| MD | HB233 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting employers from taking certain adverse actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the op... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19 Favorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB385 | Intro 25% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, each business that uses a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose to whom the tip will be allocated and display a tip amount that is set at zero by default; and esta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19 Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB277 | Intro 25% | Requiring a water bottle filling station or a combined water bottle filling station and drinking fountain to be installed in certain new construction or as part of certain renovations beginning October 1, 2025, subject to certain exceptions; requirin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB113 | Intro 25% | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 [Hearing: Feb 19 @ 11:00 am] To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB930 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-17 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB191 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a person who tows or removes a vehicle from a parking lot to provide electronic notice of the tow or removal to the vehicle owner through the Motor Vehicle Administration under certain circumstances; and authorizing a police department th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB338 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a conta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1370 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain transportation plans; establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transpor... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB9 | Engross 50% | Altering certain definitions related to the Food Resiliency Council; defining what constitutes "healthy food priority areas" as predominantly lower-income areas that have limited access to retail outlets that sell, affordable, healthy foods; defining... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 |
| MD | HB678 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $450,000 to the Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library; and requiring the Deaf Culture Digital Library to submit its annual operating budget to the State Library Agency on... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1424 | Intro 25% | Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs in connectio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1344 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of General Services to conduct an assessment of facilities owned by the State to evaluate whether the facility or a portion of the facility would be suitable to lease to a child care center; and requiring the Department to re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 3 @ 2:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB464 | Intro 25% | Requiring a local school system to provide information regarding certain secondary transition services to the parents of a child with a disability at certain individualized education program meetings. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB506 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the defin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1198 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1332 | Intro 25% | Exempting from the property tax property that is owned by the Glenstone Foundation, Inc., and used exclusively for certain purposes; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1483 | Intro 25% | Establishing requirements for local school systems that issue invitations for bids for high school sports officiating services for boys' and girls' high school sports; authorizing the Department of Education to develop guidelines to assist a local sc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1431 | Intro 25% | Altering certain provisions of law to require a law enforcement agency or a unit of State or local government to deny access to certain databases by certain individuals seeking access for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration law, under certai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1222 | Intro 25% | Requiring an employee or agent of a State or local correctional facility and a law enforcement agent to detain an individual not lawfully present in the United States and who has been convicted of a certain crime of violence and transfer the individu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB643 | Intro 25% | Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for no less than 5 years, or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB211 | Engross 50% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants at a system institution, Morgan State University, or St Mary's College of Maryland; defining "graduate assistant" as a graduate student at a system institution, Morgan State Unive... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB503 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB902 | Intro 25% | Providing that a certain base fee established by the Department of the Environment that is paid by a certain generator of coal combustion by-products is not less than $2.30 per ton; altering the factors that the Department is required to consider in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1193 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain local jurisdictions to report information about certain housing development permits to the Department of Planning beginning January 1, 2027, and on the first day of each month thereafter; and requiring the Department of Planning to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1176 | Intro 25% | Extending the termination date of a provision of law that authorizes certain plug-in electric drive vehicles to use high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes regardless of the number of passengers in the vehicle to September 30, 2030. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1406 | Intro 25% | Requiring a person applying for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to include with the application a certain environmental impact analysis and, if applicable, a certain existing burden report; altering certain notice requirements; proh... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm] To House Economic Matters 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] | 2025-02-07 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1458 | Intro 25% | Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's right to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to be paid at a wage rate that is at least equal to the State minimum wage rate set by law without regard to tips that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro 25% | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by food service facilities; specifying the State minimum wage rate; prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2028, employers of tipped employees from including a tip credit amount as part of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1462 | Intro 25% | Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1342 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a person to apply a pesticide on State-owned property only if the person is applying a listed pesticide or a registered pesticide for specified purposes; requiring the Department of Agriculture to develop a model pesticide and pollinator ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1129 | Intro 25% | Altering terminology in the Maryland Constitution that refers to constitutional officers to be gender-neutral. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1055 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Commission on Nondiscrimination to monitor and study nondiscrimination laws and regulations and the impacts of the actions of the federal government on those laws and regulations and to recommend legislation to address any deficienci... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1119 | Intro 25% | Requiring units of State government to ensure that at least 50% of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts for print and digital advertising is being made directly to local news organizations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1085 | Intro 25% | Exempting certain property owned by public housing authorities, certain subsidiary entities of public housing authorities, and certain nonprofit housing corporations from State and local taxation; directing public housing authorities, certain subsid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1076 | Intro 25% | Requiring a landlord to provide a tenant with certain written notice in a certain manner at least 48 hours in advance of when the landlord intends to enter a leased premises, except in the event of a certain emergency; and authorizing the court to is... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1092 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of recycling to exclude certain chemical conversion processes, pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, methanolysis, gasification, enzymatic breakdown, or similar processes as determined by the Department of the Environment; and prohibitin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB798 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement informat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 [Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1014 | Intro 25% | Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 [Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB822 | Intro 25% | Altering and removing references requiring a belief in God from certain provisions relating to religious freedom, religious tests, and oaths and affirmations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB850 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to develop and maintain a data dashboard that includes certain information relating to contractors, subcontractors, employees, and apprentices working under public work contracts; requiring each contra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB915 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Attorney General or certain State's Attorneys to bring a civil action for the payment of certain unpaid and overdue traffic citations against certain drivers or owners of certain motor vehicles who are residents of the District of Col... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB973 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, by October 1, 2025, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, energy conservation requirements, an electric- and solar-ready standard for certain buildings, and a requirement that... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB958 | Intro 25% | Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, blocking of railroad and highway grade crossings, the length of trains operating on a main or branch ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB911 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a landlord to impose an increased security deposit if a tenant operates or plans to operate a family child care home on the leased premises; prohibiting a landlord of certain residential rental property from prohibiting or unreasonably li... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB502 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-01-31 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB891 | Intro 25% | Allowing certain local newsrooms to claim a credit against the State income tax for wages paid during the taxable year to each full-time local newsroom employees, subject to certain limitations; prohibiting a local newsroom from claiming the tax cred... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31 To House Ways and Means Committee |