| MD | HB244 | Pass | Altering certain civil penalties for violations of the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to annually increase the maximum and minimum civil penalties, beginning in 2025, by the percentag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 104 |
| MD | HB197 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of Labor to exempt a federal civilian employee who has been furloughed from the requirement to be actively seeking work for unemployment insurance benefits eligibility if, during the furlough, the employee remains able to wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 102 |
| MD | HB251 | Pass | Specifying that certain limitations on the payment of benefits to employees of governmental entities or charitable, educational, or religious organizations do not apply with respect to service in other covered employment, including covered employment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 105 |
| MD | HB584 | Pass | Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 13 |
| MD | HB1526 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce to establish certain temporary relief programs to provide assistance to individuals and certain entities impacted by a certain closure of the Port of Baltimore; and authorizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| MD | HB465 | Enroll
75% | Increasing, from $5,000 to $10,000, the maximum civil penalty for the knowing failure of an employer to properly classify an individual as an employee; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, on a showing by clear and convincing evidenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1012 | Enroll
75% | Altering the requirements that certain officers and employees of the State be covered by certain surety bonds to allow the officers and employees to be covered by certain insurance policies; transferring certain duties and responsibilities of the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1128 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Talent Innovation Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to increase access to high-quality job training by using innovative and sustainable talent financing mechanisms to help meet skill needs in the State's prominent and emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1393 | Enroll
75% | Altering the scope of certain policy goals with regard to energy systems; requiring the Public Service Commission to report on certain projects relating to certain goals; altering the scope of certain funds that may be used for certain projects; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1397 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1388 | Enroll
75% | Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB238 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting vaping in certain indoor areas and places of employment and certain mass transportation; requiring that certain signs be posted in each public indoor area and each public entrance to an indoor area where smoking or vaping is prohibited; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB589 | Enroll
75% | Exempting applicants for employment as a paramedic or an emergency medical technician with Dorchester County or as a 9-1-1 specialist at the Dorchester County 9-1-1 Center from the prohibition on employers requiring or demanding that an individual su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB136 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting employers from taking or threatening to take adverse action against an employee because the employee takes certain actions regarding rights and responsibilities, complaints, investigations, proceedings, or hearings; authorizing the Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB261 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a payment to an individual as compensation received for serving as an election judge for a local board of elections in the State from being included when computing the wages required to be subtracted from an eligible claimant's weekly ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB597 | Enroll
75% | Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB602 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity to also prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB669 | Enroll
75% | Altering the frequencies in which industrial noise must be for an employer to be required to provide workers' compensation to a covered employee for hearing loss; altering the method used to determine the percentage of hearing loss deafness for purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB702 | Enroll
75% | Exempting minor league baseball players who are compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for the wages and working conditions of employees from the Maryland Wage and Hour Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB385 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that a notice containing certain information provided to an employee at the time of hiring be written; requiring that the statement regarding earnings required to be provided to employees by employers be written on the physical pay stub or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB571 | Enroll
75% | Modifying provisions of law governing application, administration, and enforcement of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, including provisions related to the payment of contributions, the calculation of the average weekly wage, the submis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB649 | Enroll
75% | Altering the requirement that an employer disclose certain wage information to an applicant for employment; requiring an employer to disclose certain wage information in certain postings and to certain employees at certain times; requiring an employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB650 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to submit a report to the General Assembly that analyzes the apprenticeship mentoring ratio for all nontraditional apprenticeable occupations in the State; and requiring the Department to submit the report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB604 | Engross
50% | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB11 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Leasing Training Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to train, prepare, and connect job seekers with careers in the residential rental housing industry; requiring the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1319 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1285 | Engross
50% | Authorizing licensed social workers to register as a rehabilitation practitioner; and authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments involving a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1226 | Intro
25% | Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB205 | Intro
25% | Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, the dependent allowance, and the amount of earne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB915 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Uninsured Employers' Fund to begin paying compensation for a workers' compensation claim within 15 days after the later of the date an award is made or payment of an award is due; applying certain provisions of law regarding the failure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB339 | Intro
25% | Establishing that the disqualification from receiving unemployment insurance benefits due to a stoppage of work does not apply for any week beginning after the first 14 days of an individual's unemployment resulting from the stoppage of work that exi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB536 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Correctional Services Apprenticeship Start-Up Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to provide high school students and individuals interested in changing careers opportunities to begin a career within correctional servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1172 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements related to the certification of employment by public service employers under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, including requirements regarding determinations of whether employees are full-time and the fre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB190 | Intro
25% | Providing that a first responder who is diagnosed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed under certain circumstances to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1414 | Intro
25% | Altering the grounds for disciplining the holder of an electronic smoking devices license or license applicant; altering the scope of the Clean Indoor Act and other provisions of law prohibiting smoking indoors to also prohibit the use of electronic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB900 | Intro
25% | Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay in a certain manner; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each firefighter employed by the county or municipality; and authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB642 | Intro
25% | Requiring professional and occupational regulatory boards to issue licenses, certifications, and registrations to individuals who complete an apprenticeship program that is established under the Maryland Apprenticeships in Licensed Occupations Act, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB138 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to update the Maryland State Curriculum for Personal Financial Literacy Education and corresponding financial literacy standards to include certain content; requiring the State Board of Education to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB104 | 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] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB467 | Intro
25% | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by restaurants; specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; and prohibiting employers of tipped employees, beginning January 1, 2027, from includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1446 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, wayside detectors, and investigations by railroad labor union representatives; and requiring the Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1050 | Intro
25% | Extending, for 60 days, the period of time during which the Workers' Compensation Commission may modify an award related to a workers' compensation claim if an appeal is filed during the original 5-year period during which the Commission maintains au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1084 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to work on-site at the employer's workplace if the employee provides documentation from a physician or other licensed health care practitioner that the employee has been diagnosed with an autoimmune ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1145 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1255 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting, subject to a certain exception, an employer from using an automated employment decision tool to make certain employment decisions; and requiring an employer, under certain circumstances, to notify an applicant for employment of the emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB525 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an employer from discriminating against an individual because of the individual's use of cannabis products under certain circumstances; establishing that certain provisions prohibiting employment discrimination do not prohibit an employer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB682 | Intro
25% | Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or approval for the construction of a certain gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB802 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting employers from taking certain actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB645 | Intro
25% | Requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB116 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Teacher Apprenticeship Startup Grant Program in the Department of Labor to provide high school and college students, and career changers opportunities to begin a career in education; requiring the establishment of apprenticeships th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
