| MD | HB293 | Enroll
75% | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases; requiring the testimony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB301 | Enroll
75% | Altering and clarifying the requirement that a sworn affidavit for judicial authorization to initiate forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) assert that the reasonable investigative leads have been pursued and failed to identify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB333 | Enroll
75% | Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB492 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Director of Human Resources of Frederick County to request from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services a State and national criminal history records chec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB482 | Enroll
75% | Providing that "department" does not include the Maryland Department of Health or the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services for purposes of certain provisions prohibiting a department from refusing to issue an occupational license or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB421 | Enroll
75% | Extending from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for prosecutions relating to destroying funerary objects and other elements of a cemetery to begin at the time local authorities knew or reasonably should have known of the violation; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB579 | Engross
50% | Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; altering the requirements for certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the individuals eligible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (124-14) |
| MD | SB608 | Enroll
75% | Altering the requirements for certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the individuals eligible to request a certain official to certify victim helpfulness relating to certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1060 | Enroll
75% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1007 | Engross
50% | Providing that the contents of a certain intercepted communication and evidence derived from the communication may be received in evidence in a certain criminal proceeding under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB302 | Enroll
75% | Expanding certain provisions of law relating to a certain investigation and recommendation by a State's Attorney concerning the filing of a statement of charges against certain professionals to include certain human service workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB32 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; authorizing a forensic review board to make recommendati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB432 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB853 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a certain individual to file a motion to reduce the duration of a certain sentence if the individual was convicted between the ages of at least 18 and under 25, was not sentenced to life, is not a sex offender, has served at least 20 year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB241 | Enroll
75% | Clarifying that "spouse" includes a former spouse for purposes of disclosure of confidential communications occurring during marriage; and establishing that a spouse, who is the alleged victim, is competent to disclose a confidential communication be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB179 | Enroll
75% | Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB89 | Enroll
75% | Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB11 | Enroll
75% | Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB152 | Enroll
75% | Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB280 | Enroll
75% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB442 | Enroll
75% | Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB418 | Enroll
75% | Repealing certain limitations on the prospective employees or volunteers of Carroll County for whom the Department of Human Resources of Carroll County may request a criminal history records check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB533 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a judge to consider whether a military protection order has been issued against a respondent when determining whether to grant a temporary peace order or a temporary protective order; and requiring a law enforcement officer to notify a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB616 | Enroll
75% | Extending from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for prosecutions relating to destroying funerary objects and other elements of a cemetery to begin at the time local authorities knew or reasonably should have known of the violation; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB831 | Enroll
75% | Repealing certain limitations on the prospective employees or volunteers of Carroll County for whom the Department of Human Resources of Carroll County may request a criminal history records check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB142 | Enroll
75% | Clarifying that "spouse" includes a former spouse for purposes of disclosure of confidential communications occurring during marriage; and establishing that a spouse, who is the alleged victim, is competent to disclose a confidential communication be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB43 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; authorizing a forensic board to make recommendations rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB273 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a judge to consider whether a military protection order has been issued against a respondent when determining whether to grant a temporary peace order or a temporary protective order; and requiring a law enforcement officer to notify a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB274 | Enroll
75% | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases; requiring the testimony ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB343 | Engross
50% | Reconstituting the Task Force to Study Transparency Standards for State's Attorneys; and requiring the Task Force to develop processes by which prosecutors can collect information and determine what information should be made public and what informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB591 | Engross
50% | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB873 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Adoption of a Statute for Assault in the Third Degree; requiring the Workgroup, if it recommends adoption of a third degree assault prohibition, to prepare draft legislation with the assistance of the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB815 | Engross
50% | Altering certain provisions of law regarding the prohibition on certain departments of State government denying an occupational license or certificate to an applicant solely on the basis of the criminal history of the applicant by prohibiting the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB130 | Engross
50% | Altering the statute of limitations applicable to a certain offense relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing any wire, oral, or electronic communications and reclassifying the offense as a misdemeanor instead of a felony punis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB610 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the expungement of a charge under a certain provision of law if the charge was not disposed of by an unequivocal conviction, but was instead disposed of by the court with a no finding designation or included in a case that was designated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB649 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the expungement of a charge under a certain provision of law if the charge was not disposed of by an unequivocal conviction, but was instead disposed of by the court with a no finding designation or included in a case that was designated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
Referred to interim study by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB198 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Crime Solvers Reward Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to provide grants to law enforcement agencies and county reward programs to be used as rewards offered to the public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1188 | Intro
25% | Requiring law enforcement agencies, law enforcement agents, and local detention facilities who take custody of an individual to run a search of the individual in the National Crime Information Center, make a certain notice to federal immigration aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB281 | Engross
50% | Providing that during the trial of a criminal case in which a defendant is charged with an assault in the second degree, a certain statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule if the statement is offered against a party that has engaged in, directed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1389 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Bitcoin Reserve Fund to serve as a reserve asset for the State through the investment of Bitcoin; and authorizing the State Treasurer to invest the funds obtained by the State through the enforcement of certain gambling viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1346 | Intro
25% | Establishing that the creative expression of a criminal defendant or juvenile respondent is not admissible against the defendant or respondent unless the court makes certain findings; establishing that the creative expression of a defendant or respon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1308 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in a medical facility or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment of up to 10 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1001 | Intro
25% | Establishing that the creative expression of a criminal defendant or juvenile respondent is not admissible against the defendant or respondent unless the court makes certain findings; establishing that the creative expression of a defendant or respon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1550 | Intro
25% | Requiring a law enforcement agency to provide a certain victim of sexual assault certain notice pertaining to the submission of a sexual assault evidence collection kit to a forensic laboratory under certain circumstances; altering a certain provisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB810 | Intro
25% | Requiring each law enforcement agency to adopt a policy requiring the use of a lethality assessment protocol; and defining "lethality assessment protocol" as a multiprong validated tool intended for use by law enforcement officers investigating domes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB85 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions of law prohibiting law enforcement agents from taking certain actions related to an individual's citizenship or immigration status; prohibiting a county or municipality from adopting, enacting, or enforcing a sanctuary policy; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB312 | Intro
25% | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial to the lesser of 10 years or the maximum sentence for the most serious offense charged under certain circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB734 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB847 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish and maintain the Domestic Violence Offender Registry; requiring a certain person convicted three or more times of a certain domestically related crime to register with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB940 | Intro
25% | Requiring a court to stay the entering of judgment, defer further proceedings, and place a defendant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or an intellectual disability on probation before judgment under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
