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MDHB12PassAuthorizing the officers and employees of the Field Enforcement Division of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission to issue a citation for a violation of §10-108 of the Criminal Law Article; prohibiting the sale or distribution of certain pro...
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2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 57
MDSB214PassAuthorizing the officers and employees of the Field Enforcement Division of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission to issue a citation for a violation of §10-108 of the Criminal Law Article; prohibiting the sale or distribution of certain pro...
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2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 58
MDHB841PassRepealing the Charles County Gaming Permit Review Board; and transferring certain powers and duties concerning gaming activities in Charles County from the board to the County Attorney for Charles County.
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2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 81
MDSB730PassRepealing the Charles County Gaming Permit Review Board; and transferring certain powers and duties concerning gaming activities in Charles County from the board to the County Attorney for Charles County.
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2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 82
MDSB81Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from taking certain actions with the intent to interrupt or impair the functioning of a public safety answering point; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to impriso...
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2025-04-07
Returned Passed
MDSB181Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole, including providing for a meeting between the inca...
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2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled
MDSB80Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from committing a violation of the prohibition against abusing or neglecting an animal that results in the death of a domestic animal or livestock or the need to euthanize the domestic animal or livestock; providing that a person...
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2025-04-07
Returned Passed
MDSB341Enroll
75%
Authorizing certain organizations that are affiliated with a professional major league baseball team that plays its home games in Baltimore City to conduct certain raffles; requiring the organization to obtain a permit to conduct raffles from an agen...
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2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled
MDHB399Engross
50%
Authorizing certain organizations that are affiliated with a professional major league baseball team that plays its home games in Baltimore City to conduct certain raffles; requiring the organization to obtain a permit to conduct raffles from an agen...
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2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (47-0)
MDSB360Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled
MDSB421Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-04-07
Returned Passed
MDHB633Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "slot machine" to provide that certain skills-based amusement devices excluded from the definition may award merchandise, tickets, tokens, or other objects that do not exceed a certain minimal value per play and may be accu...
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2025-04-07
Returned Passed
MDHB674Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person, with the intent to conceal a crime, from knowingly and willfully dismembering, destroying, removing, burying, disposing of, or obliterating by any means any portion of human remains; prohibiting a person from aiding or abetting ...
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2025-04-07
Returned Passed
MDSB585Engross
50%
Establishing an exception to the prohibition against entering or trespassing on real property while wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm for a retired law enforcement official who has retired in good standing from a law enforcement agency of ...
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2025-04-07
Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
MDSB784Enroll
75%
Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any l...
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2025-04-07
Returned Passed
MDHB1123Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of an incarcerated individual when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures fo...
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2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1060Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-04-07
Returned Passed
MDHB260Enroll
75%
Altering the penalties for a person using or possessing with intent to use, delivering or selling under certain circumstances, or manufacturing or possessing with intent to deliver or sell under certain circumstances drug paraphernalia to inject, ing...
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2025-04-05
Returned Passed
MDSB394Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person, with the intent to conceal a crime, from knowingly and willfully dismembering, destroying, removing, burying, disposing of, or obliterating by any means any portion of human remains; prohibiting a person from aiding or abetting ...
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2025-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB513Enroll
75%
Prohibiting, beginning January 1, 2027, a certain person from keeping a rooster movement-constrained through use of a certain enclosure or tether, subject to certain exceptions; establishing that a violation of the Act is a civil offense; and providi...
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2025-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB667Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "slot machine" to provide that certain skills-based amusement devices excluded from the definition may award merchandise, tickets, tokens, or other objects that do not exceed a certain minimal value per play and may be accu...
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2025-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB348Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "private place" as it relates to the prohibition on conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual without the consent of the individual; and altering the prohibition against conducting visual surveill...
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2025-04-03
Returned Passed
MDHB604Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of the individual with the intent to deprive the individual of the individual's property if the ind...
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2025-04-03
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB525Enroll
75%
Authorizing Prince George's County to establish a pilot program allowing a member of the public to submit video evidence of an alleged violation of the Illegal Dumping and Litter Control Law to a certain enforcement unit; requiring the program to all...
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2025-04-03
Passed Enrolled
MDHB179Enroll
75%
Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDHB89Enroll
75%
Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDSB92Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDSB11Enroll
75%
Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDHB236Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDSB152Enroll
75%
Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDSB280Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDSB334Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDHB437Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "private place" as it relates to the prohibition on conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual without the consent of the individual to include a residence; and altering the prohibition against con...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDHB445Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from taking certain actions with the intent to interrupt or impair the functioning of a public safety answering point; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to impriso...
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2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDHB413Enroll
75%
Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years of age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of ...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDHB616Enroll
75%
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...
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2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDHB943Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
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2025-04-02
Returned Passed
MDSB375Enroll
75%
Prohibiting, beginning January 1, 2027, a certain person from keeping a rooster movement-constrained through use of a certain enclosure or tether, subject to certain exceptions; establishing that a violation of the Act is a civil offense; and providi...
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2025-03-31
Returned Passed
MDHB1527Engross
50%
Authorizing Prince George's county to establish a certain pilot program allowing a member of the public to submit video evidence of an alleged violation of the Illegal Dumping and Litter Control Law to an appropriate enforcement unit within the juris...
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2025-03-31
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB925Engross
50%
Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years of age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of ...
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2025-03-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB710Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle in a criminally negligent manner; providing that a person acts in a criminally negligent manner when the person should be aware, but fails to perceive, that the person's co...
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2025-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB5Engross
50%
Altering the term "child pornography" to be "child sexual abuse material" for purposes of certain criminal offenses; defining "computer-generated image" to include images created through the use of artificial intelligence software as the term pertain...
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2025-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1350Engross
50%
Providing that a specified conviction from another state or a federal, military, or Native American tribal court may serve as a predicate crime for a specified enhanced penalty for certain repeat sex offenders.
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2025-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB24Engross
50%
Altering certain terminology throughout the Annotated Code that refers to a clergyman to refer to a member of the clergy and churches to refer to faith institutions and places of worship; and defining "faith institution" as any Christian, Jewish, Isl...
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2025-03-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB466Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully exerting unauthorized control over and obtaining the property of the individual with intent to deprive the individual of t...
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2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB873Engross
50%
Establishing the Workgroup to Study Adoption of a Statute for Assault in the Third Degree; requiring the Workgroup, if it recommends adoption of a third degree assault prohibition, to prepare draft legislation with the assistance of the Department of...
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2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB210Engross
50%
Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking open a letter; prohibiting the theft of mail under certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from possessing an arrow key with the intent to use or allow the use of the arrow key in the commissio...
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2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB860Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from operating, conducting, or promoting online sweepstakes games or supporting the operation, conducting, or promotion of online sweepstakes games; requiring the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to deny certain license ap...
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2025-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB916Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from transporting a firearm in a checked bag on public transportation in the State unless the firearm is disabled from discharging by an external safety lock; and defining "external safety lock" as a device attached to a firearm ...
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2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB132Intro
25%
Applying certain health and safety requirements to short-term rental units and home amenities; prohibiting certain activities at a home amenity or short-term rental; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a ...
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2025-03-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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