| SB757 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance, long-term care insurance, and disability insurance policies or contracts from taking certain action regarding coverage based on whether an applicant or a policy or contract holder has requeste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB914 | Intro
25% | Authorizing supervisory employees of the Baltimore County Public Library to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; authorizing certain bargaining units for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB771 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain provisions of law authorizing a peer-to-peer car sharing program's motor vehicle liability insurance policy on a replacement vehicle to be secondary coverage for a shared vehicle driver; altering certain motor vehicle liability insu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB987 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to maintain a registry of artificial intelligence health software that may be distributed or operated in the State; prohibiting a person from distributing or operating artificial intelligence health softw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB902 | Intro
25% | Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; requiring that a certain referral proced...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1160 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain personal property from the Calvert County property tax; providing that operating personal property of a railroad or public utility and certain property used to provide cable television, data, or telecommunications services remains s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB212 | Engross
50% | Repealing provisions of law requiring the Secretary of Aging to develop certain congregate housing and assisted living programs for seniors; repealing the Interagency Committee on Aging Services and transferring certain responsibilities of the Commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB1198 | Intro
25% | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB204 | Intro
25% | Altering, from July 1 to June 1, the deadline by which the governing body of a county or municipal corporation is required to set its property tax rate for the next taxable year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB1154 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Correction or the Commissioner's designee to remove an incarcerated individual from home detention for violating a condition of the incarcerated individual's placement in home detention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB519 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Prostate Cancer Care Access Grant Program to provide grants to improve awareness of and access to prostate cancer care services for individuals in the State; establishing the Prostate Cancer Care Access Grant Program Fund as a specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1159 | Intro
25% | Establishing a minimum acceptable loss ratio of 85% during a plan year for property and casualty insurers and requiring the insurer to refund a certain amount of premiums paid by an insured if the insurer's loss ratio does not meet or exceed the esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB217 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1214 | Intro
25% | Establishing the taxable assessment to be used for the calculation of the homestead property tax credit for first-time homebuyers in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1211 | Intro
25% | Requiring a law enforcement agency making an arrest of a student for a reportable offense or an offense related to the student's membership in a criminal organization to report the arrest to the Maryland Center for School Safety, the Juvenile Service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1156 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of members of the Maryland Parole Commission from 10 to at least 15 but not more than 20 members; altering the appointing authority and method of appointment of parole commissioners; and repealing the authority of the Commission t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1169 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Montgomery County Board of Education to close public schools in the county to observe, if the holiday begins on a weekday, the first day only of Diwali, Eid al-Adha, Eid al-Fitr, Lunar New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1168 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to establish certain customer classes for certain service rates or charges; requiring that service rates for each customer class shall be chargeable against certain properties and shall be unifo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB1193 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain local jurisdictions to report information about certain housing development permits to the Department of Planning beginning January 1, 2027, and on the first day of each month thereafter; and requiring the Department of Planning to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB1151 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the seller of residential real property to request that a certain lender have an additional appraisal made if the appraisal is lower than the current market value of the property; and requiring the lender to provide to the seller a writte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB521 | Intro
25% | Establishing a rebuttable presumption in certain child custody proceedings that joint legal custody and joint physical custody for approximately equal periods of time are in the best interests of a child and establishing factors a court may consider ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1213 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a holder of a Class A license from operating a self-checkout machine on the licensed premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB36 | Engross
50% | Repealing provisions of law requiring the Secretary of Aging to develop certain congregate housing and assisted living programs for seniors; repealing the Interagency Committee on Aging Services and transferring certain responsibilities of the Commit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (131-0) |
| SB938 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly making or using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement resulting in underpayments of unemployment insurance contributions or payment of unemployment insurance benefits of more than a certain am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1149 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct an analysis of the full costs and benefits of sources of electricity generation in the State; requiring the Commission to include recommended policy changes to support the development of energy sourc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1176 | Intro
25% | Extending the termination date of a provision of law that authorizes certain plug-in electric drive vehicles to use high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes regardless of the number of passengers in the vehicle to September 30, 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB1197 | Intro
25% | Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to be equal to the salary of a Department of State Police lieutenant colonel at the highest available step for a lieutenant colonel under the Department of State Police pay plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1204 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain public and nonpublic schools to notify a parent or guardian if a student attempts or accomplishes an elopement, the act of leaving the school campus without permission, except under certain circumstances; establishing certain repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB183 | Engross
50% | Repealing the requirement that the State Department of Assessments and Taxation notify each taxing authority of the constant yield tax rate for each taxable year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (43-1) |
| SB844 | Intro
25% | Requiring an operator of a certain self-service storage facility to notify an occupant in default at least 10 days before conducting a sale of the occupant's property stored in the self-storage facility of the time, place, and terms of the sale by ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1210 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments involving a behavioral or mental disorder; and requiring a licensed certified social worker-clini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB969 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services from taking certain adverse employment actions against an employee or prospective employee solely because of the employee's or prospective employee's authorized use of medical canna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1191 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1161 | Intro
25% | Altering the statutory reference to the name Calvert Memorial Hospital to be CalvertHealth Medical Center, Inc., and its successors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB899 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, certain high schools to prepare, in a certain manner, a class ranking of each student who completes grade 11 to establish rankings for use in a certain guaranteed admissions process to certain public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB1199 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the State Board of Physicians, beginning October 1, 2027, to issue a license to practice medicine to an internationally trained physician under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to adopt regulations establishing minimum qualific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1207 | Intro
25% | Altering the compensation of the members of the Montgomery County Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1212 | Intro
25% | Requiring each device, tablet, or smart phone manufactured on or after January 1, 2026, activated in the State to enable a certain filter to prevent minors from accessing obscene material; prohibiting a certain person from deactivating the filter; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1206 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Silver Spring Purple Line Construction Zone Parking Improvement Grant Program; requiring the Governor, for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, to include an appropriation of $50,000 in the annual budget bill for the Grant Program; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB848 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1171 | Intro
25% | Establishing a process for and certain exceptions to the transfer of assets that are collateral for securing a mortgage, pledge, or security interest without the approval of the stockholders; and repealing provisions of law specifying what shall be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB823 | Intro
25% | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by food service facilities; specifying the State minimum wage rate; prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2028, employers of tipped employees from including a tip credit amount as part of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1172 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to impose a fee of not more than $250 for expedited processing of certain Class C per diem licenses; requiring the Board to adopt regulations related to the application process for Class...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1205 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local department of social services to provide non-confidential information to a prospective foster care parent on the medical, educational, and behavioral history of a child as it directly relates to the care of a child in an out-of-home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB62 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Education Funding and Student Population Growth to analyze the challenges related to the delay in student enrollment counts and its effect on school funding and the connection between growing student populations and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Second Reading Passed |
| HB46 | 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] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (131-0) |
| HB1195 | Intro
25% | Requiring one of the three commissioners from Montgomery County on the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to be the Director of the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection or a designee; requiring the Commission to develop certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB1200 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or muni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB879 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student to be eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB1181 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on the Establishment of a State Park Dedicated to Veterans' Care to study issues and estimate costs related to the establishment of a State park dedicated to providing recreational opportunities and therapeutic services to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
