| MD | HB352 | Pass | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604 |
| MD | HB89 | Pass | Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 156 |
| MD | HB241 | Pass | Clarifying that "spouse" includes a former spouse for purposes of disclosure of confidential communications occurring during marriage; and establishing that a spouse, who is the alleged victim, is competent to disclose a confidential communication be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 145 |
| MD | SB181 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; repealing the authorization for the Governor to di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 102 |
| MD | SB142 | Pass | Clarifying that "spouse" includes a former spouse for purposes of disclosure of confidential communications occurring during marriage; and establishing that a spouse, who is the alleged victim, is competent to disclose a confidential communication be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 146 |
| MD | SB152 | Pass | Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 157 |
| MD | HB293 | Pass | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases; requiring the testimony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 150 |
| MD | SB274 | Pass | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases; requiring the testimony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| MD | SB333 | Pass | Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 148 |
| MD | HB442 | Pass | Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 147 |
| MD | SB608 | Pass | Altering the requirements for certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the individuals eligible to request a certain official to certify victim helpfulness relating to certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 114 |
| MD | HB853 | Pass | Authorizing a certain individual to file a motion to reduce the duration of a certain sentence if the individual was convicted between the ages of at least 18 and under 25, was not sentenced to life, is not a sex offender, has served at least 20 year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 96 |
| MD | HB1123 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of an incarcerated individual when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 103 |
| MD | HB579 | Engross
50% | Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; altering the requirements for certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the individuals eligible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (124-14) |
| MD | SB828 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State government that operate at certain sensitive locations from allowing certain federal personnel to access certain areas, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the Attorney General to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (34-13) |
| MD | HB1348 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "home improvement" to include the provision of certain disaster mitigating services for purposes of licensing and regulations of home improvement contractors; authorizing a certain owner to rescind a home improvement contra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB328 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to issue certain fraternal organizations a license for not more than three instant ticket lottery machines; altering the distribution of proceeds from instant ticket lottery mach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB541 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to issue certain fraternal organizations a license for not more than three instant ticket lottery machines; altering the distribution of proceeds from instant ticket lottery mach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB675 | Enroll
75% | Altering from December 31, 2025, to March 31,2026, the date by which a certain report under a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit tracking program is required to be submitted; altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB669 | Enroll
75% | Altering the date from December 31, 2025, to March 31, 2026, by which a certain report under a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit tracking program is required to be submitted; altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB873 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Adoption of a Statute for Assault in the Third Degree; requiring the Workgroup, if it recommends adoption of a third degree assault prohibition, to prepare draft legislation with the assistance of the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1147 | Engross
50% | 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 a certain incarcerated individual at a certain time, rather th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1156 | Engross
50% | Altering the number of members of the Maryland Parole Commission from 10 to at least 15 but not more than 20 members; altering the appointing authority and method of appointment of parole commissioners; and repealing the authority of the Commission t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1480 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the standards established by the Maryland Statewide Organization for Child Advocacy Centers require an individual employed by or contracted with a Child Advocacy Center providing medical or mental health services to be licensed or cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB668 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1304 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of State Police to submit certain information collected through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program to the Department of Legislative Services on or before November 30 each year and create a certain work plan; and requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB180 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1425 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from utilizing certain personal identifying information or engaging in certain conduct in order to cause certain harm; prohibiting a person from using certain artificial intelligence or certain deepfake representations for certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1548 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements related to the reporting of incidents of employee harassment and intimidation, including provisions regarding the reporting of incidents by employers to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, the creation of a reporting for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1550 | Intro
25% | Requiring a law enforcement agency to provide a certain victim of sexual assault certain notice pertaining to the submission of a sexual assault evidence collection kit to a forensic laboratory under certain circumstances; altering a certain provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB810 | Intro
25% | Requiring each law enforcement agency to adopt a policy requiring the use of a lethality assessment protocol; and defining "lethality assessment protocol" as a multiprong validated tool intended for use by law enforcement officers investigating domes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB190 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole, including providing for a meeting between the inca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB312 | Intro
25% | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial to the lesser of 10 years or the maximum sentence for the most serious offense charged under certain circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB940 | Intro
25% | Requiring a court to stay the entering of judgment, defer further proceedings, and place a defendant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or an intellectual disability on probation before judgment under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB686 | Intro
25% | Altering the criteria for determining whether a certain victim or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend shall be considered to be helpful, to have been helpful, or likely to be helpful to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB669 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a recording of a body-worn camera worn by a law enforcement officer to be used as evidence in certain proceedings; requiring a custodian to deny inspection of a recording made with the use of a body-worn camera used by a law enforcement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1247 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to notify a victim or victim's representative by certified mail that a parole release hearing has been scheduled or that an incarcerated individual is being considered for a commutat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1390 | Intro
25% | Allowing, subject to certain limitations, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain personal casualty losses, meaning loss of property not connected with a trade or business or a transaction entered into for profit if the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB553 | Intro
25% | Altering the criteria for determining whether a certain victim or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend shall be considered to be helpful, to have been helpful, or likely to be helpful to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB739 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a police officer to arrest a certain person without a warrant if the police officer has probable cause to believe that the person battered another person with whom the person has had a sexual relationship within the past year; and alterin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB905 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from utilizing certain personal identifying information or engaging in certain conduct in order to cause certain harm; prohibiting a person from using certain artificial intelligence or certain deepfake representations for certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB495 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain schools that have an antidiscrimination policy to ensure that the policy includes certain information and is available to certain individuals in a certain manner; requiring a school to provide a certain training regarding antidiscri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB39 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual serving a term of confinement to petition a court to modify or reduce the sentence under certain circumstances; providing that a certain petitioner is entitled to assistance of counsel and, if indigent, representation by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB141 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual who is at least 60 years old and has been imprisoned for at least 20 years to file a motion to reduce the duration of the individual's sentence; requiring the court to conduct a hearing on a motion to reduce the duration of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB613 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing unless the court or the party redacts identifying information relating to a victim of sexual assault that appea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB508 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB677 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the court to admit into evidence in certain criminal proceedings certain out of court statements made by a vulnerable adult victim or witness under certain circumstances and subject to certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB381 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
