| MD | SB440 | Pass | Allowing an individual, subject to certain requirements and limitations, to claim a credit against the State income tax for certain qualified expenses if the individual harvests an antlerless deer and donates the deer meat to certain organizations; l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 769 |
| MD | SB470 | Pass | Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 |
| 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 | SB473 | Pass | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based startup companies that are founded by students of postsecondary institutions located in and ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 711 |
| MD | SB615 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim September 30 as Maryland Veterans Suicide Prevention Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 805 |
| MD | SB165 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental ill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 734 |
| MD | SB6 | Pass | Altering eligibility for a certain property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax on the dwelling house of certain disabled veterans to include individuals who have been declared by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 916 |
| MD | SB1099 | Pass | Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 764 |
| MD | SB1034 | Pass | Establishing the 9-1-1 Specialist Recruitment and Retention Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup to review the reports submitted by the Commission to Advance Next Generation 9-1-1 Across Maryland, identify and examine certain recruitment and retention ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 912 |
| 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 | SJ1 | Enroll
75% | Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish, without delay, the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to pass a joint resolution affirming the Equal Rights Amendm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 1 |
| MD | SB571 | Pass | Requiring a covered entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment on or before April 1, 2026, under certain circumstances; requiring certain privacy protectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 460 |
| MD | SB570 | Pass | Requiring certain gas companies and authorizing certain gas companies to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems by October 1, 2024; requiring a gas company that serves at least 75,000 customers in its distribution territo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 |
| MD | SB683 | Pass | Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees relating to tree expert licensing established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510 |
| 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 | SB835 | Pass | Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit, on or before December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for certain well ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 561 |
| MD | SB808 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Agriculture to coordinate with the Maryland Energy Administration, the Department of the Environment, the Department of Commerce, the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the University of M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 445 |
| MD | SB816 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to administer the Cyber Maryland Fund; altering the uses of the Fund to include administrative expenses of the Program, including hiring staff, consultants, and other professionals as necessar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 509 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB196 | Pass | Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 523 |
| MD | SB337 | Pass | Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 478 |
| MD | SB507 | Pass | Increasing the license fee for a special Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing license for nonresident license applicants from $50 to $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 594 |
| MD | SB508 | Pass | Altering the fee for nonresident sika deer stamps from $25 to $200.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 591 |
| MD | SB148 | Pass | Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 516 |
| MD | SB448 | Pass | Establishing the Commission to Study African American Civil War Soldiers in Maryland to study the history of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union Army in Maryland and to make findings and recommendations regarding the funding, desig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 434 |
| 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 | SB180 | Pass | Requiring 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 279 |
| MD | SB394 | Pass | Altering the amount of a certain credit against the State income tax that certain persons may claim for certain construction and rehabilitation costs for certain catalytic revitalization projects in the State; repealing a certain limitation on the nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 159 |
| MD | SB797 | Pass | Requiring 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 170 |
| MD | SB33 | Pass | Requiring each public high school to inform students of certain employment and skills training opportunities in the same manner the school informs students of postsecondary educational options; requiring, when informing certain students about certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 281 |
| MD | SB1178 | Pass | Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176 |
| MD | SB592 | Pass | Requiring 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 |
| MD | SB1077 | Pass | Authorizing local school systems to use certain funds for school security employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 |
| MD | SB478 | Pass | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 |
| MD | SB477 | Pass | Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| MD | SB88 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study and make recommendations for developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 10 |
| MD | SB341 | Pass | Altering the name of the museum operated by the Commission on African American History and Culture in certain provisions of law from the "Banneker-Douglass Museum" to the "Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 57 |
| MD | SB425 | Pass | Clarifying that secondary schools participating in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program may serve breakfast in any broadly accessible part of the school; and authorizing elementary schools participating in the Program, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 62 |
| MD | SB707 | Pass | Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26 |
| MD | SB858 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; and altering the prohibition against revenge porn to prohibit a person from knowingly distributing a computer-generated visual representation that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (134-0) |
| MD | SB682 | Engross
50% | Requiring a certain electric company to submit a report to the Public Service Commission on or before February 1 each year regarding certain votes cast by the electric company and any affiliates of the electric company at a meeting of the regional tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB479 | Engross
50% | Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems to include certain distributions for highway and work zone safety purposes; clarifying that a work zone speed control system may be man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB471 | Engross
50% | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB932 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Maryland Agricultural BMP Priority Environmental Stewardship Program to provide and prioritize the use of certain funding relating to agricultural best management practices and to increase the cost-effectiveness and environmental, so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB784 | Engross
50% | Altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 11%; and providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of certain firearm accessories and ammunition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB585 | Engross
50% | Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1161 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission on June 1, 2024 to open a revised Round 2 proceeding to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; authorizing certain offshore wind projects to submit certain revised plans for project schedules, sizes, or prici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
