| MD | SB685 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a model sexual abuse and sexual misconduct response policy that includes, at minimum, a communications plan, an e-mail and other electronic communication documents retention policy, a requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 |
| MD | SB323 | Pass | Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court by repealing provisions specifying that the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a child alleged to have committed any crime punishable by life imprisonment; requiring an intake officer to aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 609 |
| MD | SB177 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from using force, threat of force, or physical obstruction to interfere with or physically injure another while the other is lawfully exercising or attempting to lawfully exercise religious beliefs at a place of religious worship...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 |
| MD | HB750 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from using force, threat of force, or physical obstruction to interfere with or physically injure another while the other is lawfully exercising or attempting to lawfully exercise religious beliefs at a place of religious worship...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424 |
| MD | HB1168 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a model sexual abuse and sexual misconduct response policy that includes, at minimum, certain components; requiring each local school system to adopt a response policy based on the model policy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB996 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Human Services to establish and maintain a Guardianship Assistance Program to promote the placement and maintenance of children in permanent guardianship homes by providing guardianship assistance to guardians of minor chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HJ10 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemning the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB632 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Office of State Elected Officials Information Privacy in the Department of Legislative Services; authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-26
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | SB620 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the list of convictions that subject a defendant to enhanced sentencing for wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun to include certain extra-jurisdictional crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB279 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the establishment of a medication review committee within the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services that convenes to determine whether to approve the administration of psychotropic medication to a certain incarcerated indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB310 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an incarcerated individual to undergo an assessment for indicators of a developmental or intellectual disability at intake at a State correctional facility by a certain clinical professional; authorizing a certain clinical professional to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Gun Violence Victim Relocation Program within the Victim Services Unit of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy to provide certain victims of gun violence certain services and assistance related to relocating for the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering from a misdemeanor to a felony the crime of making a threat of mass violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing certain use of force standards applicable to certain National Guard members acting in the State; and prohibiting a National Guard member from violating the use of force standards, resulting in serious physical injury or death to a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ8 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing an apology and acknowledging the State's complicity and negligence in allowing the perpetration of acts of racial terror lynching; and committing to taking reparative actions as recommended by the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain nonprofit organizations from aiding or abetting certain activity by the government of Israel or a citizen of Israel; authorizing the Attorney General or a certain person to bring a certain action against a nonprofit organization t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State and sales of firearms to State residents; and requiring the Comptroller to distribute a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the mandated appropriation for the Maryland Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Fund from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000 beginning in fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter; and establishing authorized distribution amounts from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the juvenile court to order certain probation for a child found to have committed certain delinquent acts more than once or adjudicated to be a child in need of supervision more than once because of habitual truancy; requiring probation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-09
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB812 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a principal or school administration to investigate each student fight or physical struggle; prohibiting a school employee from disciplining a student under certain circumstances; and requiring a principal or school administration to expung...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ9 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemning all acts of violence against civilians and violations of international humanitarian and human rights law occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gaza, and Sudan; stating grave concern over certain reports and the risk of genocid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB205 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an incarcerated individual who is serving a certain sentence for a certain sexual crime may be considered for parole only one time after becoming eligible; providing that if a victim, victim's family, victims' advocacy organization, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1322 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that certain areas on campuses of public institutions of higher education are public forums subject to certain restrictions and requirements; authorizing members of the campus community to engage in certain expressive activity on campus; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB588 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim May 5 as Missing and Murdered American Indian and Alaskan Native Women and Girls Awareness Day; and requiring the Department of State Police to report to the General Assembly by December 1, 2026, on whether...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | SJ3 | Intro
Sine Die | Issuing an apology and acknowledging the State's complicity and negligence in allowing the perpetration of acts of racial terror lynching; and committing to taking reparative actions as recommended by the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1309 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission to Review and Assess Racial Disparities in the State Criminal Justice System to study and make recommendations on certain matters involving the disparate treatment of African Americans, Hispanics, and other non-White indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1039 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to provide certain information to the parent or legal guardian of a student who attends a failing school; requiring that a failing school continue to be designated as a faili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a law enforcement agency to respond to a report of an immigration enforcement activity within the agency's jurisdiction; requiring a law enforcement officer responding to a report of an immigration enforcement activity to observe and report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB752 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission to Review and Assess Racial Disparities in the State Criminal Justice System to study and make recommendations on certain matters involving the disparate treatment of African Americans, Hispanics, and other non-White indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; requiring the Comptroller to distribute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the list of convictions that subject a defendant to enhanced sentencing for wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun to include certain extra-jurisdictional crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1044 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the release of a defendant pending sentencing or exhaustion of appellate review after conviction of a specified crime resulting in the death of a victim under the age of 14 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB561 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing requirements and prohibitions governing the provision of community violence prevention services through telehealth under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; requiring the Program to reimburse community violence prevention services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB794 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to prohibit police officers from affiliating with, supporting, or advocating for White supremacist groups, ideologies, or causes or participating in or actively promoting a certain extre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully causing another to ingest an abortion-inducing drug when the person knows or believes that the other person is pregnant and without consent, through fraud or coercion, or by force or threat of force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the release of a defendant pending sentencing or exhaustion of appellate review after conviction of a specified crime resulting in the death of a victim under the age of 14 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that it is unlawful for a parent or guardian of a student in a public school to fail to seek and participate in counseling with the parent's or guardian's child after receiving a certain notice of violent and disruptive behavior; and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, as practicable, the Comptroller and the Director of the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to jointly determine on a regular basis whether a certain nonprofit organization in the State has been found to be a certain terrorist-sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a police officer from intentionally violating the requirement that a police officer intervene to prevent or terminate the use of certain force by another police officer; prohibiting a police officer from intentionally violating the requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB84 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the introduction of evidence that a certain defendant was the victim of domestic violence and that the domestic violence was a significant contributing factor to the commission of a certain crime as a mitigating factor at sentencing of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB302 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully causing another to ingest an abortion-inducing drug when the person knows or believes that the other person is pregnant and without consent, through fraud or coercion, or by force or threat of force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Including institutions and programs of higher education in which a student is enrolled as part of a dual enrollment program in the definition of "school system"; adding certain offenses to the list of offenses a law enforcement agency must report to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB268 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an applicable clinical professional to assess, at the time of intake at a State correctional facility, a newly incarcerated individual for a developmental or intellectual disability; authorizing a certain clinical professional to make a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB180 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial under certain circumstances; and requiring a court to provide a certain notice and provide an opportunity to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial under certain circumstances; and requiring a court to provide a certain notice and provide an opportunity to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the introduction of evidence that a certain defendant was the victim of domestic violence and that the domestic violence was a significant contributing factor to the commission of a certain crime as a mitigating factor at sentencing of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2026-01-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
