| HB211 | Intro
25% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants and postdoctoral associates at a system institution, Morgan State University, or St Mary's College of Maryland; and establishing separate collective bargaining units for the gradua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations |
| HB10 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a postsecondary institution to contact, on request of an applicant for the Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program, the Department of Veterans and Military Families to verify the disability status of the veteran.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| HB175 | Intro
25% | Requiring, subject to a certain provision of law, the Department of Human Services to reimburse a beneficiary for any benefits lost due to the fraudulent use of the beneficiary's Electronic Benefits Transfer card and restore the benefits without furt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB313 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB633 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain political organizations to include certain disclaimers and statements on certain solicitations; authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to investigate a potential violation of the Act; and authorizing the State Board after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB901 | Intro
25% | Increasing from 9.5% to 12.2%, beginning in fiscal year 2028, the percentage used to calculate a capital grant based on highway user revenues that is required to be appropriated to Baltimore City.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB4 | Engross
50% | Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority, subject to certain limitations; exempting the Authority from certain provisions of law; requiring the Author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| SB309 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Communications, Outreach, and Advocacy Program in the Department of Veterans and Military Families to establish and maintain by December 31, 2025, an online registry to provide veterans, military families, and interested individuals wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB870 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in 2026 and each year thereafter, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB888 | Intro
25% | Altering the qualifications for an initial teacher certificate to include passing a portfolio-based assessment of a nationally accredited teacher preparation program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB308 | Intro
25% | Requiring the election director of a local board of elections to designate chief election judges from certain political parties to each polling place except under certain circumstances; and requiring an election director who is unable to designate ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB238 | Engross
50% | Expanding the entities eligible to administer local rehabilitation programs to include certain nonprofit sponsors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB565 | Intro
25% | Requiring any person involved in a motor vehicle accident that results in the death of, or a life threatening injury to, another person to submit to breath and blood testing for impaired driving.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB877 | Intro
25% | Extending the time for submission of the interim report and final report of the Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission by 3 years; and extending the termination date for the Commission by 3 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB891 | Intro
25% | Allowing certain local newsrooms to claim a credit against the State income tax for wages paid during the taxable year to each full-time local newsroom employees, subject to certain limitations; prohibiting a local newsroom from claiming the tax cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB686 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain producers of batteries and battery-containing products to individually or as part of a battery stewardship organization submit a certain battery stewardship plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval by July 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB469 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to develop and administer a program to provide compensatory benefits to the descendants of individuals enslaved in the State; providing that any individual whose ancestors were enslaved in the State is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB555 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a custodian may deny inspection of records pertaining to pending or reasonably anticipated litigation to which the State or an officer or employee of the State is or may be a party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB9 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain nonpublic institutions of higher education to submit a certain letter of intent regarding intended new graduate level programs to the Maryland Higher Education Commission in a certain manner and every 6 months; and repealing a certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| HB844 | Intro
25% | Increasing the salaries of the Sheriff of Somerset County, the County Commissioners of Somerset County, the President of the County Commissioners of Somerset County, a member of the County Roads Board of Somerset County, and the President of the Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB691 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Insurance Administration to include a cybersecurity expert as staff to perform certain functions and submit to the State Chief Information Security Officer a report on the cybersecurity p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB543 | Intro
25% | Providing that a voter is qualified to vote a provisional ballot if the provisional ballot was cast because the voter claimed a different political party affiliation from the political party affiliation on record for the voter and the voter made a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB342 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the imposition or application of a method for electing the governing body of a county or municipality that impairs the ability of members of a protected class to elect candidates of the members' choice or influence the outcome of an elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB689 | Intro
25% | Requiring banking institutions, credit unions, mortgage lenders, mortgage lending businesses, and mortgage loan originators to include a certain provision in certain conventional home mortgage loans authorizing a certain borrower to purchase the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB199 | Engross
50% | Providing that the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy, rather than the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, is responsible for payment to a physician, qualified health care provider, and hospital for providing certain services to a vic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| HB860 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; authorizing the State or a local government to bring a civ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB109 | Engross
50% | Requiring each school board to certify to the State Ethics Commission, on or before October 1 each year, that the school board is in compliance with certain requirements of the Maryland Public Ethics Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB509 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from possessing a regulated firearm, rifle, or shotgun if the person is currently a respondent subject to a court order to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment; and requiring a court to promptly report certain inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB86 | Engross
50% | Requiring a mobile sports wagering licensee to publish the phone number for and link to the website of the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling on the homepage of its online sports wagering website and mobile application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| SB436 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to study building code requirements for single-staircase buildings in the State and other States and analyze best practices when drafting building code requirements; requiring the Department to make legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB874 | Intro
25% | Repealing a special use assessment for property tax purposes for certain country clubs and golf courses and related provisions of law; repealing a certain subclass of real property for land of a country club or golf course; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB490 | Intro
25% | Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB323 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a statewide voter registration application include a return envelope or envelope template with prepaid postage that an applicant may use to return the application to the State Board of Elections; requiring a statewide voter registratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB885 | Intro
25% | Requiring that all investigation records relating to a complaint of misconduct by a police officer be removed from the police officer's personnel record 3 years after an administrative charging committee or a trial board issues a finding that the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB848 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by carrier for a type of service has grown by more than 10% in the immediately preceding calendar year or 25% in the immediately preceding 3 calendar years, to provide certain info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB577 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to prepare certain literature relating to firearms and ammunition and to distribute the literature to all county health departments in the State; requiring each county health department to distribute certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB454 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Juvenile Services from hiring or retaining an individual convicted of certain crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB352 | Intro
25% | Altering from four to three the number of members elected from each councilmanic district of Baltimore County to the Baltimore County Republican Party Central Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB491 | Intro
25% | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges based on an incident or incidents relating to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB187 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to disqualify any individual from driving a commercial motor vehicle for 1 year if the individual, while holding a commercial instructional permit or commercial driver's license, drives or attempts to drive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| SB497 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Information Technology by December 1, 2025, and periodically thereafter, to update certain information available on the Maryland OneStop portal, the internet-based statewide licensing portal managed by the Department; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB869 | Intro
25% | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB222 | Engross
50% | Altering the membership of the Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council to include the Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Administration or the Administrator's designee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB904 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Planning, in consultation with the Maryland Energy Administration, to conduct a study to identify and evaluate land owned by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services for the siting of new solar energy proj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB858 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB892 | Intro
25% | Requiring, during the migratory Canada goose (Atlantic population) hunting season, the bag limit for all Canada geese in the State, including geese found in the Atlantic Flyway Resident Population Hunt Zone and the Atlantic Population Hunt Zone, to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB558 | Intro
25% | Requiring the fiscal note for proposed legislation prepared by the Department of Legislative Services to include a family impact statement; and prohibiting a committee from voting on a bill unless a family impact statement is attached to or included ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB894 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the northern long-eared bat, and the tricolor bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secretary makes certain findings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB859 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, to promote access to health insurance for child care professionals; and authorizing a child care provider that receives a certain amount of fundi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB882 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on each Sunday of the deer bow hunting season in Prince George's County; and adding Prince George's County to the list of counties in which the safety zone for archery hun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
