| MD | SB187 | Pass | Altering the required specifications for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of General Services to submit a certain timeline of deliverables for the planning, design, and construction of the fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-31
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 876 |
| MD | HB457 | Pass | Requiring each institution of higher education that provides on-campus housing to provide, free of charge, menstrual hygiene products in all student health centers at the institution on or before August 1, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 722 |
| MD | SB937 | Pass | Prohibiting a landlord from requiring or requesting from a prospective tenant certain information relating to criminal history and prohibiting a landlord from considering certain information when evaluating the prospective tenant; permitting a landlo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 |
| MD | HB14 | Pass | Altering the contents of a certain bullying, harassment, or intimidation form to require, if the incident is believed to have been motivated in whole or in substantial part by certain actual or perceived personal characteristics, identification of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 775 |
| MD | HB264 | Pass | Limiting the personal information that may be collected, maintained, processed, and retained by units of State government under certain circumstances; requiring certain personal information to be deleted or de-identified under certain circumstances; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
| MD | SB94 | Pass | Prohibiting a lender from accepting a tip from a consumer or giving a consumer the option to provide a tip; altering the timeline for certain refunds; subjecting certain earned wage access providers and loan lenders to certain consumer loan requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 170 |
| MD | SB626 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Health to keep and maintain a birth information history for each individual for whom a certificate of birth is issued under a certain provision of law; requiring the Secretary to maintain a database of birth information his...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Lam, A. Washington and Ready) |
| MD | HJ10 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemning the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB649 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Commission on Civil Rights to enforce a prohibition against discrimination and retaliation in educational institutions based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB689 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the requirements of the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to include studying programs and services to prevent recidivism by individuals in the State after release from incarceration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB877 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring institutions of postsecondary education to submit a report on institutional debt to the Maryland Higher Education Commission by August 1 every 2 years, beginning in 2027; and requiring the Commission to develop and publish a data dictionary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HJ3 | Intro
Sine Die | Acknowledging the importance of teaching a culturally diverse curriculum in elementary and secondary schools in the State; providing that curricula taught in elementary and secondary schools should include the history of communities that have experie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB950 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that injury resulting from conversion therapy is cognizable for purposes of a health care malpractice action; establishing certain procedures in an action for health care malpractice resulting from conversion therapy; removing the limitati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1073 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a landlord from requiring or requesting from a prospective tenant certain information relating to criminal history and prohibiting a landlord from considering certain information when evaluating the prospective tenant; permitting a landlo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1531 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Helping Everyone Afford Life-Saving Treatments and Health Care (HEALTH) Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to assist Maryland Medical Assistance Program enrollees, insured individuals, and uninsured individuals with health c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1636 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to make public certain discipline-related data in a usable format for the Department's website; providing that "high suspending" is 10% or more of students in an elementary school and 25% or more in a secon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB795 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a carrier's internal grievance process provide for human review of grievances resulting from adverse decisions made using artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tools; requiring carriers to report certain information on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB307 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to ensure that each public school regularly restock dispensers in the women's restrooms at the school with menstrual hygiene products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1488 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering terminology in the Maryland Constitution to be gender-neutral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and certain schools to implement a system to track and report certain petitions for emergency evaluations made during the school year; requiring county boards of education, certain schools, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1154 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing; requiring all restrictive housing units to create the least restrictive environment necessary for certain purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB1589 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which the Secretary of Health is required to make a new certificate of birth due to the change of a sex designation of an individual; establishing requirements and a prohibition related to the making of new certificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Workgroup on Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Students to study ways to support transgender and gender diverse students and, on or before December 1, 2026, make recommendations regarding statewide statutory and regulatory po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public and nonpublic primary and secondary schools to adopt certain written student privacy policies and procedures; requiring nonpublic prekindergarten programs and nonpublic primary and secondary schools, beginning September 1, 2027, to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing; requiring all restrictive housing units to create the least restrictive environment necessary for certain purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1209 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that injury resulting from conversion therapy is cognizable for purposes of a health care malpractice action; establishing certain procedures in an action for health care malpractice resulting from conversion therapy; removing the limitati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Commission for Boys' and Men's Health in the Maryland Department of Health; providing the purpose of the Commission is to raise public awareness of health issues specific to boys and men, including prostate and testicular ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring institutions of postsecondary education to submit a report on institutional debt to the Maryland Higher Education Commission by October 1 each year, beginning in 2027; authorizing the Commission to assess a civil penalty, up to $10,000 per ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public and nonpublic primary and secondary schools to adopt certain written student privacy policies and procedures; and requiring nonpublic prekindergarten programs and nonpublic primary and secondary schools to report certain information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a licensed health care practitioner from prescribing, dispensing, or administering a cross-sex hormone or otherwise providing cross-sex hormone therapy for the treatment of a mental health diagnoses associated with gender nonconformity, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB935 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the required specifications for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of General Services to direct the procurement processes for the construction of a certain prerelease facility for fem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a child placement agency from denying a prospective parent's application to adopt a child based on certain characteristics with certain exceptions; prohibiting the Social Services Administration of the Department of Human Services and cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to ensure that each public school regularly restock dispensers in the women's restrooms at the school with menstrual hygiene products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB50 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated in a certain manner; prohibiting certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and va...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools and certain locker rooms to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
