| MD | SB795 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-26
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 1049 |
| MD | SB287 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police to determine the manner and format for applications for certification as a private detective, security guard, security systems technician, and railroad police officer and for a license to provide security gua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| MD | SB336 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 873 |
| MD | SB106 | Pass | Altering the membership of the State Board of Social Work Examiners; and repealing obsolete references to certified social worker licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 931 |
| MD | SB167 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 919 |
| MD | SB175 | Pass | Requiring an applicant for a license to practice optometry and certain applicants for the renewal of a license to submit to a criminal history records check obtained from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 815 |
| MD | SB408 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 849 |
| MD | SB468 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 893 |
| MD | SB613 | Pass | Extending, from October 1, 2024, to July 1, 2026, the date by which individuals must be licensed by the State Board of Long-Term Care Administrators before practicing as an assisted living manager in the State; altering the requirements for the manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 786 |
| MD | SB675 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 732 |
| MD | SB687 | Pass | Repealing certain provisions of law relating to bail bonds in the Seventh Judicial Circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 762 |
| MD | SB718 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to support students in licensed practical nursing education programs who intend to practice nursing as a career in the State; requiring the Secreta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 866 |
| MD | SB799 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to waive certain education requirements for certain applicants for a limited license to practice dentistry who provide dental services for adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 902 |
| MD | SB791 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 848 |
| MD | SB830 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 871 |
| MD | SB938 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 812 |
| MD | SB991 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 867 |
| MD | SB999 | Pass | Exempting an individual who practices as a certain nursing assistant for less than 4 months under federal regulations from the State's certification requirement; altering the designation of, and licensure requirements for, certified nursing assistant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 819 |
| MD | SB207 | Pass | Establishing the common name of the northern snakehead as the "Chesapeake Channa".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 571 |
| MD | SB1 | Pass | 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 supply agreements or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 537 |
| MD | SB32 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 573 |
| MD | SB344 | Pass | Establishing exceptions to certain criminal prohibitions against trespass on property and the civil tort of trespass for professional land surveyors, and agents and employees of professional land surveyors, who enter the property of another to practi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 606 |
| MD | SB415 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 690 |
| MD | SB472 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| MD | SB533 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489 |
| MD | SB507 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 594 |
| MD | SB504 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 526 |
| MD | SB570 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 |
| MD | SB683 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510 |
| MD | SB806 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 529 |
| MD | SB1056 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462 |
| MD | SB1028 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 599 |
| MD | SB1003 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 659 |
| MD | SB969 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 559 |
| MD | SB818 | Pass | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and a certain assessment on or before certain dates; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496 |
| MD | SB1118 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520 |
| MD | SB508 | Pass | Altering the fee for nonresident sika deer stamps from $25 to $200.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 591 |
| MD | SB27 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329 |
| MD | SB162 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 289 |
| MD | SB18 | Pass | Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals who are at least 3 years old; and al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 232 |
| MD | SB462 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 332 |
| MD | SB465 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 269 |
| MD | SB564 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330 |
| MD | SB1107 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| MD | SB242 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Social Work Examiners in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 394 |
| MD | SB666 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 344 |
| 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 |
