| MD | HB1071 | Pass | Altering the maximum fines for smoking cannabis in a public place; prohibiting a law enforcement officer from initiating a stop or a search of a person, a motor vehicle, or a vessel based solely on certain factors; prohibiting, under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 802 |
| MD | HB4 | Pass | Repealing a certain prohibition on prosecuting a person for rape or a certain sexual offense against a victim who was the person's legal spouse at the time of the alleged rape or sexual offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 728 |
| MD | HB153 | Pass | Altering the voting rights of and the process for selecting a student member of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; prohibiting the student member from voting on matters before the board relating to personnel and collective bargaining d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 765 |
| MD | HB680 | Pass | Increasing the total amount of credits against the State income tax that the Maryland Higher Education Commission may approve in a taxable year for certain individuals with certain student loan debt amounts; requiring the Commission to reserve a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| MD | HB1066 | Pass | Establishing the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention to develop strategies to prevent and respond to hate crime activity and evaluate State laws and policies relating to hate crimes; and requiring the Commission to report to the General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 773 |
| MD | HB525 | Pass | Establishing the Outdoor Preschool License Pilot Program in the State Department of Education to license outdoor, nature-based early learning and child care programs to expand access to affordable, high-quality early learning and child care programs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 779 |
| MD | HB1219 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for early childhood education teacher certification completed through an alternative teacher preparation program; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 627 |
| MD | HB802 | Pass | Prohibiting institutions of higher education from entering into a contract with a certain regulated gaming entity or a certain agent of a regulated gaming entity if the institution of higher education receives certain compensation for student partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 700 |
| MD | HB554 | Pass | Increasing the amount of a certain subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain military retirement income received by individuals under the age of 55 years to $12,500 and individuals at least 55 years of age to $20,000 during t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 613 |
| MD | HB1162 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, to conduct a study on the utilization of the expedited licensing process for service members, veterans, and military spouses for certain occupational...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 619 |
| MD | HB152 | Pass | Altering the purpose and contents of and the requirements and qualifications under the Urban Agriculture Grant Fund; requiring the Governor, in each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029, to include at least $100,000 for the Fund in the annual budget bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 519 |
| MD | HB548 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund as an instrumentality of the State for purposes of developing opportunities for banking institutions and credit unions to better serve the needs of low- to moderate-income tracts; providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 |
| MD | HB552 | Pass | Establishing the Build Our Future Grant Pilot Program in the Department of Commerce to provide funding for certain costs for infrastructure projects in eligible technology sectors; requiring certain grantees to provide matching funds and to demonstra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
| MD | HB551 | Pass | Requiring the Office of Statewide Broadband within the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct a study as to how the State can incentivize broadband service providers to expand broadband infrastructure to communities that are unser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 |
| MD | HB781 | Pass | Establishing the Equitech Growth Fund in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to support the economic competitiveness and inclusive growth of emerging and advanced industries in the State through the creation of supporting infrastructure a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462 |
| MD | HB404 | Pass | Authorizing counties and municipal corporations to alter a certain limitation on the combined gross income of a homeowner for purposes of a local supplement to the homeowners' property tax credit; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 530 |
| MD | HB584 | Pass | Repealing certain termination provisions for a tax credit against the State income tax for fresh farm and organic fresh farm food donations; altering the amounts of the tax credit from 50% to 100% of the value of an eligible food donation and from 75...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 |
| MD | HB283 | Pass | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2024, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide gender-affirming treatment in a nondiscriminatory manner; requiring that the gender-affirming treatment be assessed according to nondiscriminatory criteria th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 253 |
| MD | HB669 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for a real estate appraisal license and for a certificate for residential or general real estate appraisal to include completion of certain criteria in the Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 387 |
| MD | HB705 | Pass | Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's rights to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom; and prohibiting the State from, directly or indirectly, denying, burdening, or abridging the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor, assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to constitutional referendum - Chapter 245 |
| MD | HB1074 | Pass | Allowing an individual or a business entity to claim a credit against the State income tax for the first $500 of the purchase price of an automated external defibrillator purchased for use at a restaurant location in the State with annual gross incom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 306 |
| MD | HB151 | Pass | Prohibiting a landlord from including a certain term in a lease pertaining to electronic delivery of the notice of a rent increase; requiring a landlord to notify a tenant in writing before increasing the tenant's rent through first-class mail or, if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 146 |
| MD | HB192 | Pass | Prohibiting certain persons subject to campaign finance regulation from making or accepting monetary contributions or monetary donations using any currency other than United States currency; prohibiting a campaign finance entity or a person acting on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 166 |
| MD | HB535 | Pass | Requiring a local board of elections to send, not later than 43 days before an election, a ballot to voters who have made a request and qualify to vote by absentee ballot; altering the procedures for the canvassing of and curing of errors on absentee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| MD | HB809 | Pass | Altering to July 1, 2025, the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to offshore wind projects and video lottery terminals; and altering the date by which certain reports,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 137 |
| MD | HB1200 | Pass | Establishing a minimum training course compensation of $50 and minimum daily compensation of $250 for election judges for each election day and each early voting day actually served; requiring the State Board of Elections to reimburse each local boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 157 |
| MD | HB339 | Pass | Extending the time for the submission of the final report of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission to December 1, 2025; and extending the termination date for the Commission to June 30, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 11 |
| MD | HB547 | Pass | Altering the percentage of the federal earned income tax credit used for determining the amount that an individual may claim as a refund under the Maryland earned income tax credit under certain circumstances; repealing a certain limitation on the am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 4 |
| MD | HB191 | Engross
50% | Providing an addition modification under the Maryland income tax for the amount of certain trade or business expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year that are deducted under the Internal Revenue Code for the payment of certain fines, penalti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (35-12) |
| MD | HB270 | Engross
50% | Altering the aggregate amount of film production activity tax credit certificates that the Secretary of Commerce may issue in each of fiscal years 2024 through 2026 to $15,000,000 and for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter to $12,000,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (43-4) |
| MD | HB255 | Engross
50% | Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment on or before July 1, 2024, and in accordance with certain requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (35-12) |
| MD | HB1235 | Engross
50% | Requiring a real estate broker or an escrow agent, if a purchaser terminates a certain transaction under certain circumstances, to distribute trust money to the purchaser within 30 days after a certain written notice of the termination is sent; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB546 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Corps Program; requiring the Department of Service and Civic Innovation to administer and provide staff for the Program; requiring a Program participant to work at least 30 hours per week and partner with an on-site mentor w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Third Reading Passed (39-7) |
| MD | HB231 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to set a special property tax rate for a vacant lot or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use on a housing or building violation notice; and applying...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB878 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a policy to accommodate students who need to participate in telehealth appointments during the school day; requiring each public middle and high school to designate a space that meets certain requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB299 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a system to track the chain of custody of synthetic turf installed on sports and playing fields in the State; requiring the custodian of a synthetic turf sports or playing field installed in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1234 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Wages of Education Support Professionals to determine what percentage of education support professionals in the State earn a living wage and to study increasing the wages of education support professionals to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB392 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to examine and prepare a written evaluation of the record of certain regulated financial institutions in meeting the financial needs of local communities where the institution is chartered; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-28
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB303 | Intro
25% | Requiring landlords of residential rental units in Baltimore City to provide air conditioning between June 1 and September 31 of each year at a certain level for properties with residents 3 years of age or younger or 65 years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB953 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1105 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop curriculum content for an elective course in water safety and swimming for public school students in grades 8 through 12; requiring, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, county boards of educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1076 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a landlord to offer the payment of a fee in lieu of a security deposit in a residential lease subject to certain requirements; requiring a landlord to purchase certain insurance coverage using a fee in lieu of a security deposit; establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1038 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Tourist Area and Corridor Signage Program to create a system of supplemental guide signs to direct motorists to eligible individual attractions by directing the motorists first to groups of attractions; requiring the Administration t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1029 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Lights On for Maryland Program to authorize law enforcement agencies to provide vouchers to drivers detained at traffic stops to cover the costs of vehicle equipment repairs such as a headlight, taillight, brake light, or turn signa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB769 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements for the installation, inspection, and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire smoke dampers, and smoke control systems; requiring the State Fire Prevention Commission to adopt certain regulations relating to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB805 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Office of African American Affairs in the Department of Human Services; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $250,000 in the annual budget bill for the salaries of two positions in the Office; and requiring the Offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1122 | Intro
25% | Increasing the mandatory appropriation for the Maryland Construction Education and Innovation Fund that is required to be included in the annual budget bill by the Governor from $250,000 to $625,000 beginning in fiscal year 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1098 | Intro
25% | Providing additional funding for certain English learners subject to certain conditions; establishing the Dual Language Immersion Program in the State Department of Education to develop, fund, implement, scale up, and sustain the expansion of researc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB746 | Intro
25% | Repealing the waiting period for applying for expungement of certain records; and prohibiting certain records from being expunged by obliteration for 3 years after the date of dispostion and limiting access to the records during that time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB549 | Intro
25% | Increasing the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time based on annual growth in a certain consumer price index; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
