| MD | SB34 | Intro
25% | Establishing the State Ombudsman for Value-Added Agriculture as a position in the Department of Agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB197 | Intro
25% | Altering the salary of the Washington County Sheriff to be 90% of the salary of the State's Attorney of Washington County; and repealing the requirement for the Washington County Salary Study Commission to study and issue a report that contains recom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 14 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB549 | Intro
25% | Increasing the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time based on annual growth in a certain consumer price index; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB556 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, to set the compensation of certain Commission employees; and requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, in consultation with the Secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB586 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from engaging in the work of the treatment, care, or removal of certain trees for compensation under a tree expert's license unless the person is employed by the licensed tree expert; increasing a certain penalty for operating a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB578 | Intro
25% | Requiring each unit to publish on the unit's website annually a certain procurement forecast listing certain known and anticipated procurements to be made by the unit in the upcoming fiscal year; requiring a unit determining eligibility for a merit i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB611 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Environment and Natural Resources Monitoring Unit of the Office of the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute cases against persons that violate State criminal environmental and natural resources laws and to assist the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB735 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Wages of Education Support Professionals to determine what percentage of education support professionals in the State earn a living wage and to study increasing the wages of education support professionals to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB713 | Intro
25% | Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to be equal to the salary of a Department of State Police lieutenant colonel, at the highest available step for a lieutenant colonel under the Department of State Police pay plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB46 | Intro
25% | Requiring that, in certain fiscal years, certain funding provided in the legislative appropriation to the Medical Care Programs Administration for medical care provider reimbursements be used for wage increases for health care workers and staff in nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB409 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to develop and administer a program to provide compensatory benefits to the descendants of individuals enslaved in the State; providing that any individual whose ancestors were enslaved in the State is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB701 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, to set the compensation of certain Commission employees; and requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, in consultation with the Secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB612 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from engaging in the work of the treatment, care, or removal of certain trees for compensation under a tree expert's license unless the person is employed by the licensed tree expert; increasing a certain penalty for operating a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB646 | Intro
25% | Requiring each unit to publish on the unit's website annually a certain procurement forecast listing certain known and anticipated procurements to be made by the unit in the upcoming fiscal year; requiring a unit determining eligibility for a merit i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB645 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, rather than the Secretary of Budget and Management, to set the salaries for deputy sheriffs and certain other employees of the Sheriff in Baltimore City; and altering certain provisions relati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB555 | Intro
25% | Increasing the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time based on annual growth in a certain consumer price index; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB591 | Intro
25% | Altering the application of the prohibition on including a noncompete or conflict of interest provision in an employment contract or similar document or agreement that restricts the ability of an employee to enter into employment with a new employer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB604 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to increase the hourly reimbursement rate for certain personal assistance services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to a minimum of $25 per hour; requiring provider agencies to pay the greater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB551 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Service Year Option Program; requiring the Department of Service and Civic Innovation to administer and provide staff for the Program; requiring a Program participant to work at least 30 hours per week and partner with an on-site men...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB620 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting institutions of higher education from entering into a contract with a certain regulated gaming entity or a certain agent of a regulated gaming entity if the institution of higher education receives certain compensation for student partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB706 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "earnings" in certain provisions of law relating to child support enforcement to include certain payments received by independent contractors; and establishing certain procedures for the reporting of certain employment info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB670 | Intro
25% | Altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund; requiring the Secretary of Labor to set the taxable wage base and the maximum weekly benefit amount in a certain manner for certain year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB680 | Intro
25% | Authorizing employees of county public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring library employers and certified exclusive representatives to engage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB707 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain deputy State fire marshal to be on probation for a period of 2 years after the date of appointment to the Office of the State Fire Marshal under certain circumstances; and specifying the pay that a certain deputy State fire marsha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB662 | Intro
25% | Providing that the Secretary of Higher Education is appointed by, and serves at the pleasure of, the Governor; altering eligibility criteria for, and the process for awards from, the Delegate Howard P. Rawlings Program of Educational Excellence Award...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB696 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Gateway Arts Development Authority in Prince George's County to support and develop a certain neighborhood revitalization plan in coordination with certain residents; and requiring the Authority to report its comprehensive neighborho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB743 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a certain evaluation regarding the impact of issuing an approval for certain environmental permits; requiring the Department to provide opportunities for certain communication with certain reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB787 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Benefits Cliff Pilot Program in the Department of Human Services to mitigate the cliff effect and increase workforce participation by Pilot Program participants; and requiring the Department to convene a certain stakeholder support g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB462 | Intro
25% | Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to be equal to the salary of a Department of State Police lieutenant colonel, at the highest available step for a lieutenant colonel under the Department of State Police pay plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB491 | Intro
25% | Requiring that the Charles County Board of Education be considered as a joint employer of certain school bus contractor employees for certain purposes; and requiring the Board to include representatives who reflect the interests of the employees in n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB579 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to assign certain employees of the State Department of Education to the executive, management, professional, and skilled services of the State Personnel Management System and to assign or reassign cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB494 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Secretary of the Budget and Management to assign certain employees of the State Department of Education to the executive, management, professional, and skilled services of the State Personnel Management System and to assign certain emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB352 | Intro
25% | Authorizing employees of certain public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring certain employers and certified exclusive representatives ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
[Hearing: Feb 16 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB452 | Intro
25% | Expanding eligibility for the credit against the State income tax for certain film production activities to include documentaries and talk, reality, and game shows; altering the definition of "total direct costs" to include certain compensation for c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
[Hearing: Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB546 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Service Year Option Program; requiring the Department of Service and Civic Innovation to administer and provide staff for the Program; requiring a Program participant to work at least 30 hours per week and partner with an on-site men...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-02
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB61 | Intro
25% | Altering the application of a provision of law that requires investor-owned electric companies and gas and electric companies to require contractors and subcontractors on certain projects to take certain actions related to employment and licensure; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 16 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB109 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Recycling Policy and Recycling and Waste Systems in Maryland to review the Maryland Recycling Act, study the recycling and waste systems in Maryland, and make recommendations on updating the Maryland Recycling Act and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB181 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Four-Day Workweek Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Labor for the purpose of promoting, incentivizing, and supporting the experimentation and study of the use of a 4-day workweek by private and public employers; allowing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 14 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB349 | Intro
25% | Requiring an employer who employs individuals in a food service facility or retail establishment to pay certain employees at a certain rate of pay for certain shifts of work, except under certain circumstances; providing that certain employees employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 14 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB448 | Intro
25% | Renaming the nonpublic educational program to be the special education placement program; and requiring the State and certain counties to pay for costs of salaries and bonuses for teachers at special education placements in a certain amount and propo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 15 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB478 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) Workgroup to study issues and factors regarding the feasibility of establishing a Waterway Incident Notification System to notify members of the public of certain waterway emergencies; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB494 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a private-sector employer from requiring, as a condition of employment or continued employment, an employee or a prospective employee, under certain circumstances, to join or remain a member of a labor organization, pay charges to a labor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 14 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB495 | Intro
25% | Altering the calculation for the funding of the Child Care Scholarship Program beginning in fiscal year 2025; limiting the circumstances under which the Program may be frozen; requiring certain reimbursement rates and income eligibility requirements ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 15 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB350 | Intro
25% | Altering the calculation for the funding of the Child Care Scholarship Program beginning in fiscal year 2025; limiting the circumstances under which the Program may be frozen; requiring certain reimbursement rates and income eligibility requirements ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 15 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB513 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Public Service Commission to enforce certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on certain projects involving and traffic control activities related to underground gas or electric infrastructure of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 16 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB392 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Wastewater Facility Supplemental Operations and Maintenance Grant Program for the purpose of providing competitive grants for publicly owned wastewater facilities facing operations and maintenance challenges that threaten the proper ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 15 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB526 | Intro
25% | Transferring all the functions, powers, and duties of the Child Support Unit of the Office of the State's Attorney for St. Mary's County and specified personnel to the Child Support Administration of the Department of Human Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB411 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the County Executive and County Council of Prince George's County to determine the compensation for the judges of the Orphans' Court for Prince George's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 16 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB413 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Apprenticeship 2030 Commission to examine and make recommendations to expand access to apprenticeships to reduce skill shortages in high-demand occupations and provide affordable training for career pathways for young people to parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB412 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Rail Authority and the powers and duties that the Rail Authority, acting on behalf of the Department of Transportation, has with respect to the supervision, financing, construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of rail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
