| MD | HB582 | Pass | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based start-up companies founded by students from institutions located in the Baltimore-Columbia-Tow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 710 |
| MD | HB597 | Pass | Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709 |
| MD | HB575 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 705 |
| MD | HB583 | Pass | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 706 |
| MD | HB1052 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue a total of 10 new Class B-D-7 licenses and a total of 2 new Class A-7 licenses within a certain bounded area; providing that, in the 46th alcoholic beverages district in Balti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1026 |
| MD | HB1244 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each have a certain staff member who performs certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 963 |
| MD | HB1358 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and Baltimore City to convene focus group meetings on the establishment of the Gwynns Falls State Park with community members and stakeholders that reside or operate in the vicinity of the proposed State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 965 |
| MD | HB38 | Pass | Prohibiting the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City from adopting or enforcing a local law that requires the creation of new motor vehicle off-street parking for a development that includes residential use and that is located within a 0.25-mile ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 651 |
| MD | HB332 | Pass | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration, in consultation with Baltimore City and other interested jurisdictions, to prepare a report on motor vehicles owned by Maryland residents that are improperly titled or registered in another state; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 648 |
| MD | HB457 | Pass | Requiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with represe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567 |
| MD | HB601 | Pass | Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 569 |
| MD | HB581 | 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 to submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 412 |
| MD | HB850 | Pass | Requiring each procurement unit to establish a price preference for small businesses; and designating the Board of Public Works as the regulatory authority for the Small Business Preference Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 653 |
| MD | HB950 | Pass | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation from the Transportation Trust Fund of $80,533,314 for the Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| MD | HB1013 | Pass | Authorizing a licensed clinical professional counselor to sign a certificate of illness or disability when a State employee uses sick leave for 5 or more consecutive workdays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657 |
| MD | HB1199 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Institute at the University of Maryland to conduct a study to identify methods to improve the Maryland Transit Administration's ADA MobilityLink paratransit service; requiring the Institute to submit a report on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 646 |
| MD | HB599 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments and financial assistance available in certain low-income communities in the State; expanding the eligible uses of the Strategic Demolition and Smart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 123 |
| MD | HB538 | Pass | Establishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 122 |
| MD | HB666 | Pass | Lowering the minimum age from 62 to 60 years old that a member of a household must be for eligibility for a State-provided supplemental benefit under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; and increasing the amount of the supplemental benefit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 375 |
| MD | HB903 | Pass | Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 171 |
| MD | HB902 | Pass | Authorizing a provider in the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program to receive certain State funds under certain circumstances; and exempting providers in the Program from certain State requirements for eligible prekindergarten providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 209 |
| MD | HB1304 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process for providing information about the availability of the State's earned income tax credits to individuals enrolled or participating in certain programs or services, or potential enrollee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 376 |
| MD | HB584 | 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 13 |
| MD | HB580 | 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 7 |
| MD | HB1526 | Pass | Establishing the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program and the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to exempt an individual from the requirement to be actively seeking work for unemployment in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| MD | HB836 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | HB1220 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center to provide early-stage funding for certain start-up companies; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (101-35) |
| MD | HB604 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB485 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1267 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting academic or policy research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1292 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the prescribing optometrist to include, in each prescription for glasses or contact lenses provided to a patient, the pupillary distance measurement at no additional cost to the patient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the required contents of a certain plan that a gas company may file with the Public Service Commission for proposed eligible infrastructure replacement projects to include certain descriptions, demonstrations, analyses, and notifications; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1463 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that Baltimore City must provide a 25% match to receive State funds for certain operating expenses of the Enoch Pratt Free Library; requiring an appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund aging infrastructure construction and capi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HJ9 | Intro
Sine Die | Declaring the State of Maryland's support of and consent to admitting Washington, D.C. to the Union as a state of the United States of America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay in a certain manner; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each firefighter employed by the county or municipality; and authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1520 | Intro
Sine Die | Transferring employees of the Department of Transportation Human Resources Management System to the State Personnel Management System; and repealing the Department's Human Resources Management System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB861 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing 3% as the overall percentage goal of the total dollar value of procurement contracts by a unit of State government to be made directly or indirectly with veteran-owned small business enterprises; and repealing a requirement that the Offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB523 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a court to grant a petition for expungement of records relating to a certain conviction at any time on a showing of good cause.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a student to take reasonable action necessary to prevent violence on school premises or on a school-sponsored trip; authorizing a student to use reasonable force necessary to protect themselves or escape an attack under certain circumstan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB194 | 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 and receives a federally funded benefit in an amount less th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum value of property exempted from the inheritance tax from $1,000 to $25,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain congestion relief plans; establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region conge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1438 | 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] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB735 | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB875 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, except as authorized by federal law, a person from charging a fee or receiving compensation for providing or referring a certain individual to another person for the provision of veterans benefits services or veterans benefits appeals se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB748 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Attorney General to adopt and make publicly available a code of conduct for members of the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention, adopt a policy for investigating violations of the code of conduct, and establish a process for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding eligibility for a property tax exemption for the dwelling house of a disabled veteran to include veterans with at least an 80% service connected disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
