| MD | HB130 | Intro
25% | Reclassifying, as a misdemeanor instead of a felony, a certain offense relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing any wire, oral, or electronic communications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB371 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on Maryland Route 5 in Prince George's County, subject to placement and signage requirements; requiring certain revenue collected by Prince George's County as a result of violations enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1173 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on highways in Montgomery County that are at high risk for certain motor vehicle crashes; prohibiting the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on certain highways in Montgomery Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1227 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning October 1, 2025, that citations issued for certain alleged traffic violations in Montgomery County provide that the penalty be paid directly to Montgomery County; requiring, beginning October 1, 2025, that the fines collected by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB5 | Engross
50% | Defining "computer-generated image" to include images created through the use of artificial intelligence software as the term pertains to provisions of law related to child pornography.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Third Reading Passed (140-0) |
| MD | SB280 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB338 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 in Baltimore County subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected in Baltimore County as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB360 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation against another who distributes a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from an actual visual representation of the person and is of a sexual or int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB466 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a caregiver, family member, or household member from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of an individual the caregiver, family member, or household member knows or reasonably should know is a vulnerable or senior adult with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB600 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in school zones in Baltimore City, if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded failing to obey a stop sign is subject to a citation and a certain civil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Third Reading Passed (40-6) |
| MD | SB626 | Intro
25% | Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to be equal to the salary of a Department of State Police lieutenant colonel, at the highest available step for a lieutenant colonel under the Department of State Police pay plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB621 | Intro
25% | Establishing minimum adequate security standards for courtroom security at all courthouse facilities; requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, the presence of a certain number of security officers in every court room during certain proceedings; and requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB860 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; authorizing the State or a local government to bring a civ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Third Reading Passed (139-0) |
| MD | SB767 | Intro
25% | Providing that full-time deputy sheriffs and correctional deputies at the rank of major and below in the Calvert County Sheriff's Office have the right to organize and negotiate with the County Commissioners of Calvert County and the Calvert County S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1032 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in school zones in Montgomery County, if authorized by local law; establishing that certain provisions of law relating to the inspection of recorded images apply to recorded images produced by a sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB873 | Intro
25% | Establishing that it is a misdemeanor to intentionally cause offensive contact, engage in conduct intending to put another in fear of offensive contact, or attempt to cause offensive contact; providing that assault in the third degree is not a lesser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1091 | Intro
25% | Including salary, wages, and certain benefits in the compensation with regard to which full-time sworn law enforcement officers and court security officers in Baltimore City may collectively bargain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1293 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Neighborhood Services Unit within the Office of the Sheriff of Baltimore City; requiring the Neighborhood Services Unit and the Board of License Commissioners of Baltimore City to work in partnership to enforce the alcoholic beverage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB107 | Engross
50% | Providing that it is lawful for a person to intercept an oral communication if the person is working as a fair housing tester for a fair housing testing program operated by the federal government, the State, a local government, or a nonprofit civil r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB176 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to appoint an Assistant Commissioner for Public Employees' Safety and Health; establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to administer and enforce c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
Third Reading Passed (135-4) |
| MD | HB302 | Engross
50% | Expanding certain provisions of law relating to a certain investigation and recommendation by a State's Attorney concerning the filing of a statement of charges against certain professionals to include certain human service workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
Third Reading Passed (126-13) |
| MD | HB348 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to use speed monitoring systems in areas determined to be of high risk to vulnerable road users and priority corridors in the Administration's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan; and requiring the Comptroller t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
Third Reading Passed (104-35) |
| MD | SB349 | Engross
50% | Establishing certain requirements for a complaint for a money judgment; prohibiting the creation of a lien on owner-occupied residential property by contract or as a result of a breach of contract for the payment of medical debt; and applying the Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB408 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Prince George's County Coordinated Youth Violence Review and Response Team to examine and prevent violence against youth through intensive case management; requiring that the review team be provided with access to certain information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
Third Reading Passed (139-0) |
| MD | SB581 | Engross
50% | Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB748 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a municipality to adopt an ordinance or a resolution authorizing an official who is authorized to act as an enforcement officer to utilize a body-worn camera; and requiring that a municipality that adopts a certain ordinance or resolution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
Third Reading Passed (115-22) |
| MD | SB622 | Engross
50% | Repealing a requirement that the State Reporter secure copyright for the State of published reports of opinions of the Supreme Court of Maryland and the Appellate Court of Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB655 | Engross
50% | Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB629 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Appellate Court of Maryland, in conjunction with the administrations of secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State, to hold sessions at secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB844 | Intro
25% | Increasing the salaries of the Sheriff of Somerset County, the County Commissioners of Somerset County, the President of the County Commissioners of Somerset County, a member of the County Roads Board of Somerset County, and the President of the Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB1440 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain circuit courthouses in the State to maintain on its premises a private lactation room to be used by certain individuals; and providing that breast-feeding mothers and certain individuals caring for children under 4 years old may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
Third Reading Passed (138-0) |
| MD | HB438 | Engross
50% | Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB533 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a judge to consider whether a military protection order has been issued against a respondent when determining whether to grant a temporary peace order or a temporary protective order; and requiring a law enforcement officer to notify a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB580 | Engross
50% | Replacing obsolete references to the Maryland State Firemen's Association with references to the Maryland State Firefighters Association; and replacing related terminology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB591 | Engross
50% | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1060 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1197 | Intro
25% | Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to be equal to the salary of a Department of State Police lieutenant colonel at the highest available step for a lieutenant colonel under the Department of State Police pay plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB164 | Engross
50% | Replacing obsolete references to the Maryland State Firemen's Association with references to the Maryland State Firefighters Association; and replacing related terminology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1409 | Intro
25% | Providing for an exception to the prohibition against willfully intercepting wire or electronic communication for a resident in a medical care facility under certain circumstances; requiring a medical care facility to allow electronic monitoring of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB268 | Engross
50% | Altering provisions of law related to a hospital's financial assistance and collection of debts policies; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB236 | Engross
50% | Expanding the relief that may be included in a final peace order; altering the acts that constitute criminal harassment to include certain visual surveillance of an area of another person's residence where the other has a reasonable expectation of pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB431 | Engross
50% | Establishing that any provision of a consumer contract that sets a shorter period of time to bring an action under or on the consumer contract than is required under the law of the State at the time the contract is issued or delivered is void as agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB421 | Engross
50% | Extending from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for prosecutions relating to destroying funerary objects and other elements of a cemetery to begin at the time local authorities knew or reasonably should have known of the violation; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1378 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain actions under the Child Victims Act against the State or a unit of State government from being filed on or after January 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1046 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the interception of certain oral communications by a correctional officer with a body-worn digital recording device under certain circumstances and subject to certain requirements; and requiring the Maryland Correctional Training Commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1313 | Intro
25% | Establishing that it is unlawful for a parent or guardian of a student in a public school to fail to seek and participate in counseling with the parent's or guardian's child after receiving a certain notice of violent and disruptive behavior; and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1394 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain nonprofit organizations from aiding or abetting certain activity by the government of Israel or a citizen of Israel; authorizing the Attorney General or a certain person to bring a certain action against a nonprofit organization t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB975 | Intro
25% | Increasing to two the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1112 | Intro
25% | Altering the time limits for bringing an action for wrongful death or personal injury concerning exposure of a person to PFAS chemicals; and prohibiting a person, on or after July 1, 2026, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in the State a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1099 | Intro
25% | Providing that punitive damages may be awarded in a civil action only if the plaintiff proves by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant acted with gross negligence; requiring the State Court Administrator to assess a certain surcharge on a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
