| MD | HB431 | Pass | Prohibiting a consumer contract from setting a shorter time to bring an action under or on the consumer contract than required by the law of the State; excluding certain entities from the application of this Act; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 194 |
| MD | HB438 | Pass | Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 101 |
| MD | SB360 | Pass | Defining the term "visual representation" as it relates to the crime of revenge porn to be an unaltered image of the person or an image created with or without using other existing depictions of the person that is indistinguishable from the person, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 219 |
| MD | SB581 | Pass | Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 100 |
| MD | HB1378 | Pass | Altering certain provisions relating to the award of noneconomic damages to a claimant in an action for child sexual abuse; altering certain provisions relating to the liability of the State under the Maryland Tort Claims Act and of a local governmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 104 |
| MD | HB1020 | Pass | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from furnishing any consumer report containing certain adverse information relating to a consumer's medical debt, or any collection action against a consumer for medical debt, or maintain a file on a consumer r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 121 |
| MD | SB250 | Enroll
75% | Altering the authorized uses of the Maryland Clean Air Fund to include certain activities relating to mitigating and reducing air pollution in the State; authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB497 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from using certain restraints unless there is a substantial likelihood of imminent serious physical harm to a child or others; prohibiting transportation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB400 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from using certain restraints unless there is a substantial likelihood of imminent serious physical harm to a child or others; prohibiting transportation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB504 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing local governing bodies to exceed certain tax and revenue limitations for a certain purpose; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB655 | Enroll
75% | Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB860 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; authorizing the State or a local government to bring a civ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB979 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain accommodations intermediaries to collect and remit the hotel rental tax to the Comptroller rather than to each county; providing for the administration of the hotel rental tax by the Comptroller; providing that certain provisions of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1076 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a landlord to provide a tenant with certain written notice in a certain manner at least 24 hours in advance of when the landlord intends to enter a leased premises, except in the event of a certain emergency; and authorizing the court to is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1293 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Neighborhood Services Unit within the Office of the Sheriff of Baltimore City; requiring the Neighborhood Services Unit and the Board of License Commissioners of Baltimore City to work in partnership to enforce the alcoholic beverage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB503 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to periodically establish housing production targets for the State and certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish housing production targets on its website and notify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB604 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of the individual with the intent to deprive the individual of the individual's property if the ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB966 | Engross
50% | Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB349 | Enroll
75% | Increasing the maximum civil penalties for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems on Maryland Route 210 (Piscataway Highway) in Prince George's County that involve exceeding the maximum speed limit by certain amounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB429 | Engross
50% | Altering the definitions of "target per pupil foundation amount", "collaborative time per pupil amount", "compensatory education per pupil amount", "English learner per pupil amount", "special education per pupil amount", "growth in the target per pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB761 | Enroll
75% | Making certain virtual currency subject to the abandoned property laws in the State; establishing certain provisions to determine certain information about certain apparent owners of abandoned property; altering and establishing certain provisions pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB665 | Enroll
75% | Making certain virtual currency subject to the abandoned property laws in the State; establishing certain provisions to determine certain information about certain apparent owners of abandoned property; altering and establishing certain provisions pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB268 | Enroll
75% | Altering provisions of law related to a hospital's financial assistance and collection of debts policies; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB485 | Engross
50% | Increasing civil penalties for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems on Maryland Route 210 (Piscataway Highway) in Prince George's County that involve exceeding the maximum speed limit by certain amounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB335 | Engross
50% | Altering the definitions of "community association" and "local code violation" to authorize community associations to seek judicial relief for nuisance abatement in Baltimore County; requiring certain notices relating to nuisance actions to be provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB447 | Engross
50% | Requiring a hospital to conduct screening on a patient presenting at an emergency department of the hospital to determine whether the patient has an emergency pregnancy-related medical condition; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB188 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB303 | Engross
50% | Creating the State Board of Common Ownership Community Managers in the Maryland Department of Labor to oversee the licensing of community managers who provide management services for common ownership communities; providing that certain provisions of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB466 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully exerting unauthorized control over and obtaining the property of the individual with intent to deprive the individual of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB756 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a party to the guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person to request a stay of certain civil actions or proceedings on the filing of a petition for guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person; requiring a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB915 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county and municipal automated traffic enforcement program to submit to the Vision Zero coordinator a quarterly report containing certain information regarding each citation issued under the program during the quarter to a motor vehicl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1239 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt certain regulations related to affirmatively furthering fair housing; providing that certain discriminatory housing practices may be committed without intent; prohibiting a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB219 | Engross
50% | Establishing a certain process for bringing vehicles owned by State residents that are improperly registered in another state into compliance with the Maryland Vehicle Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB591 | Engross
50% | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Engross
50% | Requiring a landlord to provide certain information to prospective tenants about fees imposed on tenants and prohibiting a landlord from imposing a mandatory fee that was not disclosed; applying the Act to a lease signed or renewed on or after Octobe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB992 | Engross
50% | Altering the period of time within which the Securities Commissioner in the Office of the Attorney General may exercise a power under certain provisions of law governing the sale of franchises; altering the period of time within which an action for l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB164 | Engross
50% | Requiring a certain hearing to be held not more than 14 calendar days after a certain complaint is filed; and altering requirements relating to service of process in a wrongful detainer action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1021 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting certain owners of a cemetery from selling or transferring the cemetery without the approval of the Director of the Office of Cemetery Oversight; exempting certain religious organizations from the requirement to obtain an approval from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB409 | Engross
50% | Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority and resol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB95 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a health care provider from using the health care provider's reproductive material when providing assistive reproductive treatment without the consent of the recipient of the treatment; prohibiting a health care provider from using a dono...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1394 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain nonprofit organizations from aiding or abetting certain activity by the government of Israel or a citizen of Israel; authorizing the Attorney General or a certain person to bring a certain action against a nonprofit organization t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB948 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, in consultation with certain individuals, to develop and implement a certain policy to promote parental involvement in students' education; and establishing a complaint and appeals process for violations of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1112 | Intro
25% | Altering the time limits for bringing an action for wrongful death or personal injury concerning exposure of a person to PFAS chemicals; and prohibiting a person, on or after July 1, 2026, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in the State a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1099 | Intro
25% | Providing that punitive damages may be awarded in a civil action only if the plaintiff proves by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant acted with gross negligence; requiring the State Court Administrator to assess a certain surcharge on a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB990 | Intro
25% | Requiring, to make a claim under a warranty for certain agricultural equipment, a consumer to provide written notice to a certain parties to report a nonconformity, defect, or condition occurring in certain agricultural equipment; requiring certain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1025 | Intro
25% | Establishing that each individual and a certain right holder have the right to authorize the use of the voice or visual likeness of the individual in a digital replica; providing that the right does not expire on the death of the individual and is tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB786 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from depriving an individual in a private detention facility of any right, privilege, or immunity secured or protected by the United States Constitution, the Maryland Constitution, the Maryland Declaration of Rights, or any state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1030 | Intro
25% | Altering the definitions of "transportation network company" and "transportation network operator" for purposes of provisions of law regarding transportation network companies; requiring a transportation network company to maintain a deactivation pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1158 | Intro
25% | Authorizing persons who suffer injury or loss to bring an action against a firearm industry member for certain unlawful or unreasonable conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1425 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from utilizing certain personal identifying information or engaging in certain conduct in order to cause certain harm; prohibiting a person from using certain artificial intelligence or certain deepfake representations for certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
