| MD | HB421 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund for certain expenditures that support the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline; and altering a certain restriction on the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund to prohibit funds from being used for expenses solely relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB428 | Intro
25% | Establishing certain requirements for a complaint for a money judgment; and prohibiting the creation of a lien on owner-occupied residential property by contract or as a result of a breach of contract for the payment of medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations |
| 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] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB553 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide coverage for self-measured blood pressure monitoring for certain eligible Program recipients; requiring the Program to develop and implement an education camp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB443 | Engross
50% | Altering the statement that must be included on a baby food product label if the baby food product has been tested for toxic heavy metals for the purpose of changing the term included on the label from "toxic heavy metal" to "toxic element".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB912 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, certain institutions of higher education to provide instructors with certain training on institutional obligations toward students with disabilities under certain federal laws; and requiring the Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations 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 | HB300 | Engross
50% | Altering the rate at which nonprofit organizations receiving State-funded grants or contracts may be reimbursed for indirect costs to match the rate established under relevant federal guidelines; and requiring the Department of Budget and Management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB297 | Engross
50% | Renaming the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program to be the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Program; repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law that establish and govern the funding for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB424 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for purchases and payor reimbursements of prescription drug products in the State that the Board determines have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Third Reading Passed (94-38) |
| MD | HB385 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, each business that uses a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose that the tip is for employees and display a tip amount that is set at zero or a "no-tip" option, subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB529 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain carriers to post updated, accurate, and complete prescription drug formularies and changes to the formularies in a certain manner on a carrier's website; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB594 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting recovery by a certain plaintiff from being barred in a certain civil action due to the plaintiff's negligence, except under certain circumstances; requiring any damages awarded under the Act to be diminished in proportion to the amount of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB697 | Intro
25% | Requiring a health insurance carrier to submit quarterly reports to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner on certain information related to the carrier's use of artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems; and altering the information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB853 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to file a petition with the court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the term of confinement and at least 5 years have passed since the court decided any previous petition filed by the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | HB1191 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary 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 | HB527 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to develop and implement a program providing, for the first 3 months after transit service begins on the Purple Line, free ridership on Purple Line transit vehicles to individuals residing within a one-qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1220 | Intro
25% | Excluding transportation protection agreements from the definition of "preneed burial contract" and "pre-need contract" under the Maryland Cemetery Act and the Maryland Morticians and Funeral Directors Act, respectively; and providing that transporta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB450 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to automatically renew the Disability Reduced Fare Program certification of an enrollee who is permanently disabled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB609 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain applicants for a senatorial scholarship from certain examination requirements; and authorizing certain uses of senatorial and Delegate scholarships for applicants who plan to complete the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not access...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 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] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB905 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan; requiring by July 1 e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1086 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, managed care organizations, and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, if providing coverage for the delivery of anesthesi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1208 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person, from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, from selling food that contains Red Dye No. 3 in the State unless the food packaging includes a certain warning; and prohibiting a person, beginning on October 1, 2028, from manu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations 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 | HB1449 | Intro
25% | Excluding certain sales of raw milk for human consumption from certain State regulation of milk products; requiring a person to obtain a permit from the Secretary of Health before the person may sell raw milk direct to the consumer for human consumpt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1439 | Intro
25% | Exempting from certain requirements relating to offering health benefit plans to small employers in the State health benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization, coemployer, or other organization located in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1496 | Intro
25% | Requiring the construction of new multifamily residential buildings with separate garages, carports, or driveways for each residential unit to include certain parking spaces for electric vehicle charging; requiring certain significant renovations of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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 | HB579 | Intro
25% | Altering the requirements for certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the individuals eligible to request a certain official to certify victim helpfulness relating to certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; and authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB686 | Intro
25% | Altering the criteria for determining whether a certain victim or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend shall be considered to be helpful, to have been helpful, or likely to be helpful to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | HB1100 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1198 | Intro
25% | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1150 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally disseminating the personal identifying information or image of an individual under the age of 25 years without express permission and with the intent to intimidate or harm the individual; and establishing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1473 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency to include individuals with disabilities; establishing certain requirements for equal access to public services for certain State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1280 | Intro
25% | Authorizing unaffiliated voters to request to affiliate with a political party at an early voting center during a primary election and vote a ballot for the voter's preferred political party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1380 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations establishing minimum perinatal care standards for hospitals that meet or exceed the Maryland Perinatal System Standards for each hospital that provides obstetrical services; and requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1420 | Intro
25% | Requiring the register of wills for each county and Baltimore City, in consultation with the Maryland Registers of Wills Association, to offer a method by which an individual without government-issued identification may prove the individual's identit...
[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 | HB691 | Intro
25% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing personnel, pensions, and taxation to apply to all uniformed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08
To House Appropriations 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 | HB1127 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to develop certain instructional content on water safety and swimming for public school students in the county; and requiring each county board to develop a certain plan regarding access to swimming pools and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1097 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup on Mail-In Ballot Accessibility to examine current processes in the State relating to mail-in ballot return, assessing the impact on voters with disabilities, collect information about current practices for accessible alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1132 | Intro
25% | Requiring a principal or school administration to investigate each student fight or physical struggle; prohibiting a school employee from disciplining a student who, after an investigation, more likely than not used reasonable force necessary to prot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means 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 |
