Maryland Senator William Smith [D]

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MDSB185PassAltering the purpose of the Maryland State Police Gun Center to include the tracking, screening, and vetting of all firearms surrendered under final protective orders in the State; and requiring each law enforcement agency to report to the Center the...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 624
MDSB211PassAuthorizing a court to stay the entering of a conviction, defer further proceedings, and place a certain defendant on probation subject to reasonable conditions if the court finds facts justifying a finding of guilt; authorizing the State and a certa...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 711
MDSB209PassEstablishing the Task Force to Study Crime Classification to study and make recommendations regarding a method for classifying crimes and civil offenses under State law and to identify and logically categorize all crimes and civil offenses that exist...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 712
MDSB290PassExpanding the investigative jurisdiction of the Independent Investigations Division of the Office of the Attorney General to include a police-involved incident resulting in serious bodily injury to an individual that is not otherwise within the juris...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 632
MDSB289PassAltering the name of the Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship to be the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 733
MDSB546PassAltering certain provisions relating to immunity from criminal arrest, charge, or prosecution for a person experiencing a medical emergency after ingesting or using alcohol or drugs.
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 718
MDSB592PassRequiring the Department of State Police to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before February 1 each year relating to the acquisition of equipment by law enforcement agencies through surplus programs; and requiring the De...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 633
MDSB858PassAltering a certain provision relating to the storage of firearms and ammunition in a location that can be accessed by an unsupervised child; and requiring the Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services to develop a youth suicide prevention and firea...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 622
MDSB148PassProviding for the stable funding and support of trauma-informed, high-quality program and services for victims of crime; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to help support certain programs providing servic...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626
MDSB1PassProhibiting a person from knowingly wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm in certain locations; prohibiting a person from wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm onto certain property unless the owner or owner's agent has given certain pe...
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2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680
MDSB553PassIncreasing 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 old to $20,000 during the ...
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2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 614
MDSB554PassEstablishing 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...
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2023-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612
MDSB848PassEstablishing a Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide vouchers and housing assistance payments for low-income families that are currently on a waiting list under the federal Housi...
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 446
MDSB742PassRequiring that any system operated by a vehicle manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch or its affiliate for allocating new vehicles to dealers be reasonable and fair.
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 449
MDSB273PassAltering the amount of a certain appropriation the Governor is required to make for the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund; and repealing a provision of law requiring 100% of the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund ...
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2023-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494
MDSB299PassRequiring the owners and operators of grocery stores with annual gross incomes greater than $10,000,000 or restaurants with annual gross incomes of more than $1,000,000, beginning on January 1, 2025, to place an automated external defibrillator in a ...
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 305
MDSB460PassRequiring, beginning on January 1, 2023, 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...
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 252
MDSB527PassAltering the defined term "peer support counseling program" for peer services offered to fire, rescue, or emergency medical services members to be "peer support program"; and requiring peer support programs to be evidence-based.
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 278
MDSB591PassAltering the application of the prohibition on including a noncompete or conflict of interest provision in an employment contract or similar document or agreement that restricts the ability of an employee to enter into employment with a new employer ...
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 266
MDSB859PassProhibiting a judge from requiring a person to give certain testimony or a statement or to produce evidence in another state for a case involving an alleged violation of the criminal law of the other state relating to legally protected health care; r...
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 246
MDSB624PassAllowing an individual or a business entity to claim a credit against the State income tax for the first $500 of the purchase price of an automated external defibrillator purchased for use at a restaurant location in the State with annual gross incom...
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 307
MDSB798PassEstablishing 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 ...
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2023-05-03
Approved by the Governor, assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to constitutional referendum - Chapter 244
MDSB379PassRequiring 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...
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2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152
MDSB535PassProhibiting 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; and defining "service dog" as a dog that ...
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2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 212
MDSB974PassRequiring contractors operating State-owned nursing homes to promptly provide notice of certain deficiencies, enforcement actions, citations, and fines to the Governor, the State agency overseeing the nursing home, certain committees of the General A...
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2023-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106
MDSB224PassRequiring 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; requiring the Department, in consultation with certain units ...
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2023-04-21
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 96
MDSB552PassAltering 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...
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2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3
MDSB555PassIncreasing the State minimum wage rate; repealing the authority of the Board of Public Works to temporarily suspend an increase in the minimum wage rate; and repealing the requirement that the Governor's budgets for certain fiscal years include certa...
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2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2
MDSB686PassAltering the definition of "sexual abuse" for purposes relating to civil actions for child sexual abuse to include any act that involves an adult allowing or encouraging a child to engage in certain activities or any other sexual conduct that is a cr...
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2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 5
MDSB478PassExtending 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.
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2023-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 12
MDSB946Intro
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Specifying that manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing certain large quantities of certain controlled dangerous substances is a felony; defining a "drug kingpin" as an organizer, supervisor, financier, or manager who acts as a coconsp...
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2023-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB970Engross
50%
Requiring certain high-rise buildings to be protected by automatic sprinkler systems beginning January 1, 2033; and requiring high-rise buildings that are not protected by a complete automatic sprinkler system to provide conspicuous notice in any lea...
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2023-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB528Engross
50%
Requiring, subject to a certain exception, the Motor Vehicle Administration to require certain persons who are convicted of, or granted probation before judgment for, certain criminal offenses related to driving while impaired by alcohol to participa...
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2023-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB221Engross
50%
Authorizing a certain government official or an immediate family member of the government official to make a written request that certain personal information be removed from the Internet or from certain other publications; requiring a person who rec...
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2023-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB229Engross
50%
Authorizing a local government in certain counties to use noise abatement monitoring systems, if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded in violation of certain motor vehicle noise requirements is subje...
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2023-03-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB945Intro
25%
Authorizing a person who offers certain residential real property for sale to a third party, for the first 30 days, to accept only an offer to purchase the property made by an individual, a community development organization, a nonprofit organization...
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2023-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB867Engross
50%
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration, in consultation with the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, to design and issue a Maryland Heroes registration plate that features the images of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Dougla...
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2023-03-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB938Intro
25%
Altering the amount and uses of annual funding relating to school safety to include the development of services to resolve student disputes through mediation and repealing the requirement that a certain appropriation be used for a certain purpose; re...
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2023-03-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB594Intro
25%
Prohibiting the District Court, in aid of enforcement or execution of a money judgment resulting from a certain small claim action, from ordering the appearance of an individual for an examination or ordering an individual to answer interrogatories.
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2023-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB593Intro
25%
Authorizing certain governing bodies of a condominium to grant an interest affecting the common elements of the condominium for the installation and use of leased clean energy equipment; and generally relating to the common elements of a condominium ...
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2023-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB845Intro
25%
Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
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2023-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB892Intro
25%
Requiring, for a motor vehicle liability insurance policy with multiple named insureds, an insurer to provide an identification card that indicates all named insureds or separate insurance identification cards for each named insured on the policy on ...
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2023-02-13
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB480Intro
25%
Authorizing a county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; and providing that an individual's failure to comply with an order of assisted outpatient treatment issued under a program may be considered by a hearing officer for a certai...
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2023-02-03
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB220Intro
25%
Expanding, renaming, and altering certain provisions relating to a certain truancy reduction programs in certain juvenile courts; authorizing a county or circuit administrative judge to establish a certain Truancy Reduction and School Reengagement Pr...
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2023-01-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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