| MD | SB215 | Pass | Altering the type of financial assistance that may be provided by eligible fund managers who receive grants from the Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account in the Department of Commerce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 |
| MD | HB26 | Pass | Altering the type of financial assistance that may be provided by eligible fund managers who receive grants from the Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account in the Department of Commerce to allow grants of up to $10,000 in conjunction wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 68 |
| MD | HB1526 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce to establish certain temporary relief programs to provide assistance to individuals and certain entities impacted by a certain closure of the Port of Baltimore; and authorizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| MD | SB1188 | Pass | Establishing the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program and the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund to provide tuition assistance to a student who was a dependent or is the surviving spouse of a fallen transportation worker; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3 |
| MD | SB482 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB570 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain gas companies and authorizing certain gas companies to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems by October 1, 2024; requiring a gas company that serves at least 75,000 customers in its distribution territo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB864 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each electric company, each gas company, and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets through certain program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB960 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to provide at least $1,200,000 in each fiscal year for fiscal ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1220 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center to provide early-stage funding for certain start-up companies; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (101-35) |
| MD | HB1188 | Engross
50% | Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; renaming the Major Information Technology Development Fund to be the Information Technology Investment Fund; requiring a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB230 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to allow corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and sole proprietorships that are small employers to be represented by certain authorized individuals rather than an attorney in certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB253 | Enroll
75% | Making alterations and clarifications related to the duties of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission, the Office of Social Equity, the Advisory Board on Medical and Adult-Use Cannabis, and the Maryland Cannabis Administration; altering the me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB397 | Enroll
75% | Requiring gas companies serving at least 75,000 customers in their distribution territories and authorizing gas companies serving fewer than 75,000 customers to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems on or before October ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB362 | Enroll
75% | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB850 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each procurement unit to establish a price preference for small businesses; designating the Board of Public Works as the regulatory authority for the Small Business Preference Program; and specifying the manner in which a unit may achieve t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1014 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to consult with each primary procurement unit to identify potential contracting opportunities for and increase outreach efforts to small businesses; requiring each unit, on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB877 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller to develop and maintain on the Board of Public Works' website a procurement transparency data dashboard; establishing a governance committee composed of the liaisons to the Board from the offices of the Governor, the Comptro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB962 | Enroll
75% | Increasing a participation goal from a minimum of 15% to 20% for certain small businesses for certain procurement contracts; requiring the certification agency, in consultation with Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB673 | Enroll
75% | Increasing the participation goal for certain small businesses for certain procurement contracts from 15% to 20%; requiring the certification agency, in consultation with the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs, to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB703 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller to develop and maintain on the Board of Public Works' website a procurement transparency data dashboard; establishing a governance committee composed of the liaisons to the Board from the offices of the Governor, the Comptr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB90 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to allow corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and sole proprietorships that are small employers to be represented by certain authorized individuals rather than an attorney in certain h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1319 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB53 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Task Force to Study E-Commerce Monopolies in the State to investigate the business practices and industry impacts of e-commerce businesses that individually have annual revenue exceeding $10,000,000,000, have a presence in the State,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1061 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to work on-site at the employer's workplace if the employee provides documentation from a physician or other licensed health care practitioner that the employee has been diagnosed with an autoimmune ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1077 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Small Business Climate Change Coordinator in the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs in the Executive Department to support the State's small, minority, and women-owned business community on matters related to clima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1095 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Local Journalism Sustainability Grant Program within the Department of Commerce; requiring the Department to award grants under the Program to certain small businesses for costs paid or incurred to place an advertisement in a local n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB163 | Intro
25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB696 | Intro
25% | Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or approval for the construction of a certain gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
25% | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB861 | Intro
25% | Establishing 3% as the overall percentage goal of the total dollar value of procurement contracts by a unit of State government to be made directly or indirectly with veteran-owned small business enterprises; and repealing a requirement that the Offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB224 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions of law establishing the Small, Minority-Owned, and Women-Owned Business Sports Wagering Assistance Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB106 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Public Assistance to Entrepreneurship (PA2E) Program in the Department of Human Services to train participants on how to establish and run a small business; requiring the Department to establish eligibility criteria and a process to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1084 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to work on-site at the employer's workplace if the employee provides documentation from a physician or other licensed health care practitioner that the employee has been diagnosed with an autoimmune ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1184 | Intro
25% | Requiring a unit to structure procurement procedures to meet federal procurement standards and to try to achieve or exceed a certain overall percentage goal of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts to be made with historically underu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1210 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a credit against the State income tax for a certain small business that employs 50 or fewer employees for costs incurred by the small business during the taxable year for certain cybersecurity measures undertaken by the small business; ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB122 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the month of May as Small Business Month; and requiring the proclamation to urge citizens and organizations to observe Small Business Month properly with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB272 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions of law establishing the Small, Minority-Owned, and Women-Owned Business Sports Wagering Assistance Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB265 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Public Assistance to Entrepreneurship (PA2E) Program in the Department of Human Services to train participants on how to establish and run a small business; requiring the Department to establish eligibility criteria and a process for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB682 | Intro
25% | Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or approval for the construction of a certain gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB56 | Intro
25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB154 | Intro
25% | Requiring a unit to structure procurement procedures to meet federal procurement standards and to try to achieve or exceed a certain overall percentage goal of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts to be made with historically underu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
