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MDHB614Intro
25%
Clarifying that a county's lowest marginal income tax rate is the tax rate used to calculate the local earned income tax credit that certain individuals may claim against the county income tax; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning afte...
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2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB634Intro
25%
Establishing the Income Tax Reconciliation Program in the State to allow certain justice-involved individuals to establish installment payment plans and receive a waiver of any interest and penalties that accrue for unpaid income tax due for a taxabl...
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2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB633Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "slot machine" to provide that certain skills-based amusement devices excluded from the definition may award merchandise, tickets, tokens, or other objects that do not exceed a certain minimal value per play and may be accu...
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2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB619Intro
25%
Expanding the exemption from the sales and use tax for certain cannabis sales to include sales between certain licensed cannabis businesses and registered cannabis nurseries.
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2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB603Intro
25%
Altering the method by which the Comptroller must provide notice of the maximum income eligibility for the earned income tax credit for the calendar year to all employers in the State to include an electronic means of notification.
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2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB618Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to allow the establishment of a system or program that allows for the purchase of a State lottery subscription plan through an electronic device that connects to the Internet, such as a personal...
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2025-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB369Intro
25%
Altering the process by which the County Superintendent of the Prince George's County public school system is selected; requiring that the County Superintendent be selected by a majority of the members of the county board from among the candidates co...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB370Intro
25%
Specifying the purpose of the Office of Integrity and Compliance in the Prince George's County public school system; requiring the County Executive of Prince George's County, rather than the County Council, to select and appoint an Integrity and Comp...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB457Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop and offer a continuing professional development course on student well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2026.
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2025-01-22
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MDHB510Intro
25%
Authorizing certain fire, rescue, and ambulance organizations conducting certain gaming events in Frederick County to accept credit from a person as payment to play a gaming device at the gaming event.
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB525Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter's voting decision; providing that fraud includes the use of synthetic media; and defining "synthetic media" as an image, an audio recording, or a video recording that ...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB539Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to allow licensed agents to enter into an agreement with third-party entities to allow those entities to purchase State lottery tickets on behalf of individuals in the State and deliver the tick...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB129Intro
25%
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing that the initial term of the principal member of the State Board begins July 1, 2026.
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2025-01-22
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MDHB546Intro
25%
Establishing a certain appeal process for persons who are subject to the digital advertising gross revenues tax and receive a notice of assessment from the Comptroller; authorizing the Comptroller or the Comptroller's designee to issue an order to co...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB402Intro
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.
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2025-01-22
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MDHB358Intro
25%
Establishing the Soccer Opportunities Program in the State Department of Education to increase opportunities for minority students to participate in soccer in their communities; and requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for fisc...
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2025-01-22
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MDHB379Intro
25%
Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to provide, at no charge to the students, drink spiking detection products and drug detection strips to public middle and high school students in the county beginning in the 2025-2026 school yea...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB415Intro
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...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB477Intro
25%
Increasing from 4 to 5 the number of children under the age of 2 years that are authorized to be in care in a family child care home; and altering certain ratios for adults to children of certain ages in family child care homes and child care centers...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB550Intro
25%
Authorizing the governing body of a county to establish a system of public campaign financing after the governing body of the county has implemented a system of public campaign financing for elective offices in the executive or legislative branches o...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB420Intro
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...
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2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB484Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "fantasy competition" for purposes of provisions of law governing fantasy competitions to include certain competitions; requiring the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to establish a certain voluntary exclusion pr...
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2025-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB496Intro
25%
Reducing from 100 to 90 the number of training hours that certain health care practitioners are required to perform in a nursing program preceptor rotation in order to qualify for certain credits against the State income tax for certain health care p...
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2025-01-21
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MDHB465Intro
25%
Requiring the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to adopt regulations to reduce or mitigate the effects of problem gambling; requiring the regulations to establish a voluntary exclusion list; requiring the Commission to provide contact infor...
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2025-01-21
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MDHB461Intro
25%
Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for the sale of cut flowers.
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2025-01-21
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MDHB483Intro
25%
Repealing the limitation on the maximum amount of a credit against the State income tax that an individual may claim for certain expenses incurred for a donation of deer meat to certain organizations; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginni...
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2025-01-21
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB416Intro
25%
Specifying that a certain county tax limitation does not apply to a property tax rate set by the governing body of Prince George's County on certain vacant and abandoned property; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 202...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB296Intro
25%
Altering an exemption from the personal property tax for business personal property that has a total original cost below $20,000 by repealing a provision of law that prohibits the State Department of Assessments and Taxation from collecting informati...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB447Intro
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 ...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB341Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax on real property if use of the real property has b...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB342Intro
25%
Altering the State transfer tax rate and the distribution of State transfer tax revenue; and applying the Act to instruments of writing recorded on or after July 1, 2025.
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2025-01-18
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MDHB412Intro
25%
Requiring each local board of canvassers to make available on its website each open meeting agenda, a summary of any finalized documents, certain written testimony, and other materials on which the board will be voting; requiring each local board to...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB389Intro
25%
Exempting personal property used in connection with certain large family child care homes from valuation and taxation; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or a municipal corporation to grant, by ...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB390Intro
25%
Authorizing an owner of real property used for rental housing and the governing body of a county to enter into a payment in lieu of taxes agreement for maintaining at least 50% of the rental housing units located at the real property as affordable dw...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB426Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB330Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of improvements to real property located within 1 mile of a rail station and to set a special prop...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB322Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to enter into memoranda of understanding with municipalities that allow the State Administrator to work collaboratively with a municipality to support the administration of the municipality's elections...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB317Intro
25%
Establishing the Curbside Voting Pilot Program to test the viability of curbside voting in the State; establishing requirements governing curbside voting; and requiring the State Board to report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Pi...
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2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB399Intro
25%
Authorizing certain organizations that are affiliated with a professional major league baseball team that plays its home games in Baltimore City to conduct certain raffles; requiring the organization to obtain a permit to conduct raffles from an agen...
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2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB17Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; requiring the Commission to regulate Internet gaming a...
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2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 10 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB357Intro
25%
Expanding an exemption from the sales and use tax for the sale of precious metal bullion or coins by repealing a requirement that the sale price exceed $1,000.
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2025-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB414Intro
25%
Establishing the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth to support improved access to mental health care services to children and youth in the State; imposing a tax on certain annual revenues derived from certain digital social media services...
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2025-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB355Intro
25%
Including income from certain retirement plans within a certain subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for certain individuals who are at least 65 years old or who are disabled or whose spouse is disabled; altering the maximum...
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2025-01-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB150Intro
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.
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2025-01-15
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB72Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Civic Excellence Program as a voluntary program in which local school systems may participate to recognize students and public schools that promote the civic readiness and civic engagement of students in public schools in th...
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2025-01-15
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB57Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during instructional time during the school day; prohibiting the policy from limiting a student's use of a cellular phone for...
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2025-01-15
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MDHB192Intro
25%
Requiring county boards of education to adopt a policy that prohibits students from using a cellular phone during certain school hours; and prohibiting the policy from preventing a student with an individualized education program or any documented he...
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2025-01-15
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB118Intro
25%
Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; providing that certain provisions of law regarding the issuance of an initial teaching certificate do not apply to certain teachers; ...
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2025-01-15
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MDHB325Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in the same language from the English or Spanish language examinations offered by the Department; and requiring the D...
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2025-01-15
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MDHB319Intro
25%
Requiring the county school system of each county in the State to publish an e-mail address, a mailing address, and a certain phone number prominently on its website contact information for nonstudent members of the county board of education; and req...
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2025-01-15
To House Ways and Means Committee
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