| MD | SB134 | Pass | Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office for fiscal year 2025 only; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 836 |
| MD | SB182 | Pass | Establishing requirements, procedures, and prohibitions relating to the use of facial recognition technology by a law enforcement agency; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to develop and administer a training progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 808 |
| MD | SB379 | Pass | Extending the Task Force to Study Crime Classification and renaming it to be the Task Force to Study Crime Reclassification and Penalties; requiring the Task Force to study the penalties for crimes and civil offenses under State law, the potential ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 935 |
| MD | SB623 | Pass | Establishing the Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission to develop recommendations relating to education and its impact on the criminal justice system; and requiring the Commission to submit to the Governor and the General Assembly an interim re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 946 |
| MD | SB1000 | Pass | Requiring a person, at least 60 days before closing on an acquisition of a nursing home, to submit a request for acquisition to the Maryland Health Care Commission and provide notice to residents, resident representatives, and employees of the nursin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 816 |
| 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 | SB571 | Pass | Requiring a covered entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment on or before April 1, 2026, under certain circumstances; requiring certain privacy protectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 460 |
| MD | SB669 | Pass | Altering certain reporting requirements for the Attorney General; and requiring the Attorney General to publish certain documents on the Attorney General's website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 |
| MD | SB653 | Pass | Providing certain persons standing in certain environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet certain standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 536 |
| MD | SB760 | Pass | Prohibiting a merchant from selling a certain open- or closed-loop gift card to a consumer unless the merchant meets certain requirements; requiring a certain merchant to provide training to all employees of the merchant on identifying and responding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 463 |
| MD | SB793 | Pass | Clarifying that a county is responsible for a certain tort claim against a sheriff or deputy sheriff under the Maryland Tort Claims Act; clarifying that, for certain tort claims against a sheriff or deputy sheriff, the State is the proper defendant; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 610 |
| MD | SB539 | Pass | Requiring the listing for a ticket and each step of a transaction to purchase a ticket to disclose certain information, including the total price of the ticket; repealing the exceptions to the prohibition against a reseller selling or offering to sel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 456 |
| 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 | SB680 | Pass | Requiring the judge or jury in certain actions to make a certain determination and assign responsibility and liability in a certain manner; authorizing the State to continue to pursue certain actions if it does not obtain complete relief from certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 137 |
| MD | SB1033 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, on request of a local juridiction and in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to provide guidance for the implementation and enforcement of the Maryland Building Performance Standards in re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 205 |
| MD | SB1103 | Pass | Altering the required contents of the written notice regarding outpatient facility fees; requiring the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, in consultation with certain entities, to study and make recommendations regarding hospital outpat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 142 |
| MD | SB268 | Pass | Altering the enforcement and after-the-fact application approval procedures required as minimum elements of a local jurisdiction's Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area Program to apply to all critical area violations; repealing the 30-d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 80 |
| MD | SB1188 | Pass | Establishing the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program and the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund to provide tuition assistance to a student who was a dependent or is the surviving spouse of a fallen transportation worker; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3 |
| MD | SB858 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; and altering the prohibition against revenge porn to prohibit a person from knowingly distributing a computer-generated visual representation that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (134-0) |
| MD | SB949 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB986 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a 340B manufacturer from taking certain direct or indirect actions to limit or restrict the acquisition or delivery of a 340B drug; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice within the meaning of the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB488 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to harm to the public through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure, a bridge or highway owned, controlled, or maintained by the State or a county or municipality, necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB624 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Public Information Act Requests Made to Law Enforcement to review costs charged and procedures applied by law enforcement agencies in relation to the disclosure of records requested under the Maryland Public Infor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1022 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | SB827 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying the purpose of jury examination in any State court is to identify and remove prospective jurors who are unable to serve fairly and impartially and to allow the parties to obtain information that may provide guidance for the use of perempto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB494 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | SB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or approval for the construction of a certain gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB501 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of State Police to annually publish, beginning October 1, 2024, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, a handbook summarizing the State laws relating to wearing, carrying, and transporting a handgun in public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | 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; authorizing the Attorney General to request a court t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB926 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Attorney General to give notice to State agencies and the public when a court orders that the State may not require a person to possess a specified permit, license, or certificate; and requiring State agencies to reimburse issuance and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county or an Equitable Community Investment Council to designate an area that meets certain criteria as a Community Reinvestment Impact District, subject to certain requirements; and requiring that a district shall receive at least 20% ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB987 | 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] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting local governments from denying or impairing the right of a protected class member to vote; establishing requirements on the State Board of Elections and local governments related to the provision of language-related assistance in local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB889 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the 1-year statute of limitations for a civil enforcement action brought by the Attorney General for a fine, penalty, or forfeiture and repealing the 4-year statute of limitations for a civil enforcement action brought by the Attorney Gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB899 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB834 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Scam Awareness Pilot Program in the Division of Consumer Protection of the Office of the Attorney General to identify common scamming methods used against individuals in the State and to develop and disseminate certain consumer safet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Wiretap and Electronic Surveillance Reform Workgroup to study the effectiveness of Maryland's wiretapping and electronic surveillance laws, examine current technologies, and examine ways to make certain audio and visual reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments in certain low-income communities; requiring the Corporation to apply for an allocation of federal new markets tax credits; expanding the eligible u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB602 | Intro
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; establishing procedures for the au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; providing that the Fund includes all revenue received by the State from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB392 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, acquiring, leasing, or holding any property interest in agricultural land in the State; and requiring the Attorney General to enforce the Act in a certain manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership and duties of the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission; providing that a law enforcement agency may employ an individual as a police officer for a certain period only if the individual is certified or provisionall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting employers from taking or threatening to take adverse action against an employee because the employee takes certain actions regarding rights and responsibilities, complaints, investigations, proceedings, or hearings under certain provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
