| MD | SB669 | Pass | Altering the date from December 31, 2025, to March 31, 2026, 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 Fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 667 |
| MD | SB356 | Pass | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| MD | SB347 | Pass | Authorizing a local department of social services to request assistance from federal law enforcement officers in an investigation relating to an alleged vulnerable adult; and altering certain provisions relating to the disclosure of certain informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 |
| MD | SB349 | Pass | Establishing certain requirements for a complaint for a money judgment for medical debt; defining "medical debt" as a debt owed by a consumer to a person, the person's agent or assignee for the provision of medical services, products, or devices; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 497 |
| MD | SB381 | Pass | Requiring a custodian of recorded images produced by certain automated enforcement systems to deny inspection of the images, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting certain State and local agencies from using a recorded image or associated data fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 463 |
| MD | SB764 | Pass | Designating the orange crush cocktail originated in 1995 at the Harborside Bar and Grill in Ocean City, Maryland as the State cocktail; and designating chromite, which reflects the nature of Maryland's rich mining history and vast mineral resources, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 487 |
| MD | SB901 | Pass | Requiring certain producers of covered materials, individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization, to submit a certain covered materials producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval on or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
| MD | SB896 | Pass | Requiring the landlord of a residential rental property to provide the property's pet policy on the property's website and as part of an application form for a rental unit on the property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489 |
| MD | SB513 | Pass | Altering notice requirements relating to the recordation of a restrictive covenant modification to an unlawfully restrictive covenant by authorizing a county or municipality to provide notice by publication in one or more newspapers of general circul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 540 |
| MD | SB548 | Pass | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484 |
| MD | SB326 | Pass | Establishing certain confidentiality requirements for peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies; prohibiting a peer support specialist from disclosing the contents of any written or oral communication regarding a peer support inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 511 |
| MD | SB618 | Pass | 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] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 448 |
| MD | SB280 | Pass | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 261 |
| MD | SB274 | Pass | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases; requiring the testimony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| MD | SB348 | Pass | Altering the definition of "private place" as it relates to the prohibition on conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual without the consent of the individual; and altering the prohibition against conducting visual surveill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| MD | SB334 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 190 |
| MD | SB181 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; repealing the authorization for the Governor to di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 102 |
| MD | SB432 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 95 |
| MD | SB897 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and distribute a student technology and social media resource guide beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB1040 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Expedited Hiring Program in the Department of Budget and Management for the purpose of hiring eligible applicants for vacant positions in the State Personnel Management System, subject to certain requirements; authorizing an appointi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB683 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 in connectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1007 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that the contents of a certain intercepted communication and evidence derived from the communication may be received in evidence in a certain criminal proceeding under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB428 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 fulfilling the Program's purpose; definin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB342 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the imposition or application of a method for electing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation that impairs the ability of members of a protected class to elect candidates of the members' choice or influence the outcome of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB447 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on a patient presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the patient has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB179 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that not more than one vehicle owned by, or leased to, an unemployable disabled veteran is exempt from vehicle registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB466 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully exerting unauthorized control over and obtaining the property of the individual with intent to deprive the individual of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB648 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB8 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB290 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an applicant for a roadside tree removal permit to provide a certain notice in a certain manner to all owners of property abutting and adjacent to the property subject to the tree removal and to the governing body of any common ownership co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB895 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying to governmental employers certain provisions of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law that prohibit an employer from making deductions from the wage of an employee except for specified purposes; and allowing a governmental employer to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB545 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from possessing more than 100 images of certain child pornography or possessing or viewing images of certain child pornography depicting a minor or an individual indistinguishable from an actual and identifiable child under the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining the term "breeding stable" as it relates to licensure, inspection, and regulation by the Maryland Horse Industry Board; and altering the definition of "horse establishment" to include a breeding stable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a certain developer of, and a certain deployer who uses, a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system to use reasonable care to protect consumers from known and reasonably foreseeable risks of certain algorithmic discrimination in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB904 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing from approximately 22 hours to 17 hours in a 24-hour period; requiring all restrictive housing units to create t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman to engage an independent consultant to perform a comprehensive assessment of the State's correctional system beginning on or before October 1, 2026; altering the items required to be included in a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB827 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing to the extent necessary to eliminate identifiable risk; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB943 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering and establishing provisions relating to the surrender of firearms by a respondent under the domestic violence statutes; creating the Task Force to Study the Use of Firearms in Domestic Violence Situations; and requiring the Task Force to sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB949 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing certain standards and requirements for the operation of fully autonomous vehicles on highways in the State; requiring, before operating a fully autonomous vehicle on a highway in the State, a person to submit a law enforcement interactio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, in accordance with technical specifications adopted by the Department of Agriculture, that State cost-share funding be made available for installing various vegetative buffer practices on land within the 100-foot tidal buffer on an agric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB732 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain sewage sludge utilization permits issued or renewed by the Department of the Environment to limit the concentration of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to 1 microgram per kilogram, the level established in certain health-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB609 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a landlord from using certain algorithmic devices to determine the amount of rent to charge a residential tenant; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB549 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing an immunity from liability for a person who discloses information about allegations of sexually assaultive behavior if the person acts in good faith; establishing a presumption of good faith unless it is shown by clear and convincing evi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the penalties for causing the serious physical injury or death of a vulnerable individual as the result of an individual operating a motor vehicle in violation of certain provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law; and providing that an individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Food Forests and Foraging Program on areas owned or managed by the Department of Natural Resources; defining "foraging" as harvesting plant materials, including seeds, nuts, mushrooms, roots, tubers, and berries for noncommercial perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
