| MD | HB131 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to establish performance-based funding levels for best available nitrogen removal technologies for on-site sewage disposal systems using a certain evaluation and ranking process; requiring the Department ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB277 | Engross 50% | 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, subject to certain exceptions; requirin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1254 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program in the State Department of Education to provide funding to eligible schools that participate in the federal community eligibility provision of the child nutrition programs. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1520 | Intro 25% | Authorizing not more than five of the highest ranking officers from certain nonprofit volunteer emergency medical services organizations located in Baltimore County and Baltimore City to have their privately owned vehicles equipped with red or red an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB671 | Intro 25% | Requiring, by January 1, 2026, a county water and sewerage plan to include a plan to minimize inundation risks to existing on-site sewage disposal systems and limit the installation of new on-site sewage disposal systems in climate vulnerable areas; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB930 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB338 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a conta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1424 | Intro 25% | Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs in connectio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1328 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-02-12 [Hearing: Mar 3 @ 2:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB506 | 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 the Program's purpose; altering the defin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB499 | Intro 25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB965 | Intro 25% | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2027, the Department of Transportation to establish a method to determine funding under the Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program that will result in a fair and equitable distribution of Program funds for e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1431 | Intro 25% | Altering certain provisions of law to require a law enforcement agency or a unit of State or local government to deny access to certain databases by certain individuals seeking access for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration law, under certai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1222 | Intro 25% | Requiring an employee or agent of a State or local correctional facility and a law enforcement agent to detain an individual not lawfully present in the United States and who has been convicted of a certain crime of violence and transfer the individu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB902 | Intro 25% | Providing that a certain base fee established by the Department of the Environment that is paid by a certain generator of coal combustion by-products is not less than $2.30 per ton; altering the factors that the Department is required to consider in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1088 | Intro 25% | Imposing a coal transportation fee on a person that transports coal in the State; providing that the rate of the coal transportation fee is $13 per short ton transported in the State; providing the fee does not apply to the transportation of coal tha... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1152 | Intro 25% | Requiring the landlord of a residential rental property to provide the property's pet policy on the property's website, in digital advertisements, in information provided for residential rental search engines, and in applications for a rental unit on... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1155 | Intro 25% | Defining the term "ecological restoration" as an activity undertaken with the goal of recovering, re-establishing, or enhancing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through specified measures; and requiring the Department of the Environment to... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1175 | Intro 25% | Authorizing, in accordance with technical specifications adopted by the Department of Agriculture, that State cost-share funding be made available for installing various vegetative buffer practices on land within the 100-foot tidal buffer on an agric... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1375 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a tow truck to display a portable variable messaging sign mounted on the tow truck while at the scene of an accident or a disabled vehicle. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1322 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a person from operating a gasoline-powered vessel on the waters of the State unless the vessel has carbon monoxide warning labels affixed in conspicuous locations in the vicinity of both the transom and the helm of the vessel. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07 [Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1162 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly offering to sell or selling heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, or refrigeration equipment to an individual that is not licensed by the Board of Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contract... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB845 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB979 | Intro 25% | Requiring a certain operator of a certain self-service storage facility to notify at least 10 days prior to conducting a sale of an occupant's personal property stored in certain leased space at the self-service storage facility of the time, place, a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB752 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names to develop and implement a framework to identify real property owned by the State or a political subdivision that bears a Confederate name; and requirin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB909 | Intro 25% | Requiring certain sewage sludge utilization permits issued or renewed by the Department of the Environment to limit the concentration of certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to 1 microgram per kilogram, the level established in certain health-... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB931 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device recycling account and a separate cov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB973 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, by October 1, 2025, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, energy conservation requirements, an electric- and solar-ready standard for certain buildings, and a requirement that... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB958 | Intro 25% | Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, blocking of railroad and highway grade crossings, the length of trains operating on a main or branch ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB938 | Intro 25% | Requiring the appointment of an alternate subscriber member to the governing body of a continuing care provider; and providing for the duties of the alternate subscriber member. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB502 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate ef... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB978 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and three systems on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County, subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected in Balt... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB644 | 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] | 2025-01-29 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB698 | Intro 25% | Requiring county governments to make a certain report by July 1 each year to the Governor and General Assembly on the amount and use of county development impact fees, surcharges, and excise taxes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB699 | 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] | 2025-01-29 [Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB741 | Intro 25% | Altering the definition of "hunt" to no longer exclude the sport of fox chasing; establishing the Deer Management Assistance Program in the Department of Natural Resources; requiring the Department to require, through a certain phasing-out process, t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB731 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to foster collaboration among State and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders for the purpose of protecting endangered wildlife from habitat fragmentation; requiring t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB815 | Intro 25% | Increasing, from $7,000 to $10,000, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying public safety volunteer for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB802 | Intro 25% | Designating the Purple Pitcherplant as the State carnivorous plant. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29 [Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB368 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim May as Maryland Native Plant Month in recognition of the benefits that native plants have on Maryland's natural environment; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and environmental organization... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28 [Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB642 | Intro 25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations for the secure storage and use of voter data from the list of registered voters and specifying procedures and requirements relating to electronic signatures; establishing and altering certai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB456 | Intro 25% | Establishing a certain statute of limitations in certain civil actions relating to child nonsexual abuse and neglect; establishing a limitation of $1,500,000 on noneconomic damages that may be awarded under the Act; providing that a certain party may... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB513 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting, beginning January 1, 2027, unless authorized by the Department of Agriculture, a person who keeps roosters that are maintained individually and kept movement-constrained through use of an enclosure or tether from keeping more than 5 roos... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB528 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a person from driving a motor vehicle in violation of certain provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law on private roadways in certain residential areas in Baltimore County; and authorizing a police officer to enforce the Maryland Vehicle La... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB530 | Intro 25% | Extending the fiscal years through 2031 in which the Governor is required to include a $250,000 appropriation in the annual budget bill for the Maryland Forestry Education Fund. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB613 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing unless the court or the party redacts identifying information relating to a victim of sexual assault that appea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB700 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct certain prevalence studies concerning problem and pathological mobile gambling, with an initial study to be completed on or before July 1, 2030; requiring the Secretary of Health, on or before No... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB500 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |