| MD | HB776 | Pass | Requiring an intake officer to file a petition alleging that a child under the age of 13 years is a child in need of supervision if the child is alleged to have committed an act that results in the death of a victim; and requiring a law enforcement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 635 |
| MD | SB8 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from utilizing certain personal identifying information or engaging in certain conduct in order to cause physical injury, serious emotional distress, or economic damages; prohibiting a person from using certain artificial intelli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 445 |
| MD | SB230 | Pass | Establishing that engaging in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other in connection with a first-, second-, or third- degree burglary constitutes sexual offense in the third degree; and altering the definitions of "tier I sex off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 |
| MD | SB215 | Pass | Altering the application of certain provisions of law governing local government personnel, trout stamps, and landlord remedies to apply to all uniformed services; and altering the composition of the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 |
| MD | SB294 | Pass | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing or record to a nonparty unless the court or the party redacts certain identifying information relating to a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 542 |
| MD | HB467 | Pass | Requiring the annual report of the Maryland Parole Commission to include certain information; altering a certain provision of law to require the Commission to provide certain documents to an incarcerated individual and the incarcerated individual's r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 |
| MD | HB491 | Pass | Prohibiting a law enforcement agency from making a certain request for verbal acknowledgement in an interaction with a person suspected to have been subjected to sexually assaultive behavior or who claims to have been subjected to sexually assaultive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 406 |
| MD | SB531 | Pass | Prohibiting a law enforcement agency from making a certain request for verbal acknowledgement in an interaction with a person suspected to have been subjected to sexually assaultive behavior or who claims to have been subjected to sexually assaultive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 407 |
| MD | SB822 | Pass | Requiring the annual report of the Maryland Parole Commission to contain certain information; altering a certain provision of law to require the Commission to provide certain documents to an incarcerated individual and the incarcerated individual's r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
| MD | SB35 | Pass | Designating the megalodon as the State shark; designating The Natural History Society of Maryland as the State natural sciences museum; and requiring the Governor to annually proclaim October 1 as Purple Lights Night to honor individuals in the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 505 |
| MD | SB907 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" to include female genital mutilation for the purposes of a provision of law requiring certain persons to provide notice of suspected abuse or neglect of a child or make a written report of suspected abuse or neglect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 28 |
| MD | HB1389 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" to include female genital mutilation for the purposes of a provision of law requiring certain persons to provide notice of suspected abuse or neglect of a child or make a written report of suspected abuse or neglect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 29 |
| MD | HB450 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing or record to a nonparty unless the court or the party redacts certain identifying information relating to a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB336 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a District Court commissioner to issue a summons based on an application for a statement of charges filed by a certain individual under certain circumstances; prohibiting a District Court commissioner from issuing an arrest warrant based ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Third Reading Passed (35-11) |
| MD | SB823 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the appointing authority and method of appointment of parole commissioners by repealing certain authority of the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services and requiring the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
Third Reading Passed (99-33) |
| MD | SB996 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Human Services to establish and maintain a Guardianship Assistance Program to promote the placement and maintenance of children in permanent guardianship homes by providing guardianship assistance to guardians of minor chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB16 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the appointing authority and method of appointment of parole commissioners; requiring a new commissioner to be appointed within 90 days after a vacancy; prohibiting a hearing examiner appointed under certain authority from serving for more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1005 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Human Services, by May 1, 2028, to develop a certain form for the submission of a written report concerning suspected child abuse or neglect for cases in which the victim is currently at least 18 years old; requiring the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1056 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim October 1 as Purple Lights Night to honor the individuals in the State who are victims or survivors of domestic violence and express support for the elimination of domestic violence in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB83 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering and establishing provisions relating to the surrender of firearms by a respondent under the domestic violence statutes; and requiring the law enforcement agency that served the order to take certain actions within 3 business days after servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB476 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-21
Referred to interim study by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1320 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a law enforcement officer or a District Court commissioner to inform a victim or a victim's representative of the victim's or victim's representative's ability to request a certain notification; and providing a process for a victim or a vic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Gun Violence Victim Relocation Program within the Victim Services Unit of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy to provide certain victims of gun violence certain services and assistance related to relocating for the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1266 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the deadline by which a certain law enforcement agency must submit a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit and associated reference standards to a forensic laboratory for analysis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1107 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage to victims of domestic violence for aesthetic services and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Health Committee |
| MD | HB1586 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to petition for a protective order against another person who the petitioner alleges has engaged in controlling or coercive behavior toward the petitioner; and defining "coercive control" as a pattern of emotional or psychologica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State and sales of firearms to State residents; and requiring the Comptroller to distribute a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for certain income taxes and penalties attributable to an early withdrawal of retirement funds due to financial exploitation; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB717 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the deadline by which a certain law enforcement agency must submit a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit and associated reference standards to a forensic laboratory for analysis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB812 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a principal or school administration to investigate each student fight or physical struggle; prohibiting a school employee from disciplining a student under certain circumstances; and requiring a principal or school administration to expung...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB205 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an incarcerated individual who is serving a certain sentence for a certain sexual crime may be considered for parole only one time after becoming eligible; providing that if a victim, victim's family, victims' advocacy organization, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring inclusion of certain conditions for lifetime sexual offender supervision; requiring a sexual offender management team to report a certain violation of a condition of lifetime sexual offender supervision to the office of a certain State's At...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB436 | 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] | 2026-02-23
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB989 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain conduct relating to child exploitation material; establishing a civil action for a certain violation of the Act; authorizing the Attorney General to enforce certain provisions of the Act; defining "computer-generated image" in cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-18
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring inclusion of certain conditions for lifetime sexual offender supervision; requiring a sexual offender management team to report a certain violation of a condition of lifetime sexual offender supervision to the office of a certain State's At...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | HB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim November 7 as Victims of Communism Memorial Day; and directing the Department of Legislative Services to send a copy of the Act to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating the Freedom Flag, designed and created by Richard Nicholas Melito of Richmond, Virginia, to memorialize the victims of the events of September 11, 2001, as the State symbol of remembrance for the attacks of September 11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB1406 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person charged with murder or manslaughter in any degree or a crime under Title 3, Subtitle 2 of the Criminal Law Article to assert the defense that the person acted in self-defense and need not prove that the person believed danger was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1484 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a State's Attorney may not enter into a certain plea agreement in a prosecution for certain human trafficking offenses if the victim is a minor; and prohibiting a person convicted of a certain offense against a minor from knowingly ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; requiring the Comptroller to distribute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1044 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the release of a defendant pending sentencing or exhaustion of appellate review after conviction of a specified crime resulting in the death of a victim under the age of 14 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the prosecuting attorney of thefts of property or services with a value less than $1,500 to notify the victim or the victim's representative about each court proceeding, the right of the victim to submit a victim impact statement, any postt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the theft of mail or packages; requiring the prosecutor of a violation of the Act to notify the victim or the victim's representative about each court proceeding, the right of the victim to submit a victim impact statement, any posttrial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB759 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the sentencing date limitation of October 1, 2021, for an individual convicted as an adult of an offense committed when the individual was a minor to file a motion to reduce the duration of the sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the theft of mail or packages delivered or left to be collected by the United States Postal Service or a delivery service company; authorizing the court to order a person convicted of a certain crime to stay away from certain locations; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB793 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the prosecuting attorney of thefts of property or services with a value of less than $1,500 to notify the victim or the victim's representative about each court proceeding, the right of the victim to submit a victim impact statement, any po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain conduct relating to child exploitation material; establishing a civil action for a certain violation of the Act; authorizing the Attorney General to enforce certain provisions of the Act; defining "computer-generated image" in cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the release of a defendant pending sentencing or exhaustion of appellate review after conviction of a specified crime resulting in the death of a victim under the age of 14 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on Proactive Review of Audio and Video Recordings on Special Education Buses to study the use of artificial intelligence to proactively review audio and video recordings from special education buses to ensure the safety an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
