| MD | SB453 | Pass | Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 |
| MD | SB470 | Pass | 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; alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 |
| MD | SB475 | Pass | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention 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 age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707 |
| MD | SB473 | Pass | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based startup companies that are founded by students of postsecondary institutions located in and ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 711 |
| MD | SB667 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals to award an interested party reasonable costs of filing and pursuing a protest, including attorney's fees, if an appeal is sustained and there is a violation of law or regulation; and authorizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 821 |
| MD | SB113 | Pass | Prohibiting an individual from knowingly and with a certain intent soliciting a minor or law enforcement officer posing as a minor to engage in certain prohibited sexual acts with the minor by a certain means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 834 |
| MD | SB391 | Pass | Altering the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of sexual extortion to be 5 years and the crime of stalking to be 10 years; providing that the State may institute a prosecution for revenge porn at any time; and providing that, for purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 772 |
| MD | SB774 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program to assist community organizations, nonprofit entities, and local governments in funding security operations during times of high pedestrian traffic in certain entertainment distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 747 |
| MD | SB134 | Pass | Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office for fiscal year 2025 only; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 836 |
| MD | SB472 | Pass | Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| MD | SB482 | Pass | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to chair the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Office to staff the Children's C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 408 |
| MD | SB474 | Pass | Altering and establishing the definition of "generating station" for the purpose of exempting the construction of certain generating facilities used to produce electricity for the purpose of on-site emergency backup and certain test and maintenance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411 |
| MD | SB672 | Pass | Requiring that citations and notices issued as a result of automated enforcement under the Maryland Vehicle Law be sent to the current mailing address on file with the Administration or if a mailing address is not available, the current residential a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 585 |
| MD | SB673 | Pass | Increasing the participation goal for certain small businesses for certain procurement contracts from 15% to 20%; requiring the certification agency, in consultation with the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs, to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 582 |
| MD | SB669 | Pass | Altering certain reporting requirements for the Attorney General; and requiring the Attorney General to publish certain documents on the Attorney General's website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 |
| MD | SB703 | Pass | Requiring the Comptroller to develop and maintain on the Board of Public Works' website a procurement transparency data dashboard; establishing a governance committee composed of the liaisons to the Board from the offices of the Governor, the Comptr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 581 |
| MD | SB1014 | Pass | Requiring the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to consult with each primary procurement unit to identify potential contracting opportunities for and increase outreach efforts to small businesses; requiring each unit, on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 584 |
| MD | SB575 | Pass | Authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the protected individual on the Internet, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 415 |
| MD | SB442 | Pass | Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 570 |
| MD | SB665 | Pass | Reducing the percentage of unit owners listed on the current roster of a condominium needed to consent to an amendment of a condominium's declaration if none of the units of the condominium are owned by a developer of the condominium from 80% to 66 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 343 |
| MD | SB666 | Pass | Altering certain maximum amounts of monetary relief the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights is authorized to award if the Commission finds that a respondent has engaged in a discriminatory act under provisions of law regarding public accommodations a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 344 |
| MD | SB668 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child who is en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 345 |
| MD | SB50 | Pass | Providing that a certain final order of the Commission on Civil Rights on a complaint alleging a discriminatory act is appealable in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 260 |
| MD | SB413 | Pass | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323 |
| MD | SB1178 | Pass | Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176 |
| MD | SB480 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 20 |
| MD | SB478 | Pass | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 |
| MD | SB477 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| MD | SB476 | Pass | Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 |
| MD | SB1015 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the types of elements and units for which a council of unit owners is required to maintain certain property insurance; requiring the council of unit owners to notify owners of detached units within a condominium of certain property insurance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB2 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an intake officer to file a petition alleging that a child under the age of 13 years is either delinquent or a child in need of supervision if the child is alleged to have committed an act that results in the death of a victim; and requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (136-0) |
| MD | SB471 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB65 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from possessing more than 100 images of certain child pornography or possessing images of certain child pornography depicting a minor or an individual indistinguishable from an actual minor younger than 13 years of age; providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB538 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act only to causes of action arising after October 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the creative expression of a criminal defendant or juvenile respondent is not admissible against the defendant or respondent unless the court makes certain findings; and defining "creative expression" as the expression or application o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Paratransit in Maryland; requiring the Task Force to study paratransit in the State, including current, needed, and expected funding for paratransit, reasons for current funding and spending gaps, and the role pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB169 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of a certain manufactured home in certain residential zoning districts under certain circumstances; prohibiting a local jurisdiction from using an element of an adequate public facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB663 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the vendor to provide a purchaser under a land installment contract with the results of a title search for the property at or before the time the purchaser signs the contract; requiring the inclusion of certain notice, terms, and recitals i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines by requiring the deduction, from actual income, of an allowance for support for each child in the parent's home for whom the parent owes a legal duty of supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain employees, agents, or entities on any information technology owned or leased by a unit of State government from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeChat, or accessing any website developed by ByteDance Ltd....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1013 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 certain instant ticket lotte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring health care providers who are authorized to prescribe to double the amount of each drug prescribed for a child if a parent of the child presents the prescriber with a court order of joint legal custody with a right of medical decision makin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1012 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Disabled Veterans Guaranteed Basic Income Program; establishing the Disabled Veterans Guaranteed Basic Income Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring, beginnin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation of custody or visitation between the parties that is in the best interest of the child, to consider the ability of each of the parties to meet the child's developmental needs, the relatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that individuals have access to legal representation in certain foreclosure proceedings; establishing the Access to Counsel in Foreclosure Proceedings Program to organize and direct services and resources to provide covered individuals with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that student members on certain county boards of education may vote on certain matters and may attend certain executive or special sessions under certain circumstances; and providing that student members of county boards of education have c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Phasing in, over a period of 3 years, an increase in a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax to allow for a subtraction of all military retirement income beginning in taxable year 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
