| MD | HB419 | Intro | Altering references to the term "clean energy" to be "advanced clean energy" for purposes of certain provisions of law concerning the Maryland Clean Energy Center and the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute; altering certain findings of the General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB549 | Intro | Requiring a certain person to attach a copy of an order of the court establishing parentage to a certificate of birth under certain circumstances; requiring, for a birth involving a gestational carrier in which parentage is determined by a certain co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB605 | Intro | Requiring that the behavioral health services for which the Maryland Department of Health provides service coordination for veterans under certain provisions of law include mental health first aid; requiring that mental health first aid consist of tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| 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 | HB1361 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Information Technology to issue a request for proposals for or make a certain determination on the implementation and ongoing maintenance of cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure to be used by each unit of State gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1362 | Intro | Altering the State's renewable energy portfolio standard to be the clean and renewable energy standard; altering certain legislative findings regarding and purposes of the standard; requiring certain percentages of certain energy in the State to be d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB38 | Engross | Requiring the Secretary of Information Technology, in consultation with the Attorney General, to advise and oversee a consistent cybersecurity strategy for units of State government, including institutions under the control of the governing boards of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB599 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before April 1, 2022, to develop and publish materials to assist State residents with long-term care family planning; requiring certain materials to meet certain requirements, be consistent with cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB449 | Intro | Requiring each official custodian to adopt a policy of proactive disclosure of public records; requiring each official custodian to publish by July 1 each year a report on a certain website on the requests received in the preceding year for inspectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB631 | Intro | Recognizing the importance and certain benefits of a statewide integrated telephone system for nonemergency information, services, and referral to State or local agencies, programs, and departments; specifying the purposes of certain provisions of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB637 | Intro | Requiring the Community Development Administration in the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer a home buyer assistance program that assists current students and recent graduates of public institutions of higher education to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| 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 | SB922 | Intro | Authorizing the Office of Legislative Audits to compel by subpoena or otherwise certain records and the appearance of a person under oath as a witness; authorizing the Office to coordinate an investigation with certain law enforcement units; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1349 | Intro | Renaming the Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Coordination Services Grant Program Fund to be the Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Grant Program Fund; altering the purpose of the Fund to include making grants to federally qualified health centers, h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB830 | Intro | Prohibiting the Community Development Administration from requiring the use of long-term tax-exempt bonds to qualify for Rental Housing Works loans or otherwise conditioning the award of financial assistance under an affordable housing program admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-22
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB244 | Engross | Altering the Maryland Funding Accountability and Transparency Act to require the Department of Information Technology to include in a searchable website payments made by units of State government that receive funds that are not appropriated in the an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB184 | Engross | Altering the application of the Maryland Transit Administration's reduced fare program for opioid treatment program patients by prohibiting participation by a treatment program that was subject to a license suspension or revocation, approval of a set...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB924 | Intro | Requiring a certain owner of a mobile home park to provide written notice of any increase in the annual rent for a site to a certain resident, a certain homeowners association, and the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney Gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB738 | Intro | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for certain qualified expenses paid or incurred by a taxpayer for the installation of certain mechanical insulation in a certain manner on a certain property and for which the taxpayer obtains a tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB777 | Intro | Renaming the Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Coordination Services Grant Program Fund to be the Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Grant Program Fund; altering the purpose of the Fund to include making grants to federally qualified health centers, h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB843 | Intro | Prohibiting the Board of Public Works from approving a public-private partnership agreement for the I-495 and I-270 Public-Private Partnership Program unless the agreement includes that at least 10% of the toll revenue remaining after construction co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB734 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Information Technology to issue certain standards and guidelines for units of State government for the appropriate use and management of certain Internet of Things devices under certain circumstances; requiring the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB130 | Engross | Establishing the Commission on LGBTQ Affairs in the Governor's Office of Community Initiatives; providing for the appointment, qualifications, terms, and removal of Commission members; requiring the Commission to elect annually a chair and vice chair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB150 | Intro | Prohibiting a member of the House of Delegates from sponsoring more than 12 bills in a legislative session; authorizing a member of the House to introduce up to 3 bills in excess of a certain limit under certain circumstances; and providing for the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HJ1 | Intro | Opposing certain inspection rules promulgated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that have drastically impeded the harvest and sale of blue catfish and thus rendered the State unable to adequately use the commercial harvest as a form of control ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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 | SB361 | Intro | Establishing the Public-Private Partnership Oversight Review Board; requiring a certain reporting agency to include in presolicitation reports for public-private partnerships with a total value that exceeds $500,000,000 presolicitation reports of cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB322 | Engross | Prohibiting a certain restriction on use from imposing unreasonable limitations on low-impact landscaping such as rain gardens, pollinator gardens, and xeriscaping; requiring the property owner to regularly maintain landscaping; providing that "unrea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB392 | Engross | Requiring the State Department of Education, by January 1, 2022, to establish guidelines for early childhood developmental screenings for children under the age of 3 years to be used by certain family child care homes or child care centers to assess ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB649 | Intro | Requiring the Secretary of General Services, in consultation with the Chief Procurement Officer in the Department of General Services, to appoint an MBE Program Compliance Officer in the Office of State Procurement to ensure compliance by certain pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs 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 | SB689 | Intro | Expanding the duties of the Special Secretary for the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to include establishing a mentorship program, conducting a feasibility study for creating a technical assistance program to provide support to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB251 | Engross | Altering the Maryland Funding Accountability and Transparency Act to require the Department of Information Technology to include in a searchable website payments made by units of State government that receive funds that are not appropriated in the an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1076 | Intro | Requiring the Inspector General in the Maryland Department of Health to review certain information on a certain basis; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to enter into data-sharing agreements with the Division of Vital Records and the Maryla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1092 | Intro | Requiring a unit's procurement officer to obtain approval from the Chief Procurement Officer or the Chief Procurement Officer's designee before making an emergency procurement under certain circumstances; altering the process for reporting the award ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Appropriations 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 | HB1310 | Intro | Requiring the Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities to develop certain policies and recommendations to place certain priorities in certain years for directing certain spending on clean energy and energy efficiency programs, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB496 | Pass | Providing certain financing during fiscal years 2021 and 2022 for the purpose of relieving the adverse effects of the coronavirus pandemic; allowing, for certain taxable years, a subtraction under the Maryland income tax for certain unemployment insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 39 |
| MD | HB119 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in partnership with the Department of Aging, the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Council, and the Greater Maryland Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, to incorporate informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB285 | Intro | Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to conduct a study of the participation of minority-owned businesses in the alcoholic beverages industry in the State; providing for the inclusion of certain issues in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB346 | Engross | Repealing the requirement that the Motor Vehicle Administration, under certain circumstances, suspend the registration of a motor vehicle that incurs a certain toll violation; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB321 | Engross | Requiring, except under certain circumstances, that changing facilities suitable for changing the diaper of a child and providing personal care for an adult be installed in certain public restrooms in certain public buildings by October 1, 2022; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB722 | Intro | Requiring a certain certification agency, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to contract with an independent consultant to conduct a review of the "Business Disparities in the Maryland Market Area" study completed on February 8,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB797 | Intro | Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to establish certain guidelines for the administration of the Small Business Reserve Program; requiring that certain guidelines for the Program be developed in partnership...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations 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 | HB879 | Intro | Establishing the Cybersecurity Coordination and Operations Office within the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) to help improve statewide cybersecurity readiness and response; requiring the Director of MEMA to appoint an Executive Director a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB920 | Intro | Excluding the administration of certain personnel matters from the definition of "administrative function" as it relates to the Open Meetings Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB721 | Intro | Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to establish certain guidelines for the administration of the Small Business Reserve Program; requiring that certain guidelines for the Program be developed in partnership...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB780 | Intro | Requiring the Governor or the head of a certain unit to provide certain notice to the Legislative Policy Committee within 72 hours after the earlier of the execution of the contract or the expenditure of the funds when authorizing a certain emergency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
