| MD | HB627 | Intro
25% | Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB745 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue a license to practice behavior analysis to qualified applicants within 10 days of receiving the completed application; and requiring the State Board to provide a certain e-m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations |
| 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] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB385 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, each business that uses a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose that the tip is for employees and display a tip amount that is set at zero or a "no-tip" option, subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB81 | 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] | 2025-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB639 | Intro
25% | Requiring the owner or operator of a sports venue and the governing body of an institution of higher education that operates a sports venue to allow an individual attending a sporting event at the sports venue to bring and use a reusable beverage con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB837 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Forced Infant Separation From Incarcerated Individuals to study and make recommendations regarding methods to reduce forced infant separation in the State and facilitate bonds between postpartum incarcerated indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB930 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB940 | Intro
25% | Requiring a court to stay the entering of judgment, defer further proceedings, and place a defendant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or an intellectual disability on probation before judgment under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1398 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an individual from distributing heroin or fentanyl or chemical analogues of heroin or fentanyl, the use of which results in the death or serious bodily injury of another; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a fel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB338 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a conta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB450 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to automatically renew the Disability Reduced Fare Program certification of an enrollee who is permanently disabled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB809 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to adopt regulations setting the maximum number of children that may be placed with an out-of-home placement provider; and establishing an exemption from the limitation on the number of children that may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not access...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB702 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to publish on its website a certain list of special education service delivery models provided for parentally-placed private school students; and defining "parentally-placed private school student" as a child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB862 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Child Care Affordability Commission to study and make recommendations regarding obstacles and barriers to child care affordability in the State; requiring the Commission to consider certain economic measures to support working famili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB758 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local designee under a local automated speed enforcement program to void a citation issued under the program if the local designee determines that the motor vehicle subject to the citation or its registration plates were stolen at the tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB965 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2027, the Department of Transportation to establish a method to determine funding under the Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program that will result in a fair and equitable distribution of Program funds for e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1280 | Intro
25% | Authorizing unaffiliated voters to request to affiliate with a political party at an early voting center during a primary election and vote a ballot for the voter's preferred political party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1248 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain online platforms to establish a process for an individual or an individual's representative to provide certain notice of and request the disabling of access to or removal of certain visual depictions; requiring a certain online plat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1244 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council to advise and provide recommendations to the Developmental Disabilities Administration on system design, service delivery, and quality enhancement strategies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB643 | Intro
25% | 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 no less than 5 years, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB691 | Intro
25% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing personnel, pensions, and taxation to apply to all uniformed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB902 | Intro
25% | Providing that a certain base fee established by the Department of the Environment that is paid by a certain generator of coal combustion by-products is not less than $2.30 per ton; altering the factors that the Department is required to consider in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB986 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; and altering the content required to be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1360 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain persons from storing road salt uncovered outdoors; and requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to establish proper outdoor storage requirements for road salt and penalties for noncompliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1129 | Intro
25% | Altering terminology in the Maryland Constitution that refers to constitutional officers to be gender-neutral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB657 | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB812 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to enforce and certain persons to bring a certain civil action regarding a certain provision of law authorizing a nursing home that contracts with or uses an electronic health network or electronic medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB798 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB960 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an investor-owned electric company, gas company, or combination gas and electric company from recovering through rates certain costs, including certain costs associated with lobbying and political activities; and requiring certain public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB859 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, to promote access to health insurance for child care professionals; and authorizing a child care provider that receives a certain amount of fundi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB973 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, by October 1, 2025, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, energy conservation requirements, an electric- and solar-ready standard for certain buildings, and a requirement that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB958 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, blocking of railroad and highway grade crossings, the length of trains operating on a main or branch ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB911 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a landlord to impose an increased security deposit if a tenant operates or plans to operate a family child care home on the leased premises; prohibiting a landlord of certain residential rental property from prohibiting or unreasonably li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB938 | Intro
25% | Requiring the appointment of an alternate subscriber member to the governing body of a continuing care provider; and providing for the duties of the alternate subscriber member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB458 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill, beginning in fiscal year 2027, an appropriation of $350,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park Campus TerpsEXCEED (EXperiencing College through Education and Employment Discovery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB978 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and three systems on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County, subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected in Balt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB386 | Intro
25% | Requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department of Agriculture to develop and maintain a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB524 | Intro
25% | Increasing the membership of the State Board of Education from 13 to 14 members to include, as a member, an early childhood development professional with extensive experience in the operations of a child care business and early childhood curriculum a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB600 | Intro
25% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing education to apply to all uniformed services, rather than o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB644 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply statewide; and requiring all speed limit signs on certain highways in residential districts to include certain signs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB631 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking certain property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB612 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Lifesaver Schools Program to recognize public schools that provide health and safety training to students and school personnel; establishing requirements and prohibitions for Lifesaver Schools; authorizing a public school to partner ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB650 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to advance agricultural fairs and education in the State; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring a $1,450,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB707 | Intro
25% | Requiring that an original and renewal application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to choose to indicate on the document the applicant's nonapparent disability; requiring the Motor Vehicle Admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB698 | Intro
25% | Requiring county governments to make a certain report by July 1 each year to the Governor and General Assembly on the amount and use of county development impact fees, surcharges, and excise taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB699 | Intro
25% | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges based on an incident or incidents relating to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB701 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State from purchasing gasoline-powered leaf blowers beginning July 1, 2025; establishing a certain process to phase out on or before a certain date the use by the State of gasoline-powered leaf blowers; requiring a person that sells o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
