Maryland Delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk [D]

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MDHB211Intro
25%
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants and postdoctoral associates at a system institution, Morgan State University, or St Mary's College of Maryland; and establishing separate collective bargaining units for the gradua...
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2025-02-03
Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
MDHB1014Intro
25%
Fair Share for Maryland Act of 2025
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2025-02-03
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB387Intro
25%
Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; etc.
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means 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
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB681Intro
25%
Altering the circumstances under which the Child Support Administration may notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's license or privilege to drive; and...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary 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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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB941Intro
25%
Requiring, to address a certain funding disparity, that the Governor include at least $5,000,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the annual budget bill each fiscal year until a total amount of $321,181,312 is appropriated; and authoriz...
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2025-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB995Intro
25%
Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Rise in Adverse Decisions in the State Health Care System and make recommendations to improve State reporting on adverse decisions; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to cert...
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2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB962Intro
25%
Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes both private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of He...
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2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB927Intro
25%
Requiring that the fiscal note for a bill that reduces health and community support services funded by the Maryland Department of Health include a certain estimate, assessment, and evaluation of the financial impact as a result of the reduction of se...
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2025-01-31
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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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2025-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1006Intro
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...
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2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB939Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Commission for Women to establish the Maryland Collaborative to Advance Implementation of Coverage of Over-the-Counter Birth Control to study access to over-the-counter birth control; and requiring the Collaborative to submit a...
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2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB974Intro
25%
Requiring the Insurance Commissioner to enforce certain provisions of law related to preventive services consistent with federal rules and guidance in effect on December 31, 2024.
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2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations 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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2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB869Intro
25%
Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
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2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB871Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "community benefit" to include a community health worker workforce program which is intended to provide services to patients of a nonprofit hospital and to improve health outcomes; authorizing a nonprofit hospital and a com...
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2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB850Intro
25%
Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to develop and maintain a data dashboard that includes certain information relating to contractors, subcontractors, employees, and apprentices working under public work contracts; requiring each contra...
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2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB845Intro
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...
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2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB848Intro
25%
Requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by carrier for a type of service has grown by more than 10% in the immediately preceding calendar year or 25% in the immediately preceding 3 calendar years, to provide certain info...
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2025-01-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB232Intro
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...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 14 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB443Intro
25%
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".
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations 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
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB488Intro
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...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB468Intro
25%
Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by a certain court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, not to exceed a t...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB527Intro
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...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 14 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB555Intro
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...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB523Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education to investigate, identify, and report on root causes of chronic absenteeism and expulsion in the county; and requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, and each quarter thereafter for 10 years, each county board to ...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
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
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means 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
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
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
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB820Intro
25%
Requiring that certain carriers, pharmacy benefits managers, and private review agents ensure that artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tools are used in a certain manner when used for conducting utilization review.
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2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB804Intro
25%
Requiring the governing body of a common ownership community to develop a smoking policy that applies to all common areas of the property if the property subject to the control of the governing body is a multifamily dwelling.
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB776Intro
25%
Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health pr...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB825Intro
25%
Adding the Comptroller, or the Comptroller's designee, as a member to the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board.
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB783Intro
25%
Requiring applicants for renewal of certain licenses and certain certificates issued by certain health occupation boards to attest that the applicant completed an implicit bias and structural racism training program, rather than an implicit bias trai...
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2025-01-29
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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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB740Intro
25%
Requiring that candidates, campaign finance entities, and specified other persons, or agents of candidates, campaign finance entities, or specified other persons, that publish, distribute, or disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or dis...
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB456Intro
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...
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB522Intro
25%
Authorizing the Department of Juvenile Services to provide funding for up to 1 year of certain rehabilitation services to certain rehabilitation institutions.
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB613Intro
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...
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB635Intro
25%
Requiring a police officer to document all reasons for a traffic stop or other stop on a citation or police report resulting from the stop; establishing that certain evidence obtained during a traffic stop or other stop in violation of certain provis...
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB606Intro
25%
Requiring a developer, builder, broker, or real estate agent to enter the final sale price of a new home into a multiple listing service or similarly accessible database.
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB718Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to monitor and assess the impact of potential and actual federal changes to specified health care programs and to provide recommendations for State and local action to protect ...
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2025-01-27
To House Health and Government Operations 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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2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB538Intro
25%
Requiring the Family Investment Administration in the Department of Human Services to be the central coordinating and directing agency of the federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program using certain funds and resources; and repealing the requirement...
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2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB552Intro
25%
Requiring each institution of higher education to provide certain drug detection products to students at no charge; and altering a certain reporting requirement.
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2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB686Intro
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...
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2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB661Intro
25%
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for faculty and contingent, contractual, or temporary faculty; and authorizing the bargaini...
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2025-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB607Intro
25%
Establishing the Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal Grant Program to provide grants to certain individuals with the goal of becoming a real estate appraiser in certain communities; providing the purpose of the Program is to assist in clo...
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2025-01-23
To House Appropriations Committee
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