| MD | SB36 | Pass | Requiring the Department of State Police, on or before December 31 each year, to post on its website and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a report detailing, for the preceeding calendar year, the number of investigations completed by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 955 |
| MD | SB723 | Pass | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to test a representative sample of each production aggregate of baby food for toxic heavy metals; requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, manufacturers of baby food to make certain inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 954 |
| MD | SB574 | Pass | Repealing a certain reporting requirement relating to an exemption from the sales and use tax for certain materials, parts, and equipment used to repair, maintain, or upgrade aircraft or certain aircraft systems; and extending the termination date of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 958 |
| MD | SB578 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 782 |
| MD | SB580 | Pass | Providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to a sale by a nonprofit organization that maintains a memorial on property that is owned by the State if the proceeds of the sale are used to maintain a memorial on property that is owned by the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 791 |
| MD | SB181 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $1,000,000 in the annual budget bill for fiscal years 2026 through 2028 to provide operating grants to certain qualifying nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing training in automot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 892 |
| MD | SB440 | Pass | Allowing an individual, subject to certain requirements and limitations, to claim a credit against the State income tax for certain qualified expenses if the individual harvests an antlerless deer and donates the deer meat to certain organizations; l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 769 |
| MD | SB822 | Pass | Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $5,000 of income earned by certain law enforcement officers to include State law enforcement officers who reside in a political subdivision in which the crime rate exceed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 908 |
| MD | SB589 | Pass | Increasing, from $900,000 to $1,000,000, the amount of an appropriation that the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill each year for the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; and repealing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 575 |
| MD | SB747 | Pass | Requiring 20% of State aid for the current fiscal year for highway user revenues and disparity grants to be discontinued if a county, municipality, or special taxing district does not submit a certain audit report within 2 calendar years after the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 |
| MD | SB148 | Pass | Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 516 |
| MD | SB604 | Pass | Establishing a line-of-duty special death benefit for members of the Judges' Retirement System; providing for health benefits for a surviving spouse, child, or dependent parent who is receiving a special death benefit for the death of a member of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 486 |
| MD | SB897 | Pass | Allowing a subtraction under the Maryland income tax for the payment of a death benefit under a collective bargaining agreement from a county or municipality in the State to the surviving spouse or other beneficiary of a law enforcement officer or fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 417 |
| MD | SB202 | Pass | Establishing the Caregiver Expense Grant Program in the Department of Aging to award grants to certain caregivers for up to 30% of the qualified expenses that exceed $2,000 paid or incurred by the caregiver to provide care or support to certain quali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 161 |
| MD | SB50 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 260 |
| MD | SB738 | Pass | Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 130 |
| MD | SB430 | Pass | Establishing the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to support certain eligible projects that improve the quality of life within and economic potential of Maryland communities by mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 221 |
| MD | SB434 | Pass | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 180 |
| MD | SB1178 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176 |
| MD | SB108 | Pass | Increasing, from $5,000 to $7,000, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying police auxiliary or reserve volunteer; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 16 |
| MD | SB608 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a requirement for a law enforcement agency to file administrative charges relating to alleged police officer misconduct that is required to be reviewed by an administrative charging committee within 30 days; requiring a law enforcement agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the fiscal years, from through 2025 to through 2028, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1167 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a landlord to offer the payment of a fee in lieu of a security deposit in a residential lease subject to certain requirements; requiring a landlord to purchase certain insurance coverage using a fee in lieu of a security deposit; establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB414 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2028, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $200,000 for the Maryland Council on Economic Education to support economic and financial literacy education of school-age ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1094 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending the termination date applicable to certain provisions relating to the purpose, use, and funding of the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the knowing use, possession, or purchase of unauthorized registration plates for a vehicle; and providing a penalty for violation of the Act of imprisonment of up to 90 days or a fine not to exceed $10,000 or both.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a residential lease to include a requirement that a tenant hold a renter's insurance policy; prohibiting a lease from containing certain requirements regarding a renter's insurance policy; and requiring a landlord to acquire a renter's insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB993 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of the Inspector General of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to complete a review of a certain facility within 60 days after receiving confirmation that the construction of the facility is complete; requiring the Washi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB828 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw under extenuating circumstances and reimburse the student for tuition and fees paid for the semester in which the student withdraws under certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB994 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB169 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | SB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing prohibitions and requirements regarding the sale of diet pills to individuals under the age of 18 years; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a notice with information about the potential health risks of diet pills; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in the State food that contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SJ5 | Intro
Sine Die | Stating that the General Assembly of Maryland conveys to Maryland's Congressional Delegation its support for an immediate, long-term ceasefire in Israel and occupied Palestine, the return of all hostages, and delivery of adequate humanitarian aid to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a list of diet pills, make the list publicly accessible on or before January 1, 2025, and update the list on a quarterly basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualified apprentices or journeymen necessary to meet a certain applicable percentage for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB546 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from exempting a person from the requirement to use certain shoreline stabilization measures for certain erosion protection projects solely on the basis of replacing a structural shoreline stabilization m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB992 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB958 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1075 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual serving a term of confinement to petition a court to modify or reduce the sentence under certain circumstances; providing that a certain petitioner is entitled to assistance of counsel and, if indigent, representation by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to increase the hourly reimbursement rate for certain personal assistance services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to a minimum of $25 per hour; requiring provider agencies to pay the greater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain persons from allowing pupils to stand in a school bus while the school bus is in motion; requiring that school buses purchased after October 1, 2024, be equipped with seat belts that are accessible to passengers; requiring school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB719 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from committing a felony against a victim who is a minor within 5 miles of certain locations; and establishing that a violation of the Act is a felony and punishable with imprisonment up to 15 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit that the State is required to provide for a household that includes an individual who is at least 62 years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a program within the Division of Correction that provides formerly incarcerated individuals and individuals on probation with certain services; requiring the facility that administers the program to be located in Prince George's County; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB427 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
