| MD | HB781 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB862 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB949 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB771 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB907 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB285 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB725 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB969 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB115 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB898 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB763 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB839 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB790 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB791 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB526 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "reportable offense" to remove the requirement that the offense occurred off school premises and did not occur at an event sponsored by the school; and requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to report to the local su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB772 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB782 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1025 | Intro
25% | Requiring each local education agency in the State to become an associate member of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification to utilize the Educator Identification Clearinghouse for screening educators and in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1015 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, each public middle school and each public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., respectively, unless granted a waiver by the State Board of Education under certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB4 | Engross
50% | Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority, subject to certain limitations; exempting the Authority from certain provisions of law; requiring the Author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB993 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum standards and county boards of education to develop and implement a curriculum, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, for a course on the consequences of a conviction for felony murder fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB997 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county or a municipal corporation to impose the admissions and amusement tax on certain gross receipts derived from the sale of food or beverages for consumption on the premises; prohibiting the imposition of the admissions and amusemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB891 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB922 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1005 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB498 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB86 | Engross
50% | Requiring a mobile sports wagering licensee to publish the phone number for and link to the website of the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling on the homepage of its online sports wagering website and mobile application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB981 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation on the use and potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring that the evaluation consist of a survey of local school systems and a review of available system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB935 | Intro
25% | Altering the requirements of a venue-specific emergency action plan to include the on-site presence of a licensed athletic trainer or an ambulance at each high school football game.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB387 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB986 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; and altering the content required to be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB919 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB601 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB942 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the designation of certain noncontiguous areas as development districts; and permitting the use of the Community Development Administration within the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue certain bonds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB856 | Intro
25% | Altering the distribution of certain funds available under the Racetrack Facility Renewal Account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB648 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Business Resource Initiative for Developmental Growth and Empowerment Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish certain business incubators; prohibiting the grants awar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB97 | Intro
25% | Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority; authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB994 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to develop and implement, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, a course on the consequences of a conviction for felony murder for middle school students in Baltimore City public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB937 | Intro
25% | Increasing the sales and use tax rate for sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 12%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB959 | Intro
25% | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB799 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Innovation Initiative University Partnership Extension Program to expand opportunities for technology validation, entrepreneurial development, and industry engagement at eligible universities; establishing eligibility criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB863 | Intro
25% | Altering the State standards for libraries and the State policy for local school systems operating school library media programs to clarify that programming offered by a library or library media program is among the library services that must be made...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB875 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Commission on History, Culture, and Civics in Education to make recommendations to the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to further the discovery, interpretation, and learning of the history, culture, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB540 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education to update, by March 1, 2027, and maintain a certain website; requiring the Association to conduct certain outreach efforts with a certain frequency; requiring the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB593 | Intro
25% | Requiring operators of certain libraries, beginning January 1, 2026, to place an automated external defibrillator in a prominent area accessible to employees and library users, provide maintenance for the automated external defibrillator, and ensure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB587 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain individuals honorably discharged from military service to obtain a high school diploma if the individuals withdrew from a full-time public or private high school to enlist in the armed forces of the United States during an armed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB377 | Intro
25% | Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB555 | Intro
25% | Specifying eligibility for the Child Care Scholarship Program, including that a child shall reside in the State, be under a certain age, and be in a household that meets certain need and income requirements; and prohibiting the State Department of Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB583 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a virtual school; encouraging a county board that is unable to offer a virtual school on its own to collaborate with one or more other county boards to jointly establish a school; requiring that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB488 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
