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MDSB236Intro
25%
Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to submit certain information to the Secretary of Planning under certain circumstances; altering a requirement that the Department of the Environment submit certain proposals to the Department of Plannin...
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2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDSB245Intro
25%
Adding the Department of Planning to the list of entities to which a municipality must send a copy of an annexation resolution with the new municipal boundaries.
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2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed
MDSB204Engross
50%
Altering, from July 1 to June 1, the deadline by which the governing body of a county or municipal corporation is required to set its property tax rate for the next taxable year.
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2025-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB472Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of improvements to real property located within 1 mile of a rail station and to set a special prop...
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2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB516Intro
25%
Exempting personal property used in connection with certain large family child care homes from valuation and taxation; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or a municipal corporation to grant, by ...
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2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB593Intro
25%
Increasing from $250,000 to $700,000 the annual revenue threshold at which the Legislative Auditor may alter the frequency that certain municipalities or special taxing districts are required to have audits of their financial records performed.
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2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1255Intro
25%
Authorizing a local jurisdiction to authorize any person aggrieved by a decision of a historic preservation commission to appeal the decision to the board of appeals of the local jurisdiction.
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2025-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB254Intro
25%
Prohibiting a public library, a recipient of a certain award from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department, a public housing agency, a county, or a municipality from requiring an individual experiencing homelessness to prov...
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2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB527Intro
25%
Providing that a City of Salisbury fire and explosive investigator has the same authority as the State Fire Marshal under certain circumstances; authorizing the City of Salisbury Fire Chief to limit the authority of a fire and explosive investigator ...
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2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB682Intro
25%
Prohibiting persistent aerial surveillance by a unit, an agency, or a political subdivision of the State to gather evidence or other information in a criminal investigation, subject to certain exceptions; and defining "persistent aerial surveillance"...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB748Intro
25%
Authorizing a municipality to adopt an ordinance or a resolution authorizing an official who is authorized to act as an enforcement officer to utilize a body-worn camera; and requiring that a municipality that adopts a certain ordinance or resolution...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB954Intro
25%
Providing that certain evidence obtained through the use of an unmanned aircraft is inadmissible in a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding; prohibiting a unit of State government or a political subdivision of the State from deploying or oper...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB931Intro
25%
Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing certain requirements for the construction of a certain solar energy generating station or e...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1036Intro
25%
Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing certain requirements for the construction of a certain solar energy generating station or e...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1040Intro
25%
Requiring regulated financial institutions to develop a community benefit plan in connection with applications to the Commissioner of Financial Regulation relating to financial services for purposes of providing safe and sound loans, and other financ...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1164Intro
25%
Prohibiting a county or municipality from enacting or enforcing a local law that is designed to prevent an individual from resting or sleeping in a public space, protecting oneself from the elements in a manner that does not obstruct the use of or ac...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1188Intro
25%
Requiring law enforcement agencies, law enforcement agents, and local detention facilities who take custody of an individual to run a search of the individual in the National Crime Information Center, make a certain notice to federal immigration aut...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1200Intro
25%
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or muni...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1214Intro
25%
Establishing the taxable assessment to be used for the calculation of the homestead property tax credit for first-time homebuyers in the State.
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1307Intro
25%
Requiring a certain law enforcement agency, law enforcement agent, and local detention facility, if requested by federal immigration authorities, to notify federal immigration authorities about certain matters and cooperate with federal immigration a...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1222Intro
25%
Requiring an employee or agent of a State or local correctional facility and a law enforcement agent to detain an individual not lawfully present in the United States and who has been convicted of a certain crime of violence and transfer the individu...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1343Intro
25%
Exempting personal property used in connection with certain large family child care homes from valuation and taxation in Anne Arundel County; authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County or the governing body of a municipal corporation in An...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1485Intro
25%
Altering the jurisdiction of the Maryland Capitol Police of the Department of General Services.
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2025-02-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB76Intro
25%
Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits; altering the circumstances under whi...
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2025-02-08
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB498Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB427Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB503Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporat...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB488Intro
25%
Exempting all personal property, including manufacturing inventory, in the possession of a person engaged in a manufacturing business that is a small- or medium-sized enterprise from the personal property tax, including any special taxing district pr...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB595Intro
25%
Requiring the Comptroller, beginning in fiscal year 2026, to distribute from the State Lottery Fund $500,000 of supplemental local impact aid to Anne Arundel County, Howard County, and the City of Laurel from the proceeds of the Racetrax lottery game...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB947Intro
25%
Limiting the amount that retail establishments may charge for paper carryout bags under certain local laws to not more than 10 cents for each paper carryout bag.
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB997Intro
25%
Authorizing a county or a municipal corporation to impose the admissions and amusement tax on certain gross receipts derived from the sale of food or beverages for consumption on the premises; prohibiting the imposition of the admissions and amusemen...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB861Intro
25%
Altering the composition of the Western Maryland Economic Future Investment Board; providing that the Executive Director serves as a nonvoting member of the Board; altering the purpose of the Senator George C. Edwards Fund to provide grant or loan fu...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1043Intro
25%
Altering public notice requirements of the State Board of Elections, local boards of elections, and certain municipal corporations with respect to changes in administrative policy affecting voting rights; prohibiting local governments from taking any...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1044Intro
25%
Requiring the Attorney General or the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County to review and grant preclearance to certain policies before enactment or implementation; authorizing certain persons to file an action if the Attorney General or the Circuit ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1193Intro
25%
Requiring certain local jurisdictions to report information about certain housing development permits to the Department of Planning beginning January 1, 2027, and on the first day of each month thereafter; and requiring the Department of Planning to ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1231Intro
25%
Authorizing a governing body of a qualifying municipal corporation by resolution to exercise the powers of the Prince George's County Planning Board, the zoning hearing examiner for Prince George's County, or the District Council for Prince George's ...
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2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1232Intro
25%
Requiring certain retailers that charge a fee for providing a plastic or paper carryout bag to a customer under a local law to provide a receipt to a customer that includes the fee amount charged and the number of bags issued to the customer; and pro...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1257Intro
25%
Prohibiting a certain landlord from advertising the rental rate of a dwelling unit without including information on mandatory fees; requiring a landlord to provide certain information to prospective tenants about fees imposed on tenants and prohibiti...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1236Intro
25%
Authorizing municipalities in Queen Anne's County to decrease the maximum speed limit to not less than 15 miles per hour on highways without performing an engineering and traffic investigation.
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2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1266Intro
25%
Providing that, in Prince George's County, the planning board's authority over zoning and subdivision matters is not exclusive and may be subject to review by the district council under certain circumstances; altering the jurisdiction of the Prince G...
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2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1286Intro
25%
Exempting from taxation the income of a certain individual detained or taken hostage abroad during the taxable year and the spouse of that individual; and exempting from property tax certain property that is owned by an individual detained or taken h...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1297Intro
25%
Requiring that the conflict of interest provisions or regulations adopted by a county, municipal corporation, or school board be equivalent to or exceed certain provisions of State law and authorize removal of a certain official for certain violation...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1258Intro
25%
Prohibiting a local government or unit of State government from restricting the sale, purchase, or use of a certain consumer good solely on the basis of the energy source used to power the consumer good; repealing provisions of law requiring the Depa...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1405Intro
25%
Establishing that a certain person has a lien on a motor vehicle towed or removed from a privately owned parking lot for certain charges under certain circumstances; establishing the circumstances in which the lien is extinguished or suspended; estab...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1412Intro
25%
Prohibiting a county or municipal corporation from requiring a retail establishment to impose a fee, tax, or charge for a carryout bag, except under certain circumstances; requiring that certain customers be exempted from any fee, tax, or charge for ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1459Intro
25%
Altering the composition of the Western Maryland Economic Future Investment Board; providing that the Executive Director serves as a nonvoting member of the Board, but may vote to break a tie; altering the purpose of the Senator George C. Edwards Fun...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1466Intro
25%
Establishing the policy of the State to promote and encourage the creation of accessory dwelling units on land zoned for single-family residential use in order to meet the housing needs of the citizens of the State; requiring, on or before October 1,...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1444Intro
25%
Prohibiting a county or municipality from authorizing payment of a fee-in-lieu of a requirement under local law that a developer provide moderate income housing units in a new residential development project.
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1443Intro
25%
Authorizing counties and municipalities to grant, by local law, a preference in hiring and promotion to eligible veterans, spouses of an eligible service member, spouses of certain eligible veterans and eligible service members, and surviving spouses...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1354Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain owners of a cemetery from selling or transferring the cemetery without the approval of the Director of the Office of Cemetery Oversight; authorizing a governmental unit to acquire an abandoned cemetery under certain circumstances;...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
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