| MD | HB450 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to automatically renew the Disability Reduced Fare Program certification of an enrollee who is permanently disabled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560 |
| MD | HB809 | Pass | Authorizing an individual enrolled in an accredited institution of higher education or a residential vocational training program to return to an out-of-home placement provider with whom the individual was previously placed under certain circumstances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 470 |
| MD | HB857 | Pass | Authorizing a person who is authorized by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer and who wounds a deer during legal hunting hours to pursue and kill the deer after legal hunting hours using the means authorized for the applicable hunting se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 553 |
| MD | HB962 | Pass | Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of Health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479 |
| MD | HB643 | Pass | Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for not less than 5 years or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 388 |
| MD | HB1080 | Pass | Establishing that governmental units may provide disaster service leave with pay to certain employees; establishing that an employee of a governmental unit of a county or a municipality in the State may be entitled to disaster service leave with pay ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 |
| MD | HB1443 | Pass | Authorizing counties and municipalities to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to eligible veterans, spouses of an eligible service member, spouses of certain eligible veterans and eligible service members, and surviving spouses of deceased el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 273 |
| MD | HB1121 | Pass | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to remove certain application barriers for parenting foster youth and increase eligibility access to the Child Care Schol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 369 |
| MD | HB782 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency; requiring the Center to request any avai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 244 |
| MD | HB1204 | Pass | Requiring certain public and nonpublic schools to notify a parent or guardian if a student attempts or accomplishes an elopement, the act of leaving the school campus without permission; requiring certain schools and individualized education program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 339 |
| MD | HB1475 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to convene a workgroup to conduct an analysis of the mixed delivery, publicly funded prekindergarten system established under the Blueprint for Maryland's Future; and requiring the workgroup to submit a fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 374 |
| MD | HB969 | Pass | Authorizing the governing body of a county to enter into a payment in lieu of taxes agreement with a provider of broadband service located in the county for property located in the county and owned by the provider; and applying the Act to all taxable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 209 |
| MD | HB328 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to issue certain fraternal organizations a license for not more than three instant ticket lottery machines; altering the distribution of proceeds from instant ticket lottery mach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1383 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt regulations concerning minimum functional and technical requirements to ensure optimal performance of the State's online special education system, including the Maryland Online Individualized Education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1127 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board of education to develop certain instructional content on water safety for public school students in the county; and requiring that the instructional content be offered to students in elementary, middle, and high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1558 | Intro
25% | Altering the entities with respect to which certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials are prohibited from taking certain actions related to fundraising during a regular session of the General Assembly; and prohibiting certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB332 | Engross
50% | Providing that consumer wire transfers involving electronic fund transfers made ancillary to bank-to-bank transfers via a wire service are subject to certain provisions of the federal Electronic Funds Transfer Act of 1978.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1001 | Engross
50% | Designating the original Maryland orange crush as the State cocktail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1325 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; providing that the purpose of the Program is to facilitate the continuous operation of child care facilities in the State by ensuring that qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB237 | Engross
50% | Establishing requirements for the filling of a vacancy in the office of Senator or Delegate in the General Assembly by a central committee of a political party under the Maryland Constitution relating to applications, public notice, public meetings, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB596 | Engross
50% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring the remote registration process to provide an opportunity for the service m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1403 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "full-time equivalent enrollment" in the calculation for State education aid to include the average number of students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 on September 30, December 31, March 31, and the last day of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1374 | 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] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB912 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, certain institutions of higher education to provide instructors with certain training on institutional obligations toward students with disabilities under certain federal laws; and requiring the Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1264 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a student who is enrolled at a public high school to satisfy part of a graduation requirement to earn mathematics credits by completing a credit in a certain college preparatory computer science or computer programming course if enrolled ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB403 | Intro
25% | Requiring a State or local correctional facility with custody of an undocumented immigrant who is serving a sentence in the facility for conviction of a crime, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer the undocumen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB982 | Intro
25% | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; establishing a penalty for a first conviction for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; and establishing a penalty for subsequent convictions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1215 | Intro
25% | Extending from 3 to 5 fiscal years the time in which the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation, condominium, or homeowners association is required to attain a certain recommended annual reserve funding level following an initial reserve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1451 | 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] | 2025-03-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1319 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly or willfully obtaining or exerting unauthorized control over certain points with the intent to deprive a certain owner of the points; and providing that a person who violated the Act is guilty of a felony and on co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1340 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "employer" to exclude employers who are covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act for the current year from being required to provide to employees a certain unpaid parental leave benefit in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1288 | Intro
25% | Altering the noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts or similar documents that are null and void as being against public policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1102 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain members and former members of the State Retirement and Pension System to receive credit for certain military service even if the member receives military service credit in another retirement system; and prohibiting an individual f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB734 | 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] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB732 | 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] | 2025-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB951 | Intro
25% | Including institutions and programs of higher education in which a student is enrolled as part of a dual enrollment program in the definition of "school system"; adding certain offenses to the list of offenses a law enforcement agency must report to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB622 | 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] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB652 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Juvenile Services from hiring or retaining an individual convicted of certain crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB903 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or a local government, or an agency of the State or a local government, from filing an action for monetary damages or alleged economic damages against a business for the adverse effects of global warming or climate change in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB885 | Intro
25% | Requiring that all investigation records relating to a complaint of misconduct by a police officer be removed from the police officer's personnel record 3 years after an administrative charging committee or a trial board issues a finding that the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB952 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a local superintendent or the superintendent's designee to access the Juvenile Sex Offender Registry; and adding certain offenses to the list of offenses for which a person adjudicated delinquent is required to be included in the juvenile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1358 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Division of Correction from applying credit for any portion of the time served in a certain home detention program toward any sentence of a certain incarcerated individual; requiring that a court consider pending cases of a defendant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1356 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant on personal recognizance or unsecured bail under certain circumstances; and authorizing a judge to authorize the pretrial release of a certain defendant on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB773 | 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1184 | Intro
25% | Altering the size and scope of the Port of Deposit State Historical Park; extending the deadline for the Bainbridge Development Corporation to transfer certain property to the Department of Natural Resources to June 1, 2026; and altering the purpose ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1396 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a certain generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1218 | 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: prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1224 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "linear project" under the Forest Conservation Act to exclude a project for a new transmission line or new distribution line constructed on or after October 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1418 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that gambling and betting activities that are offered or conducted online in the State are prohibited, except under certain circumstances; and requiring the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to report to certain committees of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1217 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of natural gas generating facilities in the State until the State meets 50% of its energy needs from renewable energy resources; and requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to work with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
