| MD | HB408 | Pass | Altering the membership of a county's mental health advisory committee by including an individual with experience with mental health care for veterans or individuals serving in the military on the list of groups from which individuals may be appointe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 907 |
| MD | HB496 | Pass | Requiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of determining certain sexual crimes; altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 761 |
| MD | HB763 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 939 |
| MD | HB287 | Pass | Excluding the cash value of any qualified retirement savings plans or individual retirement accounts from the definition of "assets" for purposes of certain property tax relief provided to certain renters; and applying the Act to all taxable years be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 898 |
| MD | HB420 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and local governing bodies to construct communication boards in certain newly constructed public play areas; defining "communication board" as a device that displays photos, symbols, or illustrations to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 568 |
| 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 | HB457 | Pass | Requiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with represe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567 |
| MD | HB601 | Pass | Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 569 |
| MD | HB809 | Pass | Providing that a member of a board, committee, commission, task force, or workgroup created by State law may be removed or suspended for misconduct, incompetence, neglect of duties, or other good cause by the individual or entity that appointed the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 469 |
| MD | HB472 | Pass | Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide funds to local school systems to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 167 |
| 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 | HB577 | Pass | Establishing the Study on the Establishment of a Homeless Shelter Licensing Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Study to review current habitability and admissions standards of homeless shelters in the State;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| MD | HB542 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child in foster...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346 |
| MD | HB811 | Pass | Establishing the Financial Well-Being Pilot Program at the University of Maryland, College Park Campus and Morgan State University to provide comprehensive financial guidance and coaching to help students who may benefit from financial coaching servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 |
| MD | HB945 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law that requires a teacher preparation program to require a student to pass a certain assessment as a graduation requirement; altering the requirements for initial teacher certification; authorizing a local school system to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 188 |
| MD | HB1103 | Pass | Establishing the Miriam Kelty Aging and Senior Social Connection Hub and Spoke Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Aging; establishing that the purpose and the goals of the Pilot Program are to support the "village" concept of local, voluntee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 341 |
| MD | HB1304 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process for providing information about the availability of the State's earned income tax credits to individuals enrolled or participating in certain programs or services, or potential enrollee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 376 |
| MD | HB1397 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377 |
| MD | HB522 | Pass | Requiring, by December 31, 2024, the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 195 |
| MD | HB1386 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for an antibias training program for school employees; requiring each county board of education to offer training based on the guidelines; requiring each county board, every other yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 128 |
| MD | HB1167 | Pass | Establishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 293 |
| MD | HB333 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections to maintain a portal on the State Board's website that the public may use to report election misinformation and election disinformation; requiring the State Board to conduct a periodic review of material submitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 126 |
| MD | HB1441 | Pass | Altering staff qualifications in eligible prekindergarten programs; authorizing a county board to apply for funding to lease space for prekindergarten programs; establishing an early childhood educator career ladder; requiring the Department of Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 165 |
| MD | HB836 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | HB1220 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center to provide early-stage funding for certain start-up companies; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (101-35) |
| MD | HB344 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation; requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 each year on the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB696 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB837 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each public high school to inform students of certain employment and skills training opportunities in the same manner in which the school informs students of postsecondary educational options; requiring each public high school to inform stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB566 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB485 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain businesses that use a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose to whom the tip will be allocated and display a tip amount that is set at zero by default; and establishing that a violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB331 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "expenditure" to include reasonable expenses for caregiving services that a candidate incurs as a direct result of campaign activity and that are necessary to promote the candidacy of the candidate; and defining "caregiving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB558 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a comprehensive health education framework; requiring each county board of education to create an age-appropriate curriculum that is cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB730 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop an instructive program on the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction for public middle school students in the State that shall aim to teach students in grades 6 through 8 about the coll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1237 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Maryland Online Special Education System; requiring the Task Force to consider the effectiveness, functionality and usability of the Maryland Online Individualized Education Program and the Maryland Online Ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish a clinical staffing committee by January 1, 2025; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan by July 1, 2025; requiring that an administrator of a hosp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, a comprehensive plan for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB549 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that the disqualification from receiving unemployment insurance benefits due to a stoppage of work does not apply for any week beginning after the first 14 days of an individual's unemployment resulting from the stoppage of work that exi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HJ1 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to affirm, by joint resolution, the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1095 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Local Journalism Sustainability Grant Program within the Department of Commerce; requiring the Department to award grants under the Program to certain small businesses for costs paid or incurred to place an advertisement in a local n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HJ9 | Intro
Sine Die | Declaring the State of Maryland's support of and consent to admitting Washington, D.C. to the Union as a state of the United States of America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center as the State's Regional Higher Education Community of Innovation; and altering the purposes of the Universities at Shady Grove to include serving a diverse citizenry in an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1130 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that there is no statute of limitations for when a qualifying criminal activity must have occurred relative to the filing of a request for certification of victim helpfulness for a petition for U Nonimmigrant Status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ3 | Intro
Sine Die | Stating that the General Assembly joins seven other state legislative bodies and over 75 municipalities and counties in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB949 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that certain State employees, on request and with approval from the appropriate appointing authority, are entitled to use up to 4 hours of cancer screening leave with pay in any 12-month period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing uncodified provisions of law relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church, Diocese of Washington, commonly known as the "Vestry Act"; and providing for the governance of religious corporations in union with the Protestant Episcopal Church, D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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 | HB736 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to cover nonprescription naloxone hydrochloride and any other drug or product that is approved by the federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Financial Empowerment Center Network Pilot Program in the Department of Commerce; providing that the purpose of Program is to establish a statewide network of financial empowerment centers in different regions of the State; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
