| MD | HB582 | Pass | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based start-up companies founded by students from institutions located in the Baltimore-Columbia-Tow... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 710 |
| MD | HB531 | Pass | Repealing the requirement for the Maryland Parole Commission to assess a fee against an individual on parole and supervised by the Division of Parole and Probation under certain circumstances; and repealing authorization for the Division of Parole a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 928 |
| MD | HB597 | Pass | Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; alter... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 709 |
| MD | HB575 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 705 |
| MD | HB576 | Pass | Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish the program by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 703 |
| MD | HB621 | Pass | Reducing the annual fee for a stadium beer, wine, and liquor license in Harford County from $10,000 to $7,000. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1008 |
| MD | HB933 | Pass | Establishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 780 |
| MD | HB1076 | Pass | Establishing requirements for each county board of education regarding provision of the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year for students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 749 |
| MD | HB432 | Pass | Replacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 444 |
| MD | HB581 | Pass | Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and to submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 412 |
| MD | HB465 | Pass | Increasing, from $5,000 to $10,000, the maximum civil penalty for the knowing failure of an employer to properly classify an individual as an employee; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, on a showing by clear and convincing evidenc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 |
| MD | HB599 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments and financial assistance available in certain low-income communities in the State; expanding the eligible uses of the Strategic Demolition and Smart... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 123 |
| MD | HB598 | Pass | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 322 |
| MD | HB571 | Pass | Modifying provisions of law governing application, administration, and enforcement of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, including provisions related to the payment of contributions, the calculation of the average weekly wage, the submis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 267 |
| MD | HB520 | Pass | Providing that a complaint filed with the State Real Estate Commission alleging an advertising violation may be made anonymously but must be accompanied by documentary or other evidence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 333 |
| MD | HB609 | Pass | Authorizing employees of public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engage in goo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 132 |
| MD | HB431 | Pass | Renaming the Department of Veterans Affairs to be the Department of Veterans and Military Families; renaming the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to be the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families; requiring the Secretary to appoint a Deputy Secretar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 12 |
| MD | HB585 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 21 |
| MD | HB584 | Pass | Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 13 |
| MD | HB513 | Pass | Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that a system operator does not need to be pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17 |
| MD | HB580 | Pass | Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7 |
| MD | HB819 | Pass | Altering the purposes of the Catastrophic Event Account and the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to provide financial assistance to noncivilian federal employees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 19 |
| MD | HB859 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing certain processes regarding the expiration of real estate brokers', associate real estate brokers', and real estate salespersons' licenses; requiring that certain licenses expire on a staggered basis; modifying and setting certain time fram... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | HB824 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing an operator or a manager of a self-service storage facility to advertise via e-mail, website, or newspaper of general circulation the sale of the personal property in a self-service storage unit to satisfy a certain lien, without the occu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB604 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27 Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB620 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-19 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB876 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain specialty drugs that are administered or dispensed by a provider that meets certain criteria; and requiring the rei... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB879 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1120 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Social Work Examiners to establish a process to review and approve certain persons as authorized sponsors of social work continuing education programs, subject to a requirement that at least one pathway for approval does... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1423 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Human Services to provide food supplement benefits to students who are residents of the State, are enrolled in an institution of higher education for at least 15 credit hours per year, whose family contribution is expected... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a retail business from charging a consumer a certain surcharge in excess of the amount required to reimburse the retail business for the cost of processing certain credit or debit transactions; and making a violation of this Act an unfair... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1422 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's refusal to undergo a genetic procedure in education, public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1401 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the School Psychologist Recruitment Program within the State Department of Education to provide professional development programs and aid for a certification fee to school psychologists and individuals seeking to become school psychologi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Finding that local governments pay electric companies large sums to light streets and are limited in how this public safety resource can be managed, the Act authorizes certain counties or municipalities to acquire certain street lighting equipment by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB467 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by restaurants; specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; and prohibiting employers of tipped employees, beginning January 1, 2027, from includ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB560 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the number of appointed members on the Harford County Board of Education from three to one; and prohibiting appointed members on the county board from holding the positions of president, vice president, secretary, or treasurer on the county ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a certain organizing committee to make certain determinations and provide a certain report to the county commissioners or county council of a certain county regarding a proposed municipal incorporation; requiring the county commissioners or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1460 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from intentionally disseminating the personal identifying information or image of a minor without express permission and with the intent to intimidate or harm the minor; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guil... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1459 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting recipients of the Purple Heart, the Medal of Honor, the Silver Star, or the Bronze Star and members of Gold Star families from the requirement to pay vehicle registration fees. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB302 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering penalties relating to sexual contact between a law enforcement officer, correctional employee, or court-ordered services provider and certain individuals under certain circumstances; increasing the penalties from a misdemeanor to a felony, a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB804 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "medical service" for the purpose of providing an exemption to the certificate of need requirement by removing psychiatry and any subcategory of psychiatry; and providing that a certificate of need is not required to establ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimb... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1438 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1435 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the maximum generating capacity authorized for certain net metered generating facilities; authorizing an eligible customer-generator participating in certain meter aggregation to receive excess generation from more than one generating system... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1421 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from offering for sale in the State a gene structure- or function-modifying product unless the product is labeled in a prominent and conspicuous manner with the words "Gene structure- or function-modifying product" and all potent... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB957 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish an annual tundra swan hunting season if authorized by federal law; requiring the Department to request that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service authorize an annual tundra swan hunting season i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |