| MD | SB439 | Intro | Requiring an individual appearing before the Maryland State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors for approval of an apprentice license to complete at least 1,000 working hours in a licensed funeral establishment under the direct supervision of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB639 | Intro | Prohibiting a hospital or related institution, on or after January 1, 2022, from employing or granting privileges to a certain health care professional unless the health care professional provides certain documentation; requiring each health care pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB835 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to develop a list of any federal or State incentive programs available to an employer who hires and trains formerly incarcerated individuals; and requiring the Department to make the list available on the ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB59 | Intro | Requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to include an Equity category and certain subcategories in the Anne Arundel County Board of Education annual budget; and requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to provide certain info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB106 | Intro | Requiring an individual appearing before the Maryland State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors for approval of an apprentice license to complete at least 1,000 working hours in a licensed funeral establishment under the direct supervision of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB224 | Intro | Altering the scope of apprenticeship and training programs that may receive certain support through the Clean Energy Workforce Account from the Strategic Energy Investment Fund for clean energy industry development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB258 | Engross | Prohibiting public and nonpublic school employees from operating an electric retractable room partition in a school except under certain circumstances; requiring any annual safety review, evaluation, or exercise for school employees in a certain scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB456 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in partnership with the Department of Aging, the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Council, and the Alzheimer's Association, to incorporate information regarding cognitive impairm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB446 | Intro | Authorizing the Secretary of Higher Education to require certain institutions of postsecondary education to refund all tuition and fees to certain Maryland students if the institution does not file all essential records of the academic achievement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Motion Special Order until 2/26 (Senator Cassilly) Adopted |
| MD | SB420 | Intro | Prohibiting the use of certain Class B fire fighting foam that contains intentionally added PFAS chemicals for certain testing or training purposes; requiring the use of certain foam for fire fighting training; providing that the Act does not restric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB463 | Intro | Altering the authority of the Board of Trustees of the State Retirement and Pension System to adopt regulations to manage, for training and quality control purposes, the monitoring and recording of incoming telephone conversations to the Member Servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB619 | Intro | Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2021, the use of fire-fighting foam containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances for firefighter training purposes; and establishing a civil penalty of up to $500 for a first violation of the Act and up...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB961 | Intro | Repealing the requirement that a certain representative designated by a unit of the University System of Maryland to coordinate certain sexual harassment prevention training be the unit's Title IX Coordinator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1579 | Intro | Establishing the Law Enforcement Coordinating Council to prevent and reduce crime by coordinating and focusing State resources and ensuring interagency communication and intelligence-sharing; requiring the Council to prepare a certain comprehensive c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB962 | Intro | Establishing an assisted living program beer, wine, and liquor license in Harford County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue the license to a manager of an assisted living program, but no more than five ALP lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Favorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1187 | Intro | Establishing a Class BA (bowling alley) license in Harford County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue the license to an owner of a bowling alley entitling the holder to sell beer and wine for on- and off-premis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Favorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1571 | Intro | Providing that the assessment of a certain fee by the State Health Services Cost Review Commission for funding the Hospital Employees Retraining Fund is to be in the case of a hospital closure, merger, or full delicensure; altering the circumstances ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1525 | Intro | Requiring the pay scale for a certain physician position in a certain facility to be the same as the pay scale for a certain psychiatrist position; requiring certain nursing positions to receive a certain upward adjustment in their pay scales when th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1024 | Intro | Requiring the Office of Home Energy Programs, in coordination with the United Way of Central Maryland and the Fuel Fund of Maryland, to establish the Power to the People Pilot Program on or before July 1, 2021, to expand access to the Critical Medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
[Hearing: Mar 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1474 | Intro | Requiring that the pay rate for certain employees at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital be at least two grades higher than the employee's pay rate effective June 30, 2020; requiring that the pay rate for certain employees in the Behavioral Health Administra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB245 | Engross | Altering the definition of "practice social work" to include counseling for alcohol and drug use and addictive behaviors and to clarify that it includes, for certain individuals, the treatment of biopsychosocial conditions under the supervision of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB325 | Engross | Applying certain sexual harassment prevention training requirements to all units in the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of State government and to each constituent institution of the University System of Maryland; and repealing the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB308 | Intro | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to include certain additional categories in the Prince George's County Board of Education annual budget; and requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to provide information on whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB769 | Intro | Authorizing a county board of education to award credit to a high school student toward a high school diploma or a postsecondary credential, or both, for one vocational course per semester in a career and technical education program approved by the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1552 | Intro | Establishing an Education Savings Account program in the State; stating the purpose of the program; establishing the requirements for participation in the program; requiring a certain deposit into the account of certain students; establishing a proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB288 | Intro | Requiring in Prince George's County a holder of a certain alcoholic beverages license or an individual designated by the license holder and employed in a supervisory capacity to be certified by an approved alcohol awareness program and to be present ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
[Hearing: Mar 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB983 | Intro | Establishing the Maryland Data Analysis and Accountability Program in the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center; stating the purpose of the Program; requiring the Center to perform certain functions and duties; establishing a certain governing boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB1049 | Intro | Establishing the Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline Management Program to provide funds to a certain collaborative; defining "collaborative" as commitments of partnership between at least two cybersecurity organizations to improve the State's cybersecurit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB133 | Intro | Authorizing a county board of education to award credit to a high school student toward a high school diploma or a postsecondary credential, or both, for one vocational course per semester in a career and technical education program approved by the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB936 | Intro | Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to exercise disciplinary authority over the local election directors for non-compliance with State rules, regulations, and policies; requiring a local board of elections to notify the State Administrator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB170 | Intro | Establishing the Family Law Services for Sustained Safety Fund to increase legal services in family law cases for victims in order to help ensure safety and long-term stability after victimization; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB480 | Intro | Renaming the State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators to be the State Board of Long-Term Care Administrators; establishing a license for assisted living managers; altering the membership of the Board; altering the qualifications for ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB603 | Intro | Requiring the Public Service Commission to develop a training and educational program for certain licensed energy suppliers; requiring the Commission to develop the program in consultation with interested stakeholders, including electricity suppliers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB707 | Intro | Establishing the Task Force on the Tourism Industry in Maryland to review the need for additional funding, training, and other resources necessary to increase diversity and inclusion in the tourism industry in the State; providing for the composition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB693 | Intro | Requiring that the pay rate for employees who are not receiving a forensic pay premium at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital be at least a two grades higher than the employee's pay rate effective June 30, 2020; requiring that the pay rate for certain employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB918 | Intro | Establishing the Commission on Trauma-Informed Care to coordinate a statewide initiative to prioritize the trauma-responsive and trauma-informed delivery of State services that impact children, youth, and families; requiring the Commission to submit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB90 | Engross | Defining the terms "service dog", "support dog", and "therapy horse" for the purposes of the provisions of law governing the Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program in the Department of Veterans Affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB79 | Engross | Expanding the definition of "technology-based business" to include a nonprofit organization exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code for purposes of the Maryland Technology Internship Program; and altering from 3.0 to 2.5 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB142 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a process for an individual purchasing certain licenses and stamps in a certain manner to make a voluntary monetary donation to the Healing Hunting and Fishing Fund; requiring the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB174 | Engross | Requiring a dental practice to be owned by a licensed dentist or a dental professional corporation; establishing that only a certain individual licensed by the State Board of Dental Examiners may take certain actions; prohibiting any person who is no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB753 | Engross | Altering the authority of the Board of Trustees of the State Retirement and Pension System to adopt regulations to manage, for training and quality control purposes, the monitoring and recording of incoming telephone conversations to the Member Servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1321 | Intro | Prohibiting a physician from performing or inducing an abortion on a pregnant woman within a certain period of time after the woman receives certain ultrasound imaging; requiring the medical professional performing a certain transabdominal ultrasound...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB324 | Engross | Requiring that the behavioral health services for which the Maryland Department of Health provides service coordination for veterans under certain provisions of law include mental health first aid; requiring that mental health first aid consist of tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB418 | Intro | Establishing an Education Savings Account program in the State; stating the purpose of the program; establishing the requirements for participation in the program; requiring a certain deposit into the account of certain students; establishing a proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB581 | Intro | Establishing the Family Law Services for Sustained Safety Fund to increase legal services in family law cases for victims in order to help ensure safety and long-term stability after victimization; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1578 | Intro | Expressing the sense of the General Assembly that facial recognition technology can present certain risks as well as provide a variety of benefits and that safeguards are necessary to allow the use of the technology in ways that benefit society; esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1581 | Intro | Altering the purpose of the Maryland Technology Internship Program; providing for the cumulative 2.5 grade point average that an individual shall maintain to qualify for participation in the Program with a unit of State government; providing for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1018 | Intro | Requiring the regulations adopted by the State Board of Education to govern the licensing and operation of child care centers to include provisions that establish certain qualifications for child care teachers and require each child care center emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1300 | Intro | Repealing, altering, and adding certain provisions of law to implement The Blueprint for Maryland's Future, which is intended to transform Maryland's early childhood, primary, and secondary education system to the levels of high-performing systems ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB464 | Intro | Authorizing the establishment of an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program by a community-based organization to provide a place for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide sterile needles, administer first aid, and provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
