| MD | SB123 | Engross 50% | Authorizing an individual who is serving a term of confinement to petition a court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the individuals term of confinement and at least 3 years have passed since the court decided a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (31-14) |
| MD | SB11 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a person to file a petition for partial expungement for a certain eligible offense even if another charge arising out of the same incident, transaction, or set of facts is not eligible for expungement; requiring a court to make a certain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (33-12) |
| MD | SB452 | Engross 50% | Establishing that a provision in a contract or agreement relating to the use of a recreational facility that purports to limit the recreational facility's liability, or release the recreational facility from or indemnify or hold harmless the recreati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB473 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation; establishing the Baltimore Innovation Initiative Pilot Program within the Maryland Innovation Initiative of the Corporation; requir... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB620 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to assist incarcerated individuals in accessing federal Pell Grants for higher education; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to set goals for the number of incarcerated indiv... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB733 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Transparency in Tax Incentives to study and recommend a uniform process for evaluating tax increment financing, payments in lieu of taxes, the Enterprise Zone property tax credit, and the Brownfields Revitalizatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB896 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Redevelopment and Operating Authority Task Force to study and make recommendations concerning the membership, purpose, and function of an authority to govern the renovation, revitalization, financing,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB894 | Engross 50% | Repealing a prohibition on certain Baltimore City ordinances or acts of certain municipal officials from conflicting, impeding, obstructing, hindering, or interfering with the powers of the Baltimore City Police Commissioner. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB71 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Division of Correction to allow a certain pregnant woman and a certain woman who recently gave birth to transfer to the prerelease unit for women for up to 1 year following the birth; establishing the Healthy Start Bonding Program to fa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB477 | Engross 50% | Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB134 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Correctional Ombudsman Unit in the Office of the Attorney General; requiring the Unit to conduct investigations, reviews, and assessments of administrative acts taken by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services or in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB34 | Engross 50% | Providing that a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment exceeding 1 year and is currently serving the sentence imposed for the conviction, including a term of parole or probation, or has been convicted of a crime involvin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB472 | Engross 50% | Altering the principal departments of the Executive Branch; requiring certain departments and independent units to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB475 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affecte... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB623 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission to develop recommendations relating to education and its impact on the criminal justice system; and requiring the Commission to submit an interim report of its findings and recommendations ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB643 | Engross 50% | Repealing a certain provision of law requiring a custodian to deny inspection of certain surveillance images of illegal dumping in Baltimore City except under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB730 | Engross 50% | Requiring a rear passenger on a motorcycle to be able to firmly position the passenger's feet on the footrests of the motorcycle, subject to an exception for permanent physical disability. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB729 | Engross 50% | Providing that a health care-related physical intervention does not constitute use of force for purposes relating to a certain report required to be made to the Secretary of State Police; and prohibiting a certain report from including information th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB1178 | Engross 50% | Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1033 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, on request of a local juridiction and in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to provide guidance for the implementation and enforcement of the Maryland Building Performance Standards in re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB895 | Engross 50% | Altering certain licensing fees for alcoholic beverages in Baltimore City. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB50 | Engross 50% | Providing that a certain final order of the Commission on Civil Rights on a complaint alleging a discriminatory act is appealable in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 [Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB624 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Public Information Act Requests Made to Law Enforcement to review costs charged and procedures applied by law enforcement agencies in relation to the disclosure of records requested under the Maryland Public Infor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB731 | Intro 25% | Specifying that requirements for purchasing, leasing, changing the use of, or closing State facilities apply to facilities owned, leased, or operated for the purpose of providing benefits to clients; and requiring the Department of Human Services, on... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB2 | Engross 50% | Requiring an intake officer to file a petition alleging that a child under the age of 13 years is either delinquent or a child in need of supervision if the child is alleged to have committed an act that results in the death of a victim; and requirin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB774 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program to assist community organizations, nonprofit entities, and local governments in funding security operations during times of high pedestrian traffic in certain entertainment distr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB132 | Engross 50% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB113 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting an individual from knowingly and with a certain intent soliciting a minor or law enforcement officer posing as a minor to engage in certain prohibited sexual acts with the minor by a certain means. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB65 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person from possessing more than 100 images of certain child pornography or possessing images of certain child pornography depicting a minor or an individual indistinguishable from an actual minor younger than 13 years of age; providing... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB413 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB4 | 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] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1183 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish Gwynns Falls State Park as a partnership park between the Department and Baltimore City; requiring that Gwynns Falls State Park consist of certain properties in Baltimore City and include cer... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB169 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB618 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Stadium Authority to create a master plan to develop the Pimlico site property that does not include the racing facility site, conduct a certain economic market study, and hold a certain design competition for the site; requiri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SJ2 | Intro 25% | Stating that the General Assembly joins seven other state legislative bodies and over 75 municipalities and counties in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB646 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim November 18 as Hip Hop Day of Service; and requiring the proclamation to urge citizens and organizations to observe Hip Hop Day of Service with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1029 | Intro 25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations for the secure storage and use of voter data from the list of registered voters and specifying procedures and requirements relating to electronic signatures; establishing and altering certai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB619 | Intro 25% | Substituting civil penalties in place of criminal penalties for certain offenses relating to possessing, possessing with the intent to distribute, and cultivating cannabis and manufacturing cannabis products. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB644 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a county to adopt by local law or ordinance provisions prohibiting a landlord of residential property from failing to renew a lease or from terminating a holdover tenancy without just cause; and establishing certain requirements for a loc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB575 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the protected individual on the Internet, s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1160 | Intro 25% | Increasing from one to three the number of assistant sheriffs required to be appointed by the Baltimore City Sheriff; and authorizing the Baltimore City Sheriff to appoint social workers and any additional sworn or civilian personnel, that are funded... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-11 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB642 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1032 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a student to take reasonable action necessary to prevent violence on school premises or on a school-sponsored trip; authorizing a student to use reasonable force necessary to protect themselves or escape an attack under certain circumstan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB948 | Intro 25% | Providing that a State correctional facility is responsible for the payment of costs charged by a telephone service provider under certain circumstances; providing that a State correctional facility and a telephone service provider may not charge an ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1031 | Intro 25% | Establishing that an action against the owner or manager of certain property to recover certain damages arising from injuries suffered as a result of lead poisoning may be filed at any time; establishing strict liability for the owner or manager of a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1030 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a court to grant a petition for expungement of records relating to a certain conviction at any time on a showing of good cause; and specifying certain criteria for consideration of expungement for good cause. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SJ4 | Intro 25% | Encouraging the State Department of Education to add a section or unit dedicated to addressing student truancy from school to further the purposes and goals of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future; and requiring the Division of Children and Youth in t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB454 | Intro 25% | 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB471 | Intro 25% | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB481 | Intro 25% | Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |