| MD | HB13 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and intentionally releasing or causing to be released, or organizing the release of, a certain balloon into the atmosphere; authorizing the Department to delegate certain enforcement authority to a certain unit, of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB70 | Intro | Prohibiting a vehicle facing a circular green signal, a green arrow signal, or a steady yellow signal from entering an intersection if the vehicle is unable to safely and completely proceed through the intersection; establishing certain exceptions to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB427 | Intro | 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] | 2020-02-18
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB460 | Intro | 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] | 2020-02-18
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB1612 | Intro | Providing that a certain official is immune from criminal and civil liability for refusing to provide information to the federal government or another state for a certain purpose; authorizing the State to indemnify a certain official for certain cost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1587 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle that is not a plug-in electric drive vehicle in a parking space that is designated for the use of plug-in electric drive vehicles; requiring that a parking space that is for the use o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-13
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB464 | Intro | Authorizing the establishment of an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program by a community-based organization to provide a place for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide sterile needles, administer first aid, and provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB839 | Intro | Establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program to provide temporary benefits to a covered individual who is taking leave from employment; establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund; requiring, beginning January 1, 2021, cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1147 | Intro | Requiring that a single-occupancy public restroom be marked with certain gender-inclusive signage in certain places of public accommodation and certain public buildings; authorizing certain places of public accommodation to use certain gender-inclusi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1065 | Intro | Prohibiting a public service company and a contractor from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible to a third party a customer's personal information, subject to a certain exception; prohibiting a public service company and a contractor f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1543 | Intro | Establishing a Climate Crisis Initiative in the Department of the Environment for certain purposes; requiring the Secretary of the Environment to administer certain schedules of greenhouse gas pollution fees; requiring the Secretary to delegate certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB300 | Intro | Establishing that inmates serving a term of life imprisonment may be paroled without the Governor's approval after serving 30 years without application of diminution of confinenment credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB847 | Intro | Establishing the State Coordinator for Autism Strategy in the Department of Disabilities and the Advisory Stakeholder Group on Autism-Related Needs; requiring the State Coordinator, in consultation with the Advisory Stakeholder Group, to identify and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB581 | Intro | Prohibiting the use of certain Class B fire fighting foam that contains intentionally added PFAS chemicals for certain testing or training purposes; requiring the use of certain foam for fire fighting training; providing that the Act does not restric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HJ7 | Intro | Supporting the fundamental requirements for United 2026 as laid out in FIFA's "Proposal for a United Human Rights Strategy"; and encouraging all host stadiums, cities, ports of entry, and fan zones to provide certain atmospheres, experiences, and pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB866 | Intro | Prohibiting certain subcommittees of certain standing committees of the General Assembly from recommending an action on a bill unless an environmental impact statement accompanies the bill; authorizing a certain subcommittee to waive the environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1010 | Intro | Prohibiting certain facilities or certain staff from discriminating against certain individuals or residents on certain bases; requiring certain facilities to post a certain notice next to the facility's nondiscrimination policy in certain locations;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1104 | Intro | Defining the term "transfer" as it relates to a certain exchange of a regulated firearm between two individuals under certain circumstances; providing that the term "transfer" does not include a change in possession that is temporary and occurs under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1090 | Intro | Establishing that the use of force and deadly force by a police officer is justified under certain circumstances; establishing that records relating to complaints against law enforcement officers are not personnel records for certain purposes; author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1078 | Intro | Prohibiting a county board of education or public school from spending any money from any source to directly or indirectly provide a teacher with a firearm or train a teacher in the use of a firearm; and providing the Act does not apply to a school-a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1097 | Intro | Requiring that a certain summary that certain employers are required to keep conspicuously posted in certain places of employment include certain antiretaliation provisions; prohibiting certain employers from taking certain actions under the Maryland...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1082 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish certain procedures that require a public institution of higher education that denies the transfer of credits to report the denial to the institution from which the transfer student origi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1098 | Intro | Authorizing certain funds under Program Open Space to be used for the maintenance and upkeep of certain grass athletic fields and drainage systems on land owned by the State; authorizing a certain subdivision to request funds for the maintenance and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1079 | Intro | Requiring the Statewide Steering Committee on Services for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease to work in conjunction with members of the medical community in leading a certain comprehensive education and treatment program; requiring the Maryland Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1249 | Intro | Requiring the public-private partnership agreement for the I-495 and I-270 Public-Private Partnership Program to include certain provisions; authorizing certain revenues derived from certain tolls to be distributed to a certain special fund to be bud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1532 | Intro | Establishing that the criteria for determining eligibility for the food supplement program in the Department of Human Services are the criteria in effect on a certain date, notwithstanding certain changes in federal law; and requiring the State to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1520 | Intro | Establishing the Sustainable Maryland Program Fund to expand and enhance Sustainable Maryland's promotion and support of communities in the State in the effort to realize environmental, economic, and social sustainability; specifying that the Fund ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1431 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to amend the standards to which legislative districts are required to conform; proposing adding a new article to the Maryland Constitution to require that congressional districts conform to certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 2 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1512 | Intro | Establishing the Historic African American Cemeteries Preservation Fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; requiring the Department of Planning to administer the Fund; requiring the State Treasurer to hold the Fund and the Comptroller to account fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1464 | Intro | Establishing that the owners of certain vehicles own certain data collected and stored by the vehicle or a vehicle data recorder; prohibiting certain persons from retrieving or distributing data collected and stored by a vehicle or a vehicle data rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1236 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to engage in good faith negotiations with certain jurisdictions and train companies to reach a written agreement on a pilot program to establish Maryland Area Regional Commuter train service between Union...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1223 | Intro | Extending and altering, for certain fiscal years, the Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment Rebate Program and vehicle excise tax credit for the purchase of certain electric vehicles; increasing, for certain fiscal years, the total amount of rebates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1547 | Intro | Requiring a producer of synthetic turf and turf infill, on or before January 1, 2021, to individually or as part of a stewardship organization submit a synthetic turf and turf infill stewardship plan to the Department of the Environment for review an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro | Substituting the term "cannabis" for the term "marijuana" in certain provisions of law; altering a certain quantity threshold and establishing a certain age limit applicable to a certain civil offense of use or possession of cannabis; establishing an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1514 | Intro | Requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services to take certain actions related to certain protections and remedies for certain employees; prohibiting a supervisor, appointing authority, or the head of a principal unit of State government from taking or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1314 | Intro | Requiring each voter to use a ballot marking device that is accessible to voters with disabilities to vote at early voting centers and election day polling places to ensure that access is provided to voters with disabilities in accordance with a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1444 | Intro | 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] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Intro | Requiring the Department of the Environment to study and make recommendations regarding the Department's permitting process for certain individual surface water discharge permits; requiring the Department, in conducting the study and making the recom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1233 | Intro | Prohibiting, beginning in fiscal year 2022, a State unit from entering into a contract to purchase or lease a vehicle for the State vehicle fleet that is not a zero-emission electric vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1490 | Intro | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Building Codes Administration and the Maryland Energy Administration, to adopt regulations on monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions from certain buildings on or before ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1424 | Intro | Establishing the Public-Private Partnership Oversight Review Board; requiring a certain reporting agency to include in presolicitation reports for certain public-private partnerships presolicitation reports of certain contracts and a certain environm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1205 | Intro | Establishing the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center; establishing the purpose of the Center is to provide students access to established, cutting edge, and high-demand academic programs of degree-granting institutions; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1389 | Intro | Prohibiting a business from collecting, using, storing, or disclosing certain geolocation information from a certain application on a mobile device of an individual except in certain circumstances; authorizing a business to collect, use, store, or di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1475 | Intro | Altering the definition of "elevated level of lead" for purposes of certain provisions of law requiring the periodic testing for the presence of lead in drinking water outlets in occupied public and nonpublic school buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1425 | Intro | Increasing the greenhouse gas emissions reductions that the State must achieve by 2030; requiring the State to achieve net-zero statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2045; requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt a final plan that reduces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1491 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to require congressional districts to conform to certain standards and that due regard be given to natural boundaries and boundaries of political subdivisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 2 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1295 | Intro | Prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2021, the Interagency Commission on School Construction from approving a public school construction project for a school district that has not adopted or updated a certain school district energy policy; specifying the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Intro | Requiring a certain licensed firearms dealer to keep certain electronic records; requiring a licensed dealer to update certain records 1 day after the acquisition of a firearm and 7 days after the sale or disposition of a firearm; requiring a license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1231 | Intro | Extending the jurisdiction of the equity court to include a petition for authorization for a minor to marry; altering the conditions under which an individual who is 17 years old is authorized to marry; prohibiting an individual under the age of 17 y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB72 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to make available to the public on the Internet live video streaming of each open meeting of the Authority held at the Authority's headquarters or any other location where the Authority held at least 10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
