| MD | SB151 | Pass | Establishing a Workgroup on Health and Wellness in Prince George's County to review and evaluate health and wellness practices, programs, services, and resources in Prince George's County and make recommendations regarding best practices in health an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 978 |
| MD | SB181 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $1,000,000 in the annual budget bill for fiscal years 2026 through 2028 to provide operating grants to certain qualifying nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing training in automot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 892 |
| MD | SB167 | Pass | Requiring that a physician assistant have a collaboration agreement, rather than a delegation agreement, in order to practice as a physician assistant; altering the scope of practice of a physician assistant; altering the education required for licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 919 |
| MD | SB175 | Pass | Requiring an applicant for a license to practice optometry and certain applicants for the renewal of a license to submit to a criminal history records check obtained from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 815 |
| MD | SB578 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 782 |
| MD | SB614 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to prostheses beginning January 1, 2025; establishing that certain insure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 823 |
| MD | SB705 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to establish and implement the Qualified Resident Enrollment Program to facilitate the enrollment of qualified residents in qualified plans; providing that the operation and administration of the Program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 841 |
| MD | SB718 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Pathway to Nursing Pilot Program in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to support students in licensed practical nursing education programs who intend to practice nursing as a career in the State; requiring the Secreta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 866 |
| MD | SB790 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide Maryland Medical Assistance Program services for individuals under the Employed Individuals with Disabilities Program in accordance with certain requirements; prohibiting the Department from limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 845 |
| MD | SB821 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to study professional employer organizations in the State to review certain regulations, history, health plans, requirements, and regulatory structures in other states and to address any potential impac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 797 |
| MD | SB1036 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 936 |
| MD | SB952 | Pass | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 839 |
| MD | SB999 | Pass | Exempting an individual who practices as a certain nursing assistant for less than 4 months under federal regulations from the State's certification requirement; altering the designation of, and licensure requirements for, certified nursing assistant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 819 |
| MD | SB244 | Pass | Prohibiting vaping in certain indoor areas and places of employment and certain mass transportation; requiring that certain signs be posted and maintained in a certain manner in certain indoor areas and certain public entrances; requiring the Marylan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 755 |
| MD | SB287 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police to determine the manner and format for applications for certification as a private detective, security guard, security systems technician, and railroad police officer and for a license to provide security gua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| MD | SB197 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Department of Health to reimburse a residential service agency for personal assistance services only if the personal assistance services are provided by an individual classified as an employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 882 |
| MD | SB41 | Pass | Altering the items of information that a consumer reporting agency is prohibited from including in a consumer credit report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 619 |
| MD | SB109 | Pass | Providing that certain State employees are entitled to use up to 10 days of parental bereavement leave with pay within 60 days after the death of the employee's child; providing that certain State employees are entitled to use up to 60 days of parent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 420 |
| MD | SB133 | Pass | Increasing, from 30 days to 60 days, the time period during which an investigation must be conducted and a written decision must be issued regarding a complaint filed by an applicant or employee alleging discrimination or harassment by an employer; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 555 |
| MD | SB345 | Pass | Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 603 |
| MD | SB417 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections to evaluate the performance of the State Administrator of Elections; requiring the State Administrator to provide a performance evaluation of the election director of each local board of elections to the local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 |
| MD | SB472 | Pass | Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| MD | SB482 | Pass | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to chair the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Office to staff the Children's C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 408 |
| MD | SB541 | Pass | Regulating the manner in which a controller or a processor in possession of a consumer's personal data may process the consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 455 |
| MD | SB491 | Pass | Repealing a requirement for certain transfers of service to be calculated under a certain formula; correcting a reference to a contribution rate for transfers of service into the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; and providing for eligibility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 668 |
| MD | SB570 | Pass | Requiring certain gas companies and authorizing certain gas companies to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems by October 1, 2024; requiring a gas company that serves at least 75,000 customers in its distribution territo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 |
| MD | SB703 | Pass | Requiring the Comptroller to develop and maintain on the Board of Public Works' website a procurement transparency data dashboard; establishing a governance committee composed of the liaisons to the Board from the offices of the Governor, the Comptr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 581 |
| MD | SB706 | Pass | Requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to suspend the retirement benefit of a retiree of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System who is elected as a sheriff within 1 year after retirement; providing for the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 671 |
| MD | SB775 | Pass | Altering the requirements that certain officers and employees of the State be covered by certain surety bonds to allow the officers and employees to be covered by certain insurance policies; transferring certain duties and responsibilities of the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 438 |
| MD | SB777 | Pass | Removing the State Treasurer from the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation and repealing certain related authority and duties; removing the State Treasurer or the State Treasurer's designee from the Maryland Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 436 |
| MD | SB804 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Stadium Authority to conduct a certain feasibility study for developing, establishing, and operating a sports tourism facility at Reisterstown Regional Park in northwest Baltimore County; requiring the Authority to consult with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 615 |
| MD | SB880 | Pass | Establishing that certain adjustments to compensation may not be considered an extraordinary salary increase when determining the average final compensation of a member in the State Retirement and Pension System; and requiring a member to submit cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 672 |
| MD | SB1080 | Pass | Increasing the number of certain bargaining units for the purpose of specifying certain pay rates for certain employees of the Maryland Department of Health; and requiring that the pay rates of certain employees of the Department who are in certain b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 630 |
| MD | SB1084 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing to study and make recommendations regarding certain services, programs, advocacy, outreach efforts, and other items to improve the quality of life of individuals who are deaf, de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 442 |
| MD | SB969 | Pass | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 559 |
| MD | SB32 | Pass | Altering a certain loan program to authorize the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans not exceeding $10,000 for each seasonal full-time job; expanding eligibility for the Maryland Watermen's Micro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 573 |
| MD | SB194 | Pass | Authorizing the Pricing and Selection Committee for Preferred Providers to grant a waiver from a certain requirement to use a certain preferred provider for the procurement of supplies and services under certain circumstances; requiring the Committee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 578 |
| MD | SB982 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; renaming the Major Information Technology Development Fund; requiring 20% of the amount appropriated to the Fund to be set asid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 497 |
| MD | SB818 | Pass | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and a certain assessment on or before certain dates; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496 |
| MD | SB783 | Pass | Requiring that certain home improvement contracts for the installation of a solar energy generating system on the roof of a building include the installation of a certain wildlife barrier under certain circumstances; requiring a county or municipalit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595 |
| MD | SB38 | Pass | Requiring that a notice of the pay rate, regular paydays, and leave benefits provided to an employee at the time of hiring be written; requiring that the statement regarding earnings required to be provided to employees by employers be written on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 305 |
| MD | SB33 | Pass | Requiring each public high school to inform students of certain employment and skills training opportunities in the same manner the school informs students of postsecondary educational options; requiring, when informing certain students about certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 281 |
| MD | SB225 | Pass | Continuing the Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to June 1, 2034, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 401 |
| MD | SB192 | Pass | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain supervisory State employees; and requiring that certain supervisory State employees who are not confidential employees have separate bargaining units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 134 |
| MD | SB354 | Pass | Establishing the Rent Court Workforce Solutions Pilot Program in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to provide defendant tenants in failure to pay rent cases with workforce resources and information on workforce development, registered appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 295 |
| MD | SB377 | Pass | Altering the definition of "institution of initial eligibility" to include community colleges as eligible institutions as part of the criteria for applicants for the Teacher Development and Retention Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 185 |
| MD | SB413 | Pass | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323 |
| MD | SB466 | Pass | Exempting minor league baseball players who are compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for the wages and working conditions of employees from the Maryland Wage and Hour Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 246 |
| MD | SB485 | Pass | Modifying provisions of law governing application, administration, and enforcement of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, including provisions related to the payment of contributions, the calculation of the average weekly wage, the submis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 266 |
| MD | SB500 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for an award from the Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund to include a service obligation to work in an approved child care setting for at least 20 hours per week; requiring the Office of Child Care to prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 |
