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MDSB966PassAmending certain prior authorizations of State Debt to change the names of certain grantees, alter the authorized uses of certain grants, and extend the termination date of certain grants.
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 722
MDHB632PassAuthorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue a Class GSF (golf simulator facility) license to a golf simulator facility under certain circumstances; authorizing the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor for on-pr...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1009
MDHB233PassAuthorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption of the critical area for climate resiliency, enhancing resilience in the critical area, a...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424
MDSB516PassEstablishing the Maryland Aerospace and Technology Commission in the Department of Commerce to promote innovation in the fields of space exploration and commercial aerospace opportunities, including the integration of space, aeronautics, and aviation...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623
MDHB685PassEstablishing the Maryland Aerospace and Technology Commission in the Department of Commerce to promote innovation in the fields of space exploration and commercial aerospace opportunities, including the integration of space, aeronautics, and aviation...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 622
MDHB989PassProviding that the Montgomery County Planning Board may tentatively approve a subdivision plat subject to specified conditions; and providing for the approval and submission of a certain subdivision plat to the county land records.
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 695
MDHB1321PassAuthorizing a Southern Maryland code county to provide in the county's subdivision regulations for a dedication of real property for recreation, or the payment of a fee in lieu of dedication, to be used by the county for the purchase, development, an...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 675
MDHB991PassEstablishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 531
MDHB1296PassRequiring the Public Service Commission to open a revised Round 2 proceeding on June 1, 2024, to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; prohibiting the Commission from approving an application for an offshore wind project unless the application inc...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431
MDSB969PassRequiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 559
MDHB1165PassRequiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; authorizing th...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558
MDSB482PassEstablishing 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 chair the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Office to staff the Children's C...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 408
MDSB308PassAuthorizing the Governor, on the recommendation of the Secretary of Housing and Community Development, to designate certain areas as Just Communities based on certain criteria; and providing for the prioritization of State funding for Just Communitie...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 148
MDHB241PassAuthorizing the Governor, on the recommendation of the Secretary of Housing and Community Development, to designate certain areas as Just Communities based on certain criteria; and providing for the prioritization of State funding for Just Communitie...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 147
MDSB14PassAuthorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipality to designate, by law, an area within that political subdivision as a tourism zone under certain circumstances; providing that the designation o...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 240
MDSB333PassRepealing a requirement that the Department of Housing and Community Development identify certain property as suitable for use or redevelopment; prohibiting the Department from identifying certain property for use or redevelopment as affordable housi...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 154
MDHB283PassRepealing a requirement that the Department of Housing and Community Development identify certain property as suitable for use or redevelopment; prohibiting the Department from identifying certain property for use or redevelopment as affordable housi...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 153
MDHB538PassEstablishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 122
MDHB697PassEstablishing certain requirements and prohibitions for commercial real estate transactions related to a buyer's right to make certain title, settlement, and escrow selections.
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 198
MDHB805PassAltering the distance restrictions from 2000 feet to one-half mile applicable to a licensed cannabis dispensary; prohibiting a political subdivision from establishing certain zoning requirements that are more restrictive than certain zoning requireme...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 244
MDHB1281PassAuthorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipality to designate, by law, an area within that political subdivision as a tourism zone under certain circumstances; providing that the designation o...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239
MDSB1169PassEstablishing certain requirements and prohibitions for commercial real estate transactions related to a buyer's right to make certain title, settlement, and escrow selections.
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 199
MDHB253PassMaking 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...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 241
MDSB299PassAltering the duties of the Coast Smart Council to include the development of eligibility criteria, standards, and procedures for categorical exemptions from the application of the Coast Smart requirements for proposed capital projects that have been ...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 111
MDSB88PassEstablishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study and make recommendations for developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislat...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 10
MDHB55PassEstablishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislative and budgetary recommendat...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 9
MDHB836Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
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2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted
MDSB1005Engross
50%
Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority, subject to certain limitations; exempting the Authority from certain provisions of law; requiring the Author...
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2024-04-08
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
MDSB1047Engross
50%
Requiring the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County to receive written approval from the Anne Arundel County Office of Planning and Zoning for a music and entertainment permit before the permit may be considered at a hearing; requiri...
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2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (136-0)
MDHB1427Engross
50%
Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority, subject to certain limitations; exempting the Authority from certain provisions of law; requiring the Author...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB681Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan planning organization to perform an impact assessment under cert...
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2024-04-05
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
MDSB537Engross
50%
Altering the distance restrictions applicable to a licensed cannabis dispensary; prohibiting a political subdivision from establishing certain zoning requirements for licensed cannabis dispensaries and certain licensed cannabis growers that are more ...
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2024-04-02
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB353Engross
50%
Establishing the Confined Aquatic Disposal Task Force to study and review the overall concept, viability, and available options associated with confined aquatic disposal programs to meet the long-term dredged material placement needs of the State and...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1364Intro
25%
Requiring the County Executive of Montgomery County to appoint a People's Counsel for Land Use Planning to represent the public interest of county residents in land use proceedings, to ensure fairness to certain populations, and to ensure that a comp...
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2024-03-20
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB356Engross
50%
Requiring a law enforcement agency, under certain cirucumstances, to issue a warning rather than a citation for a failure to stop for a school vehicle that is recorded by a school bus monitoring camera; and requiring the State Highway Administration ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1001Engross
50%
Requiring a custodian of recorded images produced by certain automated enforcement systems to deny inspection of the images; prohibiting certain State and local agencies from using a recorded image or associated data from an automated enforcement sys...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1194Engross
50%
Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish a clinical staffing committee by January 1, 2025; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan by July 1, 2025; requiring that an administrator of a hosp...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB101Intro
25%
Requiring the State Highway Administration to provide certain notices to the owner or operator of a utility facility for the removal, relocation, or adjustment of the utility facility for a State highway project; requiring the owner or operator of th...
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2024-03-16
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters
MDHB919Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to set special property tax rates for certain subclasses of property for the purpose of financing certain transportation improvements or a certain minimum scho...
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2024-03-16
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means
MDSB755Intro
25%
Establishing the Office of Domestic Terrorism Response within the Maryland Department of Emergency Management for the purpose of implementing measures to prepare for, prevent, and recover from domestic terrorism and hate crimes; requiring the Marylan...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB866Intro
25%
Authorizing a county to deem conclusively that a small halfway house or small private group home is a single-family dwelling or a multifamily dwelling for purposes of zoning.
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1154Intro
25%
Establishing the Office of Domestic Terrorism Response within the Maryland Department of Emergency Management for the purpose of implementing measures to prepare for, prevent, and recover from domestic terrorism and hate crimes; requiring the Marylan...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB182Intro
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...
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2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB920Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Electric Transmission Authority to serve as the lead State agency on issues related to electricity transmission; and requiring the Authority to advocate on, research, evaluate, and identify certain issues related to electric...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1359Intro
25%
Requiring that certain regulations adopted by the Department of Juvenile Services governing juvenile care facilities and juvenile detention facilities include a requirement for the establishment, implementation, and review of certain community relati...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB366Engross
50%
Prohibiting a restriction on land use that increases the cost of installing a solar collector system by at least 5% over a certain cost or that reduces the efficiency of the system by at least 10% under a certain energy generation level; authorizing ...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB406Intro
25%
Requiring a law enforcement agency, under certain circumstances, to issue a warning rather than a citation for a failure to stop for a school vehicle that is recorded by a school bus monitoring camera; and requiring the State Highway Administration t...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB389Intro
25%
Repealing a requirement that a political subdivision maintain and repair certain sidewalks constructed by any developer of an industrial, commercial, or apartment area along a highway maintained by the State Highway Administration; and repealing a re...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1123Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to adopt minimum cybersecurity standards for hospitals and take certain other actions related to the cybersecurity of hospitals, including supporting hospitals that do not meet the minimum cybersecurity s...
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2024-02-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1444Intro
25%
Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply statewide; and requiring all speed limit signs on certain highways in residential districts to include certain signs.
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2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor
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