Bills Pending Maryland House Economic Matters Committee

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MDHB482Intro
25%
Establishing a predetermination review process for occupational licenses and certificates in certain departments of State government; authorizing a department to charge a criminal history review fee of not more than $100; and authorizing the fee to b...
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2025-01-20
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB472Intro
25%
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue a Class C beer, wine, and liquor license in a certain area of the 45th alcoholic beverages district in Baltimore City under certain circumstances; and altering a geographic bo...
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2025-01-20
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB486Intro
25%
Increasing, from $1,000 to $2,500, the maximum civil penalty that the Board of License Commissioners for St. Mary's County may impose for a violation of a law relating to licensing the sale of alcoholic beverages.
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2025-01-20
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB481Intro
25%
Requiring that certain numbers of members of the Board of License Commissioners for Washington County belong to certain political parties based on the aggregated number of votes in the preceding election of the Board of County Commissioners.
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2025-01-20
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB476Intro
25%
Altering the quota for the number of Class A alcoholic beverages licenses that may be issued in the 8th election district in St. Mary's County.
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2025-01-20
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB264Intro
25%
Requiring, under certain circumstances, the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to notify a licensing authority when a licensee is found in violation of certain workplace fraud provisions; requiring licensing authorities to suspend or revoke the licen...
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2025-01-20
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB410Intro
25%
Increasing the minimum and maximum salary amounts for the chief inspector employed by the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County.
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB12Intro
25%
Authorizing the officers and employees of the Field Enforcement Division of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission to issue a citation for a violation of §10-108 of the Criminal Law Article; prohibiting the sale or distribution of certain pro...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB427Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Board of Public Accountancy to place a licensee on emeritus status under certain circumstances; and requiring the Board to reinstate the license of an individual who is on emeritus status under certain circumstances.
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB431Intro
25%
Establishing that any provision of a consumer contract that sets a shorter period of time to bring an action under or on the consumer contract than is required under the law of the State at the time the contract is issued or delivered is void as agai...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB346Intro
25%
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue additional B-D-7 beer, wine, and liquor licenses in certain areas of the 43rd alcoholic beverages district of Baltimore City if the license applicant meets certain criteria.
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB112Intro
25%
Repealing a requirement that the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Comptroller of Maryland enter into a memorandum of understanding for cooperative activities in inspections and other enforcement activities.
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB419Intro
25%
Altering the required contents of a certain plan that a gas company may file with the Public Service Commission for proposed eligible infrastructure replacement projects to include certain descriptions, demonstrations, analyses, and notifications; an...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB409Intro
25%
Increasing the annual salary of a part-time deputy chief inspector employed by the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County from $9,000 to $18,000.
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB398Intro
25%
Requiring each electric company in the State to submit to the Public Service Commission by certain dates plans for the construction or procurement of distribution-connected energy storage devices and to construct or procure the devices in accordance ...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB393Intro
25%
Altering the amount of wages of a judgment debtor that are exempt from attachment to 150% of the federal poverty level; and requiring an employer served with an attachment to notify the judgment debtor in writing of the amount of wages exempt from at...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB454Intro
25%
Establishing the Digital Asset and Blockchain Technology Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding the use and regulation of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in the State; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and r...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB451Intro
25%
Requiring a private construction contract to include a provision requiring the owner to pay the contractor within a certain period of time or, if the owner withholds all or part of an amount invoiced, to send a certain notification to the contractor;...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 29 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB385Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, each business that uses a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose to whom the tip will be allocated and display a tip amount that is set at zero by default; and esta...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB332Intro
25%
Requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to adopt consumer protection regulations for domestic electronic funds transfers that apply to financial institutions in the State and are consistent with the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act; et...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB132Intro
25%
Limiting application submissions for on-site consumption licenses to social equity applicants under certain circumstances; authorizing a political subdivision to establish hours of operation for on-site consumption establishments; authorizing the hol...
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB204Intro
25%
Establishing a cannabis wholesaler license; and altering the maximum fee certain applicants for cannabis licenses must pay for initial licensing or renewal of licenses.
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2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB220Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio s...
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2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB213Intro
25%
Authorizing the construction, permitting, and operation of energy generating systems that produce energy from natural gas until the State meets 100% of its energy needs from renewable energy resources, including nuclear energy; establishing certain r...
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2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB208Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from advertising or offering for sale a digital good using certain terminology or alongside an option for a time-limited rental unless certain acknowledgments are received from the purchaser and certain statements are provided by...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB102Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt regulations establishing an optional self-employed enrollment program governing the participation of self-employed individuals in the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program; repealing certain re...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB78Intro
25%
Continuing the State Commission of Real Estate Appraisers, Appraisal Management Companies, and Home Inspectors in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2031, the termination provisi...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB148Intro
25%
Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing a policy premium based on the claims history of an insured where two or fewer of the claims within the preceding 3-year period were for occurrences whe...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB81Intro
25%
Requiring the fair market value of certain agricultural property taken in a condemnation proceeding to be valued at 350% of the highest appraisal value of the property; and applying the Act retroactively to condemnation proceedings initiated on or af...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB15Intro
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.
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB121Intro
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...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB119Intro
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...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB227Intro
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...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB145Intro
25%
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB233Intro
25%
Prohibiting employers from taking certain adverse actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the op...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB99Intro
25%
Establishing a population ratio quota for certain Class A (off-sale) and Class D (off-sale) licenses in Anne Arundel County; specifying a certain official map to be used to identify certain tax assessment districts for purposes of the population rati...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB217Intro
25%
Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
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2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB29Intro
25%
Requiring certain entities that process electronic payment transactions to exclude, under certain circumstances, the amount of tax and gratuity included in the electronic payment transaction from the amount on which an interchange fee is charged; req...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB270Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Energy Administration, and the University of Maryland School of Business, in coordination with the Department of Legislative Services, to conduct an analysis of the likely environmental, energ...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB193Intro
25%
Altering, from 1% to up to 2%, the additional percentage the Uninsured Employers' Fund Board may direct the Workers' Compensation Commission to assess on awards and settlements if the Board determines that the reserves of the Fund are inadequate to m...
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2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB51Intro
25%
Requiring a local news organization, at least 120 days before the organization is sold, to provide written notice to certain employees affected by the sale, the Maryland Department of Labor, the governing body of the county where the local news organ...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB30Intro
25%
Altering certain requirements relating to programs of instruction for applicants for certain limited lines credit insurance licenses; and requiring the insurer that provides the program of instruction to retain records relating to the program of inst...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB224Intro
25%
Increasing, from $500 to $1,000, the maximum penalty for violating the prohibition against false advertising.
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB92Intro
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.
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB128Intro
25%
Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB31Intro
25%
Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; pro...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB267Intro
25%
Establishing prohibitions and requirements regarding compensation for certain services related to veterans benefits matters; prohibiting a person that is not V.A. accredited from making certain guarantees; providing for the enforcement of the Act und...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB239Intro
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...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB63Intro
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 ...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB194Intro
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...
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2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
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