| MD | SB37 | Intro
25% | Requiring an electric company, other than a municipal electric utility, by February 1 each year, to submit a report to the Public Service Commission regarding each recorded vote cast by the electric company and any of its affiliates at a meeting of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB481 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from limiting the amount of revenue the holder of an on-farm home processing license may derive from food processed under the license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB867 | Intro
25% | Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue certain competitive grants and contracts beginning in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB73 | Intro
25% | Renaming the Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program to be the Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. Chesapeake Conservation and Climate Corps Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB783 | 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] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB704 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB705 | Intro
25% | Altering the content of certain reports by the Department of Information Technology relating to the Information Technology Investment Fund; and requiring the reports to be written, as practicable, in a manner that is clear and avoids technical jargon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB909 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Integrated Resource Planning Office in the Public Service Commission; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Energy Forecast and conduct a certain study to support the development of the Forecast; requiring the Office, in co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB564 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the transfer of funds from the Catastrophic Event Account to the State Disaster Recovery Fund if the balance of the Fund has been depleted due to use or transfer or the estimated costs for providing adequate disaster relief for a natural ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB691 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Insurance Administration to include a cybersecurity expert as staff to perform certain functions and submit to the State Chief Information Security Officer a report on the cybersecurity p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB936 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain developer of, and a certain deployer who uses, a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system to use reasonable care to protect consumers from known and reasonably foreseeable risks of certain algorithmic discrimination in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB165 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim January 13 as Korean American Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and cultural organizations to observe Korean American Day properly with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB907 | Intro
25% | Repealing the requirement that county boards of education prioritize the purchase of digital devices with certain funds; requiring each local school system to comply with, and certify compliance with, the State minimum cybersecurity standards and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB903 | Intro
25% | Establishing an expedited certificate of public convenience and necessity review process for certain co-located energy generation projects that have received a fast track pass; establishing a Data Center Fast Track Advisory Committee in the Public Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB908 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations or issue orders on or before December 31, 2025, that require electric companies to, every 3 years, develop an electric system distribution plan to be approved by the Commission and provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB906 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Board of Education and the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education, to develop or update guidance on artificial intelligence for county boards of education; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB904 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB473 | Intro
25% | Expanding the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Mechanism Grant Program by making certain qualified suppliers eligible for grant funding; establishing the Maryland Food and Agricultural Resiliency Operating Fund; and requiring the Governor to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB480 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Maryland Green Purchasing Committee, the University System of Maryland, and the Maryland Clean Energy Center, to establish a Clean Energy Procurement Program in the Department on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB563 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to advance agricultural fairs and education in the State; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring $1,450,000 of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB946 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the northern long-eared bat, and the tricolor bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secretary makes certain findings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB943 | Intro
25% | Altering and establishing provisions relating to the surrender of firearms by a respondent under the domestic violence statutes; creating the Task Force to Study the Use of Firearms in Domestic Violence Situations; and requiring the Task Force to sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB905 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from utilizing certain personal identifying information or engaging in certain conduct in order to cause certain harm; prohibiting a person from using certain artificial intelligence or certain deepfake representations for certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB871 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB655 | Intro
25% | Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB659 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to adopt consumer protection regulations for domestic electronic funds transfers that apply to financial institutions in the State and are consistent with the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act; et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB361 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter's voting decision; and providing that fraud includes the use of synthetic media.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB490 | Intro
25% | Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB487 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Secretary of Information Technology to conduct a certain risk assessment of certain major information technology development projects under certain circumstances; authorizing the Secretary to recommend an increase in a certain limitatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB609 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a landlord from using certain algorithmic devices to determine the amount of rent to charge a residential tenant; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB549 | Intro
25% | Establishing an immunity from liability for a person who discloses information about allegations of sexually assaultive behavior if the person acts in good faith; establishing a presumption of good faith unless it is shown by clear and convincing evi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB149 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB551 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing a premium, adding a surcharge, or removing, altering, or refusing to consider a discount based on accidents or losses caused by a collision with a free...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB134 | Intro
25% | Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB362 | Intro
25% | Providing that the distribution of a certain forged digital likeness to another constitutes a statement or communication for the purpose of an action for defamation; prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a certain forged digital likeness u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB382 | Intro
25% | Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB360 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation against another who distributes a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from an actual visual representation of the person and is of a sexual or int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB177 | Intro
25% | Altering the list of units exempt from the authority of the Board of Public Works to control procurement to include the State Department of Education for the purpose of master contracting; altering the list of units that are defined as designated pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB117 | 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] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
