| MD | SB11 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to include system upgrades required to allow for automated expungement of charges and partial expungement of charges in any vendor contracts being negotiated at a certain time. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 940 |
| MD | SB159 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 913 |
| MD | SB119 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 863 |
| MD | SB551 | Pass | Providing that certain provisions of the Maryland Rules relating to discovery in civil matters apply in a certain administrative proceeding; requiring a court that receives a certain report to promptly notify counsel of record for the committed perso... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 760 |
| MD | SB905 | Pass | Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order; requiring the Maryland Judiciary to require an institution of hi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 929 |
| MD | SB111 | Pass | Providing that a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case may not disclose or allow inspection of an electronic or paper court filing, including a charging document, to a nonparty to the case unless the court or the party disclosin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 877 |
| MD | SB134 | Pass | Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office for fiscal year 2025 only; requ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 836 |
| MD | SB468 | Pass | Requiring a private home detention monitoring agency to notify the court within 24 hours after a defendant subject to home monitoring as a condition of pretrial release has violated a condition of home detention monitoring; requiring a private home d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 893 |
| MD | SB442 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 570 |
| MD | SB544 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604 |
| MD | SB575 | Pass | 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 protected individual on the Internet, s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 415 |
| MD | SB1056 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462 |
| MD | SB653 | Pass | Providing certain persons standing in certain environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet certain standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 536 |
| MD | SB75 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 314 |
| MD | SB19 | Pass | Requiring the District Court to shield all court records within 60 days after the final resolution of a failure to pay rent proceeding that did not result in a judgment of possession; authorizing the District Court, on motion of a tenant, to shield a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 347 |
| MD | SB116 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 200 |
| MD | SB164 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 317 |
| MD | SB354 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 295 |
| MD | SB550 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" to include labor trafficking of a child by any individual for purposes of provisions of law governing children in need of assistance cases and child abuse and neglect reporting; and expanding provisions of law relat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 348 |
| MD | SB680 | Pass | Requiring the judge or jury in certain actions to make a certain determination and assign responsibility and liability in a certain manner; authorizing the State to continue to pursue certain actions if it does not obtain complete relief from certain... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 137 |
| MD | SB797 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 170 |
| MD | SB1106 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 |
| MD | SB174 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-08 Third Reading Passed (104-30) |
| MD | SB1124 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the conflict of interest provisions enacted by Calvert County to include certain provisions relating to judicial relief for certain violations of the county's conflict of interest provisions; requiring the ethics provisions enacted by Calve... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB404 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing an exemption for a certain person who enters or trespasses on real property while wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB538 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act only to causes of action arising after October 1, 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1111 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the statute of limitations for a certain civil action for damages resulting from certain participation in a criminal organization; altering certain definitions of "criminal organization" and "underlying crime"; authorizing the filing of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1167 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a landlord to offer the payment of a fee in lieu of a security deposit in a residential lease subject to certain requirements; requiring a landlord to purchase certain insurance coverage using a fee in lieu of a security deposit; establis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB100 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from com... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB449 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-20 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB744 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-20 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB34 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-19 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-17 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB926 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Attorney General to give notice to State agencies and the public when a court orders that the State may not require a person to possess a specified permit, license, or certificate; and requiring State agencies to reimburse issuance and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB663 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person responsible for a premises from conducting, causing, authorizing, or aiding in maintaining an unruly social event; authorizing certain fire officials to enter a certain premises for a certain purpose without a search warrant unde... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-11 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB987 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-09 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB872 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing increased penalties of imprisonment for up to 3 years and a fine not to exceed $5,000 or both for the abuse or neglect of an animal if the abuse or neglect results in the death or euthanasia of the animal; and authorizing the court, as a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB865 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding, renaming, and altering certain provisions relating to a certain truancy reduction program in certain juvenile courts; authorizing a county or circuit administrative judge to establish a certain Truancy Reduction and School Reengagement Pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB992 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1030 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a court to grant a petition for expungement of records relating to a certain conviction at any time on a showing of good cause; and specifying certain criteria for consideration of expungement for good cause. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines by requiring the deduction, from actual income, of an allowance for support for each child in the parent's home for whom the parent owes a legal duty of supp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB946 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in the first degree to commit a defendant to a designated health care facility for life; and requiring a court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a certain provider of earned wage access services to register with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring a provider to file a certain surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Commissioner in a certain manner; re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB481 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-05 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB743 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-01 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB759 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-01 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB601 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |