Maryland Delegate Malcolm Ruff [D] | Introduced

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MDHB875Intro
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Establishing the Commission on History, Culture, and Civics in Education to make recommendations to the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to further the discovery, interpretation, and learning of the history, culture, and...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1040Intro
25%
Requiring regulated financial institutions to develop a community benefit plan in connection with applications to the Commissioner of Financial Regulation relating to financial services for purposes of providing safe and sound loans, and other financ...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1126Intro
25%
Establishing a Child Support Arrearage to Work Pilot Program within the Department of Labor to connect individuals who are unemployed and in arrears under a child support order with employment opportunities in the State; and requiring the Department ...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters 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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2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1151Intro
25%
Authorizing the seller of residential real property to request that a certain lender have an additional appraisal made if the appraisal is lower than the current market value of the property; and requiring the lender to provide to the seller a writte...
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2025-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1190Intro
25%
Providing that a person who was a child at the time of the offense may not be found to have committed felony murder in the first degree under certain provisions of law unless the person was a principal in the first degree; and providing for a motion ...
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2025-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1178Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to set special property tax rates for any class or subclass of property that is subject to the county property tax.
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2025-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1135Intro
25%
Altering the uses of the Maryland Clean Water Fund to include activities that are related to urban forest management.
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2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1136Intro
25%
Requiring a licensing authority, on request, to provide to an interested party the criteria used by the licensing authority to determine whether to issue a license for or renew a license of a community facility; and requiring a licensing authority to...
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2025-02-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1121Intro
25%
Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Pilot Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to assist foster youth in applying for and accessing subsidies in the Program; establishing that the duration of th...
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2025-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1100Intro
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...
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2025-02-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1137Intro
25%
Prohibiting the Maryland Transit Administration, in conducting the Red Line transit project, from acquiring any real property for planning, construction, operation, or maintenance of the Red Line if the acquisition would result in involuntary residen...
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2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB501Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to waive the license examination requirement for a journey plumber license; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to waive the examination for certain licenses; altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship a...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB879Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the St...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1014Intro
25%
Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB697Intro
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 ...
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2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations 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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2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB938Intro
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Requiring the appointment of an alternate subscriber member to the governing body of a continuing care provider; and providing for the duties of the alternate subscriber member.
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2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB113Intro
25%
Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB502Intro
25%
Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate ef...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations 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
MDHB648Intro
25%
Establishing the Business Resource Initiative for Developmental Growth and Empowerment Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish certain business incubators; prohibiting the grants awar...
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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
MDHB818Intro
25%
Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in certain actions seeking to remedy a violation of a Maryland constitutional right; authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses t...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB853Intro
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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
MDHB847Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish and maintain the Domestic Violence Offender Registry; requiring a certain person convicted three or more times of a certain domestically related crime to register with a...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB961Intro
25%
Prohibiting an entity from including in a contract for certain State public art a provision requiring artists to waive copyright protections or certain rights; and prohibiting enforcement of a certain waiver in an existing contract.
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2025-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB985Intro
25%
Authorizing the local governing body of a county to authorize the use of a second administrative charging committee if the local governing body determines that one administrative charging committee is insufficient to serve the countywide law enforcem...
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2025-01-31
To House Judiciary 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
MDHJ6Intro
25%
Stating that the General Assembly joins certain other state legislative bodies, counties, and municipalities in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's Congress...
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2025-01-31
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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
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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2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB386Intro
25%
Requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department of Agriculture to develop and maintain a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 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
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
MDHB608Intro
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Requiring each county board of education to grant certain students temporary admission to schools for a certain time frame if the parent or guardian of a student is unable to provide proof of immunization under certain circumstances; and requiring th...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB696Intro
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.
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations 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
MDHB709Intro
25%
Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing c...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB665Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health...
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2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB666Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for calcium score testing for individuals who have at least three of ...
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2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB464Intro
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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
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB667Intro
25%
Establishing November 1 as Maryland Emancipation Day and as a State legal holiday and State employee holiday; and repealing the requirement that the Governor declare a certain day as Maryland Emancipation Day.
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations 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
MDHB646Intro
25%
Extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to be October 31, 2026; and extending the termination date for the Task Force to be June 30, 202...
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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
MDHB592Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from possessing a regulated firearm, rifle, or shotgun if the person is currently a respondent subject to a court order to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment; and requiring a court to promptly report certain inform...
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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
MDHB591Intro
25%
Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
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2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
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