| MD | SB271 | Enroll
75% | Altering the information that clerks of the circuit court for each county and administrative clerks for each District Court are required to report to the State Administrator of Elections to include the names of individuals convicted of a felony and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB209 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission to develop recommendations relating to education and its impact on the criminal justice system; and requiring the Commission to submit an interim report of its findings and recommendations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB134 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office; requiring the Office to conduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB346 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of a v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Carter) Adopted |
| MD | SB1098 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for rape in the first degree in a State or local correctional facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB435 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a court, if an obligor becomes incarcerated, to determine that a material change of circumstances warranting a modification of child support has occurred, provided that the party's ability to pay child support is sufficiently reduced due ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB623 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission to develop recommendations relating to education and its impact on the criminal justice system; and requiring the Commission to submit to the Governor and the General Assembly an interim re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB92 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to assist incarcerated individuals in accessing federal Pell Grants for higher education; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to set goals for the number of incarcerated indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB297 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office; requiring the Office to conduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1037 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to identify reentry services in the State, develop a plan to establish a new division within the Department of Public Safety and Correctiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB14 | Engross
50% | Altering the information that clerks of the circuit court for each county and administrative clerks for each District Court are required to report to the State Administrator of Elections; requiring a public official responsible for the use of a publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Wilkins, Griffith and Fair) |
| MD | HB94 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the authority of the Division of Correction to arrange for inmates not needed or being used by the State Highway Administration to perform emergency road work to be employed in agricultural work during any part of the year at a camp in Quee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB123 | Engross
50% | Authorizing an individual who is serving a term of confinement to petition a court to reduce the sentence under certain circumstances; limiting the number of petitions that an individual may file to two; and establishing procedures for a proceeding u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB565 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of State Police to investigate any death of an incarcerated individual suspected to be a homicide that occurs while the individual is in the custody of the Division of Correction whether within or outside a correctional facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB960 | Enroll
75% | Repealing a provision of law requring a District Court judge to assign, if practicable, an offender to work the public roads of Frederick County or the City of Frederick as a penalty for a violation of a municipal law or ordinance of the City of Fred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1036 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1086 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain benefits that a certain individual who has been erroneously convicted of a crime is entitled to receive; requiring the State to notify a certain individual of certain information in writing under certain circumstances when the State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB187 | Enroll
75% | Repealing the authority of the Division of Correction to arrange for inmates not needed or being used by the State Highway Administration to perform emergency road work to be employed in agricultural work during any part of the year at a camp in Quee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB620 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to assist incarcerated individuals in accessing federal Pell Grants for higher education; requiring the Department to set goals for the number of incarcerated individuals in certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB890 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain benefits that a certain individual who has been erroneously convicted of a crime is entitled to receive; requiring the State to notify a certain individual of certain information in writing under certain circumstances when the State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB404 | Engross
50% | Establishing an exemption for a certain person who enters or trespasses on real property while wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB36 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of State Police, on or before December 31 each year, to post on its website and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a report detailing, for the preceeding calendar year, the number of investigations completed by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB203 | Engross
50% | Altering a certain requirement that the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services annually report to the General Assembly about opioid use disorder among incarcerated individuals in local correctional facilities by repealing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1505 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain State or local correctional facility, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer a certain undocumented immigrant to the United States Department of Homeland Security under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1022 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements regarding the provision of ballot drop boxes and information related to voting to eligible voters by correctional facilities and the State Board of Elections; establishing a Voting Rights Ombudsman for Incarcerated Individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1144 | Intro
25% | Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1366 | Intro
25% | Providing that a State correctional facility is responsible for the payment of costs charged by a telephone service provider under certain circumstances; providing that a State correctional facility and a telephone service provider may not charge an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1405 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to develop and offer an apprenticeship program in skilled trades for incarcerated individuals; establishing the purpose of the program is to assist incarcerated individuals to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1154 | Intro
25% | Repealing a provision of law requring a District Court judge to assign, if practicable, an offender to work the public roads of Frederick County or the City of Frederick as a penalty for a violation of a municipal law or ordinance of the City of Fred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB948 | Intro
25% | Providing that a State correctional facility is responsible for the payment of costs charged by a telephone service provider under certain circumstances; providing that a State correctional facility and a telephone service provider may not charge an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1085 | Intro
25% | Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB855 | Intro
25% | Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours; and authorizing a correctional facility to place a min...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB145 | 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] | 2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB87 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person who is convicted of first-degree murder may be sentenced to death under certain circumstances; and establishing certain procedures relating to custody, warrant of execution, incompetency, method of execution, witnesses, certif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB389 | 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] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB446 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person who has been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment exceeding 1 year and is currently serving the sentence imposed for the conviction, including a term of parole or probation, or has been convicted of a crime involvin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB724 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual who is serving a term of confinement to petition a court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the individuals term of confinement and at least 3 years have passed since the court decided a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB301 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for first degree rape or first degree sexual offense as first degree sexual offense existed prior to October 1, 2017, from being entitled to diminution of the incarcerated individual's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB310 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB317 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a State's Attorney to file a motion for a reduction of sentence at any time during the period of active incarceration recommending a lesser sentence if it is in the interest of justice; authorizing an individual to file a response within ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB44 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB179 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB282 | Intro
25% | Altering a certain requirement that the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services annually report to the General Assembly about opioid use disorder among incarcerated individuals in local correctional facilities by repealing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB318 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a State's Attorney to file a motion for a reduction of sentence at any time during the period of active incarceration recommending a lesser sentence if it is in the interest of justice; authorizing an individual to file a response within ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
