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MDSB502PassAuthorizing the governing body of Allegany County or a municipal corporation in Allegany County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on property that is owned by the Evergreen Herita...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 976
MDHB636PassAuthorizing the governing body of Allegany County or a municipal corporation in Allegany County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on property that is owned by the Evergreen Herita...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 975
MDSB769PassRepealing certain requirements for the amount and duration of a tax credit against the property tax imposed on certain improved real property owned by the Emmitsburg Civic Association and located in a historic district in Frederick County; authorizin...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 966
MDSB966PassAmending certain prior authorizations of State Debt to change the names of certain grantees, alter the authorized uses of certain grants, and extend the termination date of certain grants.
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 722
MDSB448PassEstablishing the Commission to Study African American Civil War Soldiers in Maryland to study the history of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union Army in Maryland and to make findings and recommendations regarding the funding, desig...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 434
MDHB688PassAltering prohibitions on grants from the Maryland Historical Trust; authorizing the Governor beginning in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Trust to be used to...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494
MDSB616PassAltering prohibitions on grants from the Maryland Historical Trust; authorizing the Governor, for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Trust to be used to provide...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 493
MDSB674PassRequiring the owner of a vessel that is required to be numbered to include certain contact information for each owner of the vessel with the application for a certificate of number; requiring the Department of Natural Resources, before and after seiz...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560
MDHB1032PassEstablishing the Tourist Area and Corridor Signage Program to create a system of supplemental guide signs to direct motorists to eligible individual attractions by directing the motorists first to groups of attractions; requiring the State Highway Ad...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 458
MDSB32PassAltering a certain loan program to authorize the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans not exceeding $10,000 for each seasonal full-time job; expanding eligibility for the Maryland Watermen's Micro...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 573
MDHB538PassEstablishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 122
MDSB704PassExpanding eligibility for financial assistance under the Appraisal Gap From Historic Redlining Financial Assistance Program to include individuals who purchase certain qualified property after a qualified project is completed, at an affordable sales ...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 156
MDHB873PassExpanding eligibility for financial assistance under the Appraisal Gap From Historic Redlining Financial Assistance Program to include individuals who purchase certain qualified property after a qualified project is completed, at an affordable sales ...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155
MDHB1386PassRequiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for an antibias training program for school employees; requiring each county board of education to offer training based on the guidelines; requiring each county board, every other yea...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 128
MDSB205PassRequiring that certain appointing officials in making appointments to the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland ensure that one member of the Board is a graduate of a historically Black college or university in the University System o...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 263
MDSB300PassAuthorizing the Department of Natural Resources, with prior approval of the Maryland Historical Trust and after an internal departmental review, to authorize within the Belt Woods Wildland archeological inventories, studies, and research that involve...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 112
MDSB341PassAltering the name of the museum operated by the Commission on African American History and Culture in certain provisions of law from the "Banneker-Douglass Museum" to the "Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum".
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 57
MDHB390PassAltering the name of the museum operated by the Commission on African American History and Culture in certain provisions of law from the "Banneker-Douglass Museum" to the "Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum".
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 58
MDSB762Engross

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Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1058Engross

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Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain fu...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB566Engross

Sine Die
Establishing the Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names to develop and implement a framework to identify real property owned by the State or a political subdivision that bears a Confederate name; and requirin...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1004Engross

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Repealing the time limitation within which the Motor Vehicle Administration is required to make available specially designed vintage reproduction registration plates; and requiring the Administration to charge a fee of $100 for the initial issuance a...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB740Engross

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Repealing certain requirements for the amount and duration of a tax credit against the property tax imposed on certain improved real property owned by the Emmitsburg Civic Association and located in a historic district in Frederick County; authorizin...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB870Intro

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Authorizing the County Commissioners of Washington County to acquire by purchase or condemnation certain property on which a cemetery is located if the acquisition is for certain preservation purposes and ownership of the property cannot be determine...
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2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB836Intro

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Authorizing the County Commissioners of Washington County to acquire by purchase or condemnation certain property on which a cemetery is located if the acquisition is for certain preservation purposes and ownership of the property cannot be determine...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1491Intro

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Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim the second Sunday in September as Prince Hall Day.
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2024-03-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1066Intro

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Altering the uses of the African American Heritage Preservation Grant Fund to include grants to an African American heritage organization to fund the organization's operations and activities; providing that the Grant Fund shall be jointly administere...
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2024-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1070Intro

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Altering the Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority to be the Passages of the Western Potomac Heritage Area Authority; altering and repealing certain duties and powers of the Authority; establishing the Canal Place Preservation and Develo...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB977Intro

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Altering the uses of the African American Heritage Preservation Grant Fund to include grants to an African American heritage organization to fund the organization's operations and activities; providing that the Grant Fund shall be jointly administere...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB160Intro

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Establishing the third week in April as Workplace Readiness Week and requiring county boards of education to establish a specified program of education to be held during Workplace Readiness Week.
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2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB467Intro

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Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim the second Sunday in September as Prince Hall Day.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB484Intro

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Prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of a certain manufactured home in certain residential zoning districts under certain circumstances; prohibiting a local jurisdiction from using an element of an adequate public facil...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB832Intro

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Designating the Natural History Society of Maryland as the State natural history museum.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB219Intro

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Authorizing a utility or local government to remove a tree or shrub on certain private property under certain circumstances, including requiring the utility or local government to provide certain notice to the owner of the property on which the tree ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1295Intro

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Requiring a landlord to provide air-conditioning to certain residential rental units in a certain manner beginning June 1, 2024, for newly constructed residential rental units and beginning October 1, 2024, for residential rental units that undergo r...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1461Intro

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Requiring the owner of a vessel that is required to be numbered to include certain contact information for each owner of the vessel with the application for a certificate of number; requiring the Department of Natural Resources, before and after seiz...
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2024-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB133Engross

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Establishing the Commission to Study African American Civil War Soldiers in Maryland; requiring the Commission to study the history of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union Army; requiring the Commission to make certain recommendatio...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB647Intro

Sine Die
Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fu...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB815Intro

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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% ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1046Intro

Sine Die
Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program to develop and submi...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1184Intro

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Requiring a unit to structure procurement procedures to meet federal procurement standards and to try to achieve or exceed a certain overall percentage goal of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts to be made with historically underu...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1181Intro

Sine Die
Requiring the State Board of Education to develop certain curriculum standards and curriculum resources on or before January 1, 2025; requiring the State Department of Education to revise and enhance certain history and social studies frameworks to i...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1286Intro

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Establishing the Task Force to Propose the Maryland State Song to recommend the adoption of a State song; and requiring the Task Force to report its recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2024.
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1363Intro

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Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content standards for a unit of instruction on Asian American history in public schools in the State; requiring each county board of education to implement the Asian American history curric...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB958Intro

Sine Die
Designating the Natural History Society of Maryland as the State natural history museum.
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2024-02-06
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB1025Intro

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Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program to develop and submi...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB851Intro

Sine Die
Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to develop and administer a program to provide compensatory benefits to the descendants of individuals enslaved in the State; providing that any individual whose ancestors were enslaved in the State is...
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2024-02-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB524Intro

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Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030, an appropriation of $3,400,000 for the maintenance, capital preservation, and operations of the 7 historic ships stewarded by the Living Classroo...
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2024-02-01
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB795Intro

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Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content standards for a high school course on peace and conflict studies; requiring each county board of education to implement a course on peace and conflict studies in each public high sc...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB828Intro

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Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fu...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
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