| MD | HB14 | Pass | Altering the contents of a certain bullying, harassment, or intimidation form to require, if the incident is believed to have been motivated in whole or in substantial part by certain actual or perceived personal characteristics, identification of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 775 |
| MD | HB1300 | Pass | Renaming the African American Heritage Preservation Program to be the Speaker Adrienne A. Jones African American Heritage Preservation Program; repealing the authority of the Secretary of Human Services to appoint the executive director of the Maryla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 792 |
| MD | HB264 | Pass | Limiting the personal information that may be collected, maintained, processed, and retained by units of State government under certain circumstances; requiring certain personal information to be deleted or de-identified under certain circumstances; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
| MD | HB446 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Council to include an examination of the capacity of health care providers to deliver care to certain individuals and to identify methods by which the State can as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239 |
| MD | SB555 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Council; establishing the Dementia Services and Brain Health Program in the Maryland Department of Health to lead the State's public health efforts relating to bra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 240 |
| MD | SB940 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to develop a statewide action plan for the enforcement of standards for secondary maximum contaminant levels to address water discoloring, taste, and odor at community water systems and nontransient, noncom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 286 |
| MD | HB1196 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to develop a statewide action plan for the enforcement of standards for secondary maximum contaminant levels to address water discoloring, taste, and odor at community water systems and nontransient, noncom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 287 |
| MD | SB94 | Pass | Prohibiting a lender from accepting a tip from a consumer or giving a consumer the option to provide a tip; altering the timeline for certain refunds; subjecting certain earned wage access providers and loan lenders to certain consumer loan requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 170 |
| MD | HB1559 | Pass | Prohibiting the placement of children in unlicensed settings under the out-of-home placement program required to be established by the Social Services Administration; altering the duties of the pediatric hospital overstay coordinators; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 160 |
| MD | HB1574 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a certain grace period for the implementation of new or substantively amended regulations adopted on or after July 1, 2026, subject to certain conditions; and altering the requirements that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB627 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Historic, Cultural, and Civic Contributions in Education to study and make recommendations to the State Board of Education and the Maryland Higher Education Commission about certain lessons currently taught in public sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB649 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Commission on Civil Rights to enforce a prohibition against discrimination and retaliation in educational institutions based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender id...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1059 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a program designed to assist with the accurate teaching of Asian American history; requiring the Department to identify certain courses and materials and make available a certain professional d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1617 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the local zoning authority in a county to designate a health innovation zone, a contiguous area that demonstrates measurable and documented health disparities and poor health outcomes; requiring a county, if the local zoning authority des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB877 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring institutions of postsecondary education to submit a report on institutional debt to the Maryland Higher Education Commission by August 1 every 2 years, beginning in 2027; and requiring the Commission to develop and publish a data dictionary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HJ3 | Intro
Sine Die | Acknowledging the importance of teaching a culturally diverse curriculum in elementary and secondary schools in the State; providing that curricula taught in elementary and secondary schools should include the history of communities that have experie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to prepare a safe discharge labor plan before discharging or transferring a patient in active labor, subject to a certain exception; requiring a hospital to maintain records of safe discharge labor plans for at least 21 years; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HJ9 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemning all acts of violence against civilians and violations of international humanitarian and human rights law occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gaza, and Sudan; stating grave concern over certain reports and the risk of genocid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1636 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to make public certain discipline-related data in a usable format for the Department's website; providing that "high suspending" is 10% or more of students in an elementary school and 25% or more in a secon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1277 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Institute for Literacy and Equity organized as a partnership between the University of Maryland, College Park Campus and Morgan State University to serve as a State-funded research and technical assistance center to promote ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB588 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and certain schools to implement a system to track and report certain petitions for emergency evaluations made during the school year; requiring county boards of education, certain schools, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop certain content standards regarding the culture and history of Palestine to be included in certain State standards for social studies; requiring the Department to develop certain curriculum guides and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a federal law enforcement officer's powers granted under a certain provision of law may be exercised only when the federal law enforcement officer is acting in accordance with State law; prohibiting a law enforcement officer or a la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public and nonpublic primary and secondary schools to adopt certain written student privacy policies and procedures; requiring nonpublic prekindergarten programs and nonpublic primary and secondary schools, beginning September 1, 2027, to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB854 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a federal law enforcement officer's powers granted under a certain provision of law may be exercised only when the federal law enforcement officer is acting in accordance with State law; prohibiting a law enforcement officer of law ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring institutions of postsecondary education to submit a report on institutional debt to the Maryland Higher Education Commission by October 1 each year, beginning in 2027; authorizing the Commission to assess a civil penalty, up to $10,000 per ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public and nonpublic primary and secondary schools to adopt certain written student privacy policies and procedures; and requiring nonpublic prekindergarten programs and nonpublic primary and secondary schools to report certain information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB794 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to prohibit police officers from affiliating with, supporting, or advocating for White supremacist groups, ideologies, or causes or participating in or actively promoting a certain extre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a child placement agency from denying a prospective parent's application to adopt a child based on certain characteristics with certain exceptions; prohibiting the Social Services Administration of the Department of Human Services and cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
