| MD | HB693 | Pass | Establishing the Office of Tenant and Landlord Affairs in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide certain educational resources and information to tenants; requiring the Office to develop and publish a Maryland Tenants' Bill of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 124 |
| MD | HB609 | Pass | Authorizing employees of public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engage in goo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 132 |
| MD | HB723 | Pass | Authorizing the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief on behalf of the State on the basis of an imminent or ongoing violation of certain rights of residents of certain health care facilities; requiring that the resident bill of rights for assist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 141 |
| MD | HB785 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 129 |
| MD | HB834 | Pass | Requiring that the conflict of interest provisions enacted by Calvert County include certain provisions relating to judicial relief for certain violations of the county's conflict of interest provisions; requiring the ethics provisions enacted by Cal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 370 |
| MD | HB1086 | Pass | Altering certain benefits that a certain individual who has been erroneously convicted of a crime is entitled to receive; requiring the State to notify a certain individual of certain information in writing under certain circumstances when the State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 138 |
| MD | HB1074 | Pass | Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 234 |
| MD | HB1047 | Pass | Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 262 |
| MD | HB1230 | Pass | Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, exposing for sale, or advertising for sale a tianeptine product to an individual; and establishing a penalty for a retailer who violates the Act of a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up to 90...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 249 |
| MD | HB1308 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from recording a deed or other instrument that the person knows contains false information; establishing a 3-year limitation on when a prosecution for a violation of the Act may be commenced; establishing a fine not to exceed $50...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 369 |
| MD | HB385 | Pass | Requiring that a notice containing certain information provided to an employee at the time of hiring be written; requiring that the statement regarding earnings required to be provided to employees by employers be written on the physical pay stub or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 306 |
| MD | HB67 | Pass | Altering the maximum civil penalty to which an unauthorized insurer or person that violates certain provisions of State insurance law is subject for each violation; and altering the maximum civil penalty that the Maryland Insurance Commissioner may i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 119 |
| MD | HB244 | Pass | Altering certain civil penalties for violations of the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to annually increase the maximum and minimum civil penalties, beginning in 2025, by the percentag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 104 |
| MD | HB513 | Pass | Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that a system operator does not need to be pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17 |
| MD | HB585 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 21 |
| MD | HB346 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of a v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Carter) Adopted |
| MD | HB896 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a merchant from selling a certain open- or closed-loop gift card to a consumer unless the merchant meets certain requirements; requiring a merchant to provide to the employees of the merchant training on identification of gift card fraud;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Kramer, Hayes and Mautz) |
| MD | HB1180 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 the products are located behind a counter; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB948 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB614 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB770 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the time period within which a court may prohibit a person convicted under certain circumstances of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol from operating a vessel on the waters of the State; requiring the Department of Natur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB667 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB633 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a barbershop and beauty salon beer and wine license in Harford County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue the license to the holder of certain business permits; requiring the holder of the license ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to remove abandoned or sunken recreational vessels secured to certain apparatuses or left anchored and unattended for more than 60 days under certain circumstances; and requiring the Department to consi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB245 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site sewage disposal permits and individual well construction permits under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to establish by regulation a fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting an entity owned, operated, or controlled by the government of certain countries subject to an embargo under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations from participating in any procurement with the State, a local government in the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1319 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB972 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying and harmonizing certain provisions of law governing off-highway recreational vehicles and other similar off-highway motor vehicles; repealing the exception for certain off-highway recreational vehicles to the requirement to obtain a motor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from knowingly recruiting, harboring, transporting, or obtaining an individual for the purpose of appropriating the government benefits of an individual for the benefit of the person or another through deception, coercion, exploi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain businesses that use a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose to whom the tip will be allocated and display a tip amount that is set at zero by default; and establishing that a violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB730 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop an instructive program on the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction for public middle school students in the State that shall aim to teach students in grades 6 through 8 about the coll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB73 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; and requiring a court to determine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB175 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a predetermination review process for occupational licenses and certificates in certain departments of State government; authorizing a department to charge a criminal history review fee of not more than $100 or to waive the fee under cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB288 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual located in a residence or place of private use or accommodation without the consent of the individual; altering the penalties for the crime of visual surve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB321 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB750 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from obscuring or modifying a vehicle registration plate in a manner that may prevent identification; and authorizing a police office to enforce the Act only as a secondary action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB916 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "hotel" for purposes of the hotel rental tax in Garrett County to include a transient vacation rental unit and exclude certain facilities; altering the definition of "transient charge" for purposes of the county hotel renta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1001 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a custodian of recorded images produced by certain automated enforcement systems to deny inspection of the images; prohibiting certain State and local agencies from using a recorded image or associated data from an automated enforcement sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1161 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Dorchester County Council to, by public local law, abolish the Dorchester County Sanitary Commission, establish a department of public facilities and services, and provide for the department's abilities and functions, subject to certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish a clinical staffing committee by January 1, 2025; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan by July 1, 2025; requiring that an administrator of a hosp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1310 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore City Coordinated Youth Violence Review and Response Team to examine and prevent violence against youth through intensive case management; requiring that the review team be provided with access to certain information and rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1270 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that the calculation of an enrollee's contribution to a cost sharing requirement for a prescription drug be based on the list price of the drug reduced by at least 85% of the total amount of rebates received or expected to be received by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual from committing or threatening certain actions, including certain actions related to sex trafficking, with the intent of coercing a pregnant woman to have an abortion; providing that a pregnant minor is considered an emancip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a qualified provider from performing or inducing an abortion on a pregnant woman within a certain period of time after the woman receives certain ultrasound imaging; establishing certain requirements related to the performance of a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB274 | Engross
Sine Die | Reclassifying, as a misdemeanor instead of a felony, a certain offense relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing any wire, oral, or electronic communications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1406 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposing assessments of 12 points for certain subsequent drunk and drugged driving violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB249 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a certain DNA sample to be collected in a certain manner from an individual who is required to register as a sex offender; requiring a DNA sample to be collected by a certain individual or at a certain location under certain circumstances; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB853 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a prohibition concerning the maximum penalty for the late payment of rent that a landlord may charge in a residential lease to prohibit a penalty in excess of 5% of the amount of the unpaid rent rather than of the amount due.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1033 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
