prevent future crop loss if the Department determines that deer have caused catastrophic damage to a field; and defining "catastrophic dama...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1101 | Intro
25% | Decreasing, over 5 taxable years, the State corporate income tax rate from 8.25% to 6.25%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB651 | Intro
25% | Increasing from five to seven the number of commissioners appointed to the Public Service Commission; establishing certain residency requirements for each commissioner; altering the manner in which the Chair of the Commission is appointed; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB657 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1008 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or certain other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of a device in or on a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB976 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a vessel registered under Title 8, Subtitle 7 of the Natural Resources Article is not a nonwater-dependent project for the purpose of certain provisions of law regarding construction on State or private wetlands, regardless of how t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB736 | Intro
25% | Adding an adjustment for the local cost-share for school construction projects for certain counties under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB650 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to advance agricultural fairs and education in the State; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring a $1,450,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB742 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person constructing a solar energy generating station from exercising a right of condemnation in connection with that construction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB739 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a solar energy generating station unless the Commission receives written approval for the construction of the generating station from each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB792 | Intro
25% | Increasing, from $15,000 to $20,000, the amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to an individual's employment as a public safety employee; and applying the Act to all taxable year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB800 | Intro
25% | Increasing, from $12,500 to $20,000, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for military retirement income for individuals who are under the age of 55 years; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
