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MDHB888Intro
25%
Altering the qualifications for an initial teacher certificate to include passing a portfolio-based assessment of a nationally accredited teacher preparation program.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB67Intro
25%
Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and, except under certain circ...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB694Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not access...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB1014Intro
25%
Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB168Intro
25%
Exempting all personal property in the possession of a person engaged in a manufacturing business that is a small- or medium-sized enterprise from the personal property tax.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB391Intro
25%
Requiring that members of county boards of education from Calvert, Cecil, Garrett, Montgomery, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, and Worcester counties that represent certain districts be elected only by the voters of that district.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB1016Intro
25%
Establishing the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Redevelopment and Operating Authority to govern the renovation, revitalization, and ongoing maintenance and operations of the Baltimore Convention site and the marketing of Baltimore City as a tourist...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB998Intro
25%
Authorizing the governing body of Calvert County to grant a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on certain real property that was formerly used solely as a tobacco barn.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB702Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education to publish on its website a certain list of special education service delivery models provided for parentally-placed private school students; and defining "parentally-placed private school student" as a child ...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB874Intro
25%
Repealing a special use assessment for property tax purposes for certain country clubs and golf courses and related provisions of law; repealing a certain subclass of real property for land of a country club or golf course; etc.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB688Intro
25%
Requiring each public high school student, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the U.S. Department of Education, the Maryland State Financial Aid Application (MSFAA) to the Marylan...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB923Intro
25%
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include an educational support member who is actively working in a public school as a noncertificated, nonsupervisory public school employee and an administrator member that may be a principa...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB906Intro
25%
Requiring certain political organizations to include certain disclaimers and statements on certain solicitations; authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to investigate a potential violation of the Act; and authorizing the State Board after ...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB689Intro
25%
Requiring elementary schools, secondary schools, and county school systems to use certain funds received for services provided under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program or the Maryland Children's Health Insurance Program to provide additional pos...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB91Intro
25%
Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid nongovernment-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states the...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB890Intro
25%
Authorizing a voter to change the voter's political party affiliation at an early voting center or precinct polling place during a primary election and vote the ballot for the voter's new political party affiliation.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB945Intro
25%
Altering, from the last Tuesday in June to the fourth Tuesday in June, the date for the primary election in the year of the gubernatorial election.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB910Intro
25%
Increasing the amount of a certain property tax exemption for dwelling houses owned by blind individuals or their surviving spouses from $15,000 to $40,000.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB846Intro
25%
Altering the definitions of "taxable price" and "taxable service" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the sales and use tax to impose the tax on certain transportation-related services; requiring the Comptroller to distribute reve...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB620Intro
25%
Altering the definition of a reportable offense to include only references to offenses defined as crimes of violence in relation to reporting arrests of students attending public and nonpublic schools in the State.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB983Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election based on certain criteria; requiring local b...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB951Intro
25%
Including institutions and programs of higher education in which a student is enrolled as part of a dual enrollment program in the definition of "school system"; adding certain offenses to the list of offenses a law enforcement agency must report to ...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB1008Intro
25%
Prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or certain other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of a device in or on a p...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB879Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the St...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB852Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Education, county boards of education, and institutions of higher education in the State to update certain drug addiction and prevention education programs to include information on the mitigating effects of naloxone or o...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB732Intro
25%
Altering certain requirements of the career ladder for educators to increase the required percentage of working time a certain teacher must spend teaching in the classroom from 60% to 80%.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB816Intro
25%
Altering the information that is required to be included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and with a question on the ballot; requiring that a certain summary included on the signature page of a petition se...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB953Intro
25%
Requiring each collector of taxes that maintains a website to include on the collector's website certain information and a certain link relating to the Homeowner Protection Program; altering the information the State Department of Assessments and Tax...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB781Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish guidelines for the local boards of election to implement a process to accommodate and expedite voting for elderly voters and voters with disabilities at each early voting center and polling place; r...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB862Intro
25%
Establishing the Child Care Affordability Commission to study and make recommendations regarding obstacles and barriers to child care affordability in the State; requiring the Commission to consider certain economic measures to support working famili...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB949Intro
25%
Authorizing the governing body of Calvert County to enter into a payment in lieu of county property taxes agreement with the owner of a qualified data center; and requiring the county supervisor of assessments to assess certain property of a qualifie...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB771Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, each student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in the State to submit a certain certificate of dental health to their school on a certain schedule; requiring the Maryland Department...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB907Intro
25%
Altering eligibility for a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on certain urban agricultural property; and requiring a county or municipal corporation that grants the tax credit to provide notice of the termina...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB285Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections or a local board of elections, on request of a candidate, to provide the candidate with a list of registered voters who have requested an absentee ballot for an upcoming election; and requiring that the list of ...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB725Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student to be eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB969Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, subject to certain limitations, to use a certain method when determining the value of the operating property of a provider of rural broadband service; authorizing the Department to use a cer...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB115Intro
25%
Authorizing a voter to establish the voter's identity at the request of an election judge at a polling place by presenting the voter's registration card, a valid Maryland driver's license, or any identification card that contains a photograph of the ...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB898Intro
25%
Repealing an exemption for certain rental vehicles from the vehicle excise tax; and imposing a vehicle excise tax on 3.5% of the fair market value of a rental vehicle.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB763Intro
25%
Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB839Intro
25%
Providing that a voter is qualified to vote a provisional ballot if the provisional ballot was cast because the voter claimed a different political party affiliation from the political party affiliation on record for the voter and the voter made a se...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB790Intro
25%
Requiring the State Tax Sale Ombudsman to include certain information concerning a certain State installment payment program for property taxes on the Ombudsman's website; requiring a collector of taxes to include certain information concerning a cer...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB791Intro
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; and prohibiting the county commissioners from initially imposing or sub...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB772Intro
25%
Directing county boards of education to provide certain funding to local workforce development boards to support the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students; and altering a certain reporting requirement of local workforce develo...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB782Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency.
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB891Intro
25%
Allowing certain local newsrooms to claim a credit against the State income tax for wages paid during the taxable year to each full-time local newsroom employees, subject to certain limitations; prohibiting a local newsroom from claiming the tax cred...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB922Intro
25%
Requiring, rather than authorizing, certain sports wagering licensees and sports wagering operators that advertise in the State to contract with certain independent evaluators to evaluate and rate the sports wagering licensee's sports wagering conten...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1005Intro
25%
Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for compensation received in the form of a tip or gratuity for the performance of certain work in a food service facility, business licensed for on-sale consumption of alcoholic bever...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
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MDHB387Intro
25%
Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; etc.
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB919Intro
25%
Altering the termination dates of the Job Creation Tax Credit, Opportunity Zone Enhancement Program, research and development tax credit, biotechnology investment incentive tax credit, security clearance administrative expense tax credit, and cyberse...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB601Intro
25%
Providing that a guaranty under the Small Business Guaranty Fund may be supported by the full faith and credit of the State of Maryland or appproved by an irrevocable letter of credit, an official treasurer's check, funds on deposit in an escrow or o...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
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