| MD | HB317 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Curbside Voting Pilot Program to test the viability of curbside voting in the State; establishing requirements governing curbside voting; requiring the State Board and local board to communicate with voters and the general public, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB879 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB850 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to develop and maintain a data dashboard that includes certain information relating to contractors, subcontractors, employees, and apprentices working under public work contracts; requiring each contra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB935 | Engross
50% | Altering the requirements of a venue-specific emergency action plan to include the on-site presence of a licensed athletic trainer or an ambulance at each high school football game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB986 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1473 | Engross
50% | Altering provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency to include individuals with disabilities; establishing certain requirements for equal access to public services for certain State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1251 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain health care facilities to adopt a certain policy relating to obstetric services and to provide evidence to the Maryland Department of Health that the health care facility has the policy; and requiring insurers that issue or deliver ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB467 | Engross
50% | Altering the calculation of the amount that the Governor is required to include in the annual State budget each year to provide grants to the Washington Suburban Transit District to pay the capital costs of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB506 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the defin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB500 | Engross
50% | 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; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB628 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Highway Administration to prioritize funding for the construction and reconstruction of sidewalks and bicycle pathways to sidewalks and bicycle pathways that are, or are adjacent to highways that are, subject to a complete streets...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB600 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB691 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB767 | Engross
50% | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB853 | Engross
50% | Authorizing an individual to file a petition with the court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the term of confinement and at least 5 years have passed since the court decided any previous petition filed by the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB930 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1083 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to convene a workgroup to implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment requirements; requiring the workgroup to create a plan to implement the recommendations in a certain Centers for M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1121 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Pilot Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to assist foster youth in applying for and accessing subsidies in the Program; establishing that the duration of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1078 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Governor to include $200,000,000 in the annual operating or capital budget bill for site redevelopment and transportation infrastructure improvements if the U.S. General Services Administration relocates the Federal Bureau of Investigat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1198 | Engross
50% | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1315 | Engross
50% | Altering the vaccinations included in the minimum package of child wellness services for which certain health insurers and nonprofit health service plans are required to provide coverage to include those recommended by the American Academy of Pediatr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1222 | Engross
50% | Requiring an employee or agent of a State or local correctional facility and a law enforcement agent to detain an individual not lawfully present in the United States and who has been convicted of a certain crime of violence and transfer the individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1440 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain circuit courthouses in the State to maintain on its premises a private lactation room to be used by certain individuals; and providing that breast-feeding mothers and certain individuals caring for children under 4 years old may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB5 | Engross
50% | Defining "computer-generated image" to include images created through the use of artificial intelligence software as the term pertains to provisions of law related to child pornography.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1123 | Engross
50% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a term of life imprisonment; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB110 | Engross
50% | Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of the Child Support Enforcement Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB674 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person, with the intent to conceal a crime, from knowingly and willfully dismembering, destroying, removing, burying, disposing of, or obliterating by any means any portion of human remains; prohibiting a person from aiding or abetting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB210 | Engross
50% | Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking open a letter; prohibiting the theft of mail under certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from possessing an arrow key with the intent to use or allow the use of the arrow key in the commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB493 | Engross
50% | Designating November 14 as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day to commemorate Ruby Bridges, who, on November 14, 1960, became the first African American student to integrate an all-while school in New Orleans, Louisiana; and requiring the State Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB681 | Engross
50% | Altering the circumstances under which the Child Support Administration may notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's license or privilege to drive; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB763 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB443 | Engross
50% | Altering the statement that must be included on a baby food product label if the baby food product has been tested for toxic heavy metals for the purpose of changing the term included on the label from "toxic heavy metal" to "toxic element".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB385 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB667 | Intro
25% | Establishing November 1 as Maryland Emancipation Day and as a State legal holiday and State employee holiday; and repealing the requirement that the Governor declare a certain day as Maryland Emancipation Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB468 | Engross
50% | Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by a certain court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, not to exceed a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB666 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage in accordance with the most recent guidelines issued by the American ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1424 | Engross
50% | 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 connected to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB675 | Engross
50% | Altering from December 31, 2025, to March 31,2026, the date by which a certain report under a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit tracking program is required to be submitted; altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB438 | Engross
50% | Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1129 | Intro
25% | Altering terminology in the Maryland Constitution that refers to constitutional officers to be gender-neutral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB609 | Engross
50% | Exempting certain applicants for a senatorial scholarship from certain examination requirements; and authorizing certain uses of senatorial and Delegate scholarships for applicants who plan to complete the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB707 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB929 | Engross
50% | Specifying that an individual may consent to the issuance of a permanent protective order against the individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB236 | Engross
50% | Expanding the relief that may be included in a final peace order; altering the acts that constitute criminal harassment to include certain visual surveillance of an area of another person's residence where the other has a reasonable expectation of pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB604 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of the individual with the intent to deprive the individual of the individual's property if the ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1254 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program in the State Department of Education to provide funding to eligible schools that participate in the federal community eligibility provision of the child nutrition programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1287 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, receiving, or transferring a certain convertible pistol; and defining "convertible pistol" as any semiautomatic pistol that can be converted into a machine gun solely by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB380 | Engross
50% | Repealing the prohibition on and criminal penalty related to the sale of certain contraceptives and contraceptive devices by means of a vending machine or other automatic device at a kindergarten, nursery school, or elementary or secondary school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB455 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Veterans and Military Families to designate a location for an American braille tactile flag to be placed on the grounds of one or more State veterans' cemeteries to honor members of the uniformed services, veterans, and ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB646 | Engross
50% | Extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to be October 31, 2026; and extending the termination date for the Task Force to be June 30, 202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
