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| Position | Bill | Status | Summary | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | HB1381 | Introduced | Altering the definition of prekindergarten enrollment for private prekindergarten providers; requiring the State Department of Education to forward fund the State and local share or provide a pay guarantee of not greater than 30 days for certain prek... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 |
| #2 | SB979 | Introduced | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the AI Subcabinet of the Governor's Executive Council, to develop and update guidelines on artificial intelligence for county boards of education and to develop a pilot program to supp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08 |
| #3 | HB1074 | Passed | Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 234 |
| #4 | HB816 | Engrossed | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Prince George's County to extend the deadline by which a holder of an alcoholic beverages license must file an application for renewal; and extending the expiration date for certain licenses issued b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 House Requests Senate Recede |
| #5 | HB1033 | Introduced | Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| #6 | SB1128 | Introduced | Limiting the term of a member serving on the agricultural preservation advisory board in Howard County to 3 years; and authorizing members currently serving on the agricultural preservation advisory board in Howard County to complete their terms. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 |
| #7 | HB639 | Introduced | Establishing an exception to the prohibition against operating or riding on a motorcycle without certain protective headgear for an individual at least 21 years of age who has been licensed to operate a motorcycle for at least 2 years or has complete... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26 |
| #8 | SB847 | Introduced | Repealing the time restrictions that apply to Sunday hunting in Dorchester County. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 |
| #9 | HB71 | Introduced | Establishing the Holocaust Education Assistance Grant Program in the Maryland State Department of Education to assist local school systems with Holocaust education in public schools; authorizing a local school system to apply to the Department for a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 |
| #10 | HB140 | Introduced | Requiring an appointing authority to apply a credit of ten points on a selection test for specified positions in the State Personnel Management System for the spouse of an active duty service member relocating to the State on military orders; etc. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05 |
| #11 | SB426 | Introduced | Establishing the Maryland STEM Program in the State Department of Education to provide additional compensation to educators who teach STEM classes at nonpublic schools; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for the Program and requiring participatin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25 |
| #12 | HB524 | Introduced | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030, an appropriation of $3,400,000 for the maintenance, capital preservation, and operations of the 7 historic ships stewarded by the Living Classroo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 |
| #13 | HB1112 | Engrossed | Establishing that a person that applies for a certificate of public convenience and necessity in response to a certain order is eligible for an expedited review process of the application; requiring the Public Service Commission to give priority to t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 |
| #14 | HB1300 | Introduced | Providing that certain restrictions on use that prohibit the use of real property in Montgomery County for housing units otherwise authorized under law are void and unenforceable; and applying the Act retroactively to restrictions on use recorded bef... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 |
| #15 | SB972 | Passed | Altering membership in the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include certain employees of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Maryland Department of Health; requiring the State Retirement and Pension System to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 136 |
| #16 | HB1382 | Introduced | Repealing a requirement that the assets of any Methodist Church be held in trust for the United Methodist Church and be subject to the control of the Church; repealing a provision of law providing that the absence of a trust clause in any deed or con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 |
| #17 | HB1418 | Introduced | Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, a public middle school to begin instruction not before 8 a.m. and a public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8:30 a.m. unless granted a waiver by the county board of education under c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 |
| #18 | SB1169 | Passed | Establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for commercial real estate transactions related to a buyer's right to make certain title, settlement, and escrow selections. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 199 |
| #19 | HB419 | Engrossed | Requiring certain businesses that use a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose to whom the tip will be allocated and display a tip amount that is set at zero by default; and establishing that a violation... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 |
| #20 | HB1019 | Engrossed | Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by the court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, but not to exceed a tot... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 |
| #21 | SB181 | Passed | Authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $1,000,000 in the annual budget bill for fiscal years 2026 through 2028 to provide operating grants to certain qualifying nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing training in automot... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 892 |
| #22 | HB213 | Introduced | Establishing the Maryland STEM Program in the State Department of Education to provide additional compensation to educators who teach STEM classes at nonpublic schools; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for the Program and requiring participatin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 |
| #23 | SB700 | Introduced | Authorizing certain individuals who are employed as 9-1-1 specialists and certified by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to become members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System as employees of a participating governmenta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 |
| #24 | SB885 | Introduced | Altering the limitation on the liability of a tenant for rent due under a lease due to the tenant's inability to live at the leased premises because of a medical condition to include individuals who will be under the care of a medical professional, p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 |
| #25 | SB1002 | Engrossed | Establishing in Frederick County a Class DBR brewery license and a Class DDS distillery license; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Frederick County to issue to the holder of a certain brewery license a Class DBR license, which author... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Third Reading Passed (136-0) |
| #26 | SB1053 | Introduced | Prohibiting a person from catching or attempting to catch striped bass or striped bass hybrids in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries from March 1 through May 15, inclusive, in any year for which the Department does not establish a spring tr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 |
| #27 | HB1197 | Introduced | Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certification fee of $1,000; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 |
| #28 | HB1238 | Introduced | Prohibiting a person from catching or attempting to catch striped bass or striped bass hybrids in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries from March 1 through May 15, inclusive, in any year for which the Department does not establish a spring tr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 |
| #29 | HB1363 | Introduced | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content standards for a unit of instruction on Asian American history in public schools in the State; requiring each county board of education to implement the Asian American history curric... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 |
| #30 | HB1313 | Introduced | Authorizing certain individuals who are employed as 9-1-1 specialists and certified by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to become members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System as employees of a participating governmenta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 |
| #31 | SB559 | Passed | Establishing the Household Goods Movers Registration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring the Secretary of Labor to annually calculate certain costs; authorizing the Department to set by regulation certain... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 566 |
| #32 | SB1177 | Introduced | Exempting property from taxes and special assessments of the State or a political subdivision in the State if the property will be used as housing for persons of eligible income and is owned by a subsidiary entity of a Baltimore Housing Authority ent... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19 |
| #33 | HB539 | Passed | Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw from the institution under extenuating circumstances and to refund the student for tuition and fees paid by the student for a certain semester ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 299 |
| #34 | SB88 | Passed | Establishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study and make recommendations for developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 10 |
| #35 | HB167 | Engrossed | Requiring the State Department of Education to support and facilitate each county board of education in publishing information on financially accessible dental health available care in the county in student handbooks and on local school system websit... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 |
| #36 | SB933 | Passed | Altering eligibility for a performing arts theater license in Harford County by altering the definition of "performing arts theater" and authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue the license to a certain for-profit th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1031 |
| #37 | SB1108 | Passed | Requiring that every deputy clerk or deputy sheriff in Carroll County take and sign the oath or affirmation prescribed by the Maryland Constitution. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 311 |
| #38 | HB1055 | Engrossed | Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal yea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| #39 | SB796 | Engrossed | Establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program in the Department of Disabilities; requiring the Department to select a nonprofit training entity for participation in the Program; and establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 |
| #40 | SB232 | Passed | Altering certain provisions of the Public Employee Relations Act, including adding the definition of interested employee organization, altering the timing of exclusive representative access to new employees, clarifying the responsibilities of certain... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 52 |
| #41 | HB139 | Passed | Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of services for which landlords of buildings that contain six or more residential units are required to provide a written notice to a tenant, before the initiation of a lease and each term thereaf... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 225 |
| #42 | HB49 | Introduced | Prohibiting the knowing use, possession, or purchase of unauthorized registration plates for a vehicle; and providing a penalty for violation of the Act of imprisonment of up to 90 days or a fine not to exceed $10,000 or both. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 |
| #43 | SB81 | Introduced | Altering the information shown in the budget of the College of Southern Maryland; requiring certain county commissioners to review and approve the budget of the resident campus in certain counties; and authorizing the Board of Trustees of the College... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17 |
| #44 | SB274 | Passed | Altering requirements for the housing element of a charter county's comprehensive plan to include requirements related to affirmatively furthering fair housing; requiring the housing element of a comprehensive plan that is enacted or amended on or af... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 89 |
| #45 | SB222 | Passed | Clarifying that a quorum of the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists consists of a majority of appointed members; altering the circumstances under which an applicant for licensure is qualified to take the examination by adding completion o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 49 |
| #46 | SB98 | Engrossed | Requiring, on or before November 30, 2024, Interagency Food Desert Advisory Committee to conduct a study and make recommendations on reducing the number of food deserts in the State and to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Se... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 |
| #47 | HB231 | Passed | Authorizing the recipient of a U.S. Department of Defense Next of Kin lapel button to apply for special registration plates; and waiving the initial vehicle registration fee associated with special registration plates issued to the recipient of a Gol... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 24 |
| #48 | SB341 | Passed | Altering the name of the museum operated by the Commission on African American History and Culture in certain provisions of law from the "Banneker-Douglass Museum" to the "Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum". [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 57 |
| #49 | SB328 | Introduced | Requiring that the Governor's proposed budget for each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028 include an 8% reimbursement rate increase for providers of certain health care services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13 |
| #50 | SB458 | Engrossed | Prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by certain individuals; prohibiting certain political organizations from employing certain individuals or allowing certain individu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 |
