| MD | HB282 | Pass | Altering provisions relating to the reporting and investigation of abuse, neglect, self-neglect, and exploitation of vulnerable adults; and requiring the local department of aging to complete an investigation and make an indicated, not indicated, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| MD | SB182 | Pass | Altering provisions relating to the reporting and investigation of abuse, neglect, self-neglect, and exploitation of vulnerable adults; and requiring a local department of aging to complete an investigation and make an indicated, not indicated, or un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 653 |
| MD | SB685 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a model sexual abuse and sexual misconduct response policy that includes, at minimum, a communications plan, an e-mail and other electronic communication documents retention policy, a requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 |
| MD | SB937 | Pass | Prohibiting a landlord from requiring or requesting from a prospective tenant certain information relating to criminal history and prohibiting a landlord from considering certain information when evaluating the prospective tenant; permitting a landlo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 |
| MD | SB81 | Pass | Prohibiting a law enforcement officer from engaging in certain sexual acts, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a student enrolled in a school where the law enforcement officer is assigned as a school resource officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 453 |
| MD | SB230 | Pass | Establishing that engaging in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other in connection with a first-, second-, or third- degree burglary constitutes sexual offense in the third degree; and altering the definitions of "tier I sex off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 |
| MD | HB329 | Pass | Prohibiting a law enforcement officer from engaging in certain sexual acts, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a student enrolled in a school where the law enforcement officer is assigned as a school resource officer; and providing that a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 452 |
| MD | SB294 | Pass | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing or record to a nonparty unless the court or the party redacts certain identifying information relating to a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 542 |
| MD | HB491 | Pass | Prohibiting a law enforcement agency from making a certain request for verbal acknowledgement in an interaction with a person suspected to have been subjected to sexually assaultive behavior or who claims to have been subjected to sexually assaultive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 406 |
| MD | HB501 | Pass | Altering the penalty for a subsequent conviction of sexual offense by a person in a position of authority; prohibiting a certain person in a position of authority from committing a certain violation involving a child at least 6 years younger than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 426 |
| MD | SB531 | Pass | Prohibiting a law enforcement agency from making a certain request for verbal acknowledgement in an interaction with a person suspected to have been subjected to sexually assaultive behavior or who claims to have been subjected to sexually assaultive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 407 |
| MD | SB907 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" to include female genital mutilation for the purposes of a provision of law requiring certain persons to provide notice of suspected abuse or neglect of a child or make a written report of suspected abuse or neglect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 28 |
| MD | HB1389 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" to include female genital mutilation for the purposes of a provision of law requiring certain persons to provide notice of suspected abuse or neglect of a child or make a written report of suspected abuse or neglect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 29 |
| MD | HB450 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing or record to a nonparty unless the court or the party redacts certain identifying information relating to a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB1292 | Engross
50% | Requiring that standards established by the Maryland Statewide Organization for Child Advocacy Centers require an individual employed by or contracted with a child advocacy center providing mental health services in a child advocacy center to be lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Motion Special Order until Next Session (Senator Folden) Adopted |
| MD | SB407 | Engross
50% | Altering the penalty for a subsequent conviction of sexual offense by a person in a position of authority; prohibiting a certain person in a position of authority from committing a certain violation involving a child at least 6 years younger than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1168 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a model sexual abuse and sexual misconduct response policy that includes, at minimum, certain components; requiring each local school system to adopt a response policy based on the model policy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB661 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a person to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication that is a recording or part of a recording of the commission or attempted commission of a certain crime; providing that the contents of a certain intercepted communication an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1348 | Engross
50% | Authorizing mandated reporters to report suspected labor trafficking or sex trafficking of a child to a regional navigator; and authorizing the Attorney General or a State's Attorney to investigate and prosecute human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1467 | Engross
50% | Providing that a specified conviction from another state or a federal, military, or Native American tribal court may serve as a predicate crime for a specified enhanced penalty for certain repeat sex offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1294 | Engross
50% | Altering the term "child pornography" to be "child sexual abuse material" for purposes of certain criminal offenses; and defining "computer-generated image" to include images created through the use of artificial intelligence software as the term per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB310 | Engross
50% | Requiring an incarcerated individual to undergo an assessment for indicators of a developmental or intellectual disability at intake at a State correctional facility by a certain clinical professional; authorizing a certain clinical professional to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB355 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1266 | Intro
25% | Altering the deadline by which a certain law enforcement agency must submit a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit and associated reference standards to a forensic laboratory for analysis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1293 | Intro
25% | Requiring behavioral health programs that own, lease, operate, or control an inpatient facility to take certain affirmative and reasonable steps to determine whether a resident is required to register under the Maryland Sex Offender Registry; and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | SB693 | Intro
25% | Repealing the limitation to 20% of a settlement or 25% of a judgment that counsel may charge or receive in an action for damages arising out of a claim or claims of child sexual abuse filed on or after June 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB717 | Intro
25% | Altering the deadline by which a certain law enforcement agency must submit a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit and associated reference standards to a forensic laboratory for analysis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1073 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a landlord from requiring or requesting from a prospective tenant certain information relating to criminal history and prohibiting a landlord from considering certain information when evaluating the prospective tenant; permitting a landlo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1638 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain owner or operator of a certain covered platform to take reasonable measures to prioritize account privacy and establish certain default settings; requiring a covered provider to allow the parent or legal guardian of a minor to tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB205 | Intro
25% | Providing that an incarcerated individual who is serving a certain sentence for a certain sexual crime may be considered for parole only one time after becoming eligible; providing that if a victim, victim's family, victims' advocacy organization, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB287 | Intro
25% | Requiring inclusion of certain conditions for lifetime sexual offender supervision; requiring a sexual offender management team to report a certain violation of a condition of lifetime sexual offender supervision to the office of a certain State's At...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB436 | Intro
25% | Establishing a presumption that the sentencing of a minor convicted as an adult should be transferred to the juvenile court, under certain circumstances, and authorizing the court to do so; and requiring the juvenile court to make a juvenile determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1419 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Centralized Background Check Division in the Department of State Police; requiring the Division to require each unit of State and local government to take certain actions; requiring the Division to provide or coordinate certain suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | SB989 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain conduct relating to child exploitation material; establishing a civil action for a certain violation of the Act; authorizing the Attorney General to enforce certain provisions of the Act; defining "computer-generated image" in cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-18
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB220 | Intro
25% | Requiring inclusion of certain conditions for lifetime sexual offender supervision; requiring a sexual offender management team to report a certain violation of a condition of lifetime sexual offender supervision to the office of a certain State's At...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB588 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim May 5 as Missing and Murdered American Indian and Alaskan Native Women and Girls Awareness Day; and requiring the Department of State Police to report to the General Assembly by December 1, 2026, on whether...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB1309 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission to Review and Assess Racial Disparities in the State Criminal Justice System to study and make recommendations on certain matters involving the disparate treatment of African Americans, Hispanics, and other non-White indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1406 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person charged with murder or manslaughter in any degree or a crime under Title 3, Subtitle 2 of the Criminal Law Article to assert the defense that the person acted in self-defense and need not prove that the person believed danger was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1484 | Intro
25% | Providing that a State's Attorney may not enter into a certain plea agreement in a prosecution for certain human trafficking offenses if the victim is a minor; and prohibiting a person convicted of a certain offense against a minor from knowingly ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1350 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to the reporting of child abuse and neglect and the reporting of certain information regarding certain children at risk of harm to require reporting to the Department of Human Services instead of to the loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB752 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission to Review and Assess Racial Disparities in the State Criminal Justice System to study and make recommendations on certain matters involving the disparate treatment of African Americans, Hispanics, and other non-White indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB924 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain conduct relating to child exploitation material; establishing a civil action for a certain violation of the Act; authorizing the Attorney General to enforce certain provisions of the Act; defining "computer-generated image" in cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB530 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Proactive Review of Audio and Video Recordings on Special Education Buses to study the use of artificial intelligence to proactively review audio and video recordings from special education buses to ensure the safety an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB722 | Intro
25% | Abrogating the doctrine of charitable immunity as a defense to an action for damages arising out of a claim of child sexual abuse; and applying the Act retroactively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB484 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to the reporting of child abuse and neglect and the reporting of certain information regarding certain children at risk of harm to require reporting to the Department of Human Services instead of to the loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB465 | Intro
25% | Establishing an immunity from liability for a person who discloses information about allegations of sexually assaultive behavior if the person acts in good faith; establishing a presumption of good faith unless it is shown by a preponderance of the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB475 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Juvenile Services from hiring or retaining an individual convicted of certain crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB295 | Intro
25% | Establishing an immunity from liability for a person who discloses information about allegations of sexually assaultive behavior if the person acts in good faith; establishing a presumption of good faith unless it is shown by a preponderance of the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB84 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the introduction of evidence that a certain defendant was the victim of domestic violence and that the domestic violence was a significant contributing factor to the commission of a certain crime as a mitigating factor at sentencing of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB123 | Intro
25% | Including institutions and programs of higher education in which a student is enrolled as part of a dual enrollment program in the definition of "school system"; adding certain offenses to the list of offenses a law enforcement agency must report to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
