| MD | SB11 | Intro
25% | Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB110 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of the Child Support Enforcement Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB663 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation against another person who distributes a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from an actual visual representation of the person and falsely depict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB721 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which an equity court is authorized to grant visitation rights to a grandparent of a child to include that the petition for visitation rights was filed after an action for divorce, annulment, custody, or paternity was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB589 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB818 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in certain actions seeking to remedy a violation of a Maryland constitutional right; authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB944 | Intro
25% | Repealing a provision that authorizes a local department of social services to ask the juvenile court to find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent or guardian are not required if the local department concludes that a par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB924 | Intro
25% | Specifying certain qualifications necessary for an individual to be appointed by a court as a custody evaluator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB940 | Intro
25% | Requiring a court to stay the entering of judgment, defer further proceedings, and place a defendant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or an intellectual disability on probation before judgment under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB741 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which a certificate of need for changing bed capacity in a health care facility is required; establishing the Workgroup on Forensic Mental Health Treatment; requiring the Workgroup to develop a certain form to be used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB983 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election based on certain criteria; requiring local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB959 | Intro
25% | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB342 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the imposition or application of a method for electing the governing body of a county or municipality that impairs the ability of members of a protected class to elect candidates of the members' choice or influence the outcome of an elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB548 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB521 | Intro
25% | Establishing a rebuttable presumption in certain child custody proceedings that joint legal custody and joint physical custody for approximately equal periods of time are in the best interests of a child and establishing factors a court may consider ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB555 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a custodian may deny inspection of records pertaining to pending or reasonably anticipated litigation to which the State or an officer or employee of the State is or may be a party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB685 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election, based on certain criteria; requiring local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB428 | Intro
25% | Establishing certain requirements for a complaint for a money judgment; and prohibiting the creation of a lien on owner-occupied residential property by contract or as a result of a breach of contract for the payment of medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB468 | Intro
25% | Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by a certain court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, not to exceed a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB709 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB789 | Intro
25% | Establishing minimum adequate security standards for courtroom security at all courthouse facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB621 | Intro
25% | Establishing minimum adequate security standards for courtroom security at all courthouse facilities; requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, the presence of a certain number of security officers in every court room during certain proceedings; and requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB767 | Intro
25% | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB798 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB651 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county to enact, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB821 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a custodian may deny inspection of records pertaining to pending or reasonably anticipated litigation to which the State or an officer or employee of the State is or may be a party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB649 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the expungement of a charge under a certain provision of law if the charge was not disposed of by an unequivocal conviction, but was instead disposed of by the court with a no finding designation or included in a case that was designated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB660 | Intro
25% | Establishing a presumption that the application of the child support guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate if the parents mutually assert that the separation or property settlement agreement is in the best interest of the child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB442 | Intro
25% | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB549 | 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 clear and convincing evi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB513 | Intro
25% | Altering notice requirements relating to the recordation of a restrictive covenant modification to an unlawfully restrictive covenant by authorizing a county or municipality to provide notice by publication in a certain newspaper once per week for 4 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB149 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB141 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual who is at least 60 years old and has been imprisoned for at least 20 years to file a motion to reduce the duration of the individual's sentence; requiring the court to conduct a hearing on a motion to reduce the duration of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB434 | Intro
25% | Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB435 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment exceeding 1 year and is currently serving the sentence imposed for the conviction, including a term of parole or probation, or has been convicted of a crime involvin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB487 | Intro
25% | Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; authorizing the Attorney General or an individual harmed by a violation of the Act to bring a certain civil action against a political subdivision, a unit of State or local government, or a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB497 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from using certain restraints unless there is an immediate and serious risk of dangerous or disruptive behavior; prohibiting transportation companies that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB549 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to bring a nuisance action for damages caused by rodent harborage on certain real property against certain individuals; authorizing a landlord to bring a breach of lease action against a tenant for behavior that causes or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB558 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements for a local commission on common ownership communities established by the local government of a county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB613 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing unless the court or the party redacts identifying information relating to a victim of sexual assault that appea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB629 | 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 clear and convincing evi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB677 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the court to admit into evidence in certain criminal proceedings certain out of court statements made by a vulnerable adult victim or witness under certain circumstances and subject to certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB759 | Intro
25% | Requiring the governing body of Baltimore County to establish, by law, a special fund that may be used only to assist in covering the cost of siting, constructing, installing, and maintaining traffic calming devices on county roads; and requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB389 | 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] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB432 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB484 | Intro
25% | Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; authorizing the Attorney General or an individual harmed by a violation of the Act to bring a certain civil action against a political subdivision, a unit of State or local government, or a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB683 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the parent, guardian, or custodian of a child from intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently acting or failing to act in a manner that results in the child committing a crime or delinquent act; requiring an individual convicted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
