| MD | SB380 | Veto | Establishing the Police Recruitment and Retention Workgroup to study issues and factors potentially contributing to recruitment challenges and the decline in police officer retention statewide; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB134 | Pass | Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office for fiscal year 2025 only; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 836 |
| MD | SB151 | Pass | Establishing a Workgroup on Health and Wellness in Prince George's County to review and evaluate health and wellness practices, programs, services, and resources in Prince George's County and make recommendations regarding best practices in health an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 978 |
| MD | SB59 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to take certain actions relating to the care of infants as soon as practicable before the hospital discharges an infant after the birth of the infant, including providing oral and written educational resources to the parent or le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 879 |
| MD | SB167 | Pass | Requiring 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 919 |
| MD | SB475 | Pass | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707 |
| MD | SB532 | Pass | Establishing the Commission to Advance Lithium-Ion Battery Safety in Maryland; requiring the Commission to study and make legislative, regulatory, programmatic, and other recommendations regarding certain best practices, standards, and guidelines; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 949 |
| MD | SB623 | Pass | Establishing the Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission to develop recommendations relating to education and its impact on the criminal justice system; and requiring the Commission to submit to the Governor and the General Assembly an interim re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 946 |
| MD | SB675 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Individual Tax Preparers, on or before January 1, 2026, to publish on the Board's website a certain code of ethics and certain rules of professional conduct; requiring the Board to notify the Field Enforcement Bureau of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 732 |
| MD | SB791 | Pass | Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review; altering requirements related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; altering certain reporting requirements on health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 848 |
| MD | SB790 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide Maryland Medical Assistance Program services for individuals under the Employed Individuals with Disabilities Program in accordance with certain requirements; prohibiting the Department from limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 845 |
| MD | SB830 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which individuals without a license to practice medicine may perform X-ray duties; authorizing the State Board of Physicians to impose for each violation of the Act a civil penalty of up to $5,000 on the physician's o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 871 |
| MD | SB952 | Pass | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 839 |
| MD | SB938 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop, on or before December 1, 2026, a public education campaign on prostate, lung, and breast cancer prevention that targets communities disproportionately impacted by prostate, lung, and breast canc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 812 |
| MD | SB943 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from parking or standing certain vehicles in a dedicated bus lane; making statewide the authority of a local jurisdiction to use, in accordance with certain standards and procedures, a bus lane monitoring system to enforce the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 751 |
| MD | SB975 | Pass | Establishing the Reproductive Health Care Clinic Security Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Health to assist reproductive health care clinics in the State with costs associated with security improvements and safety operational expenses; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 768 |
| MD | SB1009 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study and make recommendations related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 793 |
| MD | SB1059 | Pass | Establishing requirements on certain health departments and health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 798 |
| MD | SB999 | Pass | Exempting an individual who practices as a certain nursing assistant for less than 4 months under federal regulations from the State's certification requirement; altering the designation of, and licensure requirements for, certified nursing assistant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 819 |
| MD | SB1000 | Pass | Requiring a person, at least 60 days before closing on an acquisition of a nursing home, to submit a request for acquisition to the Maryland Health Care Commission and provide notice to residents, resident representatives, and employees of the nursin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 816 |
| MD | SB1071 | Pass | Requiring hospitals to establish and maintain certain protocols and capacity related to the treatment of patients who are being treated for an opioid-related overdose or opioid-related emergency medical condition; requiring hospitals to make a referr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 886 |
| MD | SB379 | Pass | Extending the Task Force to Study Crime Classification and renaming it to be the Task Force to Study Crime Reclassification and Penalties; requiring the Task Force to study the penalties for crimes and civil offenses under State law, the potential ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 935 |
| MD | SB332 | Pass | Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, each hospital and urgent care center in the State to implement an evidence-based protocol for the early recognition and treatment of a patient with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock that is based on gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 923 |
| MD | SB13 | Pass | Altering the use of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to require that the Fund be used only for pediatric cancer research instead of only for pediatric cancer research, prevention, and treatment and to allow funds from the Fund to be used for admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 925 |
| MD | SB652 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to report to the Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform and Emerging and Best Practices and the General Assembly, on or before December 1, 2024, and each December 1 thereafter, certain information regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 736 |
| MD | SB258 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 423 |
| MD | SB178 | Pass | Requiring 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 552 |
| MD | SB7 | Pass | Adding positive community feedback that was not solicited by the police officer who is the subject of the feedback to the list of records that are not considered personnel records for certain purposes; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Stand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549 |
| MD | SB345 | Pass | Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 603 |
| MD | SB417 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections to evaluate the performance of the State Administrator of Elections; requiring the State Administrator to provide a performance evaluation of the election director of each local board of elections to the local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 |
| MD | SB472 | Pass | Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| MD | SB541 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 455 |
| MD | SB760 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 463 |
| MD | SB818 | Pass | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and a certain assessment on or before certain dates; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496 |
| MD | SB891 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Institute at the University of Maryland to conduct a study to identify methods to improve the Maryland Transit Administration's ADA MobilityLink paratransit service; authorizing the Governor in fiscal year 2026 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 647 |
| MD | SB915 | Pass | Altering the regulatory approach for controlling invasive plant species in the State, including repealing certain provisions of law relating to a two-tiered regulatory approach and requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a list of prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 589 |
| MD | SB1068 | Pass | Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a 3-1-1 portal utilizing artificial intelligence and that the Department prioritize the creation of the portal if feasible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 |
| MD | SB1028 | Pass | Establishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 599 |
| MD | SB951 | Pass | Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework for reliability and reporting standards for electric vehicle charging stations and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Education,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 452 |
| MD | SB982 | Pass | Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; renaming the Major Information Technology Development Fund; requiring 20% of the amount appropriated to the Fund to be set asid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 497 |
| MD | SB1074 | Pass | Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 532 |
| MD | SB1084 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing to study and make recommendations regarding certain services, programs, advocacy, outreach efforts, and other items to improve the quality of life of individuals who are deaf, de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 442 |
| MD | SB969 | Pass | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 559 |
| MD | SB70 | Pass | Altering the information that the Maryland Transit Administration is required to publish on its website before holding a public hearing on a major service change; requiring the information to be posted on the Administration's website with a visible l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 650 |
| MD | SB573 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of State to furnish a State flag to drape the casket of an eligible decedent; establishing the process for a State flag to be claimed after burial; providing that only one flag may be provided for the death of an eligible dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480 |
| MD | SB653 | Pass | Providing certain persons standing in certain environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet certain standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 536 |
| MD | SB783 | Pass | Requiring that certain home improvement contracts for the installation of a solar energy generating system on the roof of a building include the installation of a certain wildlife barrier under certain circumstances; requiring a county or municipalit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595 |
| MD | SB956 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to identify significant industrial users that currently and intentionally use PFAS chemicals by October 1, 2024; requiring the Department to develop certain PFAS monitoring and testing criteria for signific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 557 |
| MD | SB482 | Pass | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to chair the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Office to staff the Children's C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 408 |
| MD | SB245 | Pass | Adding the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission to the governmental activities and units subject to the Maryland Program Evaluation Act; and extending the termination date to June 30, 2035, for certain provisions of law related to the Commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 386 |
