Maryland Senator Nick Charles [D]

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MDSB429Intro
25%
Altering the definitions of target per pupil foundation amount, collaborative time per pupil amount, and special education per pupil amount for certain fiscal years; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include...
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2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB427Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB541Intro
25%
Authorizing the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to issue certain fraternal organizations a license for not more than five instant ticket lottery machines; altering the distribution of proceeds from instant ticket lottery machi...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB683Intro
25%
Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs in connectio...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB430Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporat...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB524Intro
25%
Exempting certain religious educational institutions accredited by certain accrediting bodies from the requirement to obtain a certificate of approval from the Maryland Higher Education Commission to operate in the State.
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB565Intro
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.
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2025-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB519Intro
25%
Establishing the Prostate Cancer Care Access Grant Program to provide grants to improve awareness of and access to prostate cancer care services for individuals in the State; establishing the Prostate Cancer Care Access Grant Program Fund as a specia...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB521Intro
25%
Establishing a rebuttable presumption in certain child custody proceedings that joint legal custody and joint physical custody for approximately equal periods of time are in the best interests of a child and establishing factors a court may consider ...
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2025-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB831Intro
25%
Requiring a lender for a reverse mortgage loan to establish a certain escrow account for the payment of eligible homeowner expenses, deduct a certain amount of funds from each loan distribution to a borrower, deposit the deducted funds into the escro...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB893Intro
25%
Establishing and altering requirements governing the regulation of insurance in the State, including requirements related to reviews and examinations undertaken by the Maryland Insurance Commissioner, premium discounts, the temporary suspension of wr...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB783Intro
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...
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2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB542Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to contract with a third party to conduct a study of the structure and composition of the distribution and retail sector of the alcoholic beverages industry in the State a...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB681Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "health care provider" to include an employee, agent, or contractor of a hospital who is licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise authorized to render health care services in Maryland in provisions relating to health c...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB682Intro
25%
Altering certain requirements for an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property; requiring a secured party to provide certain loan-related correspondence in order to enforce a materially delinquent...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB989Intro
25%
Authorizing a sheriff of a county to establish an Unauthorized Occupant Registry for residential real property located in the county in order to facilitate the removal of unauthorized occupants from dwellings on residential property in the county; au...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB832Intro
25%
Authorizing a municipal corporation in Prince George's County that is in the regional district to override, by a majority vote of the governing body of the municipal corporation, a certain zoning law made by the district council if the zoning law aff...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB866Intro
25%
Establishing the Common Ownership Community Ombudsman Unit in the Office of the Attorney General to monitor relevant changes in federal and State laws, make certain information publicly available, assist members in understanding certain rights and pr...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB833Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Human Services to review and reallocate a portion of the Department of Human Services' annual budget to be used to provide child care stipends to certain private treatment foster care homes t...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB431Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to waive the license examination requirement for a journey plumber license; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to waive the examination for certain licenses; altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship a...
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2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB648Intro
25%
Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
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2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB649Intro
25%
Authorizing the expungement of a charge under a certain provision of law if the charge was not disposed of by an unequivocal conviction, but was instead disposed of by the court with a no finding designation or included in a case that was designated ...
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2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB433Intro
25%
Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate ef...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB203Engross
50%
Creating an exception for vehicles carrying fluid milk products to the prohibition against driving a vehicle subject to an exceptional hauling permit on the interstate highway system; altering certain weight limits and tolerances under an exceptional...
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2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB426Intro
25%
Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ...
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2025-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB523Intro
25%
Providing that certain State employees are entitled to up to 4 hours of paid cancer screening leave in any 12-month period after obtaining approval from their appointing authorities.
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB522Intro
25%
Requiring a person registered to build a new home to include in a contract for the initial sale of a new home certain information about the warranties for appliances registered by the person.
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB540Intro
25%
Prohibiting a cooperative housing corporation, condominium association, or homeowners association from requiring certain sensitive information of certain individuals as a condition for access to a recreational common area; and defining "sensitive inf...
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2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB525Intro
25%
Requiring each county to establish a certain program allowing a member of the public to submit video evidence of an alleged violation of the Illegal Dumping and Litter Control Law to a certain enforcement unit; and requiring a program established und...
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2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB520Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to use speed monitoring systems in areas determined to be of high risk to vulnerable road users and priority corridors in the Administration's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan; and defining "vulnerable road u...
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2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB539Intro
25%
Requiring health care providers who are authorized to prescribe to issue two prescriptions of each drug prescribed for a child if a parent of the child presents the prescriber with a court-ordered or court-approved shared custody or visitation schedu...
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB518Intro
25%
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide individuals over at least 45 years of age with coverage for certain preventive screenings for ovarian cancer, including MRI and CT scans; and ...
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB432Intro
25%
Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor ...
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2025-01-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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