| MD | HB315 | Engross 50% | Repealing and altering a reporting requirement to require the Maryland Judiciary, instead of the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, to report on the number of charges, convictions, and sentences for certain regulated firearm violations; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB476 | Engross 50% | Providing that certain provisions of law regarding the use of a certain forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) do not apply when the FGGS is conducted solely for the purpose of identifying an individual who is deceased or the su... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB1127 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the reimbursement of a sexual assault forensic exam conducted through peer-to-peer telehealth under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Policy and Funding Committee to conduct a study on the feasibili... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB969 | Engross 50% | Requiring, if a victim's initial determination of death recorded on the victim's death certificate was amended or corrected to be undetermined or homicide, an assistant State's Attorney with knowledge of the case to meet with a person in interest on ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB575 | Engross 50% | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB801 | Engross 50% | Providing that certain provisions of the Maryland Rules relating to discovery in civil matters apply in a certain administrative proceeding; requiring a court that receives a certain report to promptly notify counsel of record for the committed perso... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB854 | Engross 50% | Specifying that a person required to register as a sex offender in a county with a population of more than 300,000 residents may register at any location designated by a county law enforcement agency; and requiring a county law enforcement agency in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB943 | Engross 50% | Clarifying that expungement does not prohibit disclosure of records that contain information that is also contained in an expunged record, is formatted to facilitate research, and contains de-identified data; and providing that certain provisions of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB432 | Engross 50% | Replacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1346 | Intro 25% | Altering the procedures related to competency evaluations, including by requiring the Maryland Department of Health, rather than the court, to determine the basis on which a defendant will be examined; altering the definition of "designated health ca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB814 | Engross 50% | Altering certain provisions relating to the Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform and Emerging and Best Practices; altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering cer... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1130 | Intro 25% | Specifying that there is no statute of limitations for when a qualifying criminal activity must have occurred relative to the filing of a request for certification of victim helpfulness for a petition for U Nonimmigrant Status. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1185 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a person who has been convicted of a crime of violence from entering into a plea agreement; and applying the Act prospectively. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB576 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a psychiatric nurse practitioner to evaluate an emergency evaluee for purposes of involuntary admission; authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of H... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1170 | Intro 25% | Establishing, beginning in 2026, the salary of the State's Attorney of Garrett County to be 80% of the salary of a judge of the District Court of Maryland; and repealing the authorization of the Garrett County Salary Study Commission to recommend and... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1493 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic school that receives State funds if the child has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of rape or other sexual offenses; and requiring each local school system to pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1470 | Intro 25% | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial under certain circumstances; and authorizing a victim or victim's representative to petition the court to extend... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1469 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an official, umpire, referee, or judge officiating at a sporting event; authorizing a police officer to arrest a pe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB268 | Intro 25% | Altering certain definitions of "expunge" and "expungement". [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB270 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a person to file for a petition for expungement of a conviction of failure to obey a court order to report to a place of confinement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB474 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a court from revoking a defendant's pretrial release or finding that a defendant has violated probation, and the Maryland Parole Commission from finding that a parolee has violated parole, based solely on the use of cannabis or a positive... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB523 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a court to grant a petition for expungement of records relating to a certain conviction at any time on a showing of good cause. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB658 | Intro 25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; establishing procedures for the au... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1063 | Intro 25% | Establishing the statute of limitations for a certain civil action for damages resulting from certain participation in a criminal organization; altering certain definitions of "criminal organization" and "underlying crime"; authorizing the filing of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1245 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting an individual from distributing heroin or fentanyl or chemical analogues of heroin or fentanyl without the lawful authority to do so, the use of which results in the death or serious bodily injury of another. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1448 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to automatically expunge information in the public driving record of a licensee if the information has been expunged from a court record or a police record. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB948 | Intro 25% | Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be aggregated and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; increasing the maximum value of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB942 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Crime Solvers Reward Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to provide grants to law enforcement agencies and county reward programs to be used as rewards offered to the public... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB445 | Intro 25% | Establishing a presumption that the sentencing of a minor convicted as an adult should be transferred to the juvenile court, under certain circumstances, and authorizing the court to do so; and requiring the juvenile court to make a juvenile determin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB724 | Intro 25% | Authorizing an individual who is serving a term of confinement to petition a court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the individuals term of confinement and at least 3 years have passed since the court decided a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB482 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the reimbursement of certain physicians, qualified health care providers, and hospitals by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for certain forensic examinations of and health care services provided to a victim of nonfatal strangulati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB317 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a State's Attorney to file a motion for a reduction of sentence at any time during the period of active incarceration recommending a lesser sentence if it is in the interest of justice; authorizing an individual to file a response within ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16 To House Judiciary Committee |