| MD | HB1071 | Pass | Altering the maximum fines for smoking cannabis in a public place; prohibiting a law enforcement officer from initiating a stop or a search of a person, a motor vehicle, or a vessel based solely on certain factors; prohibiting, under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 802 |
| MD | HB908 | Pass | Making permanent the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Pilot Program; requiring a community solar energy generating system to serve at least 40% of its kilowatt-hour output to low-income and moderate-income subscribers under certain circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| MD | HB1219 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for early childhood education teacher certification completed through an alternative teacher preparation program; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 627 |
| MD | HB1066 | Pass | Establishing the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention to develop strategies to prevent and respond to hate crime activity and evaluate State laws and policies relating to hate crimes; and requiring the Commission to report to the General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 773 |
| MD | HB554 | Pass | Increasing the amount of a certain subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain military retirement income received by individuals under the age of 55 years to $12,500 and individuals at least 55 years of age to $20,000 during t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 613 |
| MD | HB548 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund as an instrumentality of the State for purposes of developing opportunities for banking institutions and credit unions to better serve the needs of low- to moderate-income tracts; providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 |
| MD | HB552 | Pass | Establishing the Build Our Future Grant Pilot Program in the Department of Commerce to provide funding for certain costs for infrastructure projects in eligible technology sectors; requiring certain grantees to provide matching funds and to demonstra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
| MD | HB630 | Pass | Authorizing an account holder who is the victim of abuse to terminate, and requiring a utility to allow for the termination of, the account holder's future liability under a utility contract if the account holder provides the utility with certain wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 566 |
| MD | HB551 | Pass | Requiring the Office of Statewide Broadband within the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct a study as to how the State can incentivize broadband service providers to expand broadband infrastructure to communities that are unser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 |
| MD | HB686 | Pass | Eliminating requirements for collection agencies and certain non-depository financial institutions to maintain separate licenses for branch locations and authorizing them to conduct business at multiple licensed locations under a single license; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567 |
| MD | HB910 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to establish certain targets for the deployment of new energy storage devices in the State; requiring the Commission to establish and implement the Maryland Energy Storage Program to meet certain energy storage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 570 |
| MD | HB1150 | Pass | Making certain shared appreciation agreements subject to the Maryland Mortgage Lender Law and other provisions of law that regulate certain loans of single extensions of closed end credit and revolving credit plans; and authorizing the Commissioner o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 568 |
| MD | HB229 | Pass | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to release certain personal information of a minor who has a work permit to employers and apprenticeship sponsors, educational programs and institutions, and local workforce development boards that hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 335 |
| MD | HB283 | Pass | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2024, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide gender-affirming treatment in a nondiscriminatory manner; requiring that the gender-affirming treatment be assessed according to nondiscriminatory criteria th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 253 |
| MD | HB505 | Pass | Establishing that an elevator installed in a privately owned single-family residential dwelling on or after October 1, 2023, is subject to certain inspection and registration requirements; prohibiting the Commissioner of Labor and Industry from discl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 293 |
| MD | HB513 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to enforce certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on projects involving and traffic control activities related to underground gas or electric infrastructure of an inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 336 |
| MD | HB705 | Pass | Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's rights to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom; and prohibiting the State from, directly or indirectly, denying, burdening, or abridging the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor, assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to constitutional referendum - Chapter 245 |
| MD | HB662 | Pass | Altering the requirements for the subject matter of continuing education courses for licensees issued an initial license by the Real Estate Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 313 |
| MD | HB230 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations on or before December 1, 2023, establishing requirements for the sale of new zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in the State; defining a "heavy-duty vehicle" as one with a gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 97 |
| MD | HB550 | Pass | Altering the Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment Program by extending the duration of the Program through fiscal year 2026, repealing the rebates that may be issued to retail service station dealers, and increasing the limitation on the total amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 98 |
| MD | HB547 | Pass | Altering the percentage of the federal earned income tax credit used for determining the amount that an individual may claim as a refund under the Maryland earned income tax credit under certain circumstances; repealing a certain limitation on the am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 4 |
| MD | HB282 | Engross
50% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to the licensing of mortgage loan originators to provide for the licensing of certain independent contractors as mortgage loan originators under certain circumstances; and requiring licensed mortgage lender...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Amprey, Rogers and Rose) |
| MD | HB501 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Homeownership Program to provide financial assistance in the form of loans to political subdivisions to support the purchase and renovation HUD dollar homes and abandoned residential properties for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB793 | Engross
50% | Requiring an application for any new qualified offshore wind project and a certain proposal for an offshore wind transmission facility to be subject to a certain community benefit agreement; requiring the Public Service Commission to request that PJM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (36-10) |
| MD | HB955 | Engross
50% | Requiring that any system operated by a vehicle manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch or affiliate for allocating new vehicles to dealers be reasonable and fair for all dealers; establishing that, in any dispute over compliance with the Act, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB546 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Corps Program; requiring the Department of Service and Civic Innovation to administer and provide staff for the Program; requiring a Program participant to work at least 30 hours per week and partner with an on-site mentor w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Third Reading Passed (39-7) |
| MD | HB461 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Education and nonpublic schools that hold a certificate of approval from the State Board and participate in the Nonpublic Schools Textbook and Technology Grants Program to develop and implement a program of age-appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB588 | Engross
50% | Altering the purpose of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Fund to include the provision of funding for the establishment and operation of the Qualified Resident Enrollment Program; authorizing the use of federal pass-through funds for certain prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1228 | Intro
25% | Repealing a provision of law requiring 100% of the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund to be used for community enhancement projects in sustainable communities located, at least in part, within the boundary created by Interstate 495 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1056 | Intro
25% | Altering the expiration date for implied warranties for dwellings and establishing a procedure to allow a vendor to repair an alleged breach of an implied warranty prior to the owner commencing an action regarding the alleged breach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1018 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from purchasing a firearm from a certain online vendor unless a licensed firearm dealer facilitates the sale with the purchaser and the online vendor; requiring a certain licensed firearm dealer facilitating an online sale of a f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-06
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB953 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1245 | Intro
25% | Requiring a railroad employer to provide a railroad employee with unpaid earned sick and safe leave under the Healthy Working Families Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB704 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from engaging in a certain bulk firearm transfer unless each firearm that is part of the transfer contains a certain embedded tracker; requiring a seller or other transferor who engages in a bulk firearm transfer to transmit to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1038 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Tourist Area and Corridor Signage Program to create a system of supplemental guide signs to direct motorists to eligible individual attractions by directing the motorists first to groups of attractions; requiring the Administration t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1199 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB522 | Intro
25% | Requiring institutions of postsecondary education to submit a report on institutional debt to the Maryland Higher Education Commission each year beginning October 1, 2024 and each October 1 thereafter; authorizing the Commission to assess a civil pen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB881 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain public and private providers of prekindergarten to form certain early learning collaboratives as part of a certain publicly funded prekindergarten program; requiring certain funds to be distributed to an early learning collaborati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1098 | Intro
25% | Providing additional funding for certain English learners subject to certain conditions; establishing the Dual Language Immersion Program in the State Department of Education to develop, fund, implement, scale up, and sustain the expansion of researc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB634 | Intro
25% | Establishing prohibitions and requirements regarding the sale of diet pills to individuals under the age of 18 years; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a notice with information about the potential health risks of diet pills; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB832 | Intro
25% | Altering the requirement that an employer disclose certain wage information to an applicant for employment; requiring an employer or, under certain circumstances, an employer agency, to disclose certain wage information in certain postings and to cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB919 | Intro
25% | Repealing the requirement that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal experience partial or total disability or death for hyperten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB628 | Intro
25% | Altering the standards of the State Free Feeding Program, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to require that if a school participates in the federal School Breakfast Program or the National School Lunch Program, then each student in the school must be of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB549 | Intro
25% | Increasing the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time based on annual growth in a certain consumer price index; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB553 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Tricare Premium Reimbursement Program in the Military Department for the Department to award grants to reimburse certain members of the National Guard for the cost of premiums for certain health care and dental care plans; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB511 | Intro
25% | Altering the compliance fee for a shortfall from the required percentage of energy from Tier 1 renewable sources to be derived from solar energy for the renewable energy portfolio standard beginning in 2025 and later.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB518 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a municipal corporation in the State to have a police accountability board to receive complaints of police misconduct from the public; requiring the board to submit an annual report to the governing body of the municipal corporation ident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB452 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to provide food supplement benefits to students enrolled in an institution of higher education who are residents of the State, enrolled for at least 15 credit hours per year, and who meet a certain eligible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB347 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Attorney General to investigate, commence, and prosecute or defend any suit or action that holds accountable a publicly traded entity with market capitalization greater than $1,000,000,000 or its subsidiaries for any tortious or other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
