| SB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "gross income" to exclude certain public assistance received in a cash grant for purposes of the renters' property tax relief program and the homeowners' property tax credit program; increasing the combined gross income lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from $7,000 to $10,000, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying public safety volunteer for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2024; requiring each police agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB328 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that the Governor's proposed budget for each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028 include an 8% reimbursement rate increase for providers of certain health care services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 5% to 6%, the maximum hotel rental tax rate that counties in the Eastern Shore class of code counties may impose.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Making technical and clarifying changes to the administration of certain food supplement benefits for children; and increasing the amount the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill for certain food supplement benefits for children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Mechanism Grant Program by making qualified nonprofit organizations that operate a farm or community garden that is on at least 250 acres, grows between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 pounds of produce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the composition of the Cox Creek Citizens Oversight Committee; and requiring the Committee to monitor the management of certain dredged material, provide input and feedback to the Maryland Port Administration regarding the management of cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering and establishing renewal and reinstatement processes for horse establishment licenses; establishing certain duties and administrative penalties with respect to beekeeping activities; altering the administrative penalty structure for certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, when a child is born at a health care facility, the attending physician to offer to the presumed father of the child the option to take a paternity test; requiring that the offer to take a paternity test be made orally and in writing and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering and repealing certain definitions for purposes of the State Boat Act; repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing provisions of the State Boat Act; altering the fees for manufacturer an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting employers from taking or threatening to take adverse action against an employee because the employee takes certain actions regarding rights and responsibilities, complaints, investigations, proceedings, or hearings under certain provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; prohibiting certain employers of tipped employees, beginning July 1, 2027, from including a tip credit amount as part of the employees' wages and requiring the employe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting residents who are eligible for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or Medicaid from the annual fee for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the quorum threshold for the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service; authorizing the Secretary of the Board to delegate certain responsibilities to an employee of the Service; altering the obligations of the Service after r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain HIV and syphilis reporting and testing requirements for hospitals and health care providers for pregnant women and newborns, including by requiring that the pregnancy status of certain individuals be included in certain reports and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption to climate change relevant to the critical area, enhancing resilience in the critical are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring county boards of education to develop and adopt a policy that prohibits students from using a cellular phone during instructional time unless a teacher expressly directs the student to use a cellular phone for educational purposes; and exem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing members of a State or local retirement or pension system to receive service credit for volunteer service in the Peace Corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB218 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and reorganizing certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professions; altering p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring health occupations boards to issue an expedited temporary license, certificate, registration, or permit to a service member, veteran, or military spouse who meets certain requirements; requiring each health occupations board to include a ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Nonoccupational Postexposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) Standing Order Program to authorize pharmacists and health care providers to prescribe or dispense nPEP under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Maryland Department of Health to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop content standards for inclusive and diverse English language arts to be included in certain State standards for English language arts by December 1, 2025; requiring each county board of education to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring local permit offices to include a construction cost estimate when submitting a copy of a building permit to the supervisor of assessments of the county where the building is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2031, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill certain appropriations to the State Department of Education for the Coalition for Public Safety Training in Schools, Inc., in Prince George's Cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing November 11 as a tax-free day each year during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for sales to certain veterans; requiring an individual, in order to qualify for the exemption, to provide the vendor evidence of eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Board of Trustees of the College of Southern Maryland to include funding in the annual budget of the College to reopen the pool on the College's La Plata Campus by December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB154 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a unit to structure procurement procedures to meet federal procurement standards and to try to achieve or exceed a certain overall percentage goal of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts to be made with historically underu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting eligibility for a credit against the State income tax for certain long-term care insurance premiums paid by a taxpayer for long-term care insurance purchased before January 1, 2005, to taxpayers who are at least 85 years old with a Maryland ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB188 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the collective bargaining process for State employees, including by requiring the selection of a neutral arbitrator to oversee all aspects of collective bargaining, establishing a process of arbitration in the event of impasse, and providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State and certain units and instrumentalities of the State from using any appropriation for a magnetic levitation transportation system in the State; and providing that the prohibition does not apply to expenditures for the salaries o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Transportation to include sufficient funds in the Consolidated Transportation Program for fiscal year 2025 and beyond for the planning, design, and reconstruction necessary for the conversion of Maryland Route 210 (Indian H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, under certain circumstances, eligibility for and the value of a credit against the State income tax for certain residents who are at least 65 years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "dispenser" for purposes of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to include certain licensed veterinarians when dispensing controlled substances for animals in the usual course of providing professional services; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a taxpayer, when filing an appeal to the Maryland Tax Court of a property tax assessment for income-producing property valued greater than $5,000,000, to pay a $100 nonrefundable fee to the Maryland Tax Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing certain eligible taxpayers who volunteer in a certain elementary and secondary school a credit against the State income tax in an amount equal to $20 for each volunteer hour, not to exceed $500; requiring the State Department of Education, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding an adjustment for the local cost-share for school construction projections for certain counties under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that real property be revalued during a 3-year assessment cycle if, within 1 year after the assessment of a property is reduced due to an appeal, the property transfers for consideration that exceeds the value of the property before the red...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Transportation to categorize the major transportation projects being considered for inclusion in the Consolidated Transportation Program into four project categories; requiring the Department to rank each project under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the distribution of proceeds from video lottery terminals by increasing, from $120,000 to $1,000,000, the amount of the local impact grant to be paid to the Town of Forest Heights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on real property if use of the real proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Charles County Public Library to partner with an Imagination Library Program to provide free books to children up to 5 years of age; and requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for fiscal years 2026 through 2035 an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
