| MD | HB472 | Veto | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration, in selecting a commuter bus service provider, to use the competitive sealed proposal method of procurement and to conduct the procurement in accordance with the provisions of and the regulations adopted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-19
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB185 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Board of Education from issuing a certificate of approval to noncollegiate educational institutions that do not have a policy prohibiting the administration of corporal punishment; requiring regulations adopted by the State Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 671 |
| MD | HB226 | Pass | Altering the definition of "person in a position of authority" applicable to sexual offense in the fourth degree; altering a certain prohibition against a certain person in a position of authority engaging in certain conduct to prohibit a person in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 730 |
| MD | HB215 | Pass | Prohibiting a landlord from using a lease or form of lease that contains a provision that limits a tenant's ability to summon, or penalizes a tenant or another individual solely for summoning, the assistance of law enforcement or emergency services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 769 |
| MD | HB244 | Pass | Requiring a register of wills to accept certain documents filed electronically through a system established by the register of wills; and prohibiting a register of wills from refusing to accept a document based on the manner in which it was signed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 |
| MD | HB495 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Department of Education from increasing the copayment levels, reducing the reimbursement rates, reducing the income eligibility requirements, or implementing an enrollment freeze for the Child Care Scholarship Program in effect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 732 |
| MD | HB525 | Pass | Establishing the Outdoor Preschool License Pilot Program in the State Department of Education to license outdoor, nature-based early learning and child care programs to expand access to affordable, high-quality early learning and child care programs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 779 |
| MD | HB874 | Pass | Establishing the Environmental and Natural Resources Crimes Unit of the Office of the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute cases against persons that violate State criminal environmental and natural resources laws; and requiring the Attorney...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 690 |
| 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 | 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 | HB316 | Pass | Establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund; requiring the Comptroller to include certain information in each individual income tax return package; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 618 |
| MD | HB9 | Pass | Requiring that equity be considered when State transportation plans, reports, and goals are developed; altering the membership of the advisory committee on State transportation goals; requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to conduct tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 583 |
| MD | HB36 | Pass | Requiring, in certain actions to repossess residential rental property, a landlord to submit to the clerk of the court evidence of compliance with local rental property licensure requirements and demonstrate that the landlord is compliant with the li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 |
| MD | HB188 | Pass | Increasing the membership of the Wildlife Advisory Commission; requiring the Governor to appoint a member to the Wildlife Advisory Commission who is an academic researcher with expertise in wildlife biology, wildlife conservation, wildlife management...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 491 |
| MD | HB325 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners to issue a license to an animal control facility to administer rabies vaccines; requiring the Board to establish an expedited process to authorize a veterinary practitioner who holds a curre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 588 |
| MD | HB404 | Pass | Authorizing counties and municipal corporations to alter a certain limitation on the combined gross income of a homeowner for purposes of a local supplement to the homeowners' property tax credit; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 530 |
| MD | HB503 | Pass | Establishing the Greenspace Equity Program in the Department of Natural Resources to provide grants to eligible applicants for enhancing the public health and livability of overburdened and underserved communities by implementing projects to preserve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 487 |
| MD | HB626 | Pass | Establishing the Human-Relevant Research Fund under the administration of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants and loans to promote State-funded research intended to develop human-relevant alternatives to using nonhuman a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 447 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB389 | Pass | Establishing the State Specialist for Value-Added Agriculture as a position in the Department of Agriculture to serve as the primary point of contact for individuals engaging in, or interested in engaging in, value-added agriculture in the State; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
| MD | HB152 | Pass | Altering the purpose and contents of and the requirements and qualifications under the Urban Agriculture Grant Fund; requiring the Governor, in each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029, to include at least $100,000 for the Fund in the annual budget bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 519 |
| MD | HB182 | Pass | Authorizing a county or municipality to execute and record a restrictive covenant modification to an unlawfully restrictive covenant for a property within the boundaries of the county or municipality after providing persons with an ownership interest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 476 |
| MD | HB102 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Agriculture to publish a fact sheet on the protection of pets in the event of an eviction or any other loss of possession of real property; requiring a landlord to provide a link to the fact sheet on the Department's websi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 488 |
| MD | HB253 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to exempt an on-farm composting facility from the requirement to obtain a permit if the on-farm composting facility uses 10,000 square feet of area or less for active food scrap compost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 521 |
| MD | HB90 | Pass | Authorizing the governing bodies of counties and municipalities to adopt ordinances to regulate invasive bamboo, including by prohibiting a person from selling, planting, and allowing invasive bamboo to grow on the property of the person without prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 517 |
| MD | HB289 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Forestry Education Fund to expand and enhance the Maryland Forestry Foundation's capacity to provide certain education and resources to forest landowners, the ability of district forestry boards and the knowledge of local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479 |
| MD | HB950 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Native Plants Program to respond to the increasing demand for, use of, and sale of native plants at retail garden centers and wholesale nurseries and to educate the public on native plants; requiring the Department of Agricu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489 |
| MD | HB830 | Pass | Establishing and altering certain requirements related to the installation of equipment for the charging of electric vehicles during the construction of certain housing units; clarifying that a county or municipal corporation may require a greater nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 582 |
| MD | HB322 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to expand access to and provide reimbursement for intensive in-home services, case management, and wraparound services; requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2024, the Behavioral Health Administration to fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 379 |
| MD | HB290 | Pass | Altering the Maryland Dent-Care Program; establishing a requirement regarding the reimbursement of dental-related services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; establishing requirements on the Maryland Department of Health regarding the cre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377 |
| 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 | 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 | HB976 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup on Mold Standards and Remediation to study information on mold assessment and remediation to determine the best practices for identifying mold, preventing the development of mold within indoor environments, and remediating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 347 |
| MD | HB150 | Pass | Establishing that adaptive reuse, retrofitting, and repurposing of existing buildings to develop new affordable multifamily housing is an eligible use of certain financial assistance provided by the Department of Housing and Community Development; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 174 |
| MD | HB192 | Pass | Prohibiting certain persons subject to campaign finance regulation from making or accepting monetary contributions or monetary donations using any currency other than United States currency; prohibiting a campaign finance entity or a person acting on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 166 |
| MD | HB245 | Pass | Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to include an attestation that all units required to report are represented in its annual report beginning December 31, 2023; requiring the Office to conduct a certain per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 145 |
| MD | HB309 | Pass | Authorizing an applicant for State employment or a State employee to file a complaint alleging harassment by an employer within 2 years after the alleged violation that is the basis of the complaint; and increasing, from 30 days to 1 year, the period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 |
| MD | HB276 | Pass | Providing certain funding for each county public library system for fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 158 |
| MD | HB395 | Pass | Requiring 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, hold a public hearing, submit a certain report, make the rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 117 |
| MD | HB535 | Pass | Requiring 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| MD | HB608 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from discriminating in the sale or rental of, or otherwise making unavailable or denying, a dwelling to an individual with a disability who has, obtains, or retains a certain service dog.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 211 |
| MD | HB809 | Pass | Altering to July 1, 2025, the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to offshore wind projects and video lottery terminals; and altering the date by which certain reports,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 137 |
| MD | HB843 | Pass | Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Task Force to study approaches to water and wastewater governance in the Baltimore region; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Mayor of Baltimore City, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 |
| MD | HB1200 | Pass | Establishing a minimum training course compensation of $50 and minimum daily compensation of $250 for election judges for each election day and each early voting day actually served; requiring the State Board of Elections to reimburse each local boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 157 |
| 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 | 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 | HB339 | Pass | Extending the time for the submission of the final report of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission to December 1, 2025; and extending the termination date for the Commission to June 30, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 11 |
