| MD | HB1332 | Intro
25% | Exempting from the property tax property that is owned by the Glenstone Foundation, Inc., and used exclusively for certain purposes; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1447 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland STEM Program in the State Department of Education to provide additional compensation to educators who teach STEM classes at nonpublic schools; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for the Program; requiring local school sy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1431 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law to require a law enforcement agency or a unit of State or local government to deny access to certain databases by certain individuals seeking access for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration law, under certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1002 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "security guard employer" for purposes of provisions of law governing the regulation of security guards, security guard agencies, and security guard employers to exclude certain video lottery operators and sports wagering f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB176 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to appoint an Assistant Commissioner for Public Employees' Safety and Health; establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to administer and enforce c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB266 | Intro
25% | Repealing the condition that must be met for a certain exclusive representative to meet with a new employee by video or similar technology; providing that a certain employee organization has the right to membership dues deductions until the employee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB643 | Intro
25% | Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for no less than 5 years, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1090 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to provide food supplement benefits to students enrolled in an institution of higher education in the State who meet certain work study requirements; and requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB333 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Insurance Administration to include a cybersecurity expert as staff to perform certain functions and submit to the State Chief Information Security Officer a report on the cybersecurity p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB505 | Intro
25% | Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB503 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB595 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Comptroller, beginning in fiscal year 2026, to distribute from the State Lottery Fund $500,000 of supplemental local impact aid to Anne Arundel County, Howard County, and the City of Laurel from the proceeds of the Racetrax lottery game...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB663 | Intro
25% | Altering the method by which the Comptroller must provide notice of the maximum income eligibility for the earned income tax credit for the calendar year to all employers in the State to include an electronic means of notification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB858 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB683 | Intro
25% | Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs in connectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB959 | Intro
25% | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB981 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation on the use and potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring that the evaluation consist of a survey of local school systems and a review of available system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB986 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; and altering the content required to be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1025 | Intro
25% | Requiring each local education agency in the State to become an associate member of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification to utilize the Educator Identification Clearinghouse for screening educators and in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB861 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of the Western Maryland Economic Future Investment Board; providing that the Executive Director serves as a nonvoting member of the Board; altering the purpose of the Senator George C. Edwards Fund to provide grant or loan fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1097 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup on Mail-In Ballot Accessibility to examine current processes in the State relating to mail-in ballot return, assessing the impact on voters with disabilities, collect information about current practices for accessible alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1105 | Intro
25% | Requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and contracting agencies to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain public schools to develop and implement a system to track and report injury incidents, whether intentional or accidental, to a student, teacher, or school employee on the school campus during the school year; and establishing certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1121 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Pilot Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to assist foster youth in applying for and accessing subsidies in the Program; establishing that the duration of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1288 | Intro
25% | Altering the noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts or similar documents that are null and void as being against public policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1339 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain employees of the Town of Forest Heights to participate in the Employees' Pension System; providing that membership in the Employees' Pension System is optional for certain employees of the Town of Forest Heights; requiring certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1320 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain law enforcement employees of the Forest Heights Police Department to participate in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; providing that membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System is optional for certain em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1262 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county board of education to develop and establish income eligibility guidelines and procedures for payment of costs for a certain post college and career readiness (post-CCR) pathway, except under certain circumstances; and requiring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1261 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain acts that have a discriminatory effect, regardless of the actor's intent, in employment by any person; and providing that a person who unintentionally violates a certain provision of law has not committed an unlawful employment pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1272 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Youth Sports Safety Advisory Commission to study and make recommendations to minimize risk and maximize safety for youth athletes; and requiring the Commission to submit a report of its findings and recommendations on or before Decem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1245 | Intro
25% | Repealing the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students and the associated funding; requiring county boards of education to report on per-school funding for certain programs associated with the Blueprint for Maryland's Future in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1275 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to hire a constituent services liaison before the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year; requiring the president of the county board, in consultation with counsel for the county board, to negotiat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1402 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Human Services to enter into certain data-sharing agreements with certain agencies to conduct certain reviews related to eligibility for and use of certain public benefits; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1303 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Education to set minimal experiential standards as qualifications for child care teachers that require a child care teacher to hold a high school diploma or equivalent, have successfully completed certain courses for cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1331 | Intro
25% | Regulating the manner in which a developer or deployer of artificial intelligence must protect consumers from certain risks; requiring a developer that offers to sell a certain artificial intelligence system to provide certain information and make ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1387 | Intro
25% | Applying certain provisions of law relating to the delivery of alcoholic beverages in Howard County to a holder or an employee of a holder of a Class D license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1340 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "employer" to exclude employers who are covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act for the current year from being required to provide to employees a certain unpaid parental leave benefit in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro
25% | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by food service facilities; specifying the State minimum wage rate; prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2028, employers of tipped employees from including a tip credit amount as part of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1317 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a contract executed between a county board of education and a county superintendent of schools on or after July 1, 2025, include certain provisions that provide for the compensation the county superintendent shall receive on terminatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1318 | Intro
25% | Establishing a Class C-PCL (premium cigar lounge) alcoholic beverages license for use in conjunction with a certain tobacco products retailer license; authorizing a local licensing board to issue the license; exempting a holder of the license from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1438 | Intro
25% | Altering the exemption from overtime pay for individuals who are employed to work in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the exempted compensation rate in effect for certain periods ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1413 | Intro
25% | Requiring employers to establish a policy that provides employees a certain right to ignore communications from the employer during nonworking hours and establishes nonworking hours by written agreement; and prohibiting, except under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1453 | Intro
25% | Requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1458 | Intro
25% | Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's right to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to be paid at a wage rate that is at least equal to the State minimum wage rate set by law without regard to tips that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1369 | Intro
25% | Establishing a minimum wage of $25.00 to be paid by county boards of education to certain education support professionals beginning July 1, 2025; adjusting the minimum wage for education support professionals for inflation each year; and defining "ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1476 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an employer from disclosing or threatening to disclose an employee's immigration status to a public body for the purpose of concealing an employer's violation of certain labor, benefit, or tax laws; authorizing the Commissioner of Labor a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1459 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of the Western Maryland Economic Future Investment Board; providing that the Executive Director serves as a nonvoting member of the Board, but may vote to break a tie; altering the purpose of the Senator George C. Edwards Fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1451 | Intro
25% | Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1294 | Intro
25% | Subjecting certain earned wage access products to the Maryland Consumer Loan Law and other provisions that regulate entities that provide consumer credit, revolving credit, and closed end credit; restricting the acceptance of tips by certain lenders ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1461 | Intro
25% | Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations Committee |
