| MD | HB1071 | Pass | Altering the maximum fines for smoking cannabis in a public place; prohibiting a law enforcement officer from initiating a stop or a search of a person, a motor vehicle, or a vessel based solely on certain factors; prohibiting, under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 802 |
| MD | HB680 | Pass | Increasing the total amount of credits against the State income tax that the Maryland Higher Education Commission may approve in a taxable year for certain individuals with certain student loan debt amounts; requiring the Commission to reserve a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| MD | HB1219 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for early childhood education teacher certification completed through an alternative teacher preparation program; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 627 |
| MD | HB554 | Pass | Increasing 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 of age to $20,000 during t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 613 |
| 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 | HB376 | Pass | Prohibiting, except under certain circumstances, insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide coverage for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or deduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 299 |
| MD | HB573 | Pass | Establishing the Access to Mental Health Advisory Committee within the Maryland Higher Education Commission to study the provision of and access to mental health services in institutions of higher education; and requiring the Commission to report its...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 402 |
| MD | HB669 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for a real estate appraisal license and for a certificate for residential or general real estate appraisal to include completion of certain criteria in the Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 387 |
| 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 | HB662 | Pass | Altering the requirements for the subject matter of continuing education courses for licensees issued an initial license by the Real Estate Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 313 |
| MD | HB1148 | Pass | Establishing the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access to make recommendations to provide appropriate, accessible, and comprehensive behavioral health services that are available on demand to individuals in the State; establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 291 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| MD | HB547 | Pass | Altering 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 4 |
| MD | HB255 | Engross
50% | Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment on or before July 1, 2024, and in accordance with certain requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (35-12) |
| MD | HB793 | Engross
50% | Requiring an application for any new qualified offshore wind project and a certain proposal for an offshore wind transmission facility to be subject to a certain community benefit agreement; requiring the Public Service Commission to request that PJM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-10
Third Reading Passed (36-10) |
| MD | HB208 | Engross
50% | Altering certain penalties and the points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB284 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "organics recycling" to include the processing of certain compostable packaging materials; establishing a producer responsibility advisory council to provide advice and make recommendations regarding establishing a producer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB546 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Corps Program; requiring the Department of Service and Civic Innovation to administer and provide staff for the Program; requiring a Program participant to work at least 30 hours per week and partner with an on-site mentor w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-31
Third Reading Passed (39-7) |
| MD | HB356 | Intro
25% | Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy related to pregnant and parenting students that is consistent with Title IX of the federal Higher Education Act; and requiring each public institution of higher education to post...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB588 | Engross
50% | Altering the purpose of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Fund to include the provision of funding for the establishment and operation of the Qualified Resident Enrollment Program; authorizing the use of federal pass-through funds for certain prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1256 | Intro
25% | Specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; prohibiting certain employers of tipped employees, beginning July 1, 2027, from including a tip credit amount as part of the employees' wages and requiring employers t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB953 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1245 | Intro
25% | Requiring a railroad employer to provide a railroad employee with unpaid earned sick and safe leave under the Healthy Working Families Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1105 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop curriculum content for an elective course in water safety and swimming for public school students in grades 8 through 12; requiring, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, county boards of educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1050 | Intro
25% | Making permanent a requirement that the Comptroller distribute $14,000,000 of certain abandoned property funds to the Access to Counsel in Evictions Special Fund; and making permanent a requirement that the Governor include in the annual budget bill ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB634 | Intro
25% | Establishing prohibitions and requirements regarding the sale of diet pills to individuals under the age of 18 years; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a notice with information about the potential health risks of diet pills; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB919 | Intro
25% | Repealing the requirement that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal experience partial or total disability or death for hyperten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB620 | Intro
25% | Repealing the filing fees paid by certain corporations and business entities to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation for annual reports that are filed but not recorded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB616 | Intro
25% | Changing the number of days on which early voting centers are required to be open before a primary or general election by requiring early voting centers to be open beginning the second Sunday, rather than the second Thursday, before a primary or gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB549 | Intro
25% | Increasing the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time based on annual growth in a certain consumer price index; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB553 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Tricare Premium Reimbursement Program in the Military Department for the Department to award grants to reimburse certain members of the National Guard for the cost of premiums for certain health care and dental care plans; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
To House Appropriations Committee |
