| MD | SB305 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Geological Survey Fund to finance certain direct and indirect costs, including long-term budgeting and planning for survey projects, procurements, and equipment purchases; establishing the Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 86 |
| MD | SB280 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that a notary public use a certain protest form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 95 |
| MD | SB459 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council by removing the Director of the Governor's Grants Office or the Director's designee and adding the Comptroller or the Comptroller's designee; requiring the Council to study ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 29 |
| MD | SB202 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Caregiver Expense Grant Program in the Department of Aging to award grants up to certain caregivers for up to 30% of the qualified expenses that exceed $2,000 paid or incurred by the caregiver to provide care or support to certain qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB577 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller to implement procedures to offer an individual filing a Maryland resident individual income tax return electronically the opportunity to register to make an anatomical gift in accordance with the Maryland Revised Uniform Ana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB951 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework and recommendations to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Economic Matters Committee on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB982 | Enroll
75% | Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; altering the authority of the Board of Public Works over certain information technology projects; renaming the Major Informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1142 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller to distribute $250,000 of certain abandoned property funds to the Tax Clinics for Low-Income Marylanders Fund, which provides grants to the University of Maryland School of Law, the University of Baltimore School of Law, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB734 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the performing arts theater beer and wine license in Harford County; establishing in Harford County a performing arts nonprofit organization license that authorizes the holder to sell or serve beer, wine, and liquor at certain locations for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| 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 | SB139 | Engross
50% | Establishing a certain exception to the authority of the Child Support Administration to 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB540 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide funds to local school systems to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB699 | Engross
50% | Altering the process for distributing the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund to Baltimore City by allocating certain funds to the Baltimore City Comptroller under certain circumstances; establishing an Equitable Community Investment Council in ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB747 | Enroll
75% | Requiring 20% of certain State aid to be discontinued if a county, municipality, or special taxing district does not submit a certain audit report within 2 calendar years after the deadline for the report, subject to a certain condition; and applying...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB797 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; requiring certain information about the Program to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB738 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1074 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB474 | Enroll
75% | Altering and establishing the definition of "generating station" for the purpose of exempting the construction of certain generating facilities used to produce electricity for the purpose of onsite emergency backup and certain test and maintenance op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB677 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that returns for certain taxes and fees collected by the Comptroller be filed electronically, subject to certain exceptions; altering certain requirements for electronic filing of returns for certain taxes; prohibiting a certain tax return ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB679 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "tax information" for purposes of provisions of law governing the confidentiality and disclosure of tax information; authorizing, subject to certain limitations, the disclosure of tax information to certain tax compliance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| 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 | SB775 | Enroll
75% | Altering the requirements that certain officers and employees of the State be covered by certain surety bonds to allow the officers and employees to be covered by certain insurance policies; transferring certain duties and responsibilities of the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1105 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller to implement and administer a certain individual income tax credit eligibility awareness campaign to identify and encourage individuals to apply for certain individual income tax credits; authorizing the Comptroller to enter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| 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 | SB777 | Enroll
75% | Removing the State Treasurer from the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and repealing certain related authority and duties; removing the State Treasurer or the State Treasurer's designee from the Maryland Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB536 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB974 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB902 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Highway Administration, to identify and prioritize certain species whose habitat or movement corridors intersect with State highways and develop tools, technology, and tec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB72 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a claimant who buys tobacco tax stamps to receive a refund for tobacco tax stamps affixed to stolen property; requiring the claimant to provide the Comptroller with certain documentation when making a claim for a refund; and providing for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB678 | Enroll
75% | Repealing certain obsolete provisions of law concerning the distribution of income tax revenue; and correcting a certain erroneous cross-reference.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB703 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller to develop and maintain on the Board of Public Works' website a procurement transparency data dashboard; establishing a governance committee composed of the liaisons to the Board from the offices of the Governor, the Comptr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB784 | Engross
50% | Altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 11%; and providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of certain firearm accessories and ammunition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1076 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Comptroller to distribute to the Transportation Trust Fund revenue from the sales and use tax that is attributable to the sale of electricity used to charge an electric vehicle at an electric vehicle charging station or used to charge a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB892 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1022 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each perform certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the workforce needs in the State and wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB494 | Engross
50% | Altering the records and documents that a board of canvassers is required to investigate under certain circumstances; altering the responsibilities of the State Administrator, the State Board of Elections, and the Board of State Canvassers regarding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB436 | Engross
50% | Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB169 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB642 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB987 | Intro
25% | Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1126 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain congestion relief plans; establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region conge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1018 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in a certain year, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest the amount of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1081 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Driver Education in Public Schools Grant Program to provide grants to public schools and nonprofit organizations to assist public schools in offering driver education courses to students; establishing the State-Aided Institutions Fie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB899 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain custodians to deny inspection of the part of a public record that contains personal information of a constitutional officer except under certain circumstances; authorizing a certain constitutional officer or certain immediate family...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB958 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB841 | Intro
25% | Repealing a requirement that certain motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB953 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Comptroller to distribute $5,000,000 to a certain Community Development Program Fund; and repealing a certain provision providing for the construction of certain Acts of the General Assembly concerning the Community Development Program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB1012 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Disabled Veterans Guaranteed Basic Income Program; establishing the Disabled Veterans Guaranteed Basic Income Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring, beginnin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB981 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Governor for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $10,000,000 for the Local Cybersecurity Support Fund; requiring the Department of Information Technology to provide sufficient informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB269 | Intro
25% | Establishing a property tax credit against the State, county, and municipal corporation real property tax on certain properties that provide permanent supportive housing; providing for the calculation of the tax credit; providing for the recapture of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
