| MD | SB655 | 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] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB828 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State government that operate at certain sensitive locations from allowing certain federal personnel to access certain areas, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the Attorney General to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB298 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to collect certain data regarding the parental status of students from each public institution of higher education in the State using questions developed by the Commission and the institutions; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB456 | Engross
50% | Altering the eligibility criteria for Higher Education Loan Assistance Grants under the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time employment; and requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to submit a report, by December 1, 2025, to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB658 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Secretary of Higher Education and the State Superintendent of Schools to select a designee to serve on the Juvenile Services Education Board; altering the terms of membership for the Board; and altering certain requirements for meetin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB762 | Engross
50% | Repealing certain provisions of law establishing certain goals of the State regarding postsecondary degree or certificate attainment; and requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to set certain goals for the State for certain higher educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB799 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Innovation Initiative University Partnership Extension Program to expand opportunities for technology validation, entrepreneurial development, and industry engagement at eligible universities; establishing eligibility criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB920 | Engross
50% | Requiring institutions of postsecondary education to submit a report on institutional debt to the Maryland Higher Education Commission by October 1 each year, beginning in 2026; authorizing the Commission to assess a civil penalty, up to $10,000 per ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1021 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting the State Commission of Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Management Companies, and Home Inspectors from requiring an applicant to hold a bachelor's degree or higher to qualify for certification or licensure as a real estate appraiser.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1131 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Buprenorphine Training Grant Program to assist counties with offsetting the cost of training paramedics to administer buprenorphine; including the Program as an authorized use of funding from the Opioid Restitution Fund; requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1138 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Secretary of Higher Education to allow certain private career schools to advertise certain information and collect contact information from potential new students before receiving a certificate of approval from the Maryland Higher Edu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1090 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to provide food supplement benefits to students enrolled in an institution of higher education in the State who meet certain work study requirements; and requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1352 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from denying access or services to a student based on the student's diagnosis of sickle cell disease; requiring an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations for students with s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1303 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Education to set minimal experiential standards as qualifications for child care teachers that require a child care teacher to hold a high school diploma or equivalent, have successfully completed certain courses for cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1474 | Engross
50% | Authorizing an out-of-state licensed professional counselor to provide clinical professional counseling services to nonresident students enrolled in an institution of higher education in the State under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB42 | Engross
50% | Establishing, beginning July 1, 2027, the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling, compost use, wasted food preve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB258 | Engross
50% | Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority, subject to certain limitations; requiring the Authority to take certain actions regarding the finances of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB276 | Engross
50% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing education to apply to all uniformed services, rather than o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB338 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a conta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB318 | Engross
50% | Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for not less than 5 years, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB506 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the defin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB600 | Engross
50% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing education to apply to all uniformed services, rather than o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB819 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Maryland Stadium Authority, Morgan State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Baltimore City Community College to establish a certain preference program for certain procurements; authorizing a certain price preference for b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB840 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain public senior higher education institutions to adopt a plan regarding pregnant and parenting students to include referral to on-campus or off-campus services to assist regarding the availability of or eligibility for certain governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB774 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to designate certain private institutions of higher education as hunger-free campuses; prohibiting certain private institutions of higher education from being eligible to receive grant funding under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB809 | Engross
50% | Authorizing an individual enrolled in an accredited institution of higher education or a residential vocational training program to return to an out-of-home placement provider with whom the individual was previously placed under certain circumstances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB855 | Engross
50% | Altering the membership of the Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network; and extending the workgroup to June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB750 | Engross
50% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for faculty and contingent, contractual, or temporary faculty; and authorizing the bargaini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1521 | Engross
50% | Repealing certain examination requirements for bachelor and master social worker licenses; requiring an applicant for licensure as a certified social worker or certified social worker-clinical to pass an examination prescribed by the State Board of S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB9 | Engross
50% | Altering certain definitions related to the Food Resiliency Council; defining what constitutes "healthy food priority areas" as predominantly lower-income areas that have limited access to retail outlets that sell, affordable, healthy foods; defining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB439 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "high impact economic development activity" to exclude cost savings related to the reduction in the number of University System of Maryland employees; requiring the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB765 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to adopt regulations setting the maximum number of children that may be placed with an out-of-home placement provider; and establishing an exemption from the limitation on the number of children that may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB789 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to designate certain private institutions of higher education as hunger-free campuses; prohibiting a 4-year or 2-year private institution of higher education or a regional higher education center ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB813 | Engross
50% | Adding two members to the Board of Community College Trustees for Howard County; requiring each meeting of the Board to allow for public comment; requiring the Board to make a video or audio recording of its meetings which are to be made available on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB980 | Engross
50% | Expanding the eligibility for the Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program to an applicant who is or was eligible for the Chapter 35 Survivors' Dependents Educational Assistance benefit as determined by the U.S. Department of Veteran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB795 | Engross
50% | Establishing requirements related to the certification of employment by public service employers under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, including requirements regarding determinations of whether employees are full-time; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB629 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Appellate Court of Maryland, in conjunction with the administrations of secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State, to hold sessions at secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB159 | Engross
50% | Altering the collective bargaining process for certain State employees, including by requiring the selection of a neutral arbitrator to oversee all aspects of collective bargaining, establishing a process of arbitration in the event of impasse, and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB379 | Intro
25% | Extending the termination date for the Workgroup on Social Worker Requirements for Licensure to June 30, 2027; altering the duties of the Workgroup to include an examination of alterations made to the examination developed by the Association of Socia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Beidle) Adopted |
| MD | HB458 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill, beginning in fiscal year 2027, an appropriation of $350,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park Campus TerpsEXCEED (EXperiencing College through Education and Employment Discovery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB504 | Engross
50% | Altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; authorizing the Department to establish a national teacher recruitment campaign; establishing the Academic Exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB643 | Engross
50% | Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for not less than 5 years or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1528 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Student Athlete Name, Image, and Likeness Programs in Maryland; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations on how the House v. NCAA case settlement may affect certain revenue sharing programs at un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB269 | Engross
50% | Altering the number of years that a recipient of an award under the Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program may hold the award under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB609 | Engross
50% | Exempting certain applicants for a senatorial scholarship from certain examination requirements; and authorizing certain uses of senatorial and Delegate scholarships for applicants who plan to complete the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB511 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain public senior higher education institutions to adopt a plan regarding pregnant and parenting students to include referral to on-campus or off-campus services to assist regarding the availability of or eligibility for certain governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB704 | Engross
50% | Expanding eligibility under the Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program to include certain students attending the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB597 | Engross
50% | Expanding eligibility under the Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program to include certain students attending the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB753 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Comptroller to conduct a study and report to the Governor and General Assembly on or before June 1, 2026, on the feasibility of a State baby bond account program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB912 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, certain institutions of higher education to provide instructors with certain training on institutional obligations toward students with disabilities under certain federal laws; and requiring the Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
