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MDSB275PassAuthorizing 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...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 25
MDSB453Enroll
75%
Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish a ...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB873Enroll
75%
Altering, clarifying, and expanding certain provisions of law relating to the immunity from liability of a parent who leaves an unharmed newborn with a responsible adult within 60 days of the birth under certain circumstances; requiring the Secretary...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB991Enroll
75%
Establishing the Language Assistance Services Pilot Program in the Behavioral Health Administration to provide grants to local behavioral health authorities to reimburse behavioral health providers for language assistance services for children with l...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1091Enroll
75%
Establishing requirements for each county board of education regarding provision of the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year by students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinat...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB541Enroll
75%
Regulating the manner in which a controller or a processor in possession of a consumer's personal data may process the consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDSB571Enroll
75%
Requiring a certain entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment by April 1, 2026; requiring a certain entity to maintain documentation of certain risks asso...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDSB161Enroll
75%
Authorizing each county board of education that has fewer than 40 community schools and that receives funding from the Concentration of Poverty School Grant Program for the personnel grant and the per pupil grant to expend not more than 15% of the fu...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB33Enroll
75%
Requiring certain county boards of education to consider the pursuit of certain certificates, certifications, or apprenticeships as the equivalent of pursuing postsecondary education and provide a method for a student or a student's parent or guardia...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB550Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "abuse" to include labor trafficking for purposes of provisions of law governing children in need of assistance cases and child abuse and neglect reporting; and expanding provisions of law relating to the Safe Harbor Region...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB797Enroll
75%
Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1042Enroll
75%
Requiring public schools in the State to notify students taking the ASVAB and parents or guardians of students taking the ASVAB of the option to prohibit the release of a student's ASVAB test scores to military recruiters; and repealing the requireme...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB492Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day in public middle and high...
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2024-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB109Enroll
75%
Providing that certain State employees are entitled to use up to 10 days of parental bereavement leave with pay within 60 days after the death of the employee's child; providing that certain State employees are entitled to use up to 60 days of parent...
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2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled
MDSB592Enroll
75%
Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB708Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of relative to mean an individual who is a kinship caregiver for purposes of provisions of law relating to children in need of assistance; altering provisions of law relating to the kinship care program in the Department of Hu...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB59Enroll
75%
Requiring a hospital to take certain actions relating to the care of infants as soon as practicable before the hospital discharges an infant after the birth of the infant, including providing oral and written educational resources to the parent or le...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB432Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researchi...
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2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB75Enroll
75%
Increasing, from in excess of $10,000 to in excess of $25,000, the threshold amount for certain transfers by a personal representative, trustee, or conservator as a custodian for the benefit of a minor to require authorization by a court.
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDSB116Enroll
75%
Altering a prohibition on judges of the orphans' court acting as attorneys to prohibit a judge of the orphans' court from acting as an attorney in matters related to the administration of an estate or a guardianship of a minor within the jurisdiction...
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDSB164Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "interested person" for purposes of provisions of law governing the estates of decedents, guardians of persons and property, trusts, and powers of attorney.
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDSB18Enroll
75%
Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals who are at least 3 years old; and al...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB1102Engross
50%
Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB744Engross
50%
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain procedures relating to juvenile intake, detention, and probation; requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services...
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2024-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB71Engross
50%
Requiring the Division of Correction to allow a certain pregnant woman and a certain woman who recently gave birth to transfer to the prerelease unit for women for up to 1 year following the birth; establishing the Healthy Start Bonding Program to fa...
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2024-03-16
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB912Intro
25%
Altering, clarifying, and expanding certain provisions of law relating to the immunity from liability of a parent who leaves an unharmed newborn with a responsible adult under certain circumstances; requiring the Secretary of Human Services to develo...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1180Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from making a threat to take the life of, kidnap, or cause physical injury to an immediate family member of a State or local official or a certain government employee.
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2024-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB663Intro
25%
Establishing a rebuttable presumption in certain child custody proceedings that joint legal custody and joint physical custody for approximately equal periods of time are in the best interests of a child and establishing factors a court may consider ...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB1159Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person responsible for a premises from conducting, causing, authorizing, or aiding in maintaining an unruly social event; authorizing certain fire officials to enter a certain premises for a certain purpose without a search warrant unde...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1162Intro
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...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB820Intro
25%
Requiring a hospital to provide certain oral and written instructions on safe sleep environments for infants to the parent or legal guardian of an infant before the hospital discharges an infant into the care of the parent or legal guardian; requirin...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB741Intro
25%
Requiring each public senior higher education institution to adopt a policy regarding pregnant and parenting students using certain guidelines; and requiring each public senior higher education institution to post the policy on the institution's webs...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB865Intro
25%
Expanding, renaming, and altering certain provisions relating to a certain truancy reduction program in certain juvenile courts; authorizing a county or circuit administrative judge to establish a certain Truancy Reduction and School Reengagement Pro...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB954Intro
25%
Requiring certain business entities to file with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation a report including certain information regarding beneficial owners of the entities; and prohibiting the inspection of the reports in certain circumstanc...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB876Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide limited behavioral health services to individuals under the age of 18 years regardless of whether the individual has a behavioral health diagnosis; and requiring...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1016Intro
25%
Requiring health care providers who are authorized to prescribe to double the amount of each drug prescribed for a child if a parent of the child presents the prescriber with a court order of joint legal custody with a right of medical decision makin...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB721Intro
25%
Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB759Intro
25%
Requiring a court to rule on petitions to appoint a guardian of the person of a disabled person in order to seek transfer or discharge of a disabled person from a hospital within 10 days; and requiring that hearings to appoint a guardian of the perso...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB528Intro
25%
Providing a refundable credit against the State income tax for nonpublic school student bus transportation expenses paid by an individual resident who is the parent or guardian of the student during the taxable year; prohibiting a tax credit from exc...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB438Intro
25%
Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbr...
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2024-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB327Intro
25%
Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
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2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB365Intro
25%
Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; and specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings un...
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2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB52Intro
25%
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to establish that the juvenile court has exclusive original jurisdiction over a child who is at least 10 years old alleged to have committed a crime involving the use or possession of a firearm; and alt...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB120Intro
25%
Authorizing a child to consult with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian instead of an attorney before a law enforcement officer may conduct a custodial interrogation of the child.
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB314Intro
25%
Establishing the joint and several civil liability of a parent, guardian, or custodian of a minor who commits an act of willful misconduct that results in the death or injury of an individual or damage to property, subject to a certain exception; req...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB326Intro
25%
Providing that a law enforcement officer may conduct a certain interrogation of a child if probable cause exists for the law enforcement officer to believe that the child committed a certain crime of violence or a crime involving a firearm and the la...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB201Intro
25%
Requiring, when a child is born at a health care facility, the attending physician to offer to the presumed father of the child the option to take a paternity test; requiring that the offer to take a paternity test be made orally and in writing and b...
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2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB64Intro
25%
Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel...
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2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB198Intro
25%
Allowing certain eligible taxpayers who volunteer in a certain elementary and secondary school a credit against the State income tax in an amount equal to $20 for each volunteer hour, not to exceed $500; requiring the State Department of Education, i...
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2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
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