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MDHB177PassRequiring a hospital, as soon as practicable before discharging an infant after the birth of the infant, to provide oral and written resources to the parent or legal guardian; requiring a hospital, before discharging an infant, to ask the parent or l...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 880
MDHB353PassDefining the term "Health and Human Services Referral System" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the System to mean a certain coordinated system for health and human service resources that is accessible to State residents, rather...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 840
MDHB806PassRequiring 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...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 920
MDHB1110PassAuthorizing the City of Frederick to participate in the Maryland Intrastate Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 921
MDHB1293PassRequiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop and implement a 3-year public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention that targets communities disproportionately impacted by prostate, lung, and breast cancer on or be...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 813
MDHB1244PassRequiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each have a certain staff member who performs certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the wo...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 963
MDHB78PassAuthorizing the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service to delegate certain responsibilities to an employee of the Service; altering the obligations of the Service after receiving a request for services and after ent...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425
MDHB233PassAuthorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption of the critical area for climate resiliency, enhancing resilience in the critical area, a...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424
MDHB22PassRequiring the State Highway Administration's pollinator habitat plan to include policies and procedures regarding the use of pollinator habitat areas along State highways; requiring the Administration to track and evaluate federal programs that provi...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 553
MDHB420PassRequiring the Department of Natural Resources and local governing bodies to construct communication boards in certain newly constructed public play areas; defining "communication board" as a device that displays photos, symbols, or illustrations to e...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 568
MDHB999PassEstablishing the Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network to identify and analyze options for establishing and maintaining an open access science, technology, and innovation network or hub of citizen sc...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 448
MDHB1044PassRepealing the requirement that an appointing authority send a copy of the selection plan and job announcement to the Secretary of Budget and Management at least 1 week before posting a job announcement; and repealing the requirement that the appointi...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 459
MDHB1256PassRequiring a certain electric company to file certain time-of-use tariffs with the Public Service Commission by July 1, 2025; requiring a certain electric company to attempt to achieve a certain enrollment target for certain tariffs by January 1, 2028...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 476
MDHB86PassRequiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with certain groups, to develop training for certain school personnel to identify symptoms of anaphylaxis, asthma, and respiratory distress in students; requiring the Maryland Department of...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 280
MDHB253PassMaking alterations and clarifications related to the duties of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission, the Office of Social Equity, the Advisory Board on Medical and Adult-Use Cannabis, and the Maryland Cannabis Administration; altering the me...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 241
MDHB291PassRequiring county boards of education to post on the websites of certain local school systems hearing notices related to preliminary approval of a school site and advertisements for bids for school buildings, improvements, supplies, or equipment that ...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274
MDHB333PassRequiring the State Board of Elections to maintain a portal on the State Board's website that the public may use to report election misinformation and election disinformation; requiring the State Board to conduct a periodic review of material submitt...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 126
MDHB336PassRequiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 172
MDHB416PassRequiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researchi...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 182
MDHB903PassRequiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 171
MDHB1167PassEstablishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school ...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 293
MDHB522PassRequiring, by December 31, 2024, the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day on...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 195
MDHB144PassAltering certain provisions of the Public Employee Relations Act, including adding the definition of interested employee organization, altering the timing of exclusive representative access to new employees, clarifying the responsibilities of certain...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 51
MDHB284PassAltering the requirement that each county board of education provide certain students with the telephone number of the Maryland Youth Crisis Hotline by instead requiring that each county board of education provide certain students with the telephone ...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 59
MDHB837Engross

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Requiring each public high school to inform students of certain employment and skills training opportunities in the same manner in which the school informs students of postsecondary educational options; requiring each public high school to inform stu...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB130Engross

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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...
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2024-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB24Engross

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Requiring the Department of the Environment to perform a certain environmental justice evaluation of certain environmental permit applications under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to take certain actions on certain environmental pe...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB829Engross

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Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitations of its budget, to provide a virtual mental health awareness and skills building training program for service sector employees; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health, su...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1257Engross

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Requiring the State Department of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, a comprehensive plan for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to e...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1253Intro

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Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, certain health care facilities to implement a program to provide individuals admitted to the health care facility reasonable access to a telephone.
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2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB274Engross

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Reclassifying, as a misdemeanor instead of a felony, a certain offense relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing any wire, oral, or electronic communications.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB290Engross

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Authorizing a person to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication if the person has a good faith belief that the person intercepting the communication or another person is in imminent danger of becoming the victim of a crime of violence, st...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB163Intro

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Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB425Engross

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Entering into the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an advanced practice registered nurse to practice in a party state under certain scope of practice rules; establishing the Inter...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB357Intro

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Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat...
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2024-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1464Intro

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Requiring the Governor, rather than the Mayor and the President of the City Council of Baltimore City, to appoint the members of the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City with the advice and consent of the Senate; authorizing the Governor...
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2024-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB987Intro

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Altering provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency by establishing certain requirements for certain State departments, agencies, or programs, including establishing certain position...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1022Intro

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Establishing requirements regarding the provision of ballot drop boxes and information related to voting to eligible voters by correctional facilities and the State Board of Elections; establishing a Voting Rights Ombudsman for Incarcerated Individua...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1343Intro

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Requiring that a certain statement included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about the purpose of a question on the ballot be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be u...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB247Intro

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Repealing the use of a preliminary loss mitigation affidavit in an order to docket or complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property; altering certain requirements for the filing of an action to foreclose a mortgage or dee...
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2024-02-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB312Intro

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Requiring a physician assistant to have a collaboration agreement with a patient care team physician, rather than a delegation agreement with a primary supervising physician, in order to practice as a physician assistant; increasing, from four to eig...
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2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB792Intro

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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, ...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB826Intro

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Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to set a special property tax rate for improved residential property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use; establishing a subclass ...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB872Intro

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Requiring that candidates, campaign finance entities, and certain other persons, or agents of candidates, campaign finance entities, or certain other persons, that publish, distribute, or disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or dissemi...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB403Intro

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Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
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2024-02-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB516Intro

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Establishing the Climate Crisis Initiative in the Department of the Environment to provide for the assessment of greenhouse gas pollution fees, the provision of certain benefits to households and employers, and the funding of certain climate-related ...
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2024-02-02
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB563Intro

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Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election based on certain criteria; requiring local b...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB82Intro

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Repealing a requirement that a county board of education provide certain post college and career readiness pathways at no cost to students who meet the college and career readiness standard.
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2024-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB213Intro

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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 and requiring participatin...
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2024-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB50Intro

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Establishing the Commission on History, Culture, and Civics in Education to make recommendations to the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to further the discovery, interpretation, and learning of the history, culture, and...
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2024-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
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