| MD | HB73 | Intro | Requiring each governing body, or the governing body's designee, of a county or municipality to establish a certain telework program and adopt a certain telework policy and telework guidelines; requiring the State Court Administrator and the Presiden... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB448 | Intro | Designating June 19 for Juneteenth National Freedom Day as a State legal and employee holiday; and repealing the requirement that the Governor proclaim June 19 as Juneteenth National Freedom Day. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01 [Hearing: Mar 16 @ 1:30 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB542 | Intro | Authorizing the Secretary of Health to authorize an employee of a State facility to work according to an alternative workweek if the workweek is consistent with any applicable collective bargaining memorandum of understanding or any other written agr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB844 | Engross | Authorizing the State to purchase a certain insurance policy to satisfy a bond requirement to protect certain losses of State Retirement and Pension System assets. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB948 | Intro | Establishing the Maryland Office of the Inspector General and an Advisory Board for the Office; establishing that the Advisory Board has the powers to appoint and remove the Inspector General; providing for the position, term, qualifications, and aut... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25 [Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:30 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1336 | Intro | Requiring the Executive Director of the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to be a sworn police office with certain powers; specifying that the Executive Director is a member of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System as a condition of employment; r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25 [Hearing: Mar 9 @ 1:30 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB641 | Intro | Authorizing the State to purchase a certain insurance policy to satisfy a bond requirement to protect certain losses of State Retirement and Pension System assets. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24 Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB722 | Intro | Establishing the Department of Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation to assist units of State government in identifying and evaluating qualified minority business enterprises to help achieve the objective for greater use of minority busine... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB380 | Intro | Establishing the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for General Services as an independent unit of the State; establishing the Inspector General in the Office; providing for the eligibility, professional qualifications, appointment, term, and r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB398 | Engross | Requiring every employer in the State to allow any employee who does not have 2 hours of continuous off-duty time when the polls are open up to 2 hours absence from work to vote in an election; altering the requirement that certain employees furnish... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB658 | Intro | Renaming the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to be the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; establishing the Department as a principal department of the Executive Branch of State government; providing that the head of the Department is t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB908 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to require the Governor to include with the budget bill a statement showing the appropriations necessary to implement and fund each memorandum of understanding that incorporates wages and terms and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-16 [Hearing: Mar 17 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1277 | Intro | Establishing that, within the Office of the Public Defender, the deputy public defender, district public defenders, assistant public defenders, and other employees are placed in certain employment categories in the State Personnel Management System; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15 [Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:30 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB644 | Intro | Providing that the State Board of Education shall appoint the State Superintendent of Schools with the advice and consent of the Senate; specifying the term of the State Superintendent; requiring an individual who holds the office of the State Admini... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB990 | Intro | Renaming the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to be the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; establishing the Department as a principal department of the Executive Branch of State government; providing that the head of the Department is t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:30 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB873 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Information Technology, in coordination with the Maryland Cybersecurity Council, to develop criteria for the certification of certain cybersecurity training programs for use by State and local government employees required... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 2 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1129 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Information Technology, in coordination with the Maryland Cybersecurity Council, to develop criteria for the certification of certain cybersecurity training programs for use by State and local government employees required... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:30 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1214 | Intro | Altering the definition of "unit" for the purposes of applying certain provisions of law governing procurement to certain county procurement contracts using State funds or for the benefit of the State; requiring certain invitations for bids and reque... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:30 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB836 | Intro | Requiring the State Board of Dental Examiners to disclose certain information contained in a certain record to certain committees of certain facilities and entities under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to notify certain facilities or enti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 2 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB589 | Intro | Authorizing, altering, or requiring the distribution and payment of certain revenue in certain fiscal years; increasing the amount local governments are required to reimburse the State for certain services; etc. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11 [Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:30 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB493 | Intro | Authorizing, altering, or requiring the distribution and payment of certain revenue in certain fiscal years; increasing the amount local governments are required to reimburse the State for certain services; etc. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11 [Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB791 | Intro | Authorizing certain members and former members of the State Retirement and Pension System to receive credit for certain military service even if the member receives military service credit in another retirement system; and prohibiting an individual f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB904 | Intro | Altering the type of access and the circumstances under which certain access to new employees by exclusive representatives is required to be permitted by the State, a system institution, Morgan State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Ba... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1237 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to require the Governor to include with the budget bill a statement showing the appropriations necessary to implement and fund each memorandum of understanding that incorporates wages and terms and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB757 | Intro | Establishing that, within the Office of the Public Defender, the deputy public defender, district public defenders, assistant public defenders, and other employees are placed in certain employment categories in the State Personnel Management System; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1335 | Intro | Authorizing certain retirees who began State service before July 1, 2011, to be eligible for prescription drug benefits in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; specifying that prescription drug benefits shall be discont... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB725 | Intro | Providing that certain covered employees who are suffering from the effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 are presumed, under certain circumstances, to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty or course ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10 [Hearing: Mar 9 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB813 | Intro | Providing that certain covered employees who are suffering from the effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 are presumed, under certain circumstances, to have an occupational disease the was suffered in the line of duty or course o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10 [Hearing: Mar 9 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1247 | Intro | Providing that certain covered employees who are suffering from the effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 are presumed, under certain circumstances, to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty or course ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09 [Hearing: Mar 2 @ 1:30 pm] To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1199 | Intro | Providing that certain covered employees who are suffering from the effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 are presumed, under certain circumstances, to have an occupational disease the was suffered in the line of duty or course o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09 [Hearing: Mar 2 @ 1:30 pm] To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB717 | Intro | Altering the type of access and the circumstances under which certain access to new employees by exclusive representatives is required to be permitted by the State, a system institution, Morgan State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Ba... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB710 | Intro | Requiring each governing body, or the governing body's designee, of a county or municipality to establish a certain telework program and adopt a certain telework policy and telework guidelines; requiring the State Court Administrator and the Presiden... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1058 | Intro | 8equiring the State Ethics Commission to provide a certain training course to a certain State official; requiring certain State officials to send a copy of a certain disclosure of a certain conflict of interest to the presiding officers of the Genera... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB922 | Intro | Clarifying the eligibility of certain members of the State Retirement and Pension System for certain death benefits when COVID-19 caused or contributed to the death of a member; requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension Sys... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB929 | Intro | Providing that certain vested former members of the Teachers' Pension System of the State Retirement and Pension System who meet certain criteria may commence receipt of a vested allowance while continuing certain employment with certain participatin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB761 | Intro | Requiring the Executive Director of the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to be a sworn police officer with the powers granted to an officer or employee of the Field Enforcement Division; specifying that the Executive Director is a member of the Law Enf... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 9:00 am] To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB348 | Intro | Codifying the establishment of the Office of Security Management within the Department of Information Technology, the position of State Chief Information Security Officer, and the Maryland Cybersecurity Coordinating Council; altering the membership o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-03 Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Pinsky) Adopted |
| MD | SB680 | Intro | Providing that certain vested former members of the Teachers' Pension System of the State Retirement and Pension System who meet certain criteria may commence receipt of a vested allowance while continuing certain employment with certain participatin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-03 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB642 | Intro | Clarifying the eligibility of certain members of the State Retirement and Pension System for certain death benefits when COVID-19 caused or contributed to the death of a member; requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension Sys... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB651 | Intro | Providing for enhanced workers' compensation benefits for a Baltimore County correctional officer and a Baltimore County detention officer for a compensable permanent partial disability of less than 75 weeks; and providing that the Act applies only p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-31 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB334 | Intro | Prohibiting, beginning in fiscal year 2023, the Maryland Transit Administration from purchasing buses for the Administration's State transit bus fleet that are not zero-emission buses; requiring the Administration, on or before January 1, 2022, and e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB673 | Intro | Authorizing the Secretary of Health to authorize an employee of a State facility to work according to an "alternative workweek", which means a work schedule under which a certain employee works atypical shifts and may work less than 40 hours in a wee... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB602 | Intro | Increasing the limits on liability of a local government, from $400,000 for an individual claim and $800,000 for total claims to $600,000 for an individual claim and $1,200,000 for total claims, and the State and its units, from $400,000 to a single ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB497 | Intro | Repealing provisions of law establishing educational programs for juveniles in residential facilities under the State Department of Education; establishing the Juvenile Services Education Board in the Department of Juvenile Services; requiring the Bo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB304 | Intro | Providing that an official of State or local government is immune from criminal and civil liability for refusing to provide information to the federal government or another state for a certain purpose; authorizing the State to indemnify a certain off... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26 [Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:30 pm] To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB592 | Intro | Prohibiting, beginning in fiscal year 2023, a State unit from entering into a contract to purchase or lease a vehicle for the State vehicle fleet that is not a zero-emission electric vehicle. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB521 | Intro | Granting collective bargaining rights to certain graduate students at an institution within the University System of Maryland, Morgan State University, or St. Mary's College of Maryland. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB721 | Intro | Increasing the limits on liability of a local government, from $400,000 for an individual claim and $800,000 for total claims to $600,000 for an individual claim and $1,200,000 for total claims, and the State and its units, from $400,000 to a single ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB85 | Intro | Providing for enhanced workers' compensation benefits for a Baltimore County correctional officer and a Baltimore County detention officer for a compensable permanent partial disability of less than 75 weeks; and providing that the Act applies only p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB542 | Intro | Requiring the Director of the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to appoint a Chief Resilience Officer to be responsible for coordinating State and local efforts to build resilience to risks identified in the Maryland Hazard Mitigation Plan; provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-22 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |