| MD | SB130 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement a policy that prohibits students from using a cellular device during instructional time during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from preventing a student from using a cellula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB869 | Engross
50% | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB770 | Engross
50% | Requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and contracting agencies to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB956 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Workgroup on Artificial Intelligence Implementation; requiring the Workgroup to monitor and make recommendations related to the regulation of artificial intelligence, consumer protection, current private sector use of artificial inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB984 | Engross
50% | Requiring an insurer that issues, sells, or delivers private passenger motor vehicle insurance policies in the State to disclose the use of certain telematics systems and to establish an appeals process by which a policyholder may challenge data the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1474 | Engross
50% | Authorizing an out-of-state licensed professional counselor to provide clinical professional counseling services to nonresident students enrolled in an institution of higher education in the State under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1473 | Engross
50% | Altering provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency to include individuals with disabilities; establishing certain requirements for equal access to public services for certain State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1383 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt regulations concerning minimum functional and technical requirements to ensure optimal performance of the State's online special education system; directing the State Department of Education to study mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB782 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB5 | Engross
50% | Defining "computer-generated image" to include images created through the use of artificial intelligence software as the term pertains to provisions of law related to child pornography.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB147 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain county boards of education to develop and adopt a policy on the use of a personal electronic device during school hours; requiring that the policy limit the use of a smartphone and a device connected to a smartphone during instructi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB333 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Healthcare Ecosystem Stakeholder Cybersecurity Workgroup to develop strategies to prevent cybersecurity disruptions to the healthcare ecosystem, ensure the continuous delivery of essential healthcare ecosystem services, and enhance r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB313 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB399 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB408 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Prince George's County Coordinated Youth Violence Review and Response Team to examine and prevent violence against youth through intensive case management; requiring that the review team be provided with access to certain information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB343 | Engross
50% | Establishing the State's Attorney Case Management System Grant Fund; reconstituting the Task Force to Study Transparency Standards for State's Attorneys; and requiring the Task Force to develop processes by which prosecutors can collect information a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB500 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB601 | Engross
50% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring a local school system to coordinate with the parents or guardians of a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB731 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to foster collaboration among State and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders for the purpose of protecting endangered wildlife from habitat fragmentation; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB754 | Engross
50% | Altering certain notice requirements before the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County may hold public hearings on proposed regulatory changes or license applications; and providing that the Board may publish a decision on certain license ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB761 | Engross
50% | Making certain virtual currency subject to the abandoned property laws in the State; establishing certain provisions to determine certain information about certain apparent owners of abandoned property; altering and establishing certain provisions pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB798 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB807 | Engross
50% | Establishing the position and responsibilities of the State Chief Data Officer; establishing the Office of Enterprise Data in the Department of Information Technology and the responsibilities of the Office; requiring each unit of State government to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB669 | Engross
50% | Altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund; expanding the duties of the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy relating to the Fund; and prohibiting the use of the Fund for the Sexual Assault E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB855 | Engross
50% | Altering the membership of the Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network; and extending the workgroup to June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB900 | Engross
50% | Requiring each crisis communication center in the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to coordinate with the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and referr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB856 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Department of Health, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of General Services to develop a certain pamphlet and website; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB871 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB867 | Engross
50% | Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue certain competitive grants and contracts beginning in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1146 | Engross
50% | Requiring each crisis communication center in the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to coordinate with the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and referr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1316 | Engross
50% | Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and publish a student technology and social media resource guide by the 2027-2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1325 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; providing that the purpose of the Program is to facilitate the continuous operation of child care facilities in the State by ensuring that qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1391 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Board of Education, and the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education to develop or update certain guidance and strategies on artificial intelligence for county...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB244 | Engross
50% | Altering the duties of the Cyber Preparedness Unit in the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; altering the duties of the Office of Security Management in the Department of Information Technology; altering the content of a certain report on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB239 | Engross
50% | Repealing a duplicative provision of law requiring each county government, local school system, and local health department, in consultation with the local emergency manager, to create or update a cybersecurity preparedness and response plan and comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB116 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Energy Administration, and the University of Maryland School of Business, in coordination with the Department of Legislative Services, to conduct an analysis of the likely environmental, energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB223 | Engross
50% | Renaming the Senior Call-Check Service and Notification Program to be the Senior Call-Check and Social Connections Program; providing the purpose of the Program is to provide regular, direct communication from the Department of Aging or the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB372 | Engross
50% | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB589 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 2:30 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB665 | Engross
50% | Making certain virtual currency subject to the abandoned property laws in the State; establishing certain provisions to determine certain information about certain apparent owners of abandoned property; altering and establishing certain provisions pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB813 | Engross
50% | Adding two members to the Board of Community College Trustees for Howard County; requiring each meeting of the Board to allow for public comment; requiring the Board to make a video or audio recording of its meetings which are to be made available on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB846 | Engross
50% | Requiring a cellular phone carrier to include an option in the service contract that allows more than one individual who is a customer of record to the service contract to alter, modify, or cancel the service contract without the agreement of the oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB341 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB655 | Engross
50% | Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1538 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maternal Health Monitoring Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to support pregnant and postpartum Maryland Medical Assistance Program recipients who have higher risks of pregnancy complications because of maternal hype...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB426 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB504 | Engross
50% | Altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; authorizing the Department to establish a national teacher recruitment campaign; establishing the Academic Exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB596 | Engross
50% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring the remote registration process to provide an opportunity for the service m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB675 | Engross
50% | Altering from December 31, 2025, to March 31,2026, the date by which a certain report under a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit tracking program is required to be submitted; altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB36 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund for costs related to the operation of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline, including software interfaces and joint training; and altering a certain restriction on the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund to prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
