| MD | HB1294 | Pass | Subjecting certain earned wage access products to the Maryland Consumer Loan Law and other provisions that regulate entities that provide consumer credit; restricting the acceptance of tips by certain lenders under certain circumstances; providing fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 847 |
| MD | SB231 | Pass | Repealing the condition that must be met for a certain exclusive representative to meet with a new employee by video or similar technology; altering certain requirements for the deputy directors appointed by the Public Employee Relations Board; and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 607 |
| MD | SB72 | Pass | Prohibiting a health occupations board from requiring additional evidence of English proficiency as a condition for licensure, certification, or registration if an applicant holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification, or registration from ano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 732 |
| MD | SB299 | Pass | Providing that a cannabis agent who is employed to provide security services for a cannabis licensee or cannabis registrant as a security guard or by a security guard agency is not required to obtain a State or national criminal history records check...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 703 |
| MD | HB367 | Pass | Prohibiting a health occupations board from requiring additional evidence of English proficiency as a condition for licensure, certification, or registration if an applicant holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification, or registration from ano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 731 |
| MD | HB352 | Pass | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604 |
| MD | SB407 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Nursing to hold discussions with Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to pursue reciprocity agreements for advanced practice nursing licensure and specialty certification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 674 |
| MD | SB423 | Pass | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 675 |
| MD | HB602 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Nursing to hold discussions with Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to pursue reciprocity agreements for advanced practice nursing licensure and specialty certification; and requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 673 |
| MD | HB577 | Pass | Requiring the Comptroller to consult with certain stakeholders to study and make recommendations on the enforcement process for miscellaneous State business licenses; and requiring the Comptroller to report the findings and recommendations of the stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 633 |
| MD | HB745 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue a license to practice behavior analysis to qualified applicants within 30 days of receiving the completed application; requiring the State Board to issue a license within 50...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 755 |
| MD | HB776 | Pass | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 676 |
| MD | SB664 | Pass | Requiring the Comptroller to consult with certain stakeholders to study and make recommendations on the enforcement process for miscellaneous State business licenses; and requiring the Comptroller to submit a report of the study's findings and recomm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 632 |
| MD | HB838 | Pass | Altering the scope of practice of licensed direct-entry midwives; providing that the practice of direct-entry midwifery is independent and not does not require oversight by another health care practitioner; repealing the requirement that licensed dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 645 |
| MD | SB641 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide coverage for medically appropriate and necessary hearing aids for adults to require coverage if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 743 |
| MD | SB676 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in coordination with the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, to adopt regulations establishing minimum perinatal care standards that meet or exceed the Maryland Perinatal System Stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 |
| MD | SB854 | Pass | Altering the scope of practice of licensed direct-entry midwives; providing that the practice of direct-entry midwifery is independent and not does not require oversight by another health care practitioner; repealing the requirement that licensed dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644 |
| MD | HB1086 | Pass | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, managed care organizations, and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, if providing coverage for the delivery of anesthesi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 683 |
| MD | SB937 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 625 |
| MD | HB1143 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Collaborative to Improve Children's Oral Health Through School-Based Programs to study and make recommendations on ways to improve school-based dental programs; and requiring the Collaborative to submit an interim report by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 753 |
| MD | HB1035 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 |
| MD | HB1310 | Pass | Altering the Prescription Drug Repository Program, including by allowing certain entities located in another state to participate in the Program as drop-off sites and repositories, including over-the-counter drugs under the Program, and altering the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 705 |
| MD | HB1355 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide coverage for medically appropriate and necessary hearing aids for adults to require coverage if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 742 |
| MD | HB1380 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in coordination with the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, to adopt regulations establishing minimum perinatal care standards for hospitals that meet or exceed the Maryland Perinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709 |
| MD | HB1347 | Pass | Providing that a cannabis agent who is employed to provide security services for a cannabis licensee or cannabis registrant as a security guard or by a security guard agency is not required to obtain a State or national criminal history records check...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 702 |
| MD | HB1474 | Pass | Establishing a temporary telehealth license to be issued by the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists authorizing the holder to provide clinical professional counseling services only to a student attending an institution of higher edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
| MD | SB931 | Pass | Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623 |
| MD | HB1036 | Pass | Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 624 |
| MD | HB328 | Veto | Authorizing the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to issue certain fraternal organizations a license for not more than three instant ticket lottery machines; altering the distribution of proceeds from instant ticket lottery mach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-16
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB482 | Veto | Providing that "department" does not include the Maryland Department of Health or the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services for purposes of certain provisions prohibiting a department from refusing to issue an occupational license or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-16
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | SB23 | Pass | Exempting certain auctioneers from certain provisions of the State Boat Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 555 |
| MD | SB250 | Pass | Altering the authorized uses of the Maryland Clean Air Fund to include certain activities relating to mitigating and reducing air pollution in the State; authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 |
| MD | HB425 | Pass | Exempting certain auctioneers from certain provisions of the State Boat Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 556 |
| MD | HB31 | Pass | Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 |
| MD | HB506 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the defin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
| MD | HB719 | Pass | Repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing the State Boat Act; increasing certain funding thresholds for certain projects financed by the Waterway Improvement Fund; and altering the fees for ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 433 |
| MD | HB783 | Pass | Requiring applicants for renewal of certain licenses and certain certificates issued by certain health occupation boards to attest that the applicant completed an implicit bias and structural racism training program, rather than an implicit bias trai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 478 |
| MD | HB857 | Pass | Authorizing a person who is authorized by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer and who wounds a deer during legal hunting hours to pursue and kill the deer after legal hunting hours using the means authorized for the applicable hunting se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 553 |
| MD | HB893 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to suspend for up to 5 years for a first violation, rather than revoke, a person's oyster authorization for knowingly committing certain violations; providing for the reinstatement for certain persons of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 552 |
| MD | HB1473 | Pass | Requiring the Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Department of Disabilities to convene the Maryland Language Advisory Group, by January 1, 2026, to make findings and recommendations on oversight, monitoring, investigation, and enforcement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 434 |
| MD | SB228 | Pass | Altering certain requirements relating to programs of instruction for applicants for certain limited lines credit insurance licenses; and requiring the insurer that provides the program of instruction to retain records relating to the program of inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 415 |
| MD | HB3 | Pass | Clarifying the definition of "physical therapist assistant" as used in the Maryland Physical Therapy Act to mean an individual licensed by the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners; increasing the membership of the State Board of Physical Therapy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 352 |
| MD | SB47 | Pass | Clarifying the definition of "physical therapist assistant" as used in the Maryland Physical Therapy Act to mean an individual licensed by the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners; increasing the membership of the State Board of Physical Therapy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 353 |
| MD | HB19 | Pass | Expanding the purpose of the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Nurses and Nursing Support Staff; requiring the Department to prioritize funding for nurses or nursing support staff who practice in an area with a shortage of nurses or nurs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 416 |
| MD | SB89 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to establish a certain process in collaboration with one or more boards under the Department's direction and control that requires a board to include a notation indicating veteran status on a professional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 249 |
| MD | SB51 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for an individual licensed as a certified public accountant in another state to practice certified public accountancy in the State to include a requirement that the individual passed the Uniform CPA Examination to qualify ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 406 |
| MD | SB148 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Public Accountancy to place a licensee on emeritus status under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to review an application for emeritus status within 60 days of receipt of the application; and requiring the Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 405 |
| MD | SB114 | Pass | Authorizing units in the Maryland Department of Labor to establish a certain process to include a notation of veteran status on an occupational license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 250 |
| MD | SB67 | Pass | Authorizing health occupations boards to include a notation indicating veteran status on a license, certificate, registration, or public profile.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 248 |
| MD | SB269 | Pass | Altering the number of years that a recipient of an award under the Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program may hold the award under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 378 |
