MD | SB901 | Pass | Requiring certain producers of covered materials, individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization, to submit a certain covered materials producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval on or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
MD | SB73 | Pass | Renaming the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program to be the Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 533 |
MD | SB37 | Pass | Requiring an electric company, other than a municipal electric utility, by February 1 each year, to submit a report to the Public Service Commission regarding each recorded vote cast by the electric company and any of State affiliate of the electric ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 438 |
MD | SB685 | Pass | Establishing the Language Assistance Program; requiring a local board of elections to participate in the Program if the State Board determines that there is a significant need for language assistance to voters in the county in a language other than E... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 277 |
MD | SB722 | Pass | Defining the term "ecological restoration" as an activity undertaken with the goal of recovering, re-establishing, or enhancing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through improvements to physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329 |
MD | SB293 | Pass | Requiring each member of a county board of education to complete certain antibias training at least once during the member's term; and requiring that the antibias training be conducted separately from certain other required public school employee tra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 302 |
MD | SB378 | Pass | Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to foster and strengthen family relationship... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 368 |
MD | SB451 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in either English or Spanish; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering the examinat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 327 |
MD | SB923 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, to develop and periodically update a list of similar high school sports that are categorized together; requiring a county bo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 |
MD | SB789 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to designate certain private institutions of higher education as hunger-free campuses; prohibiting a 4-year or 2-year private institution of higher education or a regional higher education center ope... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 322 |
MD | SB456 | Pass | Altering the eligibility criteria for Higher Education Loan Assistance Grants under the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time employment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 357 |
MD | SB491 | Pass | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 |
MD | SB43 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; authorizing a forensic board to make recommendations rel... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 116 |
MD | SB608 | Pass | Altering the requirements for certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the individuals eligible to request a certain official to certify victim helpfulness relating to certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 114 |
MD | SB52 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the practice of chiropractic in the State related to Board membership, licensure of chiropractors, the discipline of chiropractors, and the denial of licenses ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 22 |
MD | SB36 | Pass | Authorizing the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund for costs related to the operation of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline, including software interfaces and joint training; and altering a certain restriction on the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund to prohibi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 |
MD | SB431 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Council; repealing the Youth Apprenticeship Advisory Committee; establishing the Maryland Office of Registered Apprenticeship Development to scale registered apprenticeships across indus... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
MD | SB599 | Enroll 75% | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2029 an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Returned Passed |
MD | SB683 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2025-04-07 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
MD | SB130 | Engross 50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with stakeholders, to develop guidelines for a policy on student use of personal electronic devices during school hours; requiring county boards of education, in consultation with students... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Third Reading Passed (140-0) |
MD | SB1040 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Expedited Hiring Program in the Department of Budget and Management for the purpose of hiring eligible applicants for vacant positions in the State Personnel Management System, subject to certain requirements; authorizing an appointi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
MD | SB369 | Enroll 75% | Requiring certain libraries, beginning January 1, 2026, to place an automated external defibrillator in a certain area and maintain the functionality of the automated external defibrillator and comply with the Public Access Automated External Defibri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05 Passed Enrolled |
MD | SB433 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2025-04-04 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
MD | SB720 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee for developing a clinical staffing plan for the hospital that establishes the appropriate number of clinicians needed to administer quality heal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04 Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Beidle) Adopted |
MD | SB808 | Engross 50% | Clarifying that a political subdivision may recover the cost of implementing and administering a stop sign monitoring system from the fines collected by the political subdivision as a result of violations enforced by the stop sign monitoring system; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
MD | SB587 | Enroll 75% | Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to study and make recommendations relating to appropriate benefits to be made to individuals whose ancestors were enslaved in the State or were impacted by certain inequitable government policies; and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03 Returned Passed |
MD | SB684 | Enroll 75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02 Passed Enrolled |
MD | SB790 | Enroll 75% | Requiring the Behavioral Health Advisory Council and the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access, through its workgroup on youth behavioral health, individuals with developmental disabilities, and individuals with complex behavioral... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01 Returned Passed |
MD | SB60 | Enroll 75% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for calcium score testing in accordance with the most recent guidelin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31 Returned Passed |
MD | SB296 | Enroll 75% | Authorizing the Public Access Ombudsman to delegate to a staff member of the Office of Public Access Ombudsman any of the powers and duties granted to the Ombudsman that are appropriate to the staff member's training and expertise. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31 Returned Passed |
MD | SB589 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2025-03-31 Returned Passed |
MD | SB902 | Enroll 75% | Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain carriers from imposi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31 Returned Passed |
MD | SB900 | Enroll 75% | Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31 Returned Passed |
MD | SB342 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting the imposition or application of a method for electing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation that impairs the ability of members of a protected class to elect candidates of the members' choice or influence the outcome of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26 To House Ways and Means Committee |
MD | SB8 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05 To House Ways and Means Committee |
MD | SB88 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to enter into memoranda of understanding with municipalities that allow the State Administrator to work collaboratively with a municipality to support the administration of the municipality's elections... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04 To House Ways and Means Committee |
MD | SB1029 | Intro 25% | Authorizing, under certain circumstances, a personal representative to petition the Orphans' Court to interpret a decedent's will in accordance with the decedent's intent as demonstrated by certain extrinsic evidence; establishing a certain rebuttabl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | SB552 | Intro 25% | Requiring each public high school student, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the U.S. Department of Education or the Maryland State Financial Aid Application (MSFAA) to the Maryl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB430 | 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] | 2025-02-06 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB553 | Intro 25% | Altering the criteria for determining whether a certain victim or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend shall be considered to be helpful, to have been helpful, or likely to be helpful to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of certai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | SB741 | Intro 25% | Altering the circumstances under which a certificate of need for changing bed capacity in a health care facility is required; establishing the Workgroup on Forensic Mental Health Treatment; requiring the Workgroup to develop a certain form to be used... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To Senate Finance Committee |
MD | SB899 | Intro 25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, certain high schools to prepare, in a certain manner, a class ranking of each student who completes grade 11 to establish rankings for use in a certain guaranteed admissions process to certain public... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB855 | 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] | 2025-02-06 To Senate Finance Committee |
MD | SB851 | Intro 25% | Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not access... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB866 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Common Ownership Community Ombudsman Unit in the Office of the Attorney General to monitor relevant changes in federal and State laws, make certain information publicly available, assist members in understanding certain rights and pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | SB591 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device recycling account and a separate cov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB686 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain producers of batteries and battery-containing products to individually or as part of a battery stewardship organization submit a certain battery stewardship plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval by July 1... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB592 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Health Care Quality Fund for Community-Based Behavioral Health Programs in the Maryland Department of Health to provide funding for training, grant awards, demonstration projects, or other purposes designed to improve behavioral heal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31 To Senate Finance Committee |
MD | SB426 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
MD | SB328 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22 To Senate Finance Committee |