| MD | SB291 | Pass | Requiring a person to file a registration statement with the State Board of Elections within a certain time period after the award of a contract that causes the person to be doing public business; requiring persons doing public business to update inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 23 |
| MD | SB305 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Geological Survey Fund to finance certain direct and indirect costs, including long-term budgeting and planning for survey projects, procurements, and equipment purchases; establishing the Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 86 |
| MD | SB253 | Pass | Exempting pay-for-success contracts negotiated or entered into by the Department of Natural Resources from certain provisions of the General Procurement Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 88 |
| MD | SB183 | Pass | Providing that certain provisions requiring prompt payments for State procurement contracts apply to payments owed by a contractor to a supplier.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 30 |
| MD | SB295 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that the Department of Planning prepare and periodically revise inventory lists of the natural resources of the State and certain public works and facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 93 |
| MD | SB459 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council by removing the Director of the Governor's Grants Office or the Director's designee and adding the Comptroller or the Comptroller's designee; requiring the Council to study ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 29 |
| MD | SB375 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting certain provisions from being included in State contracts; specifying that certain provisions are void if included in a State contract; specifying the applicable law and interpretation of State contracts; and applying the Act prospectivel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB413 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB587 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain reporting relating to minority business participation in State procurement by industry type to include real property title insurance services, including commercial real property title insurance services; and prohibiting the Special ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB570 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB590 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted |
| MD | SB982 | Enroll
75% | Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; altering the authority of the Board of Public Works over certain information technology projects; renaming the Major Informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1106 | Enroll
75% | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB943 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the use of automated bus obstruction monitoring systems to enforce violations of certain parking-related prohibitions; making statewide the authority of a local jurisdiction to use, in accordance with certain standards and procedures, bus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1183 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and Baltimore City to convene focus group meetings on the establishment of the Gwynns Falls State Park with community members and stakeholders that reside or operate in the vicinity of the proposed State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB556 | Enroll
75% | Altering the circumstances under which the Secretaries of Budget and Management and General Services may request the Board of Public Works to authorize a certain expenditure from the Construction Contingency Fund to include consideration of price adj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB259 | Engross
50% | Extending the date by which the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund must be expended to July 1, 2029; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to expend up to $400,000 from the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund for a project that address...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB362 | Enroll
75% | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB818 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and a certain assessment; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain circumstances; prohibiting a unit o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1014 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to consult with each primary procurement unit to identify potential contracting opportunities for and increase outreach efforts to small businesses; requiring each unit, on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB11 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Maryland Judiciary from engaging in any procurement related to the central repository, the judicial case management system, or any successor database that serves the same p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB170 | Enroll
75% | Requiring county boards of education to post certain hearing notices and bid advertisements on the websites of certain local school systems; increasing the threshold amount of costs of school buildings, improvements, supplies, and equipment that requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB194 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB775 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB258 | Enroll
75% | Altering the State's goals for reducing energy consumption in State buildings; requiring the Maryland Green Building Council to update the High Performance Green Building Program to ensure that the Program aligns with certain greenhouse gas emissions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB196 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB437 | Enroll
75% | Increasing from $25,000 to $50,000 the cost of a public work or improvement or the purchase price of supplies or equipment for which the County Commissioners of Carroll County may enter into a contract; and requiring that when the cost of a public wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB536 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Radiation Emergency Response Program in the Department of the Environment; requiring the Department to serve as an offsite response organization and the lead State agency for all nuclear incidents within the State; requiring the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB776 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Treasurer to consult with governmental entities prior to proposing certain regulations; requiring the Treasurer to adopt regulations, on or before December 1, 2024, that specify asset classes in which the Treasurer may invest; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB667 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals to award an interested party reasonable costs of filing and pursuing a protest, including attorney's fees, if an appeal is sustained and there is a violation of law or regulation; and authorizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB673 | Enroll
75% | Increasing the participation goal for certain small businesses for certain procurement contracts from 15% to 20%; requiring the certification agency, in consultation with the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs, to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB703 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB558 | Enroll
75% | Increasing the minimum dollar amount of contracts for which the County Commissioners, or any employee of Garrett County, are required to advertise for bids from $25,000 to $50,000; exempting certain contracts for professional services from a requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB16 | Engross
50% | Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to draft committees and exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for draft and exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
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 | SB731 | Intro
25% | Specifying that requirements for purchasing, leasing, changing the use of, or closing State facilities apply to facilities owned, leased, or operated for the purpose of providing benefits to clients; and requiring the Department of Human Services, on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB715 | Intro
25% | Requiring a private construction contract to include a provision requiring the owner to pay the contractor within 45 days after the receipt of a proper invoice following completion of the work or, if the owner withholds all or part of an amount invoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB129 | Intro
25% | Requiring that each member of the State Board of Elections receive a stipend as provided in the State budget; requiring the State Administrator of Elections or the procurement officer for the State Board to disclose requests for proposals, invitation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB935 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Public Service Commission, to establish a Renewable Natural Gas Pilot Program in the Department on or before January 1, 2025; requiring the Department, in consultation with the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1179 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to amend certain policies and procedures governing procurements by the University System in a certain manner; and providing that the University System, Morgan State University, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB169 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB338 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the holder of a Class C (veterans' organization or club) license in Somerset County to purchase alcoholic beverages from a retail dealer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1156 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education, in consultation with the Howard County Executive and the Howard County Council, to publish a model policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1082 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county to enact a local law creating a conservation and restoration fund for a certain purpose; establishing the Utility-Scale Solar Design and Siting Commission in the Power Plant Research Program to provide recommendations related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1138 | Intro
25% | Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualified apprentices or journeymen necessary to meet a certain applicable percentage for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1126 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain congestion relief plans; establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region conge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB979 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the AI Subcabinet of the Governor's Executive Council, to develop and update guidelines on artificial intelligence for county boards of education and to develop a pilot program to supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1043 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a public school employer from entering into a certain subcontracting agreement unless certain circumstances occur; specifying the requirements for a public school employer to enter into a certain subcontracting agreement; providing for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB726 | Intro
25% | Altering the authorized uses of the Bay Restoration Fund to include, beginning in fiscal year 2026, certain costs related to the decommissioning of certain wastewater treatment lagoons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB780 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from selling an Internet-connected device that is intended for minors unless the device is sold with a certain filter, certain privacy settings, and other features; making a violation of the prohibition an unfair, abusive, or dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
