MD | HB500 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 601 |
MD | HB666 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage in accordance with the most recent guidelines issued by the American ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 684 |
MD | HB970 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or an insulin analog used to treat an insured's or enrollee's Type 1, Type 2, or gestat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 688 |
MD | HB1083 | Pass | Requiring the Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access, through its workgroup, to implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment requirements; requiring the workgroup to p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687 |
MD | HB1100 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 663 |
MD | HB1251 | Pass | Requiring certain hospitals to adopt certain policies relating to obstetric services and to provide evidence to the Maryland Department of Health that the hospital has the policies; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide certain polic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 751 |
MD | HB1222 | Pass | Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State or local government that operate at certain sensitive lo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 718 |
MD | HB527 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to develop and implement a program providing for the first month after transit service begins on the Purple Line, free ridership on Purple Line transit vehicles to individuals residing within a one-quarte... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 |
MD | HB707 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 |
MD | HB809 | Pass | Authorizing an individual enrolled in an accredited institution of higher education or a residential vocational training program to return to an out-of-home placement provider with whom the individual was previously placed under certain circumstances... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 470 |
MD | HB767 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 |
MD | HB930 | Pass | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
MD | HB325 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to choose to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in either English or Spanish; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 |
MD | HB452 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Green Building Council, on or before October 1, 2026, to update or develop guidance for the purchase of outdoor lighting fixtures in consideration of certain recommendations; prohibiting State funds from being used to install o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 389 |
MD | HB426 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 321 |
MD | HB879 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the St... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 243 |
MD | HB945 | Pass | Altering, from the last Tuesday in June to the fourth Tuesday in June, the date for the primary election in the year of the gubernatorial election. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 312 |
MD | HB910 | Pass | Increasing the amount of a certain property tax exemption for dwelling houses owned by blind individuals or their surviving spouses from $15,000 to $40,000. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 284 |
MD | HB983 | Pass | Establishing the Language Assistance Program; requiring a local board of elections to participate in the Program if the State Board determines that there is a significant need for language assistance to voters in the county in a language other than E... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 278 |
MD | HB1121 | Pass | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to remove certain application barriers for parenting foster youth and increase eligibility access to the Child Care Schol... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 369 |
MD | HB782 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency; requiring the Center to request any avai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 244 |
MD | HB646 | Pass | Extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to be October 31, 2026; and extending the termination date for the Task Force to be June 30, 202... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 113 |
MD | HB853 | Pass | Authorizing a certain individual to file a motion to reduce the duration of a certain sentence if the individual was convicted between the ages of at least 18 and under 25, was not sentenced to life, is not a sex offender, has served at least 20 year... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 96 |
MD | HB502 | Pass | Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate ef... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1 |
MD | HB579 | Engross 50% | Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; altering the requirements for certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the individuals eligible ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Third Reading Passed (124-14) |
MD | HB1057 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to conduct a study to determine the types of State support, in the form of funding or otherwise, that would be appropriate and beneficial to assist private providers of treatment foster care homes in the pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
MD | HB201 | Engross 50% | Requiring each local board of elections to include a written notice regarding how to request a State-approved absentee ballot application approved by the State Board of Elections with certain mailings to voters and eligible voters to further awarene... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04 To Senate Rules Committee |
MD | HB525 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person from, with fraudulent intent, influencing or attempting to influence a voter's decision whether or not to cast a vote or how to vote on a candidate or ballot issue by disseminating a deepfake; and defining "deepfake" as an image,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04 To Senate Rules Committee |
MD | HB1127 | Engross 50% | Requiring each county board of education to develop certain instructional content on water safety for public school students in the county; and requiring that the instructional content be offered to students in elementary, middle, and high school. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB1151 | Engross 50% | Providing that a seller or the seller's agent may provide certain information to an appraiser of residential real property at certain times and under certain circumstances; requiring an appraiser to provide a lender with certain information under cer... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | HB317 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Curbside Voting Pilot Program to test the viability of curbside voting in the State; establishing requirements governing curbside voting; requiring the State Board and local board to communicate with voters and the general public, in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB986 | Engross 50% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; requiring a county board to provide suppl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB610 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the expungement of a charge under a certain provision of law if the charge was not disposed of by an unequivocal conviction, but was instead disposed of by the court with a no finding designation or included in a case that was designated ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | HB830 | Engross 50% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic testing for certain individuals who may have an increased risk of developing cancer and follow-up evidence-based cancer i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17 To Senate Finance Committee |
MD | HB1198 | Engross 50% | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals;... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | HB1325 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; providing that the purpose of the Program is to facilitate the continuous operation of child care facilities in the State by ensuring that qualif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB493 | Engross 50% | Designating November 14 as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day to commemorate Ruby Bridges, who, on November 14, 1960, became the first African American student to integrate an all-while school in New Orleans, Louisiana; and requiring the State Departmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB596 | Engross 50% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring the remote registration process to provide an opportunity for the service m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB609 | Engross 50% | Exempting certain applicants for a senatorial scholarship from certain examination requirements; and authorizing certain uses of senatorial and Delegate scholarships for applicants who plan to complete the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | HB1254 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program in the State Department of Education to provide funding to eligible schools that participate in the federal community eligibility provision of the child nutrition programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05 To House Appropriations Committee |
MD | HB1262 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a county board of education to develop and establish income eligibility guidelines and procedures for payment of costs for a certain post college and career readiness (post-CCR) pathway, except under certain circumstances; and requiring a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05 To House Ways and Means Committee |
MD | HB1513 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting an individual assigned to be a school resource officer or a school security employee from being used for purposes of or otherwise engaging in certain federal immigration investigation and enforcement functions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05 To House Ways and Means Committee |
MD | HB1287 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, receiving, or transferring a certain convertible pistol; and defining "convertible pistol" as any semiautomatic pistol that can be converted into a machine gun solely by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04 To House Judiciary Committee |
MD | HJ4 | Intro 25% | Affirming Maryland's commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as a foundation of the American Dream; and encouraging local, State, and federal policymakers, educational institutions, workplaces, and other organizations to adopt and uphold... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
MD | HB1328 | 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] | 2025-02-27 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
MD | HB1346 | Intro 25% | Establishing that the creative expression of a criminal defendant or juvenile respondent is not admissible against the defendant or respondent unless the court makes certain findings; establishing that the creative expression of a defendant or respon... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
MD | HJ5 | Intro 25% | Acknowledging the importance of teaching a culturally diverse curriculum in elementary and secondary schools in the State; providing that curricula taught in elementary and secondary schools should include the history of communities that have experie... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
MD | HJ6 | Intro 25% | Stating that the General Assembly joins certain other state legislative bodies, counties, and municipalities in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's Congress... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
MD | HB818 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in certain actions seeking to remedy a violation of a Maryland constitutional right; authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 To House Judiciary Committee |
MD | HB709 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |