| MD | SB217 | Pass | Conforming provisions of State health insurance law with existing federal requirements, including by updating effective dates for federal regulations, clarifying federal consumer protection regulations resulting from changes to the federal No Surpris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 118 |
| MD | SB952 | Enroll
75% | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the maintenance and provision of certain agreements and documents;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB231 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a public adjuster, or anyone acting on behalf of a public adjuster, from soliciting or attempting to solicit a client during the progress of a loss-producing occurrence or between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.; requiring a public a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Fraser-Hidalgo, Qi and Wilson) |
| MD | SB1 | Enroll
75% | 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 or gas supply agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB46 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the unenforceability of contracts for the sale of condominium units that do not contain a statement by the vendor or the unit owner as to whether the vendor or owner has knowledge of the presence of asbestos in the condominium, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB445 | Engross
50% | Defining the term "Health and Human Services Referral System" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the System to mean a certain coordinated system for health and human service resources that is accessible to State residents, rather...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB539 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB570 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB680 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB760 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB949 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB951 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework and recommendations to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Economic Matters Committee on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB783 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that certain home improvement contracts for the installation of a solar energy generating system on the roof of a building include the installation of a certain wildlife barrier under certain circumstances; altering the maximum generating c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB541 | Enroll
75% | Regulating the manner in which a controller or a processor in possession of a consumer's personal data may process the consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB571 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a certain entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment by April 1, 2026; requiring a certain entity to maintain documentation of certain risks asso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB986 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB125 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a contract for the sale of residential real property to contain certain buyer notice relating to Internet resources for locating hazardous waste sites identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; establishing that a buyer of resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB362 | Enroll
75% | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB723 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to test a representative sample of each production aggregate of baby food for toxic heavy metals; requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, manufacturers of baby food to make certain inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB41 | Enroll
75% | Altering the items of information that a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from including in a consumer credit report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB839 | Enroll
75% | Defining "damages" or "losses" in statutory causes of action to protect civil rights or consumer rights and providing that "damages" or "losses" includes reasonable nominal damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB959 | Enroll
75% | Requiring an investor-owned electric company to file certain time-of-use tariffs with the Public Service Commission by July 1, 2025; requiring an investor-owned electric company to attempt to achieve a reasonable enrollment target for the tariffs by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1111 | Intro
25% | Establishing the statute of limitations for a certain civil action for damages resulting from certain participation in a criminal organization; altering certain definitions of "criminal organization" and "underlying crime"; authorizing the filing of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB416 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Customer-Sited Solar Program in the Maryland Energy Administration for the purpose of increasing deployment of customer-sited solar energy generating systems and providing grants to eligible customer-generators; authorizing a third p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB1104 | Intro
25% | Requiring out-of-network health care facilities to provide certain information to a consumer and obtain certain consent before providing a health care service; requiring that certain out-of-network status information be provided in a certain consent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB918 | Intro
25% | Changing the name of the Retail Choice Customer Education and Protection Fund to the Education and Protection Fund; and modifying the purpose and uses of the Fund to include educating certain customers on certain energy choices and developing a certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB227 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a carrier from canceling an individual health benefit plan if a policyholder has made a premium payment before the end of the grace period, the amount of the premium payment made is less than the aggregate amount of the net monthly premiu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB642 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB911 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from offering for sale in the State a gene structure- or function-modifying product unless the product is labeled in a prominent and conspicuous manner with the words "Gene structure- or function-modifying product" and all potent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB955 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Technology Advisory Commission to study and make recommendations on technology and science developments and use in the State; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $100,000 for the Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1136 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in the State food that contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye 3.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1137 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a list of diet pills, make the list publicly accessible on or before January 1, 2025, and update the list on a quarterly basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB710 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a certain water utility to temporarily shut off service for reasons of health or safety or in a State or national emergency, notwithstanding certain provisions of law; prohibiting a water utility from shutting off service for certain reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB780 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from selling an Internet-connected device that is intended for minors unless the device is sold with a certain filter, certain privacy settings, and other features; making a violation of the prohibition an unfair, abusive, or dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB834 | Intro
25% | 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 | SB1040 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person who makes an automatic renewal offer to consumers to allow a consumer to cancel the automatic renewal in a certain manner; requiring automatic renewal offers to be displayed in a certain manner and contain certain information; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB998 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain provider of earned wage access services to register with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring a provider to file a certain surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Commissioner in a certain manner; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB930 | Intro
25% | Exempting consumer wire transaction from certain provisions of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code; limiting liability for damages resulting from consumer wire transfers; defining sufficient notice; requiring investigations; requiring decisions and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB350 | Intro
25% | Requiring recreational vehicle dealers to hold a dealer agreement with a manufacturer to sell the manufacturer's recreational vehicles in the State; and altering the required terms and conditions of a recreational dealer agreement, including terms an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1113 | Intro
25% | Requiring an operator, a primary ticket seller, or a ticket resale marketplace for an entertainment event to grant a ticket purchaser a refund for the purchase of a ticket under certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from engaging in certain pra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB572 | Intro
25% | Requiring a water utility operating in the State to post on its website or provide to the Department of the Environment documents, data, and information required as part of the water utility's annual water quality consumer confidence report; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB388 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $1,000,000 for the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund which provides funding for the Board; and requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB520 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a retail business from charging a consumer a certain surcharge in excess of the amount required to reimburse the retail business for the cost of processing certain credit or debit transactions; and making a violation of this Act an unfair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB447 | Intro
25% | Establishing a bill of rights for unit owners of a condominium, members of a cooperative housing corporation, and lot owners of a homeowners association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB24 | Intro
25% | Requiring, before the completion of certain retail sales transactions, that merchants provide to consumers notice of the merchants' refund and exchange policies or policies of no refunds or exchanges by conspicuously displaying a certain notice; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB193 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
