| MD | HB546 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Corps Program; requiring the Department of Service and Civic Innovation to administer and provide staff for the Program; requiring a Program participant to work at least 30 hours per week and partner with an on-site mentor w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB543 | Engross
50% | Increasing certain dollar thresholds of spending for the purposes of defining "small procurement" for State procurement contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
[Hearing: Mar 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB584 | Engross
50% | Repealing certain termination provisions for a tax credit against the State income tax for fresh farm and organic fresh farm food donations; altering the amounts of the tax credit from 50% to 100% of the value of an eligible food donation and from 75...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
[Hearing: Mar 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB509 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to publish municipal election results on its website immediately after a municipality submits its election results; and requiring, within 30 days after the results of a municipal election are certified, the muni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB874 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Environment and Natural Resources Monitoring Unit of the Office of the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute cases against persons that violate State criminal environmental and natural resources laws and to assist the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1162 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, to conduct a study on the utilization of the expedited licensing process for service members, veterans, and military spouses for certain occupational...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB842 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting foreign persons from purchasing, leasing, or otherwise acquiring certain interests in agricultural land in the State on or after October 1, 2023; and providing that the transfer of a certain interest in agricultural land to a foreign pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-18
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB250 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue disabled veteran registration plates to certain disabled veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB552 | Engross
50% | 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 demonstra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB554 | Engross
50% | 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 of age to $20,000 during t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB551 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Office of Statewide Broadband within the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct a study as to how the State can incentivize broadband service providers to expand broadband infrastructure to communities that are unser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB738 | Intro
25% | Beginning in fiscal year 2025, increasing from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 an annual appropriation to the Safe Schools Fund to provide grants to local school systems and local law enforcement agencies to assist in meeting an annual reporting requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB739 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "full-time equivalent enrollment" in the calculation for State education aid to include the average number of students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 on September 30, December 31, March 31, and the last day of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB922 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting the Department of Commerce from denying certain cannabis business entities conducting business in the State certain economic development program benefits under certain circumstances; clarifying the eligibility of certain cannabis business...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB958 | Intro
25% | Requiring that an abortion be performed by a physician, rather than a qualified provider; repealing certain provisions of law related to State interference with an abortion, regulations related to abortion, and liability or criminal punishment for ph...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB525 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Outdoor Preschool License Pilot Program in the State Department of Education to license outdoor, nature-based early learning and child care programs to expand access to affordable, high-quality early learning and child care programs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB781 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Equitech Growth Fund in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to support the economic competitiveness and inclusive growth of emerging and advanced industries in the State through the creation of supporting infrastructure a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB802 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting institutions of higher education from entering into a contract with a certain regulated gaming entity or a certain agent of a regulated gaming entity if the institution of higher education receives certain compensation for student partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1074 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB521 | Intro
25% | Increasing to $10,000 a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying public safety volunteer; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB455 | Engross
50% | Altering the authority of the Ocean Downs Race Course to use certain Purse Dedication Account funds generated from video lottery terminal proceeds for operating loss assistance to support a certain minimum number of live racing days at the racecourse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB508 | Engross
50% | Requiring a county or municipal corporation to define, by law, who is a law enforcement officer or rescue worker; altering eligibility for the tax credit to include certain disabled law enforcement officers or rescue workers who were domiciled in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB683 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue an apprentice hunting license to a person under the age of 17 years who has previously been issued an apprentice hunting license under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB791 | Engross
50% | Authorizing membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System for certain emergency medical technicians under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB895 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of the State Board of Electricians; and requiring the Board to license limited energy contractors and limited energy integrators as State licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB932 | Intro
25% | Establishing the rotational harvest pilot program for oysters to be implemented by the Department of Natural Resources; requiring the Department to open certain areas of the Chesapeake Bay to the rotational harvest of oysters in certain manners; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB712 | Intro
25% | Requiring a farm equipment manufacturer to make available certain documentation, updates, or information to an independent repair provider or owner of farm equipment to allow for the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the farm equipment; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ2 | Intro
25% | Applying to the U.S. Congress for an amendments convention called under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution that impose fiscal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1276 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain unclaimed money held by a cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; authorizing a cooperative to use this money only to assist members or to donate to charitable organizations; requiring money n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1198 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish by regulation standards relating to the discharge of patients from drug and alcohol treatment programs and certain referral services offered to patients by certain drug and alcohol treatment pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB359 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB1250 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1249 | Intro
25% | Requiring, on or before December 1, 2023, the Maryland Department of Health to submit a State plan amendment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to establish certified community behavioral health clinics; requiring, if the Centers for M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB685 | Intro
25% | Exempting, from certain restrictions on the number of patients qualifying for the use of medical cannabis who may be served by a caregiver, employees of certain health care providers or facilities designated to care for qualifying patients under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1238 | Intro
25% | Expanding the requirement that the Department of Natural Resources make available and issue certain licenses and stamps in a digital or electronic format; and providing that, if the Department cannot issue certain licenses, stamps, permits, registrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB699 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State and the political subdivisions in the State from requiring an applicant for employment or an employee to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition for employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB711 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain social networks to dedicate at least 2% of advertisements on their platforms to certain public service announcements; requiring certain social networks to pay a certain 9-1-1 social network fee; and requiring the Comptroller to perf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1092 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of days from 8 to 4 on which early voting centers are required to be open before a primary or general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB937 | Intro
25% | Altering, from 30 to 40 years, the maximum term of imprisonment that may be imposed for the offense of attempted second-degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1145 | Intro
25% | Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain health insurance benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide certain coverage for certain hearing aids for adults; aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1137 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study School Bus Safety; requiring the Workgroup to identify issues related to safety for and behavior of students and bus drivers on buses driven to or from a primary or secondary school in the State; and requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB952 | Intro
25% | Establishing, altering, and clarifying penalties for and elements of certain firearm-related crimes; prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a certain defendant charged with a certain firearm-related crime u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1199 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB954 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish an annual tundra swan hunting season if authorized by federal law; requiring the Department to request that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service authorize an annual tundra swan hunting season i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB926 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a voter to establish the voter's identity at the request of an election judge at a polling place by presenting the voter's registration card, a valid Maryland driver's license, or certain other identification that contains a photograph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1080 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the General Assembly to authorize a county referendum on a transportation investment program; requiring a transportation investment program submitted to referendum to include a list of projects that each have a cost of at least $20,000,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB945 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1066 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention to develop strategies to prevent and respond to hate crime activity and evaluate State laws and policies relating to hate crimes; and requiring the Commission to report to the General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB487 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting certain regulations to implement certain new motor vehicle emissions standards and compliance requirements adopted by the California Air Resources Board unless certain analyses are prepared ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB649 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Education Savings Account program in the State administered by the State Department of Education to provide State grants to the account of the parent of an eligible student to provide for the education of the eligible student; and al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
