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MDHB461PassRenaming the State Advisory Council on Quality Care at the End of Life to be the State Advisory Council on Serious Illness Care.
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 915
MDHB575PassAltering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 705
MDHB565PassRequiring the Department of State Police to investigate any death of an incarcerated individual suspected to be a homicide that occurs while the individual is in the custody of the Division of Correction whether within or outside a correctional facil...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 956
MDHB814PassAltering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain provisions relating to the taking of a child into custody by a law enforcement officer; expanding certain prov...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 735
MDHB969PassRequiring, if a victim's initial determination of death recorded on the victim's death certificate was amended or corrected to be undetermined or homicide, an assistant State's Attorney with knowledge of the case to meet with a person in interest on ...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 829
MDHB52PassProviding that certain State employees are entitled to use up to 10 days of parental bereavement leave with pay within 60 days after the death of the employee's child; providing that certain State employees are entitled to use up to 60 days of parent...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 419
MDHB756PassRequiring the Secretary of State to furnish a State flag to drape the casket of an eligible decedent; establishing the process for a State flag to be claimed after burial; providing that only one flag may be provided for the death of an eligible dece...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481
MDHB768PassEstablishing a line-of-duty special death benefit for members of the Judges' Retirement System; providing for health benefits for a surviving spouse, child, or dependent parent who is receiving a special death benefit for the death of a member of the...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 485
MDHB1064PassAllowing a subtraction under the Maryland income tax for the payment of a death benefit under a collective bargaining agreement to a spouse or beneficiary of a law enforcement officer or fire fighter whose death arises out of the course of employment...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 416
MDHB1168PassEstablishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 600
MDHB1097PassAuthorizing a veterinary assistant to perform certain tasks under the immediate or direct supervision of a veterinary practitioner or a veterinary technician under the direct supervision of a veterinary practitioner; and authorizing a veterinary tech...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 487
MDHB337PassProhibiting a person from committing a violation of a certain provision of law governing the right-of-way of a bicycle, a motor scooter, or an electronic personal assistive mobility device lawfully in a designated bike lane or shoulder that contribut...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 464
MDHB230PassAuthorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration and local health departments to access electronically from the Maryland Department of Health a copy of a death certificate and, on request, provide any person authorized by regulations with a certified or ...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 406
MDHB1068PassRequiring the Comptroller to implement procedures to offer certain income tax return filers the opportunity to register to make an anatomical gift in accordance with the Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act through a hyperlink to the anatomic...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 190
MDHB1167PassEstablishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school ...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 293
MDHB284PassAltering the requirement that each county board of education provide certain students with the telephone number of the Maryland Youth Crisis Hotline by instead requiring that each county board of education provide certain students with the telephone ...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 59
MDHB152Engross

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Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health and the Maryland Department of Labor, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcare and funeral practices in the Stat...
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2024-04-06
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators M. Washington, Hester and Simonaire)
MDHB770Engross

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Altering the time period within which a court may prohibit a person convicted under certain circumstances of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol from operating a vessel on the waters of the State; requiring the Department of Natur...
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2024-04-06
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB297Engross

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Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office; requiring the Office to conduc...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB344Engross

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Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation; requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 each year on the stat...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1310Engross

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Establishing the Baltimore City 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 and rec...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB321Engross

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Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1349Intro

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Excluding from a decedent's augmented estate the value of any property inherited by the decedent when calculating the estate from which a surviving spouse may elect to take a certain share.
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1394Intro

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Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, each county board of education to provide students in grades six through twelve with the telephone numbers of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the Safe Schools Maryland anonymous tip line by p...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB187Intro

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Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a fina...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1389Intro

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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.
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB546Intro

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Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Pol...
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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB430Intro

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Altering the circumstances under which a person is disqualified from possessing a regulated firearm, a rifle, and a shotgun; prohibiting a person from wearing or carrying a firearm under certain circumstances unless the person has obtained certain li...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1144Intro

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Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1245Intro

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Prohibiting an individual from distributing heroin or fentanyl or chemical analogues of heroin or fentanyl without the lawful authority to do so, the use of which results in the death or serious bodily injury of another.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1374Intro

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Prohibiting a person from locating a new crematory within 1,000 feet of an assisted living or nursing facility, a property that primarily serves children, or a residential property that is designed primarily for human habitation; and prohibiting the ...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1446Intro

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Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, wayside detectors, and investigations by railroad labor union representatives; and requiring the Comm...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB118Intro

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Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures fo...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1335Intro

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Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good ...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1011Intro

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Prohibiting the imposition of an excise tax or certificate of title fee for the transfer of certain vessels to a trust or from a trust to certain beneficiaries under certain circumstances; requiring that an application for a certificate of title for ...
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2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB941Intro

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Altering the mental state required as an element of certain threat crimes and stalking from knowledge to recklessness.
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB937Intro

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Requiring a local director of a local department of social services or the Secretary of Human Services to disclose certain reports and records of child abuse and neglect within 30 days after receiving a request if certain conditions are met; requirin...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB403Intro

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Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
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2024-02-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB703Intro

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Authorizing the public disclosure by the Office of the Attorney General of the name and age of a child injured or killed in a police-involved incident as well as photographic or other visual depictions or descriptions of a police-involved incident re...
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB555Intro

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Prohibiting the unauthorized dissemination of certain personal identifying information without permission, with the intent to threaten, intimidate, abuse, harass or frighten a person, or place the person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily ...
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB677Intro

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Requiring that candidates for judge of the orphans' court appear on the ballot without party designation.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
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