| MD | HB131 | Pass | Updating the funding priorities for failing sewage systems and holding tanks; requiring as a second priority those located within the Maryland Chesapeake Bay 8-digit watershed that have a relative effectiveness for total nitrogen reduction of 9.24 or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 461 |
| MD | SB117 | Pass | Prioritizing funding first to failing sewage systems and holding tanks in the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, second to those located within the Maryland Chesapeake Bay 8-digit watershed that have a relative effectiveness for tota...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 460 |
| MD | HB31 | Pass | Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 |
| MD | SB901 | Pass | Requiring certain producers of covered materials, individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization, to submit a certain covered materials producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval on or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
| MD | HB1111 | Pass | Providing that solar energy generating systems located on or over certain water retention ponds or quarries are eligible for the Small Solar Energy Generating System Incentive Program; and authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 458 |
| MD | HB1230 | Pass | Requiring, rather than authorizing, the Montgomery County Council and the Prince George's County Council to grant exemptions from the system development charge imposed by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission for certain properties and projects...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 594 |
| MD | HB9 | Pass | Altering certain definitions related to the Food Resiliency Council; defining what constitutes "healthy food priority areas" as predominantly lower-income areas that have limited access to retail outlets that sell affordable, healthy foods; defining ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496 |
| MD | SB930 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from performing groundwater augmentation except under certain circumstances; establishing the Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program; authorizing the Department of the Environment to review, permit, and regulate groundwater augme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 475 |
| MD | HB222 | Pass | Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of non-arc-resistant jacketed corrugated stainless steel tubing; providing a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a violation of the Act; and requiring the Maryland Department of Labor and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 385 |
| MD | SB175 | Pass | Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of non-arc-resistant jacketed corrugated stainless steel tubing; establishing a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for a violation of the Act; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 384 |
| MD | HB258 | Pass | Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority, subject to certain limitations; requiring the Authority to take certain actions regarding the finances of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 215 |
| MD | SB4 | Pass | Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority; requiring the Authority to take certain actions regarding the finances of the Authority; exempting the Autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 216 |
| MD | HB413 | Pass | Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years of age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 136 |
| MD | HB397 | Pass | Altering a certain loan program to authorize the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans in an amount up to $25,000 for certain seasonal full-time jobs; and reducing, from 5 years to 3 years, the num...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 |
| MD | SB363 | Pass | Altering a certain loan program to authorize the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans in an amount up to $25,000 for certain seasonal full-time jobs; and reducing, from 5 years to 3 years, the num...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 174 |
| MD | HB799 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Innovation Initiative Institution Partnership Extension Program to expand opportunities for technology validation, entrepreneurial development, and industry engagement at eligible institutions; establishing eligibility crite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 |
| MD | SB867 | Pass | Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue competitive grants and contracts beginning in fiscal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 218 |
| MD | SB431 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Council; repealing the Youth Apprenticeship Advisory Committee; establishing the Maryland Office of Registered Apprenticeship Development to scale registered apprenticeships across indus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| MD | SB116 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Energy Administration, and the University of Maryland School of Business, in coordination with the Department of Legislative Services, to conduct an analysis of the likely environmental, energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB3 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices to study the most efficient and cost-effective methods to create a publicly available data dashboard that disaggregates information regarding pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB357 | Enroll
75% | Altering the membership of the Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council; requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for purchases and payor reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB424 | Enroll
75% | Altering the membership of the Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council; requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for purchases and payor reim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB361 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter's voting decision; and providing that fraud includes the use of synthetic media.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (39-8) |
| MD | HB500 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB505 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB427 | Engross
50% | Altering the designation, administration, and purposes of and eligibility for certain economic development programs; redesignating the Maryland Economic Development Assistance Authority to be the Maryland Economic Competitiveness Fund; repealing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB757 | Enroll
75% | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Program from $500,000 to at least $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary to use up to 20% of Program funds to support research centers, including the University...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB820 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that certain carriers, pharmacy benefits managers, and private review agents ensure that artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tools are used in a certain manner when used for conducting utilization review.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB673 | 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 beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; authorizing nonpublic schools to apply for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB996 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a phenibut product to disclose the factual basis on which any representations regarding the phenibut product are made; establishing prohibitions related to the preparation, d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB897 | Intro
25% | Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and distribute a student technology and social media resource guide beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB909 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB937 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1035 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland En...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1037 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1316 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and publish a youth-centric technology and social media resource guide by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1468 | Engross
50% | Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue competitive grants and contracts to enhance cybersecu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB294 | Enroll
75% | Altering the selection of the membership and chair of the Maryland Cybersecurity Council; requiring, beginning October 1, 2025, and every 2 years thereafter, the Council to elect a chair and vice chair from among the members of the Council; and requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB931 | Enroll
75% | Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1310 | Enroll
75% | Altering the Prescription Drug Repository Program, including by allowing certain entities located in another state to participate in the Program as drop-off sites and repositories, including over-the-counter drugs under the Program, and altering the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB49 | Enroll
75% | Altering the requirements for certain regulations adopted by the Department of the Environment relating to building energy performance standards to include certain exclusions, considerations, and a certain annual reporting fee to cover certain costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB858 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-04-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB270 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Energy Administration, and the University of Maryland School of Business, in coordination with the Department of Legislative Services, to conduct an analysis of the likely environmental, energ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB849 | Enroll
75% | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program from $500,000 to $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary of Health to use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB525 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from, with fraudulent intent, influencing or attempting to influence a voter's decision whether or not to cast a vote or how to vote on a candidate or ballot issue by disseminating a deepfake; and defining "deepfake" as an image,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1556 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from implementing the Advanced Clean Trucks Program until a certain needs assessment and deployment plan is published, subject to certain conditions; authorizing the Department to apply certain enforcemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB503 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to periodically establish housing production targets for the State and certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish housing production targets on its website and notify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB443 | Enroll
75% | Altering the statement that must be included on a baby food product label if the baby food product has been tested for toxic heavy metals for the purpose of changing the term included on the label from "toxic heavy metal" to "toxic element".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB508 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a State or State aided or controlled entity to require a prime contractor to procure certain janitorial products packaged or repackaged by Blind Industries and Services of Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB762 | Engross
50% | Repealing certain provisions of law establishing certain goals of the State regarding postsecondary degree or certificate attainment; and requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to set certain goals for the State for certain higher educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
