| HB18 | Pass | Altering a certain statutory form for a general power of attorney by including certain provisions informing the principal and agent of certain matters, granting general authority with respect to tangible personal property and trusts and estates, auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 696 |
| HB251 | Pass | Repealing certain geographic and temporal restrictions on the issuance of Class A-7 beer, wine, and liquor licenses in Baltimore City.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 757 |
| HB1115 | Pass | Altering the requirements for governance of libraries designated as regional resource centers; and establishing a governing board for each regional resource center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 676 |
| SB1 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm in certain locations; prohibiting a person from wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm onto certain property unless the owner or owner's agent has given certain pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680 |
| HB1002 | Pass | Altering certain provisions related to the rates the Department of State Police sets for tow companies involved in certain police-initiated towing; establishing the Committee on Rate Setting and Complaint Resolution for Police-Initiated Medium-Duty a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 669 |
| SB253 | Pass | Requiring a register of wills to accept certain documents filed electronically through a system established by the register of wills; and prohibiting a register of wills from refusing to accept a document based on the manner in which it was signed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 660 |
| SB428 | Pass | Altering the grounds on which a deputy sheriff having a rank of major or below in Washington County may be discharged after 2 years of continuous employment; providing that a special deputy sheriff in Washington County is not a State employee for cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 795 |
| HB42 | Pass | Exempting up to $500 in a deposit account or other accounts of a judgment debtor held by a depository institution from execution on the judgment without an election by the debtor to exempt the money; establishing procedures a depository institution i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 719 |
| SB342 | Pass | Increasing the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County from 20 to 21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657 |
| HB874 | Pass | Establishing the Environmental and Natural Resources Crimes Unit of the Office of the Attorney General to investigate and prosecute cases against persons that violate State criminal environmental and natural resources laws; and requiring the Attorney...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 690 |
| SB248 | Pass | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from refusing to provide a current or former student with a transcript or taking other punitive measures regarding a student's transcript request because the student owes a debt to the institution of hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 748 |
| SB840 | Pass | Establishing the Protecting Against Hate Crimes Grant Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to make grants to nonprofit organizations, including faith-based organizations, to provide security enhancements to protect against hate crimes; requiring the Ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 746 |
| HB1079 | Pass | Altering the duties and responsibilities of the Prince George's County Board of Education and certain officers of the county board; altering the voting authority of the student board member; requiring the county board to retain counsel and pay certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 793 |
| SB402 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Kent County Board of Education to include a student member; and providing for the initial term of the student member of the county board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 674 |
| HB629 | Pass | Specifying that a certain surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces is eligible to apply for a scholarship under the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program if the service member died, suffered a service connected disability, or was decl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 693 |
| HB402 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Kent County Board of Education to include a student member; providing for the initial term of the student member of the county board; requiring the student member to attend the Maryland Association of Boards of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 675 |
| SB185 | Pass | Altering the purpose of the Maryland State Police Gun Center to include the tracking, screening, and vetting of all firearms surrendered under final protective orders in the State; and requiring each law enforcement agency to report to the Center the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 624 |
| SB621 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to identify and license certain independent evaluators to evaluate and rate certain sports wagering content provided by sports wagering experts, sports wagering influencers, and content par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 638 |
| SB592 | Pass | Requiring the Department of State Police to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before February 1 each year relating to the acquisition of equipment by law enforcement agencies through surplus programs; and requiring the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 633 |
| HB614 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Aging to oversee long-term care and train the staff of long-term care and dementia care navigation programs; requiring each area agency to establish a long-term care and dementia care navigation program; and requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 668 |
| SB293 | Pass | Altering the term "inmate" to be "incarcerated individual" meaning an individual who is actually or constructively detained or confined in a correctional facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 721 |
| HB555 | Pass | Increasing the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County from 20 to 21.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 656 |
| SB381 | Pass | Repealing certain geographic and temporal restrictions on the issuance of Class A-7 beer, wine, and liquor licenses in Baltimore City.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 756 |
| SB127 | Pass | Altering a reporting requirement to require the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center to report certain student Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) data to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before December 15 each year,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 688 |
| SB290 | Pass | Expanding the investigative jurisdiction of the Independent Investigations Division of the Office of the Attorney General to include a police-involved incident resulting in serious bodily injury to an individual that is not otherwise within the juris...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 632 |
| HB908 | Pass | Making permanent the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Pilot Program; requiring a community solar energy generating system to serve at least 40% of its kilowatt-hour output to low-income and moderate-income subscribers under certain circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| HB1174 | Pass | Authorizing the State's Attorney of Calvert County to designate county attorneys or assistant county attorneys to prosecute civil infractions; and authorizing the designated attorneys to exercise the powers of the State's Attorney when prosecuting ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 788 |
| HB1219 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for early childhood education teacher certification completed through an alternative teacher preparation program; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 627 |
| HB1288 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission is required to disqualify an applicant who committed a crime involving moral turpitude from holding a video lottery employee license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 663 |
| HB244 | Pass | Requiring a register of wills to accept certain documents filed electronically through a system established by the register of wills; and prohibiting a register of wills from refusing to accept a document based on the manner in which it was signed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 |
| SB556 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, to set the compensation of certain Commission employees; requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, in consultation with the Secretar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644 |
| SB67 | Pass | Requiring an appointee for a civil commission to contact the clerk of the circuit court to which the commission was delivered by the Governor to coordinate a time and place for the administration of the oath of office and presentation of the commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 666 |
| HB1149 | Pass | Requiring certain Medicaid funding to be used to provide community services to individuals waiting for services through waiver programs; authorizing certain Medicaid funding to be used for expanding provider capacity in certain waiver programs; and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 636 |
| SB841 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include an appropriation in the annual budget bill of $500,000 for the State Department of Education to provide grants to local school systems for expenses related to student field trips to museums of cultural import.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 747 |
| HB243 | Pass | Transferring the Baltimore City Young Readers Program and the Young Readers Matching Grant Program to the Maryland State Library Agency; requiring program grant applicants to include the distribution of books to children in low-income zip codes with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
| HB206 | Pass | Altering the eligibility requirements for the Prekindergarten Expansion Grant Program and publicly funded prekindergarten programs to include certain operational requirements, staff credentials, and student-to-staff ratios; requiring Montessori schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 670 |
| HB448 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to adopt regulations to ensure that children with disabilities who need special education and related services that cannot be provided in a public county, regional, or State program be placed in an appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 648 |
| HB411 | Pass | Prohibiting a certain incarcerated person from violating a condition of pretrial or posttrial release or other pretrial or posttrial condition prohibiting the person from contacting, harassing, or abusing an alleged victim or going in or near an alle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 682 |
| HB13 | Pass | Providing that a person who is the victim of an act that would constitute a violation of certain hate crime laws may bring a civil action against the person or persons who committed the act in a court of competent jurisdiction; and authorizing the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 744 |
| SB846 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which public, school, college, or university libraries must permit the inspection, use, or disclosure of the circulation record of an individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 737 |
| SB209 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Crime Classification to study and make recommendations regarding a method for classifying crimes and civil offenses under State law and to identify and logically categorize all crimes and civil offenses that exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 712 |
| SB741 | Pass | Providing that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, except for regulations issued by the Department of the Environment, no provision of the State building code or other law or regulation may prohibit or otherwise limit the use of a refrigeran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 723 |
| SB300 | Pass | Transferring the Baltimore City Young Readers Program and the Young Readers Matching Grant Program to the Maryland State Library Agency and requiring the State Librarian to administer the programs; authorizing public libraries to apply for grants fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 650 |
| HB226 | Pass | Altering the definition of "person in a position of authority" applicable to sexual offense in the fourth degree; altering a certain prohibition against a certain person in a position of authority engaging in certain conduct to prohibit a person in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 730 |
| SB653 | Pass | Providing that the use of cannabis by a parent or certain other individuals who care for a child does not qualify as neglect except in certain circumstances for purposes of provisions of law applicable to children in need of assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 766 |
| SB292 | Pass | Altering procedures that a law enforcement officer and a court are required to follow when the law enforcement officer or court has reason to believe that a child who has been detained is a victim of sex trafficking or a victim of human trafficking; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 686 |
| HB427 | Pass | Altering certain provisions relating to immunity from criminal arrest, charge, or prosecution for a person experiencing a medical emergency after ingesting or using alcohol or drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 717 |
| SB487 | Pass | Prohibiting a certain incarcerated person from violating a condition of pretrial or posttrial release or other pretrial or posttrial condition prohibiting the person from contacting, harassing, or abusing an alleged victim or going in or near an alle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 681 |
| HB1178 | Pass | Altering a certain benefit amount for certain fire and rescue volunteers; and authorizing the board of commissioners to approve an increase in benefit payment for certain fire and rescue volunteers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 789 |
| SB760 | Pass | Requiring an individual who provides security guard services to the individual's employer to be certified as a security guard, subject to a certain exception; regulating certain security guard employers; altering the certification and renewal standar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 763 |
