| MD | SB795 | Pass | Altering the definition of "practice audiology" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure and regulation of audiologists to include certain procedures that do not require anesthesia and certain screenings, testing, and ima... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-26 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 1049 |
| MD | SB941 | Pass | Authorizing a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license holder to purchase liquor for retail sale from a licensed wholesaler; and authorizing a Class B beer, wine, and liquor restaurant license holder that has been issued a Class 9 limited distillery li... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1040 |
| MD | SB367 | Pass | Authorizing a person to receive a raffle ticket for each antlerless deer hunted by the person during a certain raffle program that has as its objective the hunting of antlerless deer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 542 |
| MD | SB472 | Pass | Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 20... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| 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 | SB922 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from taking any action to reduce or alter the boundaries of certain oyster sanctuaries until the Department has developed a certain updated fishery management plan for oyste... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 |
| MD | SB413 | Pass | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323 |
| MD | SB809 | Pass | Exempting applicants for employment as a paramedic or an emergency medical technician with the Emergency Medical Services Division or as a 9-1-1 Center dispatcher at the Dorchester County 9-1-1 Center within the Dorchester County Department of Emerg... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 379 |
| 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 | SB366 | Pass | Repealing a certain exemption from certain reemployed retiree earnings offsets for certain retirees of the Employees' and Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems; repealing certain requirements that certain participating employers pay certain offset... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 67 |
| MD | SB411 | Pass | Renaming the Department of Veterans Affairs to be the Department of Veterans and Military Families; renaming the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to be the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families; requiring the Secretary to appoint a Deputy Secretar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 11 |
| MD | SB478 | Pass | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 |
| MD | SB477 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| MD | SB476 | Pass | Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 |
| MD | SB156 | Pass | Renaming the Port of Baltimore to be the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 5 |
| MD | SB1173 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the termination date for certain provisions of law that expand the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include certain costs associated with the connection of a property using an on-site sewage disposal system to a certain existi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1140 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "aerial survey" for purposes of surveying submerged aquatic vegetation to include other surveys that encompass certain geographic areas and use certain methodologies; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to stu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB810 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting a lease of county property for a term of 5 years or less made by Dorchester County from certain notice requirements. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB510 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or donate to non... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from operating a vessel within 500 yards of a stationary blind or blind site that is occupied and being used for hunting migratory waterfowl during open season. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB925 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person whose authorization to catch oysters is revoked under certain provisions of law to apply for reinstatement of the authorization after 5 years; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish an Oyster Harvester Educati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1050 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and homeowners associations from conducting reserve studies on the vote of at least two-thirds of the members or owners. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1049 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, in making a decision on an application for a license or permit to construct a pier, the Department of the Environment from considering any vessel owned by the applicant as a condition for issuing the license or permit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB926 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Attorney General to give notice to State agencies and the public when a court orders that the State may not require a person to possess a specified permit, license, or certificate; and requiring State agencies to reimburse issuance and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each local board of elections to maintain certain records, including all election data, absentee ballot requests, and voter registration lists, for at least 10 years and organized by election year; requiring an election director or represen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1149 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a political subdivision to enact a certain local law or ordinance regarding the storage of dissolved air flotation by-products that is equal to or more stringent than the permit requirements for a sewage sludge utilization permit. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-11 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid nongovernment-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB847 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the time restrictions that apply to Sunday hunting in Dorchester County. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Dorchester County Council to, by public local law, abolish the Dorchester County Sanitary Commission, establish a department of public facilities and services, and provide for the department's abilities and functions, subject to certa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB819 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a Baltimore City school police officer and a school resource officer to carry a firearm while present on the premises of the school to which the officer is assigned. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB961 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person in Wicomico County from standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection to solicit money or donations from the occupant of a vehicle. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB927 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing second degree assault of an employee or a subcontractor of a public or private elementary or secondary school as a crime of violence for certain purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1048 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to transfer certain interest in land to a riparian landowner in fee simple if the landowner obtains a tidal wetland permit for the purpose of creating a living shoreline or other shoreline stabilization mea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from catching or attempting to catch striped bass or striped bass hybrids in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries from March 1 through May 15, inclusive, in any year for which the Department does not establish a spring tr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual from committing or threatening certain actions, including certain actions related to sex trafficking, with the intent of coercing a pregnant woman to have an abortion; providing that a pregnant minor is considered an emancip... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB811 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the meaning of "newspaper" or "newspaper in general circulation" when referring to the publication of a certain legal advertisement or legal notice to include certain publications that are offered in a print format or a digital format under ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB841 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that certain motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB921 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that undisputed retention proceeds retained by a unit or a certain contractor under a State procurement contract be paid within 90 days after the date of substantial completion. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the Maryland estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2025; and altering a certain limitation on the amount of the Maryland estate tax for decedents dying on or after Ja... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB923 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing, over 5 taxable years, the State corporate income tax rate from 8.25% to 6.25%. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "purchaser" for the purpose of certain provisions of State insurance law governing pharmacy benefits managers to exclude certain nonprofit health maintenance organizations; and repealing certain provisions that restrict app... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an official, umpire, referee, or judge officiating at a sporting event; authorizing a police officer to arrest a pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB748 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing an exception to the prohibition against operating or riding on a motorcycle without certain protective headgear for an individual at least 21 years of age who has been licensed to operate a motorcycle for at least 2 years or has complete... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a certain prohibition against a law enforcement officer initiating a stop or a search of a motor vehicle based solely on the odor of burnt or unburnt cannabis; and repealing a certain provision of law rendering inadmissible certain evidenc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2026, to include in the annual budget bill General Fund appropriations of certain amounts for the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions aga... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalty for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 for a first offense, and imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceedin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |