| MD | HB525 | Pass | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, by the 2027-2028 school year, a policy prohibiting the use of certain electronic communication devices by a student during the academic school day; and prohibiting the policy from res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596 |
| MD | HB266 | Pass | Authorizing the Information Technology Investment Fund, at the discretion of the Secretary of Information Technology, to be used to support State-owned communication sites, communication facilities, and telecommunications equipment used in connection...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 437 |
| MD | SB85 | Pass | Authorizing the Information Technology Investment Fund, at the discretion of the Secretary of Information Technology, to be used to support State-owned communication sites, communication facilities, and telecommunications equipment used in connection...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 436 |
| MD | SB114 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland 3-1-1 Oversight Board in the Maryland Information Network to oversee the expansion of 3-1-1 systems in Maryland; establishing the 3-1-1 Program to use certain artificial intelligence to answer certain questions and route cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 434 |
| MD | HB593 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from intentionally, willfully, and without authorization committing a certain act with the intent to interrupt or impair the functioning of critical infrastructure; providing that a person convicted of violating the Act is guilty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 521 |
| MD | HB718 | Pass | Establishing that certain provisions of law governing information technology plans apply to certain public institutions of higher education; establishing a policy of the State that State and higher education employee e-mail systems and resources are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 438 |
| MD | SB482 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from intentionally, willfully, and without authorization committing a certain act with the intent to interrupt or impair the functioning of critical infrastructure; prohibiting a person from intentionally, willfully, and without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520 |
| MD | HB864 | Pass | Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualifying new apprentices or journeyworkers necessary to meet a certain applicable percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 410 |
| MD | HB1100 | Pass | Specifying that certain documentation may establish lawful authority to sell certain telecommunications equipment as junk or scrap metal; requiring certain junk dealers, scrap metal processors, and antique dealers to register and provide a descriptio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 |
| MD | SB964 | Pass | Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualifying new apprentices or journeyworkers necessary to meet a certain applicable percen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 |
| MD | SB1007 | Pass | Amending 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176 |
| MD | SB782 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying that certain documentation may establish lawful authority to sell certain telecommunications equipment as junk or scrap metal; Requiring certain junk dealers, scrap metal processors, and antique dealers to register and provide a descriptio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB145 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring and authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to take certain actions if the State Administrator receives a credible report that election misinformation or election disinformation, including a deepfake, has been or is being communica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct a study and make recommendations on the potential scope, structure, and implementation of Commission oversight of broadband service and voice over Internet protocol service; and requiring the Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-08
Motion Special Order until 4/10 (Senator Ready) Adopted |
| MD | HB1037 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct a study and make recommendations on the potential scope, structure and implementation of Commission oversight of broadband service and voice over Internet protocol service; and requiring the Commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-08
Motion Special Order until 4/10 (Senator Salling) Adopted |
| 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 | SB629 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that certain provisions of law governing information technology plans apply to certain public institutions of higher education; establishing a certain policy of the State relating to State and higher education employee e-mail systems and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-30
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1226 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain persons from knowingly operating, offering, conducting, engaging in, or promoting illegal online gambling in the State; prohibiting certain persons from knowingly supporting, directly or indirectly, the operation, conduct, or prom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB928 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2027-2028 school year, a policy prohibiting the use of certain electronic communication devices by a student during the academic school day; and prohibiting the pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1182 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain public and nonpublic schools to develop policies and procedures regarding student wandering or elopement behavior; authorizing certain public and nonpublic schools to coordinate a student's voluntary use of a certain locative device...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-20
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB983 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the Enterprise Zone Program; altering and repealing certain credits, exemptions, and deductions to the State income, motor fuel, sales and use, tobacco, and property taxes; providing an addition modification under the Maryland income tax for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1562 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a commercial telecommunications service provider to automatically provide a service disruption credit to the account of a customer impacted by a material service outage; establishing the minimum amount of the credit for the service outage; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB538 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each 4-year institution of higher education in the State, by July 1, 2027, that admits first-time undergraduate students to prominently display on its publicly accessible prospective student website a link to the U.S. Department of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HJ2 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the U.S. Congress to pass H.R. 5356 to establish a national infrastructure bank to finance urgently needed infrastructure projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring units of State government proposing certain capital projects to complete a certain community engagement plan and certain community outreach activities and submit a certain report to the Department of Budget and Management; and requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an addition modification under the corporate income tax for the amount of certain direct-to-consumer advertising expenses for certain covered drugs paid or incurred during the taxable year that are deducted under the Internal Revenue Code; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1638 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a certain owner or operator of a certain covered platform to take reasonable measures to prioritize account privacy and establish certain default settings; requiring a covered provider to allow the parent or legal guardian of a minor to tak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2026-2027 school year, a policy prohibiting the use of a personal electronic device by a student during school day hours; providing the policy may not prohibit a st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1000 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the application of certain requirements for the construction of certain overhead transmission lines to include certain other transmission lines; requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations to establish specific criteria for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain regulation of certain activities involving digital assets by an agency or other instrumentality of the State or a political subdivision of the State; and clarifying that the provision of digital asset staking as a service is exclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-18
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1393 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to establish a virtual queuing system for telephone callers waiting to speak to a live representative at the Administration; and requiring the virtual queuing system to allow a telephone caller to request a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from swiping the driver's license or ID card of an individual except for certain purposes; prohibiting a person that swipes a driver's license or ID card from storing, selling, or sharing the personal information collected except...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain regulation of certain activities involving digital assets by an agency or other instrumentality of the State or a political subdivision of the State; and clarifying that the provision of digital asset staking as a service is exclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB652 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain persons from operating, offering, conducting, engaging in, or promoting illegal online gambling in the State; prohibiting certain persons from knowingly supporting, directly or indirectly, the operation, conduct, or promotion of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to select, certify, and acquire a telephone voting system for absentee voting by voters who have attested to having a print disability; defining "print disability" as a condition that prevents or inhibits an ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | SB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each institution of higher education in the State that admits first-time undergraduate students to prominently display on its publicly accessible prospective student website a link to the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard websi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB901 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to select, certify, and acquire a telephone voting system for absentee voting by certain voters who have attested to having a print disability that meets certain requirements; defining "print disability" as a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB561 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing requirements and prohibitions governing the provision of community violence prevention services through telehealth under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; requiring the Program to reimburse community violence prevention services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to implement an enhanced automatic voter registration system on or before January 1, 2029; establishing requirements regarding the transmission of enhanced automatic voter registration information by the Adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland 3-1-1 Oversight Board in the Maryland Information Network to oversee the expansion of 3-1-1 systems in Maryland; establishing the 3-1-1 Program to use certain artificial intelligence to answer certain questions and route cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | SB318 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring units of State government proposing certain capital projects to complete a certain community engagement plan and certain community outreach activities and submit a certain report to the Department of Budget and Management; and requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an addition modification under the corporate income tax for the amount of certain direct-to-consumer advertising expenses for certain covered drugs paid or incurred during the taxable year that are deducted under the Internal Revenue Code; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a public broadcaster that holds a debate between candidates for statewide office to invite all candidates who are certified to the ballot in the general election subject to certain requirements; prohibiting a public broadcaster from using o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-16
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
