| MD | HB33 | Pass | Prohibiting a certain person from intentionally and maliciously inflicting severe emotional distress on a vulnerable adult; and applying a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 34 |
| MD | HB81 | Pass | Repealing the crime of sodomy; making conforming changes; clarifying that certain evidence is not admissible as an infamous crime; providing that a conviction before October 1, 2020, for sodomy may not be expunged under certain circumstances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 45 |
| MD | HB200 | Pass | Providing for enforcement only as a secondary offense for a violation of the requirement to maintain vehicle registration plates to be free from foreign material and to be clearly legible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 106 |
| MD | HB206 | Pass | Authorizing a certain unaccompanied minor in need of shelter to consent to shelter and supportive services under certain circumstances; authorizing an unaccompanied minor who is a parent to consent to shelter and supportive services for the minor's c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 108 |
| MD | HB194 | Pass | Requiring a person that obtains a highway work permit from the State Highway Administration to maintain a safe alternative pedestrian path at work sites that are within 1 mile of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority rail or bus rapid transi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 102 |
| MD | HB233 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from intentionally strangling another in the commission of an assault; and providing a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding 25 years for a violation of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 119 |
| MD | HB246 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and with a certain intent soliciting the consent of a parent, guardian, or custodian of a minor, or a law enforcement officer posing as a parent, guardian, or custodian of a minor, to engage in certain prohibited s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 128 |
| MD | HB248 | Pass | Removing rape and certain sexual offenses from the list of offenses alleged to have been committed by a certain respondent against a certain victim for which a peace order petition may be filed under certain circumstances; and altering the definition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 132 |
| MD | HB304 | Pass | Authorizing the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General to bring a certain action under the Consumer Protection Act against a person who violates a certain provision of criminal law regarding the exploitation of a vulner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 160 |
| MD | HB425 | Pass | Requiring a physician, qualified health care provider, or hospital to provide a certain notice to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board that services were rendered to a victim of an alleged rape or sexual offense or a victim of alleged child sexu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 204 |
| MD | HB774 | Pass | Including in the Nondepository Special Fund certain fees, assessments, or revenue received by the Commissioner of Financial Regulation associated with the Commissioner's authority to investigate complaints of violations by credit card processors; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 320 |
| MD | HB671 | Pass | Authorizing the establishment of a certain health savings account; providing that certain provisions of law do not apply to certain health savings accounts; providing that a health savings account is established on the first day that an individual be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 616 |
| MD | HB503 | Pass | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a dependent child of a service member relocating to the State on military orders to enroll in a school in the county in accordance with certain provisions of law; requiring a county superintendent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 224 |
| MD | HB541 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to require entrance-level and in-service police training conducted by the State and each county and municipal police training school to include in their curriculum training relating to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 237 |
| MD | HB5 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from placing or inscribing an item or a symbol, including an actual or depicted noose or swastika, whether temporary or permanent, on any real or personal property, public or private, without the express permission of the owner, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 21 |
| MD | HB872 | Pass | Expanding the membership of the State Advisory Board for Juvenile Services to include two additional members from the Department of Juvenile Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 353 |
| MD | HB837 | Pass | Altering the purposes of the Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Professional Competency Program; requiring the Program to establish and provide an evidence-based implicit bias training program for health care professionals involved in the perinatal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 337 |
| MD | HB858 | Pass | Authorizing a defendant in a malpractice claim against a licensed professional to move for a protective order to limit the disclosure of certain documentary evidence to protect the defendant from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 347 |
| MD | HB917 | Pass | Altering the basis on which a person is prohibited from taking certain actions against a certain person or group, to include certain actions motivated either in whole or in part by another person's or group's race, color, religious beliefs, sexual or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 367 |
| MD | HB1069 | Pass | Specifying that a provision of law that provides for the confidentiality of certain court records pertaining to certain children does not prohibit review of a court record by the Department of Juvenile Services if the Department is providing treatmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 419 |
| MD | HB1077 | Pass | Providing that certain fees and surcharges on the recordation of instruments among the land records do not apply to the recordation of a certain restrictive covenant modification or an amendment to the common area deeds or other declarations of a hom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 421 |
| MD | HB1444 | Pass | Defining "race", for the purposes of certain laws prohibiting discrimination, to include certain traits associated with race, including hair texture and certain hairstyles; and defining "protective hairstyle" as a hairstyle including braids, twists, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 473 |
| MD | HB1571 | Pass | Providing that the assessment of a certain fee by the State Health Services Cost Review Commission for funding the Hospital Employees Retraining Fund is to be in the case of a hospital closure, merger, or full delicensure; altering the circumstances ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-08
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 490 |
| MD | HB83 | Veto | Prohibiting the Maryland Judiciary Case Search from in any way referring to the existence of a District Court criminal case in which possession of marijuana is the only charge in the case and the charge was disposed of before October 1, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-07
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB1121 | Veto | Establishing the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System in the Maryland Department of Health to provide a statewide system through which health care providers can identify and access available inpatient and out...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-07
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB1208 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, subject to a certain limitation, to provide mental health services appropriately delivered through telehealth to a patient in the patient's home setting; requiring the Maryland Department of Health t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17 |
| MD | HB801 | Engross | Requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to operate a comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease facility for female inmates; requiring that a certain prerelease facility be located in Baltimore City; requiring the Department of Public S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Washington) (31-14) Rejected |
| MD | HB886 | Intro | Requiring an electric company to provide to a retail electricity customer on request the historic usage and billing information for not less than the preceding 12 months; and providing that the electric company must make the information available in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Motion Special Order until 3/18 (Delegate Branch) Adopted |
| MD | HB1226 | Engross | Requiring that a school bus be routed with the intent that the number of pupils on the bus does not exceed the manufacturer's rated seating capacity for the bus; and providing that if an emergency or temporary situation causes the number of pupils on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB229 | Engross | Prohibiting the aerial application of chlorpyrifos on or after October 1, 2020; prohibiting the use of chlorpyrifos in the State on or after December 31, 2020; establishing the Pesticide Transition Fund to support Maryland farmers in the transition a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB292 | Intro | Expanding to all counties in the State a prohibition on State agencies constructing within the nine Eastern Shore counties a toll road, toll highway, or toll bridge without the consent of a majority of the affected counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB568 | Engross | Requiring each correctional facility to disseminate certain written information directly to each eligible voter regarding voter registration, absentee voting, and certain applications and provide an absentee ballot to an eligible voter on request; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB406 | Engross | Prohibiting a person from leaving a dog outside and unattended for longer than 30 minutes without access to continuous suitable shelter during extreme weather conditions, subject to certain exceptions; making a violation a civil offense; applying cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1635 | Intro | Requiring a certain person to attach a copy of an order of the court establishing parentage to a certificate of birth under certain circumstances; requiring, for a birth involving a gestational carrier in which parentage is determined by a certain co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB208 | Engross | Requiring each county board of education to ensure that each public school provide, at no charge to students, menstrual hygiene products via dispensers in the restrooms at the school; requiring a public middle or high school to install menstrual hygi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB515 | Engross | Requiring each county board of education to submit, beginning on July 1, 2021 and each July 1 thereafter, a report to the State Board of Education, the Governor, and certain legislative committees on the ratio of students to certain staff members at ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB459 | Engross | Establishing an affirmative defense to certain crimes if a defendant committed an act as a result of being a victim of an act of another in violation of certain State and federal provisions of law prohibiting human trafficking; prohibiting a defendan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB764 | Engross | Prohibiting a law enforcement officer from engaging in certain sexual acts, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a victim, witness, or suspect in an investigation during the course of an investigation that the officer is conducting, supervisin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB427 | Engross | Requiring a court to waive a certain publication requirement in an action for change of name under the Maryland Rules on motion by an individual who has filed the action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB460 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Human Services to post on its website a free online course on the identification, prevention, and reporting of child abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1204 | Engross | Prohibiting a county board, public or nonpublic prekindergarten programs, and public or nonpublic primary or secondary schools that receive State funds from discriminating against a person because of certain factors, refusing enrollment of, expelling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1575 | Intro | Prohibiting a criminal justice unit from presenting victims of sexually assaultive behavior with forms or verbal agreements purporting to limit the obligations of the criminal justice unit to the victim or limit the rights of the victim; prohibiting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1637 | Intro | Extending the time for the submission of the interim report to September 1, 2021, and for the final report to December 1, 2022, of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission and extending the termination date for the Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB82 | Engross | Prohibiting a pretrial services program that receives a certain grant from charging a fee to a defendant for participation in the program; and extending the termination date of Chapter 771 of the Acts of 2018 to June 30, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB488 | Engross | Establishing that the discovery or perception of, or belief about, another person's race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation, whether or not accurate, does not constitute legally adequate provocation to mitigate a kil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB550 | Engross | Increasing, from 10 grams to 1 ounce, the amount of marijuana below which possession is a civil offense, rather than a criminal offense; and creating a presumption that a person in possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana is not in violation of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB750 | Intro | Prohibiting a private education lender from initiating an action to collect a private education loan if the student loan borrower or cosigner would be required to demonstrate undue hardship to discharge the private education loan in bankruptcy; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB842 | Engross | Authorizing the juvenile court to refer a certain matter to the Department of Juvenile Services for a certain informal adjustment if the time for a certain adjudicatory hearing has been waived and the petition is not the result of an unsuccessful inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB736 | Engross | Requiring each law enforcement agency to provide access to an employee assistance program or mental health program to address the mental health issues of police officers stemming from personal and work-related concerns and to provide police officers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB715 | Intro | Prohibiting the State and certain units and instrumentalities of the State from using any appropriation for a magnetic levitation transportation system in the State; prohibiting a public or private entity that receives money from the State from autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
