| MD | HB214 | Engross 50% | Establishing that certain provisions of law requiring the issuance and service of a show-cause order on a prospective adoptee's parents do not apply if the prospective adoptee is an adult; authorizing a court to order, for good cause shown, certain i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB11 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a person to file a petition for partial expungement for a certain eligible offense even if another charge arising out of the same incident, transaction, or set of facts is not eligible for expungement; requiring a court to make a certain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (33-12) |
| MD | HB372 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Rent Court Workforce Solutions Pilot Program in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to provide residential tenants who are facing eviction for a failure to pay rent with information on workforce development and employment op... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB346 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of a v... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB364 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the use of traffic control device monitoring systems in Prince George's County by State and local agencies, if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded failing to obey a traffic control devic... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB442 | Engross 50% | Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB508 | Engross 50% | Adding labor trafficking by a child's parent or guardian to the list of conditions under which a local department of social services is authorized to ask the juvenile court in a child in need of assistance proceeding to find that reasonable efforts t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB528 | Engross 50% | Altering a prohibition on judges of the orphans' court acting as attorneys to prohibit a judge of the orphans' court from acting as an attorney in matters related to the administration of an estate or a guardianship of a minor within the jurisdiction... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB550 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a person to file a petition for partial expungement for a certain eligible offense even if another charge or conviction arising out of the same incident, transaction, or set of facts is not eligible for expungement; requiring a court to o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB538 | Engross 50% | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (27-18) |
| MD | HB693 | Engross 50% | Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB551 | Engross 50% | Providing that certain provisions of the Maryland Rules relating to discovery apply in a certain administrative proceeding; requiring a court that receives a certain report to promptly notify counsel of record for the committed person; requiring the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB723 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief on behalf of the State on the basis of an imminent or ongoing violation of certain rights of residents of certain health care facilities; authorizing the Attorney General to request a court t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB745 | Engross 50% | Adding stalking to the list of offenses for which a certain individual may petition for a protective order; and altering certain provisions of law relating to the issuance of a permanent protective order. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB801 | Engross 50% | Providing that certain provisions of the Maryland Rules relating to discovery apply in a certain administrative proceeding; requiring a court that receives a certain report to promptly notify counsel of record for the committed person; requiring the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB834 | Engross 50% | Requiring that the conflict of interest provisions enacted by Calvert County include certain provisions relating to judicial relief for certain violations of the county's conflict of interest provisions; and requiring Calvert County to enact a law or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB797 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; requiring certain information about the Program to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the A... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB888 | Engross 50% | Altering the process by which a defective corporate act may be ratified; and altering rules for certain legal actions by persons claiming to be adversely affected by a ratification. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB972 | Engross 50% | Clarifying and harmonizing certain provisions of law governing off-highway recreational vehicles and other similar off-highway motor vehicles; repealing the exception for certain off-highway recreational vehicles to the requirement to obtain a motor ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB978 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Maryland Court Text Message System; requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts to establish, implement, and maintain the System; requiring the System to be made available to certain individuals; requiring an individual to opt ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB905 | Engross 50% | Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting academic or policy research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (33-12) |
| MD | HB1019 | Engross 50% | Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by the court; authorizing a court, for good cause shown, to extend a petition for an additional 5 days; and authorizing peace officers to use reasonable ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1117 | Engross 50% | Establishing that a landlord that offers a residential dwelling unit for rent is deemed to warrant the dwelling fit for human habitation; clarifying that certain mold hazards constitute dangerous conditions and defects for which a tenant may obtain r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1056 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (32-13) |
| MD | HB1267 | Engross 50% | Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting academic or policy research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1308 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person from recording a deed or other instrument that the person knows contains false information; establishing a 3-year limitation on when a prosecution for a violation of the Act may be commenced; establishing a fine not to exceed $50... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB174 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB119 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "legally protected health care" to include certain gender-affirming treatment, including medications and supplies, for the purposes of certain provisions of law that prohibit health occupations disciplinary actions and cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB550 | Engross 50% | Adding labor trafficking by a child's parent or guardian to the list of conditions under which a local department of social services is authorized to ask the juvenile court in a child in need of assistance proceeding to find that reasonable efforts t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB34 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB544 | Engross 50% | Altering the process by which a defective corporate act may be ratified; and altering rules for certain legal actions by persons claiming to be adversely affected by a ratification. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB435 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a court, if an obligor becomes incarcerated, to determine that a material change of circumstances warranting a modification of child support has occurred, provided that the party's ability to pay child support is sufficiently reduced due ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB761 | Engross 50% | Requiring that the fines collected by Montgomery County as a result of violations enforced on State highways by school bus monitoring cameras be distributed in a certain manner to be used only to enhance pedestrian safety at locations in Montgomery C... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB848 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB141 | Engross 50% | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB432 | Engross 50% | Replacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB903 | Engross 50% | Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB449 | Engross 50% | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB698 | Intro 25% | Requiring a court to rule on petitions to appoint a guardian of the person of a disabled person in order to seek transfer or discharge of a disabled person from a hospital within 10 days; and requiring that hearings to appoint a guardian of the perso... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1033 | Intro 25% | Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1298 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the father of a child to file a petition to add the father's surname to the child's name under certain circumstances and establishing related court procedures; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to develop and update, as appropriate, a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB125 | Engross 50% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to the recordation and inspection of certain military records kept by the clerk of a circuit court to authorize the clerk to keep an electronic record instead of a book to record and index the discharge pap... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB324 | Engross 50% | Increasing, from in excess of $10,000 to in excess of $25,000, the threshold amount for certain transfers by a personal representative, trustee, or conservator as a custodian for the benefit of a minor to require authorization by a court. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB664 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the individual on the Internet, social medi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB325 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "interested person" for purposes of provisions of law governing the estates of decedents, guardians of persons and property, trusts, and powers of attorney. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB182 | Intro 25% | Requiring that each legislative district established for the purpose of electing members of the House of Delegates consist of a certain number of single-member delegate districts; requiring the General Assembly to enact a law establishing and governi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB744 | Engross 50% | Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain procedures relating to juvenile intake, detention, and probation; requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1106 | Engross 50% | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB79 | 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] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB354 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Rent Court Workforce Solutions Pilot Program in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to provide defendant tenants in failure to pay rent cases with workforce resources and information on workforce development, registered appr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To House Judiciary Committee |