| MD | SB414 | Engross
50% | Allowing a parent of a stillborn child a refundable credit of $1,000 against the State income tax for each birth for which a certain certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth or a certificate of fetal death has been issued; and applying the Act to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB765 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to adopt regulations setting the maximum number of children that may be placed with an out-of-home placement provider; and establishing an exemption from the limitation on the number of children that may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB834 | Engross
50% | Providing that a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch may not take an adverse action against a dealer for disclosing on its website that the advertised price of a vehicle is the manufacturer's minimum allowable advertised price and that the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB648 | Engross
50% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB432 | Engross
50% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB25 | Intro
25% | Specifying certain qualifications necessary for an individual to be appointed by a court as a custody evaluator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Referred to interim study by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB491 | Intro
25% | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges based on an incident or incidents relating to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB669 | Intro
25% | Altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund; expanding the duties of the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy relating to the Fund; and prohibiting the use of the Fund for the Sexual Assault E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB280 | Intro
25% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB179 | Intro
25% | Establishing that not more than one vehicle owned by, or leased to, an unemployable disabled veteran is exempt from vehicle registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB466 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a caregiver, family member, or household member from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of an individual the caregiver, family member, or household member knows or reasonably should know is a vulnerable or senior adult with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB342 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting the imposition or application of a method for electing the governing body of a county or municipality that impairs the ability of members of a protected class to elect candidates of the members' choice or influence the outcome of an elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Third Reading Passed (32-13) |
| MD | SB130 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement a policy that prohibits students from using a cellular device during instructional time during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from preventing a student from using a cellula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB710 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle or vessel in a criminally negligent manner; and providing that driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle or vessel in a negligent manner does not constitute a viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB436 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to study building code requirements for single-staircase buildings in the State and other States and analyze best practices when drafting building code requirements; requiring the Department to make legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB585 | Engross
50% | Establishing an exception to the prohibition against entering or trespassing on real property while wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm for a retired law enforcement official who has retired in good standing from a law enforcement agency of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB576 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting employers from taking certain adverse actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Beidle) Adopted |
| MD | SB274 | Engross
50% | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases; requiring the testimony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB618 | Engross
50% | Requiring that an original and renewal application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to choose to indicate on the document the applicant's nonapparent disability; requiring the Motor Vehicle Admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB992 | Intro
25% | Establishing a process for and certain exceptions to the transfer of assets that are collateral for securing a mortgage, pledge, or security interest without the approval of the stockholders; and repealing provisions of law specifying what shall be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB86 | Engross
50% | Requiring a mobile sports wagering licensee to publish the phone number for and link to the website of the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling on the landing page of its online sports wagering website and mobile application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB533 | Engross
50% | Altering the deadline for the completion of the process of review by a certain investigating unit through disposition by an administrative charging committee under certain circumstances; requiring a law enforcement agency to file any administrative c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB73 | Engross
50% | Renaming the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program to be the Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB326 | Engross
50% | Establishing certain confidentiality requirements for peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies; prohibiting a peer support specialist from disclosing the contents of any written or oral communication regarding a peer support inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB413 | Engross
50% | Establishing that any provision of a consumer contract that sets a shorter period of time to bring an action under or on the consumer contract than is required under the law of the State at the time the contract is issued or delivered is void as agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB603 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill, beginning in fiscal year 2027, an appropriation of $350,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park Campus TerpsEXCEED (EXperiencing College through Education and Employment Discovery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB443 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the prosecution for an offense of trafficking a regulated firearm be instituted within 3 years after the offense was committed; reclassifying the prohibition against transporting a regulated firearm into the State for the purpose of un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB513 | Engross
50% | Altering notice requirements relating to the recordation of a restrictive covenant modification to an unlawfully restrictive covenant by authorizing a county or municipality to provide notice by publication in one or more newspapers of general circul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB548 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB545 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from possessing more than 100 images of certain child pornography or possessing or viewing images of certain child pornography depicting a minor or an individual indistinguishable from an actual and identifiable child under the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB334 | Engross
50% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB356 | Engross
50% | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB348 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "private place" as it relates to the prohibition on conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual without the consent of the individual; and altering the prohibition against conducting visual surveill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB160 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a seller, buyer, or assignee of certain residential property to rescind a contract of sale without penalty at any time before closing if a certain seller does not provide a certain notice; establishing that an assignee is entitled to a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB683 | Intro
25% | Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs in connectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB435 | Intro
25% | Requiring the governing board of each institution of higher education in the State and local school systems to designate a Title VI Coordinator to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964; and authorizing a person alleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB772 | Intro
25% | Expanding the eligibility for the Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program to include a son, daughter, or stepchild or surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces who is or was eligible for the Chapter 35 Dependent Education Ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB957 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "corporation" for the purpose of provisions relating to the provision of mortuary sciences and the operation of a funeral establishment to include a not-for-profit organization that is exempt from taxation under a certain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB709 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally harassing, intimidating, or threatening another person while hiding or concealing their face; providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB943 | Intro
25% | Altering and establishing provisions relating to the surrender of firearms by a respondent under the domestic violence statutes; creating the Task Force to Study the Use of Firearms in Domestic Violence Situations; and requiring the Task Force to sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB650 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish and maintain the Domestic Violence Offender Registry; requiring a certain person convicted three or more times of a certain domestically related crime to register with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB412 | Intro
25% | Increasing, from $2,500 to $4,850, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain contributions made to a Maryland Senator Edward J. Kasemeyer Prepaid College Trust account, Maryland Senator Edward J. Kasemeyer Col...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB584 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB604 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an individual from distributing heroin or fentanyl or chemical analogues of heroin or fentanyl, the use of which results in the death or serious bodily injury of another; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a fel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB613 | Intro
25% | Establishing a pilot program to authorize the use of distracted driving monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain prohibitions regarding the use of certain devices while operating a vehicle; and requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB392 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB28 | Intro
25% | Providing that a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch may not prohibit a dealer from listing on the dealer's website a vehicle for sale or lease at the purchase price, coerce or require a dealer to list a price different from the purchase pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB411 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for postpartum depression screening; authorizing the insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB410 | Intro
25% | Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking open a letter; providing that a person may not knowingly and intentionally open mail addressed to another without permission of the person or an authorized designee; providing certain penalties for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB29 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Phone-Free Schools Pilot Program; requiring the Carroll County and Montgomery County public school systems to develop and implement a policy that prohibits student cell phone use during the school day, subject to certain exceptions; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
