| MD | SB27 | Pass | Entering into the Cosmetology Licensure Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an individual practicing cosmetology to practice in a party state under certain circumstances; establishing the Cosmetology Licensure Compact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329 |
| MD | HB383 | Pass | Entering into the Cosmetology Licensure Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an individual practicing cosmetology to practice in a party state under certain circumstances; establishing the Cosmetology Licensure Compact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 |
| MD | HB465 | Pass | Increasing, from $5,000 to $10,000, the maximum civil penalty for the knowing failure of an employer to properly classify an individual as an employee; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, on a showing by clear and convincing evidenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 |
| MD | HB577 | Pass | Establishing the Study on the Establishment of a Homeless Shelter Licensing Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Study to review current habitability and admissions standards of homeless shelters in the State;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| MD | SB564 | Pass | Repealing certain processes regarding the expiration of certain licenses for real estate brokers, associate real estate brokers, and real estate salespersons; requiring that certain licenses expire on a staggered basis; modifying and setting certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330 |
| MD | HB1002 | Pass | Authorizing the Office of the Attorney General, a Deputy Attorney General, or an Assistant Attorney General to issue a subpoena to a person to produce certain materials, answer written interrogatories, and give certain testimony in furtherance of an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 140 |
| MD | SB1107 | Pass | Establishing the Study on the Establishment of a Homeless Shelter Licensing Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Study to review current habitability and admissions standards of homeless shelters in the State;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| MD | HB1308 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from recording a deed or other instrument that the person knows contains false information; establishing a 3-year limitation on when a prosecution for a violation of the Act may be commenced; establishing a fine not to exceed $50...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 369 |
| MD | SB1188 | Pass | Establishing the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program and the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund to provide tuition assistance to a student who was a dependent or is the surviving spouse of a fallen transportation worker; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3 |
| MD | SB231 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a public adjuster, or anyone acting on behalf of a public adjuster, from soliciting or attempting to solicit a client during the progress of a loss-producing occurrence or between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.; requiring a public a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Fraser-Hidalgo, Qi and Wilson) |
| MD | HB567 | Enroll
75% | Establishing generally the manner in which a controller or a processor may process a consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller of personal data to es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB760 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a merchant from selling a certain open- or closed-loop gift card to a consumer unless the merchant meets certain requirements; requiring a certain merchant to provide training to all employees of the merchant on identifying and responding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB859 | Engross
50% | Repealing certain processes regarding the expiration of real estate brokers', associate real estate brokers', and real estate salespersons' licenses; requiring that certain licenses expire on a staggered basis; modifying and setting certain time fram...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | HB896 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a merchant from selling a certain open- or closed-loop gift card to a consumer unless the merchant meets certain requirements; requiring a merchant to provide to the employees of the merchant training on identification of gift card fraud;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Kramer, Hayes and Mautz) |
| MD | HB1063 | Enroll
75% | Altering the definition of "underlying crime" that is applicable to certain prohibitions against participation in criminal organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB539 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the listing for a ticket and each step of a transaction to purchase a ticket to disclose certain information, including the total price of the ticket; repealing the exceptions to the prohibition against a reseller selling or offering to sel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB541 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB36 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a public adjuster, or anyone acting on behalf of a public adjuster, from soliciting or attempting to solicit a client between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.; altering the statements that are required to be included in a public adjus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1111 | Intro
25% | Establishing the statute of limitations for a certain civil action for damages resulting from certain participation in a criminal organization; altering certain definitions of "criminal organization" and "underlying crime"; authorizing the filing of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1319 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB373 | Engross
50% | Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking a letter; prohibiting the theft of mail under certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from possessing an arrow key with the intent to use or allow the use of the arrow key in the commission of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB892 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly recruiting, harboring, transporting, or obtaining an individual for the purpose of appropriating the government benefits of an individual for the benefit of the person or another through deception, coercion, exploi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB145 | Engross
50% | Establishing that the statute of limitations for a prosecution relating to harassment by distribution of a deep fake image is 5 years after the victim knew or should have known of the violation; establishing that it is harassment for a person to dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB34 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1434 | Engross
50% | Requiring, subject to a certain provision of law, the Department of Human Services to reimburse a beneficiary for any benefits lost due to the fraudulent use of the beneficiary's Electronic Benefits Transfer card and restore the benefits without furt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB458 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by certain individuals; prohibiting certain political organizations from employing certain individuals or allowing certain individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB436 | Engross
50% | Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of L...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB661 | Intro
25% | Altering the amount of wages of a judgment debtor that are exempt from attachment; establishing and altering certain requirements on judgment creditors; making a violation of certain requirements on judgment creditors relating to a judgment arising o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB695 | Intro
25% | Requiring a dealer of used motor vehicles sold or leased in the State to establish procedures under which each consumer, before completing a transaction to purchase or lease a used motor vehicle from the dealer, is notified and provided with a copy o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB794 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB160 | Intro
25% | Establishing the third week in April as Workplace Readiness Week and requiring county boards of education to establish a specified program of education to be held during Workplace Readiness Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1481 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a retail business from charging a consumer a certain surcharge in excess of the amount required to reimburse the retail business for the cost of processing certain credit or debit transactions; and making a violation of this Act an unfair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1183 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from issuing an arrest warrant to an individual other than a police officer or a State's Attorney; and increasing the penalty for making a certain false statement or report to a certain governmental official ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1419 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the intentional fraudulent sale, conveyance, or lease or attempted sale, conveyance, or lease of real property by a person who does not own the real property; prohibiting the acquisition, sale, or conveyance or the attempted acquisition, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB642 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1184 | Intro
25% | Requiring a unit to structure procurement procedures to meet federal procurement standards and to try to achieve or exceed a certain overall percentage goal of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts to be made with historically underu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1196 | Intro
25% | Requiring the seller of any real property to provide a title report to the buyer prior to closing; permitting a buyer to rescind a contract of sale for real property under certain circumstances; and providing that a violation of the Act is an unfair,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1425 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain provider of earned wage access services to register with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring a provider to file a certain surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Commissioner in a certain manner; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1156 | Intro
25% | Exempting consumer wire transaction from certain provisions of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code; limiting liability for damages resulting from consumer wire transfers; defining sufficient notice; requiring investigations; requiring decisions and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB735 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1000 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a contract of sale for single-family residential real property from containing the name of an individual buyer prior to acceptance of the contract of sale by the seller; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB962 | Intro
25% | Requiring the seller of any real property to provide a title report to the buyer prior to closing; permitting a buyer to rescind a contract of sale for real property under certain circumstances; and providing that a violation of the Act is an unfair,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB797 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person, with the intent to promote a certain crime or with the intent to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of proceeds of a certain crime, from taking certain actions with respect to the proceeds de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB834 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Scam Awareness Pilot Program in the Division of Consumer Protection of the Office of the Attorney General to identify common scamming methods used against individuals in the State and to develop and disseminate certain consumer safet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB998 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain provider of earned wage access services to register with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring a provider to file a certain surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Commissioner in a certain manner; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB930 | Intro
25% | Exempting consumer wire transaction from certain provisions of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code; limiting liability for damages resulting from consumer wire transfers; defining sufficient notice; requiring investigations; requiring decisions and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB717 | Intro
25% | Allowing, subject to certain limitations, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain personal casualty losses related to a theft or fraud scheme; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB752 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB746 | Intro
25% | Providing that the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Education is a state educational authority under a certain federal law; providing that the Office is the State unit authorized to audit or evaluate certain education programs; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means 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 |
