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 | SB719 | Pass | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Somerset County to impose an emergency services tax on all property subject to the county property tax to pay costs of emergency services; prohibiting the county commissioners from initially imposing or subsequ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70 |
MD | SB101 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person in Wicomico County from standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection to solicit money or donations of any kind from the occupant of a vehicle. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Young) Adopted |
MD | SB299 | Enroll 75% | Providing that a cannabis agent who is employed to provide security services for a cannabis licensee or cannabis registrant as a security guard or by a security guard agency is not required to obtain a State or national criminal history records check... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Passed Enrolled |
MD | SB491 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2025-04-07 Returned Passed |
MD | SB718 | Enroll 75% | Legalizing the 2025 Edition of the Somerset County Code of Public Local Laws and any supplement to the extent to which that code or supplement contains laws enacted by the General Assembly. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Returned Passed |
MD | SB73 | Enroll 75% | Renaming the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program to be the Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Returned Passed |
MD | SB923 | Enroll 75% | 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] | 2025-04-07 Passed Enrolled |
MD | SB309 | Enroll 75% | Requiring the Communications, Outreach, and Advocacy Program in the Department of Veterans and Military Families to expand certain services to include service members and their families; and requiring the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07 Returned Passed |
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 | SB157 | Enroll 75% | Establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program in the Department of Disabilities to select one or more nonprofit training entities to participate in the Program and provide additional funding mechanisms to assist eligible individuals in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03 Passed Enrolled |
MD | SB680 | Enroll 75% | Altering certain requirements for continuing education required for the renewal of a license for real estate brokers, associate real estate brokers, and real estate salespersons, including the number of clock hours, course topics, course instructors,... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02 Returned Passed |
MD | SB717 | Enroll 75% | Increasing the salaries of the Sheriff of Somerset County, the County Commissioners of Somerset County, the President of the County Commissioners of Somerset County, a member of the County Roads Board of Somerset County, and the President of the Coun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31 Returned Passed |
MD | SB946 | Enroll 75% | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the eastern small-footed bat, the northern long-eared bat, or the tricolored bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31 Returned Passed |
MD | SB25 | Intro 25% | Specifying certain qualifications necessary for an individual to be appointed by a court as a custody evaluator. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14 Referred to interim study by Judicial Proceedings |
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 | SB879 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student to be eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 | SB780 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "Tier I child" for purposes of publicly provided prekindergarten to not include 3-year-olds and only include certain 4-year-olds; authorizing an eligible private prekindergarten provider to elect to enroll 3-year-olds in pu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
MD | SB44 | Engross 50% | Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
MD | SB482 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from tak... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB783 | Intro 25% | Requiring a principal or school administration to investigate each student fight or physical struggle; prohibiting a school employee from disciplining a student who, after an investigation, more likely than not used reasonable force necessary to prot... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB791 | Intro 25% | Altering certain requirements of the career ladder for educators to increase the required percentage of working time a certain teacher must spend teaching in the classroom from 60 to 80%. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB821 | Intro 25% | Requiring each county board of education to grant certain students temporary admission to schools for a specified time frame if the parent or guardian of a student is unable to provide proof of immunization under certain circumstances; and requiring ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB562 | Intro 25% | Designating the original Maryland orange crush as the State cocktail. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB527 | Intro 25% | Providing that a City of Salisbury fire and explosive investigator has the same authority as the State Fire Marshal under certain circumstances; authorizing the City of Salisbury Fire Chief to limit the authority of a fire and explosive investigator ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
MD | SB644 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-10 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB528 | Intro 25% | Establishing November 11 as a tax-free day each year during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for sales to certain veterans; requiring an individual, in order to qualify for the exemption, to provide the vendor evidence of eli... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
MD | SB557 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or certain other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of a device in or on a p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
MD | SB531 | Intro 25% | Altering a certain provision of law authorizing a law enforcement officer to conduct an otherwise lawful custodial interrogation of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian consents to the custodial interrogation of the child without the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | SB565 | Intro 25% | Requiring any person involved in a motor vehicle accident that results in the death of, or a life threatening injury to, another person to submit to breath and blood testing for impaired driving. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | SB965 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to collect and compile annual data on the costs of birth, postpartum care, pregnancy care, and abortion; requiring the Department to post on its website and submit to the General Assembly a reproductive hea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 To Senate Finance Committee |
MD | SB483 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap wi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB588 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated in a certain manner; prohibiting certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and va... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB643 | Intro 25% | Stating the authority to construct, permit, and operate in the State an energy generating system that produces energy from natural gas; stating the General Assembly's support for the development of additional nuclear energy in the State; and stating ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB675 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct an analysis of the full costs and benefits of sources of electricity generation in the State; requiring the Commission to include recommended policy changes to support the development of energy sourc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB772 | Intro 25% | Expanding the eligibility for the Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program to include a son, daughter, or stepchild or surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces who is or was eligible for the Chapter 35 Dependent Education Ass... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB836 | Intro 25% | Decreasing, over 5 taxable years, the State corporate income tax rate from 8.25% to 6.25%. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
MD | SB950 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of natural gas generating facilities in the State until the State meets 50% its energy needs from renewable energy resources; and requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to work with the ow... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB816 | Intro 25% | Increasing from five to seven the number of commissioners appointed to the Public Service Commission; establishing certain residency requirements for each commissioner; altering the manner in which the Chair of the Commission is appointed; requiring ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB953 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Task Force to Develop a Realistic Electricity Plan for Maryland to study and make recommendations on the State's current and future electricity needs under various scenarios; and prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approvi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB479 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "covered building" for purposes of certain building energy performance standards to exclude certain public safety, emergency, and public utility buildings. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB735 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | SB779 | Intro 25% | Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB959 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain land created under a tidal wetlands license to be described by metes and bounds; and requiring the Department of the Environment to update, to a certain standard, the landward boundaries of certain wetlands following the completion ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB838 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and, except under certain circ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
MD | SB933 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully causing another to ingest an abortion-inducing drug when the person knows or believes that the other person is pregnant and without consent, through fraud or coercion, or by force or threat of force. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | SB661 | Intro 25% | Requiring the fair market value of certain agricultural property taken in a condemnation proceeding to be valued at 350% of the highest appraisal value of the property; and applying the Act retroactively to condemnation proceedings initiated on or af... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
MD | SB659 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to adopt consumer protection regulations for domestic electronic funds transfers that apply to financial institutions in the State and are consistent with the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act; et... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01 To Senate Finance Committee |
MD | SB180 | Engross 50% | Establishing alternative expiration and renewal periods for a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer who retired in good standing from service with a law enforcement agency of the State or a county or municipal corporation of the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31 To House Judiciary Committee |