| SB72 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a health occupations board from requiring additional evidence of English proficiency as a condition for licensure, certification, or registration if an applicant holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification, or registration from ano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB178 | Intro
25% | Altering the name of Arundel Habitat for Humanity, Inc., to be Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated, for purposes of a certain property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation tax imposed on the entity; and authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| 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] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB2 | Intro
25% | Proposing a constitutional amendment to require that a special election be held at the same time as the regular statewide primary and general elections that are held in the second year of the term to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senato...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB37 | Intro
25% | Requiring an electric company, other than a municipal electric utility, by February 1 each year, to submit a report to the Public Service Commission regarding each recorded vote cast by the electric company and any of its affiliates at a meeting of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB459 | Intro
25% | Altering the defined term "auto-injectable epinephrine" to be "emergency use epinephrine" and to include certain drug delivery devices and products; and altering the name of the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program to be the Emergency Us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB27 | Intro
25% | Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, receipt of funds, and permissib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB52 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the practice of chiropractic in the State related to Board membership, licensure of chiropractors, the discipline of chiropractors, and the denial of licenses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB259 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local board of elections to submit an election plan to the State Board of Elections for approval at least 7 months before each statewide primary election; establishing requirements related to an election plan; and altering the requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB1029 | Intro
25% | Authorizing, under certain circumstances, a personal representative to petition the Orphans' Court to interpret a decedent's will in accordance with the decedent's intent as demonstrated by certain extrinsic evidence; establishing a certain rebuttabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1030 | Intro
25% | Authorizing not more than five of the highest ranking officers from certain nonprofit volunteer emergency medical services organizations located in Baltimore County and Baltimore City to have their privately owned vehicles equipped with red or red an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1031 | Intro
25% | Increasing the penalty to up to 5 years of imprisonment or a fine or both for storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised minor has access to the firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB522 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person registered to build a new home to include in a contract for the initial sale of a new home certain information about the warranties for appliances registered by the person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB131 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County or of a municipal corporation in Anne Arundel County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the personal property tax imposed on personal property of a supermarket that completes certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB719 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Somerset County to impose an emergency services tax on all property subject to the county property tax to pay costs of emergency services; prohibiting the county commissioners from initially imposing or subsequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB1011 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Insufficient Condominium Reserve Account Grant Fund to provide grants to low-income condominium owners who live in condominiums with insufficient reserve accounts to enable a low-income unit owner to pay increased assessments necess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1001 | Intro
25% | Establishing that the creative expression of a criminal defendant or juvenile respondent is not admissible against the defendant or respondent unless the court makes certain findings; establishing that the creative expression of a defendant or respon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB451 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in the language of their choice; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering the exami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB444 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person or an entity operating a gun buyback program to destroy a firearm, including all components and parts attached to the firearm, that is traded in at a certain gun buyback program; authorizing a certain person or entity to contract w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Motion Special Order until 2/26 (Senator Smith) Adopted |
| SB24 | Intro
25% | Altering certain terminology throughout the Annotated Code that refers to a clergyman to refer to a member of the clergy and churches to refer to faith institutions and places of worship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB252 | Intro
25% | Repealing a requirement that a child care center that has 20 or more children have in attendance a certain ratio of staff to children who hold a certificate in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB182 | Intro
25% | Expanding eligibility for the Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program to include a spouse or dependent of an eligible veteran.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB153 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renaming of the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee to be the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee; altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to enable certain incarcerated individuals t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB265 | 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] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB594 | Intro
25% | Altering the training that the Maryland Department of Health is authorized to provide under the Overdose Response Program to include emphasis on the restoration of breathing, avoiding withdrawal, and compassionate postoverdose support and care; clari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Motion Laid Over (Senator Smith) Adopted |
| SB578 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Maryland Home Improvement Commission to award a claimant a certain amount for attorney's fees from the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund; and altering the content in a final court judgment or final award in arbitration that a claimant mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB547 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling to study the pooling of public employee health insurance purchasing between the State, counties, municipal corporations, and county boards of education in the State to maximize value and e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB296 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Public Access Ombudsman to delegate to a staff member of the Office of Public Access Ombudsman any of the powers and duties granted to the Ombudsman.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB865 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain law enforcement employees of the Forest Heights Police Department to participate in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; providing that membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System is optional for certain em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB264 | Intro
25% | Increasing the inspection fee that a nursery is required to pay to the Secretary of Agriculture in a specified manner; increasing the annual certification fee that a nursery is required to pay from $100 to $150; and increasing the annual license fee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Motion Special Order until 2/26 (Senator Hershey) Adopted |
| SB258 | Intro
25% | Altering the fees for resident consolidated senior sport fishing licenses, angler's licenses, and trout stamps; and repealing the exemption from the requirement to obtain a trout stamp under certain circumstances for a holder of a resident consolidat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Motion Special Order until 2/26 (Senator Ready) Adopted |
| SB174 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold multistate licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the Social...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB665 | Intro
25% | Making certain virtual currency subject to the abandoned property laws in the State; establishing certain provisions to determine certain information about certain apparent owners of abandoned property; altering and establishing certain provisions pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB864 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain employees of the Town of Forest Heights to participate in the Employees' Pension System; providing that membership in the Employees' Pension System is optional for certain employees of the Town of Forest Heights; requiring certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB878 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to engage in the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of oil or natural gas in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB42 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to designate the watersheds of Carroll Creek in Frederick City and Frederick County, Gwynns Falls and Jones Falls in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, and Herring Run, including the Herring Run Stream in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Motion Special Order until 2/26 (Senator Folden) Adopted |
| SB674 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Commission for Women to establish the Maryland Collaborative to Advance Implementation of Coverage of Over-the-Counter Birth Control to study access to over-the-counter birth control; and requiring the Collaborative to submit a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB67 | Intro
25% | Authorizing health occupations boards to include a notation indicating veteran status on a license, certificate, or registration and assist in determining eligibility for State and federal veterans benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB684 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB246 | Intro
25% | Expanding the purposes of the Maryland Veterans Trust to include providing monetary and other assistance to members of the Maryland National Guard and their families; and authorizing the Maryland Veterans Trust to expend money from the Maryland Veter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB257 | Intro
25% | Altering the time before an election when a certain notice is required to be sent to each voter who is on the permanent absentee ballot list; repealing a requirement that the notice be sent to each voter who is on the permanent absentee ballot list a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB172 | Intro
25% | Altering the membership of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Veterans Trust to include the Secretary of Disabilities or the Secretary's designee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB523 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain State employees are entitled to up to 4 hours of paid cancer screening leave in any 12-month period after obtaining approval from their appointing authorities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Motion Special Order until 2/26 (Senator Gile) Adopted |
| SB302 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain provisions of law specifying certain limitations on awards or investments provided to certain small businesses under the Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
Second Reading Passed |
| SB867 | Intro
25% | Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue certain competitive grants and contracts beginning in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| SB481 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from limiting the amount of revenue the holder of an on-farm home processing license may derive from food processed under the license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB243 | 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] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| SB497 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Information Technology by December 1, 2025, and periodically thereafter, to update certain information available on the Maryland OneStop portal, the internet-based statewide licensing portal managed by the Department; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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] | 2025-02-24
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
