Maryland Delegate Edith Patterson [D]

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MDHB578Intro
25%
Authorizing the Board of Public Works to control certain procurement contracts by the Department of Transportation and Maryland Transportation Authority valued at or above $500,000.
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2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB912Intro
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...
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2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1352Intro
25%
Prohibiting an institution of higher education from denying access or services to a student based on the student's diagnosis of sickle cell disease; requiring an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations for students with s...
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2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1254Intro
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.
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2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB853Intro
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...
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2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB930Intro
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...
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2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1165Intro
25%
Authorizing a parent to petition a court for an emergency hearing to reevaluate a visitation schedule if the other parent fails to comply with a court-ordered visitation schedule without just cause; requiring the court to hold an emergency hearing wi...
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2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1513Intro
25%
Prohibiting an individual assigned to be a school resource officer or a school security employee from being used for purposes of or otherwise engaging in certain federal immigration investigation and enforcement functions.
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2025-02-17
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB450Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to automatically renew the Disability Reduced Fare Program certification of an enrollee who is permanently disabled.
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2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB923Intro
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 principa...
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2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1187Intro
25%
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations that provide coverage for chemotherapy to treat cancer to provide coverage for scalp cooling systems used for the preservatio...
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2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1163Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study Fencing for Bodies of Water and Playgrounds; requiring the Task Force to review best practices for fencing bodies of water, assess how fencing and similar environmental interventions can be used to prevent injurie...
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2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1251Intro
25%
Requiring certain health care facilities to adopt a certain policy relating to obstetric services and to provide evidence to the Maryland Department of Health that the health care facility has the policy; and requiring insurers that issue or deliver ...
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2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1481Intro
25%
Establishing the Adapted Vehicle Access Pilot Program to provide adapted vehicles to individuals who require a wheelchair for mobility; requiring the Department of Disabilities to implement and administer the Program, solicit certain donations for th...
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2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1306Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish certain specialized clinics for the management and treatment of sickle cell disease and establish a scholarship program for medical residents who specialize in benign or classical hematology wi...
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2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB464Intro
25%
Requiring a local school system to provide information regarding certain secondary transition services to the parents of a child with a disability at certain individualized education program meetings.
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2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB647Intro
25%
Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing from approximately 22 hours to 17 hours in a 24-hour period; requiring all restrictive housing units to create t...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB868Intro
25%
Authorizing, under certain circumstances, a personal representative to petition the orphans' court to interpret a decedent's will in accordance with the decedent's intent as demonstrated by certain extrinsic evidence; establishing a certain rebuttabl...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1083Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to convene a workgroup to implement Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment requirements; requiring the workgroup to create a plan to implement the recommendations in a certain Centers for M...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1070Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study the feasibility of installing and maintaining a telephone system in assisted living facilities, psychiatric facilities, and nursing homes; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report ...
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2025-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1198Intro
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;...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1325Intro
25%
Establishing the Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; providing that the purpose of the Program is to facilitate the continuous operation of child care facilities in the State by ensuring that qualif...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1287Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, receiving, or transferring a certain convertible pistol; and defining "convertible pistol" as any semiautomatic pistol that can be converted into a machine gun solely by...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1433Intro
25%
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court by repealing provisions specifying that the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a child alleged to have committed certain acts.
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1380Intro
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...
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2025-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1422Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to study and make recommendations relating to appropriate benefits to be made to individuals whose ancestors were enslaved in the State or were impacted by certain inequitable government policies; and ...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1222Intro
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...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB691Intro
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...
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2025-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB505Intro
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...
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2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB498Intro
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...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB811Intro
25%
Requiring a county board of education each year to prepare and post to the county's website a report that identifies pathways that public school students may use to travel to school using only safe alternative routes under certain circumstances; requ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB981Intro
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...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB986Intro
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...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1105Intro
25%
Requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and contracting agencies to ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1204Intro
25%
Requiring certain public and nonpublic schools to notify a parent or guardian if a student attempts or accomplishes an elopement, the act of leaving the school campus without permission, except under certain circumstances; establishing certain repor...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1177Intro
25%
Requiring the Attorney General to establish a certain toll-free hotline for certain tenant complaints concerning repair and maintenance; authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to take certain actions under certain circumstances; and requiring...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1242Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to convene a workgroup to study and make recommendations on vision support treatments and services for students; requiring the workgroup to report i...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1129Intro
25%
Altering terminology in the Maryland Constitution that refers to constitutional officers to be gender-neutral.
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1199Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Board of Physicians, beginning October 1, 2027, to issue a license to practice medicine to an internationally trained physician under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to adopt regulations establishing minimum qualific...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB757Intro
25%
Altering the fee for a license to transfer oil in the State; requiring the Department of the Environment to transfer a certain amount of the license fee to the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program; a...
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2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB970Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or certain other similar medication that is being used to treat an insured's or enrolle...
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2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB601Intro
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...
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2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB495Intro
25%
Requiring certain schools that have an antidiscrimination policy to ensure that the policy includes certain information and is available to certain individuals in a certain manner; requiring a school to provide a certain training regarding antidiscri...
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2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB587Intro
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...
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2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB600Intro
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 education to apply to all uniformed services, rather than o...
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2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB596Intro
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...
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2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB630Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2026-2027 school year, a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from restricting a student's use...
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2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB631Intro
25%
Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking certain property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB612Intro
25%
Establishing the Lifesaver Schools Program to recognize public schools that provide health and safety training to students and school personnel; establishing requirements and prohibitions for Lifesaver Schools; authorizing a public school to partner ...
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2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB707Intro
25%
Requiring that an original and renewal application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to choose to indicate on the document the applicant's nonapparent disability; requiring the Motor Vehicle Admini...
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2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
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