| MD | HB1198 | Intro
25% | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1154 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Correction or the Commissioner's designee to remove an incarcerated individual from home detention for violating a condition of the incarcerated individual's placement in home detention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1156 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of members of the Maryland Parole Commission from 10 to at least 15 but not more than 20 members; altering the appointing authority and method of appointment of parole commissioners; and repealing the authority of the Commission t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1197 | Intro
25% | Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to be equal to the salary of a Department of State Police lieutenant colonel at the highest available step for a lieutenant colonel under the Department of State Police pay plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1191 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1205 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local department of social services to provide non-confidential information to a prospective foster care parent on the medical, educational, and behavioral history of a child as it directly relates to the care of a child in an out-of-home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1186 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully causing another to ingest an abortion-inducing drug when the person knows or believes that the other person is pregnant and without consent, through fraud or coercion, or by force or threat of force; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1190 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person who was a child at the time of the offense may not be found to have committed felony murder in the first degree under certain provisions of law unless the person was a principal in the first degree; and providing for a motion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1157 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman to engage an independent consultant to perform a comprehensive assessment of the State's correctional system beginning on or before October 1, 2026; altering the items required to be included in a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1150 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally disseminating the personal identifying information or image of an individual under the age of 25 years without express permission and with the intent to intimidate or harm the individual; and establishing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1165 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a parent to petition a court for an emergency hearing to reevaluate a visitation schedule if the other parent fails to comply with a court-ordered visitation schedule without just cause; requiring the court to hold an emergency hearing wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1164 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a county or municipality from enacting or enforcing a local law that is designed to prevent an individual from resting or sleeping in a public space, protecting oneself from the elements in a manner that does not obstruct the use of or ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1202 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "drug trafficking crime" applicable to prohibitions against possessing, using, wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1188 | Intro
25% | Requiring law enforcement agencies, law enforcement agents, and local detention facilities who take custody of an individual to run a search of the individual in the National Crime Information Center, make a certain notice to federal immigration aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1158 | Intro
25% | Authorizing persons who suffer injury or loss to bring an action against a firearm industry member for certain unlawful or unreasonable conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB518 | Intro
25% | Establishing a certain mens rea requirement for bills passed by the General Assembly that establish a criminal offense; requiring the Department of Legislative Services to report annually by December 1 to certain committees of the General Assembly on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1209 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local director of a local department of social services or the Secretary of Human Services to disclose certain reports and records of child abuse and neglect within 30 days after receiving a request if certain conditions are met; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB275 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines by requiring the deduction, from actual income, of an allowance for support for each child in the parent's home for whom the parent owes a legal duty of supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1060 | Intro
25% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1074 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from taking a certain gift card from another or receiving a gift card with the intent to use, sell, or transfer the gift card in a certain manner; prohibiting a person from receiving a gift card that the person knows was lost, mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1073 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the theft of mail or packages from intended recipients; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 5 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1081 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally harassing, intimidating, or threatening another person while hiding or concealing their face; providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1147 | Intro
25% | Requiring the annual report of the Maryland Parole Commission to contain certain information; altering a certain provision of law to require the Commission to provide certain documents to a certain incarcerated individual at a certain time, rather th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1050 | Intro
25% | Altering and establishing provisions relating to the surrender of firearms by a respondent under the domestic violence statutes; creating the Task Force to Study the Use of Firearms in Domestic Violence Situations; and requiring the Task Force to sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB950 | Intro
25% | Expanding the circumstances under which a report or record concerning child abuse or neglect may be disclosed by the Department of Human Services to include the administrator of a certain child care center, the coach, team administrator, or manager o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1125 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Workgroup on Home Detention Monitoring to study and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding certain policies, practices, and responses when a person violates a condition of home detention monitoring; and requiring the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1112 | Intro
25% | Altering the time limits for bringing an action for wrongful death or personal injury concerning exposure of a person to PFAS chemicals; and prohibiting a person, on or after July 1, 2026, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in the State a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1084 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Secretary of Health to provide funding to counties for medication-assisted treatment programs; requiring counties that receive funding to submit a certain report; authorizing the Governor to appropriate certain funds in the ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1099 | Intro
25% | Providing that punitive damages may be awarded in a civil action only if the plaintiff proves by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant acted with gross negligence; requiring the State Court Administrator to assess a certain surcharge on a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1107 | Intro
25% | Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing to the extent necessary to eliminate identifiable risk; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1123 | 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 term of life imprisonment; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1116 | Intro
25% | Renaming and transferring the State Clearinghouse for Missing Children to be the State Clearinghouse for Missing Persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB977 | Intro
25% | Increasing the maximum period of imprisonment for a first conviction for manslaughter by vehicle or vessel from 10 years to 20 years and for a second or subsequent conviction, or having been previously convicted for certain other crimes, from 15 year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB394 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a commercial entity that distributes obscene material to minors on the Internet from certain websites is liable for certain damages; and prohibiting a commercial entity or third party that performs a certain age verification of an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1011 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from depriving an individual in a private detention facility of any right, privilege, or immunity secured by the United States Constitution, the Maryland Constitution, the Maryland Declaration of Rights, or any state or federal l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB361 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB354 | Intro
25% | Establishing a certain intent element for wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in certain prohibited places; repealing a certain rebuttable presumption that a person transporting a handgun under certain circumstances transports the handgun kn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB336 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, own, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB438 | Intro
25% | Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB310 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that a communication between an attorney and a client that acts as a fiduciary is subject to the attorney-client privilege even if fiduciary funds are used to compensate the attorney for services rendered to the client.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB312 | Intro
25% | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial to the lesser of 10 years or the maximum sentence for the most serious offense charged under certain circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB315 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland to examine and analyze the efficiency, uniformity, and quality of fiduciary adjudication in Maryland; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and make recommendations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB388 | Intro
25% | Imposing assessments of 12 points for certain subsequent drunk and drugged driving violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB713 | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB649 | Intro
25% | Requiring a child placement agency to provide a background report concerning a child to a foster parent before the foster parent may consent to the placement of the child with the foster parent; and requiring the report to indicate whether the child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1000 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "permanent cemetery" to include a cemetery owned by a family or religious organization; prohibiting a person from tampering with human remains interred in a cemetery; altering certain penalties relating to prohibitions agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB877 | Intro
25% | Extending the time for submission of the interim report and final report of the Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission by 3 years; and extending the termination date for the Commission by 3 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB944 | Intro
25% | Repealing a provision that authorizes a local department of social services to ask the juvenile court to find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent or guardian are not required if the local department concludes that a par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB952 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a local superintendent or the superintendent's designee to access the Juvenile Sex Offender Registry; and adding certain offenses to the list of offenses for which a person adjudicated delinquent is required to be included in the juvenile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB594 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting recovery by a certain plaintiff from being barred in a certain civil action due to the plaintiff's negligence, except under certain circumstances; requiring any damages awarded under the Act to be diminished in proportion to the amount of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
