| MD | SB37 | Pass | Providing that any unpaid court fees or costs are not a bar to a certain expungement; requiring a court to waive certain court fees and costs when ordering or effecting a certain expungement; adding malicious destruction of property to the list of mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 683 |
| MD | SB1 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm in certain locations; prohibiting a person from wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm onto certain property unless the owner or owner's agent has given certain pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680 |
| MD | SB173 | 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 685 |
| MD | SB185 | Pass | Altering the purpose of the Maryland State Police Gun Center to include the tracking, screening, and vetting of all firearms surrendered under final protective orders in the State; and requiring each law enforcement agency to report to the Center the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 624 |
| MD | SB292 | Pass | Altering procedures that a law enforcement officer and a court are required to follow when the law enforcement officer or court has reason to believe that a child who has been detained is a victim of sex trafficking or a victim of human trafficking; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 686 |
| MD | SB289 | Pass | Altering the name of the Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship to be the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 733 |
| MD | SB340 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from making or causing to be made a false statement, report, or complaint to a governmental emergency report recipient with reckless disregard of causing bodily harm to an individual as a direct result of a response to the statem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 699 |
| MD | SB343 | Pass | Establishing certain procedures regarding the persons who may establish or receive distributions from an ABLE account in the Maryland ABLE Program for a certain eligible individual; and requiring the Maryland 529 Board to adopt certain procedures reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 637 |
| MD | SB450 | Pass | Prohibiting a landlord from using a lease or form of lease that contains a provision that limits a tenant's ability to summon, or penalizes a tenant or another individual solely for summoning, the assistance of law enforcement or emergency services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 768 |
| MD | SB487 | Pass | Prohibiting a certain incarcerated person from violating a condition of pretrial or posttrial release or other pretrial or posttrial condition prohibiting the person from contacting, harassing, or abusing an alleged victim or going in or near an alle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 681 |
| MD | SB840 | Pass | Establishing the Protecting Against Hate Crimes Grant Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to make grants to nonprofit organizations, including faith-based organizations, to provide security enhancements to protect against hate crimes; requiring the Ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 746 |
| MD | SB841 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include an appropriation in the annual budget bill of $500,000 for the State Department of Education to provide grants to local school systems for expenses related to student field trips to museums of cultural import.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 747 |
| MD | SB148 | Pass | Providing for the stable funding and support of trauma-informed, high-quality program and services for victims of crime; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to help support certain programs providing servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 |
| MD | SB211 | 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 711 |
| MD | SB553 | 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 old to $20,000 during the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 614 |
| MD | SB554 | Pass | Establishing the Tricare Premium Reimbursement Program in the Military Department for the Department to award grants to reimburse certain members of the National Guard for the cost of premiums for certain health care and dental care plans; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 |
| MD | SB157 | Pass | Modifying the manner in which the chief executive officer of a municipality may fulfill certain notice requirements concerning proposed municipal charter amendments; requiring the chief executive officer of a municipality to post an exact copy of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 506 |
| MD | SB685 | Pass | Authorizing an autonomous vehicle converter to sell, transfer, lease, offer for sale, or resell a converted autonomous vehicle or a motor vehicle purchased with the intent to convert the motor vehicle into a converted autonomous vehicle; establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 500 |
| MD | SB549 | 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 demonstr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
| MD | SB693 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to submit an annual report on assaults on public transit operators to certain persons; and requiring the report to include information for the immediately preceding 12 months on the nature of each assault...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 503 |
| MD | SB550 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund as an instrumentality of the State to develop opportunities for banking institutions and credit unions to better serve the needs of low- to moderate-income tracts; providing for certain asse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 433 |
| MD | SB944 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Historical Trust, on or before July 1, 2023, to extinguish or terminate a certain easement the Trust holds in the parcel of land known as Warner Manor (also known as Brainard Warner House and/or Circle Manor) in the Town of Ken...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 505 |
| MD | SB273 | Pass | Altering the amount of a certain appropriation the Governor is required to make for the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund; and repealing a provision of law requiring 100% of the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 |
| MD | SB460 | Pass | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2023, 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 252 |
| MD | SB527 | Pass | Altering the defined term "peer support counseling program" for peer services offered to fire, rescue, or emergency medical services members to be "peer support program"; and requiring peer support programs to be evidence-based.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 278 |
| MD | SB624 | Pass | Allowing an individual or a business entity to claim a credit against the State income tax for the first $500 of the purchase price of an automated external defibrillator purchased for use at a restaurant location in the State with annual gross incom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 307 |
| MD | SB798 | 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 244 |
| MD | SB166 | 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; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 175 |
| MD | SB379 | Pass | Requiring a local board of elections to send, not later than 43 days before an election, a ballot to voters who have made a request and qualify to vote by absentee ballot; altering the procedures for the canvassing of and curing of errors on absentee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| MD | SB551 | Pass | Establishing the Department of Service and Civic Innovation; providing that the purpose of the Department is to promote service and volunteerism in the State; establishing the Secretary of Service and Civic Innovation and the duties and responsibilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 99 |
| MD | SB974 | Pass | Requiring contractors operating State-owned nursing homes to promptly provide notice of certain deficiencies, enforcement actions, citations, and fines to the Governor, the State agency overseeing the nursing home, certain committees of the General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106 |
| MD | SB552 | 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 3 |
| MD | SB555 | Pass | Increasing the State minimum wage rate; repealing the authority of the Board of Public Works to temporarily suspend an increase in the minimum wage rate; and repealing the requirement that the Governor's budgets for certain fiscal years include certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| MD | SB842 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim January 27 as Maryland Holocaust Remembrance Day; and requiring the proclamation to include a declaration of the purposes of Maryland Holocaust Remembrance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 |
| MD | SB478 | 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 12 |
| MD | SB547 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Office of Statewide Broadband within the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct a study of broadband services, service providers, infrastructure, and private network investors and submit its findings and recommendati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB279 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Agriculture to develop, publish, and regularly update a fact sheet on the care and protection of pets in the event of an eviction or any other loss of possession of real property; requiring a landlord to provide a link to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB528 | Engross
50% | Requiring, subject to a certain exception, the Motor Vehicle Administration to require certain persons who are convicted of, or granted probation before judgment for, certain criminal offenses related to driving while impaired by alcohol to participa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB288 | Engross
50% | Establishing exceptions to certain criminal prohibitions against trespass on property and the civil tort of trespass for professional land surveyors, and agents and employees of professional land surveyors, who enter the property of another to practi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB927 | Engross
50% | Altering certain provisions related to the rates the Department of State Police sets for tow companies involved in certain police-initiated towing; establishing the Committee on Rate Setting and Complaint Resolution for Police-Initiated Medium-Duty a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB257 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Task Force to Assess the Viability for No-Charge Phone Calls for State Incarcerated Individuals; requiring the Task Force to analyze data related to no-charge prison phone call programs in other states, evaluate the projected program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB838 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller for an investigation by the Field Enforcement Bureau certain complaints that allege a violation of certain tax laws under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB684 | Engross
50% | Requiring 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 name and telephone number of the lead vict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB229 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a local government in certain counties to use noise abatement monitoring systems, if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded in violation of certain motor vehicle noise requirements is subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB867 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration, in consultation with the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, to design and issue a Maryland Heroes registration plate that features the images of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Dougla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB938 | Intro
25% | Altering the amount and uses of annual funding relating to school safety to include the development of services to resolve student disputes through mediation and repealing the requirement that a certain appropriation be used for a certain purpose; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB677 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Statewide Secure Schools Emergency Response Program within the Maryland Center for School Safety; prohibiting the inspection of certain records related to the Program; requiring the Maryland 9-1-1 Board to establish procedures to int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB955 | Intro
25% | Altering, in 2024, the date of the statewide primary election and the primary election for municipal offices in Baltimore City to the third Tuesday in April.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB495 | Intro
25% | Requiring each research facility and testing facility in the State to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture to use animals in research, education, or testing; establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a research fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB58 | Engross
50% | Altering certain provisions governing the issuance of stock, convertible securities, and scrip; clarifying the authority of corporations to hold annual meetings by remote communication; clarifying the application of certain provisions of law to the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To House Economic Matters Committee |
