Maryland Senator Ron Watson [D]

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MDSB289PassAltering the name of the Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship to be the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 733
MDSB414PassEstablishing the Commission to Advance and Strengthen Fire Fighting and Emergency Medical Services Within Maryland to study and make recommendations regarding the effectiveness and viability of certain incentives, offerings, or practices employed in ...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655
MDSB411PassAuthorizing the County Executive and County Council of Prince George's County to determine the compensation for the judges of the Orphans' Court for Prince George's County.
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 695
MDSB886PassSpecifying that a certain surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces is eligible to apply for a scholarship under the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program if the service member died, suffered a service connected disability, or was decl...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 694
MDSB1PassProhibiting a person from knowingly wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm in certain locations; prohibiting a person from wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm onto certain property unless the owner or owner's agent has given certain pe...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680
MDSB553PassIncreasing 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 old to $20,000 during the ...
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2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 614
MDSB452PassExpanding eligibility for the credit against the State income tax for certain film production activities to include documentaries and talk, reality, and game shows; increasing the percentage of total direct costs that qualify for the tax credit; incr...
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 434
MDSB549PassEstablishing 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 demonstr...
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431
MDSB550PassEstablishing the Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund as an instrumentality of the State to develop opportunities for banking institutions and credit unions to better serve the needs of low- to moderate-income tracts; providing for certain asse...
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 433
MDSB124PassEstablishing that the Maryland Food System Resiliency Council is in the Office of Resilience in the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; altering the membership of the Council to include a representative of the seafood industry; altering the ...
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 574
MDSB256PassProhibiting the setting on fire or burning of oriented strand board for certain fire-fighting training; and establishing an administrative penalty not exceeding $500 for a first violation of the Act and a civil penalty not exceeding $1,000 for a seco...
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579
MDSB273PassAltering the amount of a certain appropriation the Governor is required to make for the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund; and repealing a provision of law requiring 100% of the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund ...
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494
MDSB650PassEstablishing the State Disaster Recovery Fund to provide disaster recovery assistance to units of local government for individuals and families and for the repair, restoration, reconstruction, or replacement of public facilities, low-interest or no-i...
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549
MDSB798PassEstablishing 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 ...
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor, assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to constitutional referendum - Chapter 244
MDSB341PassRequiring, on or before August 1, 2024, certain public senior higher education institutions, in consultation with students, to develop and implement a reproductive health services plan; requiring the University of Baltimore, in lieu of developing and...
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 250
MDSB497PassDesignating Maryland Rye or Maryland Rye Whiskey as the State spirit.
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 308
MDSB223PassRequiring a principal department of the Executive Branch to give certain notice to the public, the General Assembly, and any exclusive representative with certain bargaining unit employees and hold a public hearing before changing the use, purpose, o...
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2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 118
MDSB379PassRequiring a local board of elections to send, not later than 43 days before an election, a ballot to voters who have made a request and qualify to vote by absentee ballot; altering the procedures for the canvassing of and curing of errors on absentee...
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2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152
MDSB551PassEstablishing the Department of Service and Civic Innovation; providing that the purpose of the Department is to promote service and volunteerism in the State; establishing the Secretary of Service and Civic Innovation and the duties and responsibilit...
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2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 99
MDSB974PassRequiring contractors operating State-owned nursing homes to promptly provide notice of certain deficiencies, enforcement actions, citations, and fines to the Governor, the State agency overseeing the nursing home, certain committees of the General A...
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2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106
MDSB224PassRequiring 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; requiring the Department, in consultation with certain units ...
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2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 96
MDSB552PassAltering 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...
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2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3
MDSB555PassIncreasing the State minimum wage rate; repealing the authority of the Board of Public Works to temporarily suspend an increase in the minimum wage rate; and repealing the requirement that the Governor's budgets for certain fiscal years include certa...
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2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2
MDSB842PassRequiring the Governor to annually proclaim January 27 as Maryland Holocaust Remembrance Day; and requiring the proclamation to include a declaration of the purposes of Maryland Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14
MDSB164Engross
50%
Establishing a certain exception to the authority of the Child Support Administration to 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 ...
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2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (110-27)
MDSB265Engross
50%
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim March 9 as 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion Day.
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2023-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB547Engross
50%
Requiring the Office of Statewide Broadband within the Department of Housing and Community Development to conduct a study of broadband services, service providers, infrastructure, and private network investors and submit its findings and recommendati...
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2023-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB165Intro
25%
Prohibiting private education lenders and private education loan collectors from initiating a certain action unless the private education lenders or private education loan collectors possess and enter into evidence certain documents; requiring a priv...
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2023-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
MDSB266Engross
50%
Altering the membership of the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports to include a school counselor certified by the State Department of Education, designated by the Maryland School Counselor Association.
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2023-03-15
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB867Engross
50%
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration, in consultation with the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, to design and issue a Maryland Heroes registration plate that features the images of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Dougla...
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2023-03-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB536Intro
25%
Requiring each department or independent unit of State government to include in certain forms questions regarding eligibility for veterans' benefits, provide information on veterans' benefits to certain individuals under certain circumstances, and an...
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2023-02-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB939Intro
25%
Establishing the Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program; authorizing program funds to be sourced from federal and State public transportation programs; requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2025, the total grants for locally operated transit ser...
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2023-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB163Intro
25%
Limiting the requirement that an instrument effecting a change in ownership of real property be endorsed by the assessment office for a county to only those transfers subject to an agricultural land transfer tax; altering certain provisions relating ...
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2023-02-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB744Intro
25%
Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a cert...
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2023-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB409Intro
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...
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2023-02-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB453Intro
25%
Requiring a private construction contract to include a provision requiring the owner to pay the contractor within a certain period of time or, if the owner withholds all or part of an amount invoiced, to send a certain notification to the contractor;...
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2023-02-03
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB410Intro
25%
Requiring, when a child is born at a health care facility, the attending physician to offer to the presumed father of the child the option to take a paternity test; requiring the offer to take a paternity test be made orally and in writing and before...
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2023-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB267Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain video lottery operators to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the ...
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2023-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB207Intro
25%
Authorizing a certain credit against the State income tax for certain taxpayers who are at least 80 years old.
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2023-01-20
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
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