| MD | SB184 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Secretary of State to suspend payment of certain late fees assessed to certain charitable organizations under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Secretary of State to cancel a charitable organization's registration or reinstat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB206 | Intro
25% | Altering the name of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund to be the Rape Kit Collection, Testing, and Tracking Grant Fund; revising the purpose of the Fund to provide law enforcement agencies with multiyear funding to pay for testing of sexual assault evi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB71 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Common Ownership Communities to study the education and training needs of common ownership community boards and new and prospective owners of homes and dwelling units in common ownership communities; and requiring the T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB203 | Intro
25% | Creating an exception for vehicles carrying fluid milk products to the prohibition against driving a vehicle subject to an exceptional hauling permit on the interstate highway system; altering certain weight limits and tolerances under an exceptional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB33 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Office of the Comptroller and the Department of Legislative Services to study and make recommendations regarding the State's business tax structure and the imposition of combined reporting; and requiring the Office of the Comptroller an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 10:30 am]
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB697 | Intro
25% | Requiring a health insurance carrier to submit quarterly reports to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner on certain information related to the carrier's use of artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems; and altering the information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB692 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to conduct a study on the feasibility of capturing the image of only the rear license plate of a vehicle at video toll facilities in the State; and requiring the Authority to report its findings and rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB710 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to provide a certain voter hotline for incarcerated individuals; and altering the circumstances under which an individual is not qualified to be a registered voter for the purpose of allowing individuals convict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB681 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which the Child Support Administration may notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's license or privilege to drive; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB8 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB29 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Phone-Free Schools Pilot Program; requiring the Carroll County and Montgomery County public school systems to develop and implement a policy that prohibits student cell phone use during the school day, subject to certain exceptions; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB294 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Common Ownership Communities to study the education and training needs of common ownership community boards and new and prospective owners of homes and dwelling units in common ownership communities; and requiring the T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 24 @ 2:30 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB369 | Intro
25% | Requiring operators of certain libraries, beginning January 1, 2026, to place an automated external defibrillator in a certain area, maintain the functionality of the automated external defibrillator, and ensure a trained individual is present under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to enable certain incarcerated individuals t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB425 | Intro
25% | Providing that a certain base fee established by the Department of the Environment that is paid by a certain generator of coal combustion by-products is not less than $2.30 per ton; altering the factors that the Department is required to consider in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB429 | Intro
25% | Altering the definitions of target per pupil foundation amount, collaborative time per pupil amount, and special education per pupil amount for certain fiscal years; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB428 | Intro
25% | 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 fulfilling the Program's purpose; alterin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB451 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in the language of their choice; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering the exami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB452 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Child Care Affordability Commission to study and make recommendations regarding child care affordability in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit an interim report by January 1, 2026, and a final report of its findings an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB456 | Intro
25% | Altering the eligibility criteria for Higher Education Loan Assistance Grants under the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time employment; and requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to submit a report, by December 1, 2025, to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB457 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Retirement and Pension System to convene a workgroup to study transfers of member service between State and local retirement and pension systems; and requiring the Agency to submit a report of the workgroup's findings and recommen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB593 | Intro
25% | Requiring operators of certain libraries, beginning January 1, 2026, to place an automated external defibrillator in a prominent area accessible to employees and library users, provide maintenance for the automated external defibrillator, and ensure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB584 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Retirement and Pension System to convene a workgroup to study transfers of member service between State and local retirement and pension systems; and requiring the Agency to submit a report of the Workgroup's findings and recommen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB602 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB474 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by the carrier for a type of service has grown by more than 10% in the immediately preceding calendar year or 25% in the immediately preceding 3 calendar years, to provide certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB627 | Intro
25% | Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB480 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Maryland Green Purchasing Committee, the University System of Maryland, and the Maryland Clean Energy Center, to establish a Clean Energy Procurement Program in the Department on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB588 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to notify of a certain student's arrest a local superintendent of schools or school principal of a school in which the student has enrolled or to which the student has been transferred; and requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB486 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to conduct an assessment of school health and wellness personnel each year; requiring the Departments, by December 1, 2027, and each December 1 thereafter, to j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB470 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "fantasy competition" for purposes of provisions of law governing fantasy competitions to include certain competitions; requiring the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to establish a certain voluntary exclusion pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB487 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Secretary of Information Technology to conduct a certain risk assessment of certain major information technology development projects under certain circumstances; authorizing the Secretary to recommend an increase in a certain limitatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB648 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Business Resource Initiative for Developmental Growth and Empowerment Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish certain business incubators; prohibiting the grants awar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB493 | Intro
25% | Altering the fiscal years during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund; altering the funding source of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to include money fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB634 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Income Tax Reconciliation Program in the State to allow certain justice-involved individuals to establish installment payment plans and receive a waiver of any interest and penalties that accrue for unpaid income tax due for a taxabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB575 | Intro
25% | Altering the frequency, from every month to every 6 months, of the reports required to be submitted by the Attorney General to the General Assembly regarding the status of the recovery of economic damages arising from the closure of the Helen Delich ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB492 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Commission to Study the Dental Hygienist Shortage; providing that the purpose of the Commission is to support the State's efforts to improve the oral health of Marylanders by ensuring the stability and sustainability of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB646 | Intro
25% | Extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to be October 31, 2026; and extending the termination date for the Task Force to be June 30, 202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB647 | Intro
25% | Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing from approximately 22 hours to 17 hours in a 24-hour period; requiring all restrictive housing units to create t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB645 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county and Baltimore City to update its comprehensive plan to include an electric system planning element for purposes of minimizing the impact of future transmission line development in the State; requiring each electric company servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB496 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Commerce to create and maintain a complaint portal for reporting when a governmental unit takes longer than 60 days to process an application for a license, form, certificate, certification, permit, or registration for a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB559 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Transportation to conduct a study on the implications of requiring the speed limit to deviate by only 5 miles per hour at locations where a highway in the State connects to Interstate 495; and requiring the Department to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB547 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling to study the pooling of public employee health insurance purchasing between the State, counties, municipal corporations, and county boards of education in the State to maximize value and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB546 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain organizing committee to make certain determinations and provide a certain report to the county commissioners or county council of a certain county regarding a proposed municipal incorporation; requiring the county commissioners or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB537 | Intro
25% | Applying certain provisions of law regarding the adoption of dogs and cats used for scientific research purposes to testing facilities; requiring certain research facilities and testing facilities to submit to the Department of Agriculture certain in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB542 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to contract with a third party to conduct a study of the structure and composition of the distribution and retail sector of the alcoholic beverages industry in the State a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB536 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a research facility or testing facility; prohibiting a research facility and testing facility from using certain dogs and cats for research or testing purposes and performing devo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB526 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county board of education each year to prepare and post to the county's website a report that identifies pathways that public school students, who are ineligible for transportation services, may use to travel to school using only safe alt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB535 | Intro
25% | Requiring each research facility and testing facility in the State that uses animals in research, education, or testing to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture; applying certain provisions of law regarding the adoption of dogs and cats used f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB83 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
