| SB893 | Intro
25% | Establishing and altering requirements governing the regulation of insurance in the State, including requirements related to reviews and examinations undertaken by the Maryland Insurance Commissioner, premium discounts, the temporary suspension of wr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1104 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that electronic health care transactions information may be used to support the participation of the State in the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model and any successor models; establishing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB517 | Intro
25% | Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB1119 | Intro
25% | Requiring units of State government to ensure that at least 50% of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts for print and digital advertising is being made directly to local news organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB940 | Intro
25% | Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB920 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Interested Parties Advisory Group to ensure adequate access to applicable home- and community-based services, and the existence of an adequate direct care workforce in the State; requiring the Maryland Department of Health t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
25% | Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services for in the State for no less than 5 years,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB993 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum standards and county boards of education to develop and implement a curriculum, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, for a course on the consequences of a conviction for felony murder fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB269 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of years that a recipient of an award under the Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program may hold the award under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| HB554 | Intro
25% | Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, the dependent allowance, and the amount of earne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1027 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Implementation of a Statewide 3-1-1 Nonemergency Telephone System; requiring the Workgroup to review a certain study completed by the Department of Information Technology in order to establish a plan to implement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1079 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct a study on the electric transmission system and the electric distribution system in the State; and establishing that the purpose of the study is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the potential...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB748 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in partnership with certain entities, to incorporate information regarding treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and to increase understandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1143 | Intro
25% | Providing that a general license to practice dental hygiene authorizes the licensee to practice dental hygiene under the general supervision of a dentist in a school or school-based health center; establishing the Maryland Collaborative to Improve Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB720 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee for developing a clinical staffing plan for the hospital that establishes the appropriate number of clinicians needed to administer quality heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB773 | Intro
25% | Requiring administrators, carriers, and pharmacy benefits managers to include certain cost sharing amounts paid by or on behalf of an enrollee or a beneficiary when calculating the enrollee's or beneficiary's contribution to a cost sharing requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1015 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, each public middle school and each public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., respectively, unless granted a waiver by the State Board of Education under certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB946 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to adopt regulations establishing uniform standards for breathalyzer technology in the State; and requiring all breathalyzers used in the State on or after October 1, 2026, to comply with the uniform standar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB793 | Intro
25% | Requiring a licensed health care provider, when issuing a standing order for an opioid overdose reversal drug, to allow an individual to choose any formulation of any opioid overdose reversal drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB472 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of improvements to real property located within 1 mile of a rail station and to set a special prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB160 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a seller and buyer of certain residential property to rescind a contract of sale without penalty at any time before closing if a certain seller does not provide a certain notice; establishing that a buyer is entitled to a refund of any de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB790 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to convene a workgroup to implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment requirements; requiring the workgroup to create a plan to implement the recommendations in a certain Centers for M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1126 | Intro
25% | Establishing a Child Support Arrearage to Work Pilot Program within the Department of Labor to connect individuals who are unemployed and in arrears under a child support order with employment opportunities in the State; and requiring the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB813 | Intro
25% | Adding two members to the Board of Community College Trustees for Howard County; requiring each meeting of the Board to allow for public comment; requiring the Board to make a video or audio recording of its meetings which are to be made available on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1044 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General or the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County to review and grant preclearance to certain policies before enactment or implementation; authorizing certain persons to file an action if the Attorney General or the Circuit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB196 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Veterans and Military Families to provide oversight of the War Memorial Building; altering the membership of the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund Board of Trustees; altering the membership of the Maryland Veterans Commission; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (131-0) |
| SB359 | Intro
25% | Altering the fiscal years from 2023 through 2025, to fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB213 | Engross
50% | Altering from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2027, the date through which the Maternal and Child Health Population Health Improvement Fund may be used for expenses associated with maternal and child health population health improvements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB668 | Intro
25% | Expanding eligibility for the Maryland earned income tax credit for individuals without qualifying children by altering the income thresholds at which the credit phases out; providing that, after the 2024 tax year, the income threshold and phase-out ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB809 | Intro
25% | Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's right to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to be paid at a wage rate that is at least equal to the State minimum wage rate set by law without regard to tips that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB741 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which a certificate of need for changing bed capacity in a health care facility is required; establishing the Workgroup on Forensic Mental Health Treatment; requiring the Workgroup to develop a certain form to be used...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance 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] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB981 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation on the use and potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring that the evaluation consist of a survey of local school systems and a review of available system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB740 | Intro
25% | Requiring each health care facility to screen each patient for information on whether the patient is a warrior community member, include on the patient's medical record whether the patient is a warrior community member, and meet certain standards es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB454 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Juvenile Services from hiring or retaining an individual convicted of certain crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1012 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Massage Therapy Examiners to establish certain continuing education requirements as a condition of the renewal of a license; and authorizing the Board to refuse to renew the license of a licensed massage therapist who fai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB935 | Intro
25% | Altering the requirements of a venue-specific emergency action plan to include the on-site presence of a licensed athletic trainer or an ambulance at each high school football game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB544 | Intro
25% | Authorizing food establishments that are businesses that conduct agritourism, Class 4 limited wineries, or Class 8 farm breweries to comply with the requirement to provide a convenient lavatory by providing a portable chemical toilet that is supplied...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB430 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB138 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Maryland 9-1-1 Board to adopt regulations to implement and enforce certain responsibilities of the Board; and authorizing the Maryland Department of Emergency Management to adopt regulations to implement and enforce the responsibiliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB119 | Intro
25% | Repealing a requirement that the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs conduct research, make recommendations, and submit a certain report on certain areas relating to black males; and repealing the authorization that the Special Secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB986 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; and altering the content required to be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB569 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to operate certain schools within the county using a school scheduling model that eliminates early dismissal days if the minimum 1,080-hour requirement is met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB532 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a police officer who is denied a certain right to apply to the circuit court at any time before a hearing is held by the hearing board for an order that directs the law enforcement agency to show cause why the right should not be granted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB776 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Rise in Adverse Decisions in the State Health Care System to review existing State adverse decision reporting requirements for all health payers in the State and make recommendations to improve State reporting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB876 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning on July 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide notice to Program recipients of the coverage requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB40 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a person who tows or removes a vehicle from a parking lot to provide electronic notice of the tow or removal to the vehicle owner through the Motor Vehicle Administration under certain circumstances; and authorizing a police department th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
