| SB831 | Intro
25% | Requiring a lender for a reverse mortgage loan to establish a certain escrow account for the payment of eligible homeowner expenses, deduct a certain amount of funds from each loan distribution to a borrower, deposit the deducted funds into the escro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1202 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "drug trafficking crime" applicable to prohibitions against possessing, using, wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB597 | Intro
25% | Expanding eligibility under the Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program to include certain students attending the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB994 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to develop and implement, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, a course on the consequences of a conviction for felony murder for middle school students in Baltimore City public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB918 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take certain action relating to the licensure of certain electronic smoking devices manufacturers, wholesalers, importers, and retailers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1170 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person to have a contractor license to install residential solar power system equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB961 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for single-gene and multigene pharmacogenomic testing in certain circumstances; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1167 | Intro
25% | Altering the authority of a municipal corporation or governed special taxing district in Montgomery County to adopt an additional or stricter building requirement than is required by a State, regional, or county unit to regulate the construction, rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB727 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Charles County Board of Education to provide at least 10 years' notice and hold a certain public hearing at least 5 years before taking any action that results in a certain displacement of a person that has been providing student bus tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB981 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions of law related to a hospital's financial assistance and collection of debts policies; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1208 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person, from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, from selling food that contains Red Dye No. 3 in the State unless the food packaging includes a certain warning; and prohibiting a person, beginning on October 1, 2028, from manu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1188 | Intro
25% | Requiring law enforcement agencies, law enforcement agents, and local detention facilities who take custody of an individual to run a search of the individual in the National Crime Information Center, make a certain notice to federal immigration aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1174 | Intro
25% | Increasing to two the number of Class BD-BWL alcoholic beverages licenses in Montgomery County that the same person may hold; and specifying that the second Class BD-BWL license issued to the same person authorizes the holder to sell only private-lab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB548 | 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
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1158 | Intro
25% | Authorizing persons who suffer injury or loss to bring an action against a firearm industry member for certain unlawful or unreasonable conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB518 | Intro
25% | Establishing a certain mens rea requirement for bills passed by the General Assembly that establish a criminal offense; requiring the Department of Legislative Services to report annually by December 1 to certain committees of the General Assembly on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB984 | Intro
25% | Requiring an insurer that issues, sells, or delivers private passenger motor vehicle insurance policies in the State to disclose the use of certain telematics systems and to establish an appeals process by which a policyholder may challenge data the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1192 | Intro
25% | Requiring, as practicable, the Comptroller and the Director of the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to jointly determine on a regular basis whether a certain nonprofit organization in the State has been found to be a certain terrorist-sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1162 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly offering to sell or selling heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, or refrigeration equipment to an individual that is not licensed by the Board of Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB524 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain religious educational institutions accredited by certain accrediting bodies from the requirement to obtain a certificate of approval from the Maryland Higher Education Commission to operate in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB974 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1182 | Intro
25% | Repealing a requirement that the assets of any Methodist Church be held in trust for the United Methodist Church and be subject to the control of the Church; repealing a provision of law providing that the absence of a trust clause in any deed or con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB697 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a premium discount provided by the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund to an insured be based on the income of the insured and actuarially justified.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1209 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local director of a local department of social services or the Secretary of Human Services to disclose certain reports and records of child abuse and neglect within 30 days after receiving a request if certain conditions are met; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1175 | Intro
25% | Authorizing, in accordance with technical specifications adopted by the Department of Agriculture, that State cost-share funding be made available for installing various vegetative buffer practices on land within the 100-foot tidal buffer on an agric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB973 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Aviation Commission to adopt, rather than approve for adoption by the Executive Director of the Maryland Aviation Administration, regulations for the operation of the State-owned airports; altering requirements for meetings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB552 | Intro
25% | Requiring each public high school student, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the U.S. Department of Education or the Maryland State Financial Aid Application (MSFAA) to the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB583 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain applicants for a senatorial scholarship from certain examination requirements; and authorizing certain uses of senatorial and Delegate scholarships for applicants who plan to complete the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB275 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines by requiring the deduction, from actual income, of an allowance for support for each child in the parent's home for whom the parent owes a legal duty of supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB211 | Engross
50% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants at a system institution, Morgan State University, or St Mary's College of Maryland; defining "graduate assistant" as a graduate student at a system institution, Morgan State Unive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (93-38) |
| SB842 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission or a peace officer to seize other tobacco products and electronic smoking devices that are sold or offered for sale in violation of certain provisions of law without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB507 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain evidence of certain diagnoses is admissible in a criminal proceeding if the evidence tends to show that the defendant, at the time of the alleged offense, did or did not have the mental state required for the offense charged an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB553 | Intro
25% | Altering the criteria for determining whether a certain victim or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend shall be considered to be helpful, to have been helpful, or likely to be helpful to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB959 | Intro
25% | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB894 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Office of Social Equity within the Maryland Cannabis Administration, rather than the Comptroller, to administer the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund; repealing provisions of law requiring the Office to report on the Fund and to so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB902 | Intro
25% | Providing that a certain base fee established by the Department of the Environment that is paid by a certain generator of coal combustion by-products is not less than $2.30 per ton; altering the factors that the Department is required to consider in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB895 | Intro
25% | Applying to governmental employers certain provisions of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law that prohibit an employer from making deductions from the wage of an employee except for specified purposes; and allowing a governmental employer to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB846 | Intro
25% | Requiring a cellular phone carrier to include an option in the service contract that allows more than one individual who is a customer of record to the service contract to alter, modify, or cancel the service contract without the agreement of the oth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB726 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Cannabis Administration to consider certain factors in determining if a labor organization is a "bona fide labor organization"; requiring a cannabis licensee, under certain circumstances, to execute a certain labor peace agreem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB956 | Intro
25% | Requiring a carrier to pay the same commission rate to a broker for the sale of certain Medicare supplement policies sold during a guaranteed issue period as a Medicare supplement policy sold during an open enrollment period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB511 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain public senior higher education institutions to adopt a plan regarding pregnant and parenting students to include referral to on-campus or off-campus services to assist regarding the availability of or eligibility for certain governm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB986 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct a study on patient navigation services in the State that help a patient overcome health care system barriers and facilitate timely access to quality health and psychosocial care from prediagnosis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB248 | Engross
50% | Altering the duties of the Department of Service and Civic Innovation; renaming the Governor's Volunteer Council to be the Governor's Commission on Service and Volunteerism; altering certain requirements relating to qualifications for applicants and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB295 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-06
Second Reading Passed |
| HB138 | Engross
50% | Expanding eligibility for burial in a State veterans' cemetery to include members of a reserve component; removing the residency requirement for certain veterans for burial in a State veterans' cemetery; and establishing a burial fee equal to the ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (131-0) |
| SB574 | Intro
25% | Altering the terms of the members of the Howard County Board of Education; establishing the Howard County Board of Education Compensation Commission; and requiring the Commission to study the salaries of the Members of the Howard County Board of Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB1129 | Intro
25% | Altering terminology in the Maryland Constitution that refers to constitutional officers to be gender-neutral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1002 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the sale and possession of certain consumer fireworks, subject to certain requirements and restrictions; altering certain provisions to establish that certain provisions authorizing the State Fire Marshal to issue a certain permit relatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1106 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain providers of travel services to file with the Department of Labor evidence of financial security; and requiring the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office and the Department to provide reasonable notice of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
