| MD | HB2 | Intro | Removing the Director and Deputy Director of the Maryland Environmental Service from the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service; requiring the Secretary and the Treasurer of the Service to be selected by the Board from among the Boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations |
| MD | SB1 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish a certain new unit to assist in evaluating and reviewing certain proposals for new programs and substantial modifications of existing programs; requiring the Governor, in each of fiscal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations |
| MD | SB263 | Intro | Clarifying that the charter or bylaws of a corporation may require that any internal corporate claim be brought only in certain specified courts; repealing the authority of certain corporations to effect a certain reverse stock split; altering the ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB299 | Intro | Establishing the Commission on Trauma-Informed Care to coordinate a statewide initiative to prioritize the trauma-responsive and trauma-informed delivery of State services that impact children, youth, families, and older adults; requiring the Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | SB425 | Intro | Establishing the Workgroup on Screening Related to Adverse Childhood Experiences; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup to update, improve, and develop certain screening tools, submit certain scr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | HB670 | Intro | Repealing the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights; providing that the Police Department of Baltimore City is an agency and instrumentality of the City of Baltimore, instead of the State; authorizing a judge to issue a certain "no-knock" search w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB720 | Intro | Requiring a single, uniform pay plan for teachers and professional personnel at the Maryland School for the Blind; requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to establish the pay plan after considering recommendations by the Board of Directors ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | SB742 | Intro | Establishing the Maryland Model Prisons Study Workgroup to develop a plan for fundamental changes to the culture and practices of State prisons with emphasis on reduction of recidivism for all incarcerated individuals, prioritizing the classification...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB778 | Intro | Expanding the purposes of the Regional Institution Strategic Enterprise Zone Program; establishing the Regional Institution Strategic Enterprise Zone Fund in the Department of Commerce for certain purposes; prohibiting the Secretary of Commerce from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-09
Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | SB314 | Engross | Requiring the Comptroller to appoint the Chief of the Bureau of Revenue Estimates from a list of at least three candidates reviewed and evaluated by the Revenue Monitoring Committee and the Consensus Revenue Monitoring and Forecasting Group; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB529 | Engross | Requiring 3% of the hotel tax revenue generated in the City of Annapolis to be distributed to a special fund to be used only to fund the Annapolis Art in Public Places Commission; requiring the Commission to report annually on its use of the hotel ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
[Hearing: Mar 23 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB533 | Engross | Altering the membership of the Maryland-Bred Race Fund Advisory Committee to include a member of and recommended by the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, Inc.; altering the circumstances under which a horse may be registered with the Mary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB678 | Engross | Extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force on the Economic Future of Western Maryland to October 1, 2021; and extending the termination date for the Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
[Hearing: Mar 25 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB992 | Intro | Altering the manner in which certain trustees are chosen to serve on the board of the Maryland Environmental Trust by requiring certain ex officio members of the Trust to appoint the remaining trustees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-08
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB30 | Engross | Altering the maximum amount that may be charged to a public service company for a State fiscal year; requiring the Office of the People's Counsel to hire at least one assistant people's counsel to focus on environmental issues; authorizing the Office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Third Reading Passed (94-38) |
| MD | SB5 | Intro | Requiring the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities to publish, to a certain extent, health data that includes race and ethnicity information collected by the Office and update the data at least once every 6 months; requiring the Governor,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB113 | Engross | Requiring the Comptroller to appoint the Chief of the Bureau of Revenue Estimates from a list of at least three candidates reviewed and evaluated by the Revenue Monitoring Committee and the Consensus Revenue Monitoring and Forecasting Group; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Third Reading Passed (105-21) |
| MD | HB295 | Engross | Requiring the Department of the Environment to review and update certain regulations at least once every 5 years; requiring certain regulations to incorporate the most recent precipitation data available; requiring the Department to review and update...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Third Reading Passed (99-34) |
| MD | SB119 | Intro | Establishing the Clean Water Commerce Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring the Department of the Environment to transfer $20,000,000 from the Bay Restoration Fund to the Clean Water Commerce Fund for certain purposes beginning in fiscal year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Motion Laid Over (Senator Hough) Adopted |
| MD | SB476 | Engross | Providing that an advanced practice registered nurse is not precluded from delegating a nursing or other technical task to an assistant under certain circumstances; providing that a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse is not precluded from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB658 | Engross | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Transformation of Manufacturing in Maryland's Emerging Digital Economy; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup to study and make recommendations regarding c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Third Reading Passed (102-29) |
| MD | HB651 | Intro | Requiring the State Board of Education and the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board to develop certain rules and regulations for the certification of educational interpreters on or before July 1, 2022; providing that certain individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | SB564 | Intro | Merging the Procurement Improvement Council and the Council for the Procurement of Health, Educational, and Social Services; altering the duties and membership of the Procurement Improvement Council; repealing provisions of law relating to the Counci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB768 | Engross | Applying certain laws regarding net energy metering and community solar generating systems to customers served by a community choice aggregator; altering the circumstances under which counties and municipal corporations may act as an aggregator; esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Third Reading Passed (94-36) |
| MD | SB598 | Intro | Providing that the Small Business Reserve Program includes certain veteran-owned small business enterprises that meet certain criteria; requiring the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to adopt regulations to establish a certain ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB811 | Engross | Requiring certain individuals employed by federal agencies to comply with certain provisions of law; establishing that an applicant to obtain a certified social worker license is required to meet certain requirements by December 31, 2023; altering th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Third Reading Passed (132-0) |
| MD | HB781 | Engross | Clarifying that the charter or bylaws of a corporation may require that any internal corporate claim be brought only in certain specified courts; repealing the authority of certain corporations to effect a certain reverse stock split; altering the ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Third Reading Passed (118-13) |
| MD | HB873 | Engross | Requiring the State Board for Certification of Residential Child Care Program Professionals to maintain an electronic roster of all individuals certified by the Board; requiring that the roster be available for electronic verification of certificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Third Reading Passed (132-0) |
| MD | HB940 | Intro | Authorizing sports wagering license holders to accept wagers on sporting events by certain methods and in certain locations; requiring certain fantasy competition operators to register with the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission under certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | SB674 | Intro | Altering the membership of the Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities; requiring the membership of the Commission to reflect the diversity of the State to the extent practicable; specifying the term of certain members; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1086 | Intro | Requiring a unit of State government that administers a tax credit authorized after July 1, 2021, to adopt certain regulations before issuing certain certificates of eligibility; renaming the Tax Credit Evaluation Act to be the Tax Expenditure Evalua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB1108 | Intro | Increasing from 32 to 60 the number of times per year a holder of a Class 3 winery license or a Class 4 limited winery license may use a certain special event permit in Washington County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Favorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1252 | Intro | Authorizing a credit against the State income tax for certain health care practitioners who serve as certain preceptors for a certain preceptorship program approved by the Maryland Department of Health for physician assistant students; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB1026 | Intro | Altering the membership of the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to require 8 members to be elected and 4 members to be appointed; altering and establishing certain qualifications for members of the board; requiring one member of the board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB297 | Engross | Extending the time for the submission of the final report to December 1, 2023, of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission and extending the termination date for the Commission to June 30, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 17 @ 12:30 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB367 | Engross | 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 the purpose of the Board is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 17 @ 12:30 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB786 | Engross | Providing that the Police Department of Baltimore City is an agency and instrumentality of the City of Baltimore, instead of the State; providing that certain police officers have the authority conferred under a certain provision of law; establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB773 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to require each chamber of the General Assembly to designate its highest elected member within each party to appoint their party's members to standing committees in a manner that reflects the divers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Engross | Requiring the governing body of a condominium to convene at least two meetings each year at which unit owners have an opportunity to provide comment; requiring the developer of a condominium to appoint a unit owner, not otherwise affiliated with the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 17 @ 12:30 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB71 | Engross | Providing that a knowing and willful failure of a certain police officer to activate a body-worn camera creates a rebuttable presumption that testimony of the police officer is inadmissible in a criminal prosecution relating to the incident that was ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB2 | Engross | Altering from voting to nonvoting the type of membership position the Executive Director of the Maryland Environmental Service holds on the Board of Directors of the Service; removing the Deputy Director of the Service from the Board of Directors; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB52 | Engross | Requiring the State designated exchange to participate in a certain advisory committee, maintain a certain data set, and provide data under certain circumstances; authorizing the State designated exchange to use certain data to improve outcomes for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB168 | Engross | Establishing the Maryland Suicide Fatality Review Committee, also referred to as the State team, to identify and address the factors contributing to suicide deaths and facilitate system changes in the State to prevent suicides; requiring the State te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB788 | Intro | Requiring the Procurement Advisor to the Board of Public Works to establish common minimum qualifications for vacant procurement officer positions and a standardized selection test to administer to minimally qualified candidates; requiring that train...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB641 | Engross | Authorizing the State to purchase a certain insurance policy to satisfy a bond requirement to protect certain losses of State Retirement and Pension System assets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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] | 2021-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB831 | Intro | Altering certain provisions of law to require the State Board of Elections to make all open meeting materials publicly available on its website before a certain meeting; altering the method by which a political party is determined for the purpose of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB766 | Intro | Requiring each member of the State Board of Elections to have at least 5 years of experience in administering elections and have extensive knowledge of State election laws; establishing the position of Racial Equity Coordinator within the State Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1293 | Intro | Establishing the West North Avenue Development Authority in Baltimore City to support the development and approval of a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization plan in the target area and the buffer zone; requiring the Authority to work in coordina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
[Hearing: Mar 16 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB943 | Intro | Increasing, beginning in fiscal year 2023, certain appropriations to the Center for Maryland Advanced Ventures at the University of Maryland; requiring the University of Maryland Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Development (UMCEED) to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-03
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
