| MD | SB659 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to adopt consumer protection regulations for domestic electronic funds transfers that apply to financial institutions in the State and are consistent with the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act; et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB715 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, to allow successful completion of eligible financial literacy courses to be applied toward fulfillment of the student service hours high school graduation requirement f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB713 | Intro
25% | Requiring each institution of higher education in the State that admits first-time undergraduate students, by July 1, 2026, to prominently display on its publicly accessible website a link to the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard website...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB714 | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB712 | Intro
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 princip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SJ4 | Intro
25% | Stating that the General Assembly joins certain other state legislative bodies, counties, and municipalities in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's Congress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB716 | Intro
25% | Altering the renewable energy portfolio standard; including nuclear energy generated by certain nuclear energy reactors as a Tier 1 renewable source; establishing a certified nuclear renewable energy credit for use in meeting certain renewable energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB490 | Intro
25% | Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB491 | Intro
25% | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges based on an incident or incidents relating to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB529 | Intro
25% | Requiring an applicant for a license to practice engineering to pass an examination in the fundamentals of engineering given by the State Board for Professional Engineers before passing the required examination in the principles and practice of engin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB675 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct an analysis of the full costs and benefits of sources of electricity generation in the State; requiring the Commission to include recommended policy changes to support the development of energy sourc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB602 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB601 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a certain dependent child of a service member to advance enroll in a school in the county in a certain manner; requiring a local school system to coordinate with the parents or guardians of a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB656 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain members of the Baltimore County Board of Education to be elected from certain districts in certain elections; and establishing the process for how the Baltimore County school board districts are reapportioned after each decennial ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB530 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply statewide; and requiring all speed limit signs on certain highways in residential districts to include certain signs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB804 | Intro
25% | Maryland Building Performance Standards - Fossil Fuel Use, Energy Conservation, and Electric- and Solar-Ready Standards (Better Buildings Act of 2025)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB34 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and nec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB316 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company in the State to submit to the Public Service Commission by certain dates plans for the construction or procurement of distribution-connected energy storage devices and to construct or procure the devices in accordance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB528 | Intro
25% | Establishing November 11 as a tax-free day each year during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for sales to certain veterans; requiring an individual, in order to qualify for the exemption, to provide the vendor evidence of eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB96 | Intro
25% | Requiring a water bottle filling station or a combined water bottle filling station and drinking fountain to be installed in certain new construction or as part of certain renovations beginning October 1, 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB68 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB428 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with fulfilling the Program's purpose; alterin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB483 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB379 | Intro
25% | Repealing the examination requirements for bachelor and master social worker licenses; and altering the number of consumer members on the State Board of Social Work Examiners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB175 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of corrugated stainless steel tubing that does not meet a certain International Code Council standard or is not proven to withstand a certain electrical arcing charge; requiring certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB434 | Intro
25% | Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB427 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB431 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to waive the license examination requirement for a journey plumber license; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to waive the examination for certain licenses; altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB338 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 in Baltimore County subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected in Baltimore County as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB344 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB346 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB345 | Intro
25% | Requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department of Agriculture to develop and maintain a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB268 | Intro
25% | Altering, from 3 years to 2 years, the number of years before an academic year for which an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes to be eligible to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB315 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service by replacing the State Treasurer with the Secretary of Planning or the Secretary's designee; and providing that certain provisions of law relating to terms of me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB189 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking privately owned property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
