| SB598 | Intro
25% | Requiring the supervisor of assessments for a county to evaluate a certain net operating income calculation when determining the value of commercial real property that is developed under low-income housing provisions of federal law; and applying the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB123 | Engross
50% | Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; establishing certain criminal penalties ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1376 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to include in the contract for a study of the Health Services Cost Review Commission, the Maryland Health Care Commission, the Maryland Insurance Administration, and the Maryland Community Health Resources ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB230 | Intro
25% | Altering the frequency, from once every 3 years to an interval ranging from 3 to 4 years unless it is determined more audits are required, with which the Office of the Inspector General in the Department of Human Services conducts or contracts for fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB127 | Intro
25% | Expanding the entities eligible to administer local rehabilitation programs to include certain nonprofit sponsors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| SB582 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person who offers for sale to a third party improved single-family residential real property, for the first 30 days, to accept an offer to purchase the property made only by an individual, a community development organization, a nonprof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB538 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Family Investment Administration in the Department of Human Services to be the central coordinating and directing agency of the federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program using certain funds and resources; and repealing the requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| SB156 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a program to provide universal newborn nurse home visiting services to all families with newborns residing in the State; requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB429 | Intro
25% | Altering the definitions of target per pupil foundation amount, collaborative time per pupil amount, and special education per pupil amount for certain fiscal years; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB102 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "public entity" to include a Resilience Authority for purposes of insurance pooling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| SB89 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to establish a certain process in collaboration with one or more boards under the Department's direction and control that requires a board to include a notation indicating veteran status on a professional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB299 | Intro
25% | Providing that a cannabis agent who is employed to provide security services for a cannabis licensee or cannabis registrant as a security guard or by a security guard agency is not required to obtain a State or national criminal history records check...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| SB285 | Intro
25% | Altering from each month to every 6 months the frequency with which the Attorney General is required to report to the General Assembly on options for recovering economic damages arising from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB321 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "purchaser" for the purpose of certain provisions of State insurance law governing pharmacy benefits managers to exclude certain nonprofit health maintenance organizations; and repealing certain provisions that restrict app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB610 | Intro
25% | Increasing the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to $900,000 for the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program for fiscal years 2027 and 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
25% | Requiring each member of a county board of education to complete certain antibias training at least once during the member's term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB286 | Intro
25% | Clarifying required information for registering a domestic partnership or obtaining a marriage license; and requiring a declaration of domestic partnership filed with the register of wills to include the Social Security number of each domestic partne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| HB697 | Intro
25% | Requiring a health insurance carrier to submit quarterly reports to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner on certain information related to the carrier's use of artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems; and altering the information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB390 | Intro
25% | Authorizing technicians, employed by or under contract with a certain agency, to swear to and affirm, based on inspection of recorded images, the occurrence of violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; and requiring law enforcement officers an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Motion Special Order until 2/12 (Senator Folden) Adopted |
| HB92 | Intro
25% | Extending from 90 days to 4 years the time period during which an individual who has held a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration contractor license may apply for license restoration after expiration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| SB295 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Income Tax Reconciliation Program in the State to allow certain justice-involved individuals to establish installment payment plans and receive a waiver of any interest and penalties that accrue for unpaid income tax due for a taxabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to use information from a soil conservation and water quality plan for certain enforcement actions and statistical purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| HB25 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Reservoir Augmentation Program in the Department of the Environment; defining "Reservoir Augmentation" as the planned placement of reclaimed water into a surface water reservoir used as a source for a drinking water treatment facilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB3 | Intro
25% | Clarifying the definition of "physical therapist assistant" as used in the Maryland Physical Therapy Act to mean an individual licensed by the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners; increasing the membership of the State Board of Physical Therapy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| SB593 | Intro
25% | Increasing from $250,000 to $700,000 the annual revenue threshold at which the Legislative Auditor may alter the frequency that certain municipalities or special taxing districts are required to have audits of their financial records performed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:10 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB162 | Intro
25% | Repealing the Department of Agriculture's authority over the identification, inspection, and sale of cantaloupes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| HB256 | Intro
25% | Continuing certain health occupations boards and the Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee within the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extendi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB7 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person operating a bicycle that is approaching a stop sign at an intersection on a highway with two or fewer lanes for moving traffic to cautiously make a turn or proceed through the intersection without stopping if the person reduces t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| SB371 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Pharmacy to send renewal notices to licensees, permit holders, and registrants by electronic means, rather than by first-class mail, unless the licensee, permit holder, or registrant requests to receive the renewal notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| SB144 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the formation of limited worker cooperative associations; and establishing rules and procedures for the formation, governance, conversion, and dissolution of limited worker cooperative associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB226 | Intro
25% | Altering the purpose and use of the Maryland Farms and Families Fund to match purchases made with FMNP, SNAP, and WIC benefits at certain farmers markets and farm stands, support nonprofit farmers markets by providing logistical and marketing support...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| SB561 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or make donation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| HB239 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Secretary of State to suspend payment of certain late fees assessed to certain charitable organizations under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Secretary of State to cancel a charitable organization's registration or reinstat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB9 | Intro
25% | Altering certain definitions related to the Food Resiliency Council; defining what constitutes "healthy food priority areas" as predominantly lower-income areas that have limited access to retail outlets that sell, affordable, healthy foods, and defi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB499 | Intro
25% | Increasing, beginning in fiscal year 2028, the percentage, from 9.5% to 12.2%, used to calculate a capital grant based on highway user revenues that is required to be appropriated to Baltimore City.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB63 | Intro
25% | Continuing the State Board of Public Accountancy in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| SB315 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service by replacing the State Treasurer with the Secretary of Planning or the Secretary's designee; and providing that certain provisions of law relating to terms of me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| HB194 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a merchant provide a refund for shipping costs to a consumer who received an incorrect item within 30 days after a certain request is made; and making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice that is subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Motion Special Order until 02/12 (Delegate Szeliga) Adopted |
| SB101 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person in Wicomico County from standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection to solicit money or donations from the occupant of a vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB32 | Intro
25% | Requiring the District Court to hold a hearing on a tenant holding over within 45 days after a landlord makes a complaint if the landlord or the landlord's spouse is on active duty with the United States military; and authorizing a private process se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| SB210 | Intro
25% | Increasing from 180 days to 300 days the maximum duration of an emergency status determination authorizing the temporary adjustment of tolls, fees, or other charges by the Maryland Transportation Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Second Reading Passed |
| HB207 | Intro
25% | Altering, from 3 years to 2 years, the number of years before an academic year for which an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes to be eligible to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| HB1037 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Integrated Resource Planning Office in the Public Service Commission; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Energy Forecast and conduct a certain study to support the development of the Forecast; requiring the Office, in co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1035 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in coordination with the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, to pursue certain agreements with neighboring states and federal agencies related to the development of new nucl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force on Common Ownership Communities to study the education and training needs of common ownership community boards and new and prospective owners of homes and dwelling units in common ownership communities; and requiring the T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| HB271 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain expedited proceedings in a wrongful detainer action if the property that is the subject of the action is, at the time of the complaint, advertised or listed for sale or lease by the complainant and requiring that notice of a hearing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB506 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the defin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB545 | Intro
25% | Repealing a certain provision of law requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to expunge certain cases involving charges of possession of cannabis on or before a certain date; and establishing procedures for the automated e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB799 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Wicomico County to issue a Class B (athletic and event facility) license to a certain facility under certain circumstances; authorizing the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor for on-premis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB307 | Intro
25% | Increasing the scholarship award for a student member of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education who completes a full term on the county board from $8,000 to $15,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
