| MD | HB918 | Intro
25% | Providing that the maximum annual salary of a register of wills may not be more than the salary of a State employee at grade 26, step 20 of the State of Maryland Standard and Bargaining Salary Scale in effect on the day before the register begins a n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB975 | Intro
25% | Increasing to two the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB670 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly sending by electronic means to another person an image or video depicting obscene material that the sender knows or reasonably should know is unsolicited; authorizing a person to bring an action against a person wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB929 | Intro
25% | Specifying that an individual may consent to the issuance of a permanent protective order against the individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB985 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the local governing body of a county to authorize the use of a second administrative charging committee if the local governing body determines that one administrative charging committee is insufficient to serve the countywide law enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB110 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of the Child Support Enforcement Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB928 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a testator who is married or in a registered domestic partnership from signing a will in the presence of the testator's spouse or registered domestic partner; prohibiting an individual who witnesses and signs a testator's will from also w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB113 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB955 | Intro
25% | Providing that the distribution of a certain forged digital likeness to another constitutes a statement or communication for the purpose of an action for defamation; prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a certain forged digital likeness u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB943 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB966 | Intro
25% | Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB954 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain evidence obtained through the use of an unmanned aircraft is inadmissible in a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding; prohibiting a unit of State government or a political subdivision of the State from deploying or oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB681 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which the Child Support Administration may notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's license or privilege to drive; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB853 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to file a petition with the court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the term of confinement and at least 5 years have passed since the court decided any previous petition filed by the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB721 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which an equity court is authorized to grant visitation rights to a grandparent of a child to include that the petition for visitation rights was filed after an action for divorce, annulment, custody, or paternity was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB85 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions of law prohibiting law enforcement agents from taking certain actions related to an individual's citizenship or immigration status; prohibiting a county or municipality from adopting, enacting, or enforcing a sanctuary policy; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1009 | Intro
25% | Increasing from $1,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that Baltimore City is authorized to establish for civil and criminal fines and penalties for violating certain ordinances, rules, or regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB734 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB818 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in certain actions seeking to remedy a violation of a Maryland constitutional right; authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB924 | Intro
25% | Specifying certain qualifications necessary for an individual to be appointed by a court as a custody evaluator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB982 | Intro
25% | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; establishing a penalty for a first conviction for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; and establishing a penalty for subsequent convictions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB803 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a computer-generated visual representation of another including a photograph, a film, a video, a digital image, or a picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB934 | Intro
25% | Altering the powers of the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention to include the creation of certain resources, tools, and educational materials related to firearms; and authorizing the Center to consult with State and local agencies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB916 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from transporting a firearm in a checked bag on
public transportation in the State unless the firearm is disabled from discharging by an external safety lock; and defining "external safety lock" as a device attached to a firearm ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB940 | Intro
25% | Requiring a court to stay the entering of judgment, defer further proceedings, and place a defendant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or an intellectual disability on probation before judgment under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB779 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the establishment of a medication review committee within the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services that convenes to determine whether to approve the administration of psychotropic medication to a certain incarcerated indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB883 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle or vessel in a criminally negligent manner; and providing that driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle or vessel in a negligent manner does not constitute a viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB805 | Intro
25% | Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking open a letter; providing that a person may not knowingly and intentionally open mail addressed to another without permission of the person or an authorized designee; providing certain penalties for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB810 | Intro
25% | Requiring each law enforcement agency to adopt a policy requiring the use of a lethality assessment protocol; and defining "lethality assessment protocol" as a multiprong validated tool intended for use by law enforcement officers investigating domes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB796 | Intro
25% | Increasing the filing fee required to accompany an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property from $300 to $600.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB837 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Forced Infant Separation From Incarcerated Individuals to study and make recommendations regarding methods to reduce forced infant separation in the State and facilitate bonds between postpartum incarcerated indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB847 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish and maintain the Domestic Violence Offender Registry; requiring a certain person convicted three or more times of a certain domestically related crime to register with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB676 | Intro
25% | Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; establishing certain criminal penalties ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB663 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation against another person who distributes a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from an actual visual representation of the person and falsely depict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB775 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Correction to notify certain elected representatives whenever an incarcerated individual dies in a Division of Correction facility; and requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to adopt certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB218 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions relating to the commencement of a proceeding to hold a person in contempt of court for the person's default in payment of periodic child or spousal support under the terms of a court order and provisions relating to the commenceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB860 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; authorizing the State or a local government to bring a civ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB885 | Intro
25% | Requiring that all investigation records relating to a complaint of misconduct by a police officer be removed from the police officer's personnel record 3 years after an administrative charging committee or a trial board issues a finding that the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB868 | 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] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB873 | Intro
25% | Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of at least 13 years of age alleged to have committed a certain offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB778 | Intro
25% | Proposing amendments to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection and tenure of circuit court judges; altering the method of filling vacancies in the office of a judge of a circuit court; providing for retention elections following an appoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB903 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or a local government, or an agency of the State or a local government, from filing an action for monetary damages or alleged economic damages against a business for the adverse effects of global warming or climate change in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB864 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of resident judges of the circuit courts by adding one additional judgeship in St. Mary's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB190 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole, including providing for a meeting between the inca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB777 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a person who has been granted an expungement shall be determined for all purposes not to have been arrested for, cited for, charged with, or convicted of the underlying offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB786 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Appellate Court of Maryland, in conjunction with the administrations of secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State, to hold sessions at certain secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB788 | Intro
25% | Allowing the chair of the Commission on Judicial Disabilities to appoint a former member to temporarily fill a certain vacancy on the Commission; and allowing the Governor, upon certain request of the chair, to appoint a temporary substitute member o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB789 | Intro
25% | Establishing minimum adequate security standards for courtroom security at all courthouse facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB311 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an incarcerated individual serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
