Maryland Senator Mary Washington [D]

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MDSB85Engross
50%
Authorizing the formation of limited worker cooperative associations; and establishing rules and procedures for the formation, governance, conversion, and dissolution of limited worker cooperative associations.
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB470Engross
50%
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; requi...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB1084Engross
50%
Establishing the Commission for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing as an independent unit of State government to provide and advocate for accessible and comprehensive services, and foster inclusivity, equal opportunities, and improved quality o...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB1107Engross
50%
Establishing a homeless shelter licensing program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring license holders to be relicensed every 2 years; requiring the Department to develop certain operational and building standards for hom...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (44-0)
MDSB337Engross
50%
Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB797Engross
50%
Establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; requiring certain information about the Program to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the A...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB615Engross
50%
Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim July 11 as Maryland Veterans Suicide Awareness Day.
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (44-1)
MDSB477Engross
50%
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 ...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB738Engross
50%
Establishing the State standards for libraries for the operation of each library that receives funding from the State; altering the duties of the State Library Board, the State Library Agency, and regional resource centers to incorporate the State st...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB771Engross
50%
Repealing a provision of law that requires a teacher preparation program to require a student to pass a certain assessment as a graduation requirement; altering the requirements for initial teacher certification; repealing certain certification requi...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB165Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental ill...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB883Engross
50%
Requiring a virtual tutoring service to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to child sexual abuse or sexual misconduct of the applicant; requiring certain former employers of...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB475Engross
50%
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention 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 agencies and affecte...
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB699Engross
50%
Altering the process for distributing the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund to Baltimore City by allocating certain funds to the Baltimore City Comptroller under certain circumstances; establishing an Equitable Community Investment Council in ea...
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2024-03-15
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB1067Engross
50%
Authorizing the placement and use of 16 speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County, except that only 4 may be operated at any given time; requiring that fines collected by Baltimore County as a result of violations enforced by spe...
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2024-03-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB1178Engross
50%
Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB707Engross
50%
Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB450Engross
50%
Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply in Baltimore County; requiring all speed limit signs within certain segments of certain highways in Baltimore County to...
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2024-03-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB982Engross
50%
Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; altering the authority of the Board of Public Works over certain information technology projects; establishing the Information ...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB448Engross
50%
Establishing the Commission to Study African American Civil War Soldiers in Maryland; requiring the Commission to study the history of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union Army; requiring the Commission to make certain recommendatio...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB818Engross
50%
Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments; requiring the Department of Information Technology to conduct certain monitoring and adopt certain policies and procedures; prohibiting a unit of State government...
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2024-03-15
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB194Engross
50%
Authorizing the Pricing and Selection Committee for Preferred Providers to grant a waiver from a certain requirement to use a certain preferred provider for the procurement of supplies and services under certain circumstances; requiring the Committee...
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2024-03-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB592Engross
50%
Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB480Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ...
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2024-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB486Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Correctional Enterprises Management Council to research and review certain information relating to goods and services provided by Maryland Correctional Enterprises and report to the General Assembly on or before July 1, 2026.
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2024-03-08
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB500Engross
50%
Altering the qualifications for an award from the Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund to include a service obligation to work in an approved child care setting for at least 20 hours per week; requiring the Office of Child Care to prio...
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2024-03-07
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB425Engross
50%
Clarifying that secondary schools participating in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program may serve breakfast in any broadly accessible part of the school; and authorizing elementary schools participating in the Program, su...
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2024-03-07
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB524Engross
50%
Altering certain terminology that refers to chairs and vice chairs of committees of the General Assembly to be gender-neutral.
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2024-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB148Engross
50%
Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities and areas in which over 90% of households are at extre...
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2024-03-01
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB585Engross
50%
Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; ...
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2024-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB430Engross
50%
Establishing the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to support certain eligible projects that improve the quality of life within and economic potential of Maryland communities by mak...
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2024-02-16
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB169Engross
50%
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
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2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB698Intro
25%
Altering the scope of authority of the Accountability and Implementation Board regarding conflicts between a decision or policy of the Board and another entity responsible for implementing an element of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB893Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from locating a new crematory or a property with a crematory incinerator within 1,000 feet of certain properties in Areas III and IV of the State; and prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a certain permit to...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB642Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB815Intro
25%
Authorizing a county or an Equitable Community Investment Council to designate an area that meets certain criteria as a Community Reinvestment Impact District, subject to certain requirements; and requiring that a district shall receive at least 20% ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB823Intro
25%
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1089Intro
25%
Requiring certain operators of certain Internet sites, services, and applications to protect certain school employee information from unauthorized access, implement and maintain security procedures and practices, and delete school employee informatio...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB741Intro
25%
Requiring each public senior higher education institution to adopt a policy regarding pregnant and parenting students using certain guidelines; and requiring each public senior higher education institution to post the policy on the institution's webs...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB605Intro
25%
Altering automatic voter registration procedures at the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; establishing requirements regarding the transmission of automatic voter registration information by the Administration and ...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1086Intro
25%
Authorizing a resident of a local jurisdiction or an overburdened and underserved community in the State to submit an application to the Department of the Environment to request the designation of a certain area as an environmental justice district i...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB958Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1085Intro
25%
Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB1088Intro
25%
Authorizing judicial review of certain environmental permitting and license decisions by the Department of the Environment at the request of certain persons who meet certain federal standing requirements under certain circumstances; requiring a perso...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB710Intro
25%
Authorizing a certain water utility to temporarily shut off service for reasons of health or safety or in a State or national emergency, notwithstanding certain provisions of law; prohibiting a water utility from shutting off service for certain reas...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB848Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB814Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "qualified offshore wind project" for purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard and the development of offshore wind in the State.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB989Intro
25%
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to limit the amount a covered individual is required to pay in copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles for a covered prescription epinephrine injector to not mo...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB481Intro
25%
Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB483Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments in certain low-income communities; requiring the Corporation to apply for an allocation of federal new markets tax credits; expanding the eligible u...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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