| MD | SB302 | Pass | Repealing certain buffer zones within which a commercial northern snakehead licensee may not fish using bowfishing gear; and requiring a licensee who fishes for northern snakehead to comply with Department of Natural Resources regulations governing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 110 |
| MD | SB298 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Electricians to impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 instead of or in addition to reprimanding a licensee or suspending or revoking a license for certain violations; requiring the Board to consider certain factors to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 108 |
| MD | SB221 | Pass | Authorizing certain health occupations boards to adopt regulations establishing reciprocity for individuals licensed or certified in another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 33 |
| MD | SB222 | Pass | Clarifying that a quorum of the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists consists of a majority of appointed members; altering the circumstances under which an applicant for licensure is qualified to take the examination by adding completion o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 49 |
| MD | SB374 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Board from requiring an applicant to provide proof that the applicant is lawfully present in the United States or have a Social Security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number as a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 44 |
| MD | SB409 | Pass | Altering the licensure requirements that the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists may waive, and the circumstances under which the requirements may be waived, for applicants for a license to practice clinical marriage and family ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 46 |
| MD | SB1 | Enroll
75% | Altering a certain charge that may be assessed to a public service company; providing for the recovery of certain costs through rates; establishing an energy salesperson license for certain persons that offer or sell electricity or gas supply agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB167 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that a physician assistant have a collaboration agreement, rather than a delegation agreement, in order to practice as a physician assistant; altering the scope of practice of a physician assistant; altering the education required for licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB415 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing, subject to certain provisions of law, a person that operates a tip jar in Frederick County to operate an electronic tip jar dispenser that does not connect to the Internet or to a server; altering certain obsolete language in provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB408 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report, on or before December 1, 2024, December 1, 2025, and December 1, 2026, to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Health and Government Operations Committee on current opioid overdose reversal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB468 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a private home detention monitoring agency to notify the court within 24 hours after a defendant subject to home monitoring as a condition of pretrial release has violated a condition of home detention monitoring; requiring a private home d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB533 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue certain complimentary fishing and hunting licenses to certain veterans who the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs determines are unemployable; and exempting certain veterans who the U.S. Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB507 | Enroll
75% | Increasing the license fee for a special Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing license for nonresident license applicants from $50 to $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB504 | Enroll
75% | Requiring recreational vehicle dealers to hold a dealer agreement with a recreational vehicle manufacturer to sell the manufacturer's recreational vehicles in the State; establishing licensing requirements for a recreational vehicle manufacturer, dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB570 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain gas companies and authorizing certain gas companies to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems by October 1, 2024; requiring a gas company that serves at least 75,000 customers in its distribution territo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB590 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted |
| MD | SB683 | Enroll
75% | Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees relating to tree expert licensing established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1097 | Engross
50% | Exempting an employee of the Department of Natural Resources in the course of performing official duties from certain prohibitions against knowingly wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm in certain locations; requiring a person or entity opera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted |
| MD | SB1056 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1028 | Enroll
75% | Establishing 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB991 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Language Assistance Services Pilot Program in the Behavioral Health Administration to provide grants to local behavioral health authorities to reimburse behavioral health providers for language assistance services for children with l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1047 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County to receive written approval from the Anne Arundel County Office of Planning and Zoning for a music and entertainment permit before the permit may be considered at a hearing; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (136-0) |
| MD | SB1118 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain persons licensed or regulated with respect to fish and fisheries by the Department of Natural Resources to submit reports in accordance with regulations adopted by the Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB508 | Enroll
75% | Altering the fee for nonresident sika deer stamps from $25 to $200.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB335 | Engross
50% | Requiring each owner of a private dental office to designate a licensed dentist to be the supervising dentist for the private dental office; requiring a supervising dentist to complete the registration required by the State Board of Dental Examiners ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB718 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission; requiring the Secretary of Higher Education to issue grants to at least two pilot sites that meet certain requirements by July 1, 2025; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB242 | Enroll
75% | Continuing the State Board of Social Work Examiners in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2028, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB791 | Enroll
75% | Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review; altering requirements related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; altering certain reporting requirements on health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1107 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Study on the Establishment of a Homeless Shelter Licensing Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Study to review current habitability and admissions standards of homeless shelters in the State;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1141 | Engross
50% | Establishing that applicants for a Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship are not subject to certain requirements of the scholarship application process if the applicant enrolls in a noncredit vocational certificate program, enrolls in a sequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB666 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain maximum amounts of monetary relief the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights is authorized to award if the Commission finds that a respondent has engaged in a discriminatory act under provisions of law regarding public accommodations a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB818 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and a certain assessment; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain circumstances; prohibiting a unit o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB32 | Enroll
75% | Altering a certain loan program to authorize the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans not exceeding $10,000 for each seasonal full-time job; expanding eligibility for the Maryland Watermen's Micro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB472 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB465 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain requirements for procedures relating to electric vehicle recharging equipment; establishing requirements and procedures relating to an application to the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation to install or use electric ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB675 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Board of Individual Tax Preparers, on or before January 1, 2026, to publish on the Board's website a certain code of ethics and certain rules of professional conduct; requiring the Board to notify the Field Enforcement Bureau of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB687 | Enroll
75% | Repealing certain provisions of law relating to bail bonds in the Seventh Judicial Circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB830 | Enroll
75% | Altering the circumstances under which individuals without a license to practice medicine may perform X-ray duties; authorizing the State Board of Physicians to impose for each violation of the Act a civil penalty of up to $5,000 on the physician's o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB969 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB27 | Enroll
75% | Entering into the Cosmetology Licensure Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an individual practicing cosmetology to practice in a party state under certain circumstances; establishing the Cosmetology Licensure Compact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB162 | Enroll
75% | Limiting a tenant's liability for rent under a residential lease to not more than 2 months' rent after the date on which the tenant vacates a leased premises if a physician or psychologist completes a form specifying that the tenant has a mental diso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB336 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the requirements for education and experience for licensing of certain insurance producers, including producers for property and casualty insurance, life insurance, health insurance, annuities, and related products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB462 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a licensed real estate broker to designate himself or herself as the manager of a branch office maintained by the licensed real estate broker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB564 | Enroll
75% | Repealing certain processes regarding the expiration of certain licenses for real estate brokers, associate real estate brokers, and real estate salespersons; requiring that certain licenses expire on a staggered basis; modifying and setting certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB795 | Enroll
75% | Altering the definition of "practice audiology" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the licensure and regulation of audiologists to include certain procedures that do not require anesthesia and certain screenings, testing, and ima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB806 | Enroll
75% | Increasing from $50,000 to $500,000 the amount of general liability insurance that an applicant for a home improvement contractor license or a licensed home improvement contractor must maintain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB938 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop, on or before December 1, 2026, a public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention that targets communities disproportionately impacted by prostate, lung, and breast canc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1003 | Enroll
75% | Establishing that certain requirements for motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and factory branches to deliver new motor vehicles to licensed dealers apply after receipt of an electronic order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB537 | Engross
50% | Altering the distance restrictions applicable to a licensed cannabis dispensary; prohibiting a political subdivision from establishing certain zoning requirements for licensed cannabis dispensaries and certain licensed cannabis growers that are more ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB404 | Engross
50% | Establishing an exemption for a certain person who enters or trespasses on real property while wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
