| MD | HB108 | Pass | Establishing the Volunteer Services Program in the Division of Correction for the purpose of providing access to volunteers, including formerly incarcerated individuals to State correctional facilities to assist incarcerated individuals and organizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 519 |
| MD | SB61 | Pass | Establishing the Volunteer Services Program in the Division of Correction for the purpose of providing access to volunteers, including formerly incarcerated individuals and organizations led by formerly incarcerated individuals, to State correctional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 518 |
| MD | HB622 | Pass | Extending by one year the time period during which a holder of a certain dispensary license may continue to deliver medical cannabis; increasing from 10 to 20 the number of individuals a micro dispensary is permitted to employ; altering certain provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 375 |
| MD | SB594 | Pass | Altering the ownership and control percentage requirement for a social equity applicant for a cannabis license; prohibiting cannabis advertising from directly targeting individuals under the age of 21 years; authorizing a standard dispensary to place...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 416 |
| MD | SB820 | Pass | Altering the violations of law with respect to which the Field Enforcement Division of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission is authorized to issue a citation; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, exposing for sale, or advertisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 355 |
| MD | HB1523 | Pass | Altering the violations of law with respect to which the Field Enforcement Division of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission is authorized to issue a citation or charging document; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, exposing f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 354 |
| MD | SB279 | Pass | Authorizing a certain enforcement officer to enforce provisions regulating the sale and distribution of the sale and distribution of cigarettes, other tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 387 |
| MD | HB640 | Pass | Modifying certain reporting requirements, boards, and commissions for practicability and efficiency; repealing certain reporting requirements that are unnecessary, obsolete, or duplicative; repealing as obsolete the Renewable Fuels Incentive Board, C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 171 |
| MD | SB439 | Pass | Prohibiting an employer from taking certain discriminatory employment actions against a fire and rescue public safety employee based on the employee's use of medical cannabis, subject to certain conditions; and requiring an employer to report an inci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 183 |
| MD | SB54 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners from suspending or revoking a license to practice veterinary medicine in the State, reprimanding or censuring a licensee, or placing a licensee on probation solely on the basis of the licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 48 |
| MD | SB136 | Pass | Applying certain provisions of law governing collective bargaining for State employees to police officers of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission who, in an official capacity, are authorized to make arrests and who are not supervisory, manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 65 |
| MD | HB452 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners from suspending or revoking a license to practice veterinary medicine in the State, reprimanding or censuring a licensee, or placing a licensee on probation solely on the basis of the licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 47 |
| MD | HB1578 | Pass | Altering the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to cannabis licensing, public-private partnerships, offshore wind projects, video lottery terminals, and sports wagerin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 82 |
| MD | HB797 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting an employer from taking certain discriminatory employment actions against a fire and rescue public safety employee based on the employee's use of medical cannabis, subject to certain conditions; and requiring an employer to report an inci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB918 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a certain enforcement officer to enforce provisions regulating the sale and distribution of cigarettes, other tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Third Reading Passed (106-10) |
| MD | SB483 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Judiciary to shield all cases meeting certain criteria on or before July 1, 2028; and requiring the Judiciary to shield certain newly eligible cases on a monthly basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1634 | Intro
25% | Requiring, as a condition of licensure, certain applicants for cannabis licenses and cannabis licensees to establish the existence of a certain labor peace agreement under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-26
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | SB1008 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the holder of a Class 1 wholesaler's license to acquire and deliver cannabinoid beverages to the holder of a Class A alcoholic beverages license that has been issued a certain permit; authorizing a local board of license commissioners to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1631 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Agriculture to establish a hemp manufacturing license and licensing procedure that authorizes a licensee to engage in certain activities subject to certain penalties; authorizing a person who holds a hemp manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1643 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a school from discriminating against an applicant for employment or an employee because of the applicant's or the employee's legal use of cannabis outside the workplace, outside of work hours, and without the use of the school's equipment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB307 | Intro
25% | Altering the purpose of the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund; requiring the Comptroller to administer the Fund at the direction of the Office of Social Equity; altering requirements for a certain county plan for the distribution of funds from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1519 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "control" of a cannabis business and excluding from the definition certain management services agreements, franchise relationships, and options to purchase; prohibiting the Maryland Cannabis Administration from limiting the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB995 | Intro
25% | Requiring, as a condition of licensure, certain applicants for cannabis licenses and cannabis licensees to establish the existence of a certain labor peace agreement under certain circumstances; defining "labor peace agreement" as one that, at a mini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB994 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Agriculture to establish a hemp manufacturing license and licensing procedure that authorizes a licensee to engage in certain activities subject to certain penalties; authorizing a person who holds a hemp manufacturi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB732 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Comptroller to distribute funds allocated to Baltimore City from the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund to the Baltimore City Comptroller; requiring the Baltimore City Comptroller to administer and distribute the funds to a special ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB925 | Intro
25% | Requiring 3% of the sales and use tax revenue collected from the sale of cannabis to be distributed to the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB406 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "drug trafficking crime" applicable to prohibitions against possessing, using, wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB131 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that refusal by a person to disclose information about criminal charges that have been expunged may not be the sole reason for a unit, an official, or an employee of the State or a political subdivision of the State to deny the person's ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB360 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Judiciary to expunge all cases meeting certain criteria on or before July 1, 2028; and requiring the Department and the Judiciary to expunge certain newly eligible cases on a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB544 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an individual from smoking, vaping, or consuming cannabis in the passenger area of a motor vehicle in which a minor is an occupant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB315 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that refusal by a person to disclose information about criminal charges that have been expunged may not be the sole reason for a unit, an official, or an employee of the State or a political subdivision of the State to deny the person's ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB217 | Intro
25% | Altering the purpose of the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund; requiring the Comptroller to administer the Fund at the direction of the Office of Social Equity; altering requirements for a certain county plan for the distribution of funds from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB365 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, own, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB133 | Intro
25% | Altering the State individual and corporate income tax rates; increasing, from 2% to 3%, the income tax rate imposed on the net capital gains attributable to certain sources of income; exempting from the income tax on net capital gains the first $10,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB171 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "drug trafficking crime" applicable to prohibitions against possessing, using, wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB151 | Intro
25% | Requiring 3% of the sales and use tax revenue collected from the sale of cannabis to be distributed to the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-15
To House Ways and Means Committee |
