| MD | SB455 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a certain security guard agency to apply for the appointment of special police officers in order to protect property owned or leased by the security guard agency's clients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB443 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the prosecution for an offense of trafficking a regulated firearm be instituted within 3 years after the offense was committed; reclassifying the prohibition against transporting a regulated firearm into the State for the purpose of un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB381 | Engross
50% | Requiring a custodian of recorded images produced by certain automated enforcement systems to deny inspection of the images, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting certain State and local agencies from using a recorded image or associated data fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB548 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB545 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from possessing more than 100 images of certain child pornography or possessing or viewing images of certain child pornography depicting a minor or an individual indistinguishable from an actual and identifiable child under the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB326 | Engross
50% | Establishing certain confidentiality requirements for peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies; prohibiting a peer support specialist from disclosing the contents of any written or oral communication regarding a peer support inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1034 | Intro
25% | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution altering certain executive and legislative powers concerning the Budget Bill; repealing certain provisions authorizing the Governor to approve, disapprove, or veto items in the Budget Bill; repealin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Rules 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
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB791 | Intro
25% | Altering certain requirements of the career ladder for educators to increase the required percentage of working time a certain teacher must spend teaching in the classroom from 60 to 80%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB348 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "private place" as it relates to the prohibition on conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual without the consent of the individual; and altering the prohibition against conducting visual surveill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB533 | Intro
25% | Altering the deadline for the completion of the process of review by a certain investigating unit through disposition by an administrative charging committee under certain circumstances; requiring a law enforcement agency to file any administrative c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB762 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain record relating to an administrative investigation of misconduct by a police officer to be expunged under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB456 | Intro
25% | Altering the eligibility criteria for Higher Education Loan Assistance Grants under the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time employment; and requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to submit a report, by December 1, 2025, to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB644 | Intro
25% | Requiring a Baltimore City school police officer and a school resource officer to carry a firearm while present on the premises of the school to which the officer is assigned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB996 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the governing body of a county to adopt, by law, an approval voting method for elections for offices in the executive or legislative branches of county government; defining "approval voting" as a method of casting and tabulating votes in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB557 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or certain other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of a device in or on a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB454 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Department of Juvenile Services from hiring or retaining an individual convicted of certain crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB597 | Intro
25% | Expanding eligibility under the Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program to include certain students attending the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB716 | Intro
25% | Altering the renewable energy portfolio standard; including nuclear energy generated by certain nuclear energy reactors as a Tier 1 renewable source; establishing a certified nuclear renewable energy credit for use in meeting certain renewable energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB638 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to assess and collect an 8% hotel rental surcharge on rental units at the Savage River Lodge and remit the proceeds to the Comptroller for distribution to Garrett County; and requiring Garrett County to u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB711 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Off-Highway Recreational Vehicle Recreation Oversight Board to advise the Secretary of Natural Resources on the operation, acquisition, regulation, and general oversight of off-highway recreational vehicle trails and recreation in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB826 | Intro
25% | Establishing certain deluxe complex restaurant and resort complex beer and wine and beer, wine, and liquor licenses in Garrett County; requiring the Board of License Commissioners for Garrett County to hold a hearing for the issuance of certain festi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance 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 | SB878 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to engage in the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of oil or natural gas in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB933 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully causing another to ingest an abortion-inducing drug when the person knows or believes that the other person is pregnant and without consent, through fraud or coercion, or by force or threat of force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB616 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "permanent cemetery" to include a cemetery owned by a family or religious organization; prohibiting a person from tampering with human remains interred in a cemetery; altering certain penalties relating to prohibitions agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB661 | Intro
25% | Requiring the fair market value of certain agricultural property taken in a condemnation proceeding to be valued at 350% of the highest appraisal value of the property; and applying the Act retroactively to condemnation proceedings initiated on or af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB628 | Intro
25% | Providing that the maximum annual salary of a register of wills may not be more than the salary of a State employee at grade 26, step 20 of the State of Maryland Standard and Bargaining Salary Scale in effect on the day before the register beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB763 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "hotel" for purposes of the hotel rental tax in Garrett County to include a transient vacation rental unit; requiring certain short-term rental platforms and managers to perform certain duties and be subject to certain pena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB734 | Intro
25% | Altering, with respect to business licensing requirements in the State, the definition of "storage warehouse" to exclude a self-service storage facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB396 | Intro
25% | Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits; altering the circumstances under whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB639 | Intro
25% | Providing that, in Garrett County, a certain requirement to advertise for bids does not apply to a certain contract for goods or services procured on an as-needed basis over time or for certain vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB421 | Intro
25% | Extending from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for prosecutions relating to destroying funerary objects and other elements of a cemetery to begin at the time local authorities knew or reasonably should have known of the violation; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB300 | Intro
25% | Establishing the felony of theft of a handgun; establishing a penalty for theft of a handgun of, for a first conviction, imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both and, for a second or subsequent conviction, imprisonment of up to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB492 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Commission to Study the Dental Hygienist Shortage; providing that the purpose of the Commission is to support the State's efforts to improve the oral health of Marylanders by ensuring the stability and sustainability of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB398 | Intro
25% | Repealing a certain provision of law requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to expunge certain cases involving charges of possession of cannabis on or before a certain date; and establishing procedures for the automated e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB397 | Intro
25% | Establishing an exception to the prohibition against operating or riding on a motorcycle without certain protective headgear for an individual at least 21 years of age who has been licensed to operate a motorcycle for at least 2 years or has complete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB399 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain areas in the Big Savage Mountain Wildland, Bear Pen Wildland, and Dan's Mountain Wildland from being designated as a wildland area, subject to a certificate of public convenience and necessity being obtained for a certain transmissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB420 | Intro
25% | Altering the purpose and authorized uses of the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund by specifying that it may be used only for the protection and restoration of Deep Creek Lake; and extending the termination date applicable to certain provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB336 | Intro
25% | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalties for a first conviction of imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both, and for subsequent convictions, imprisonment not to exceed 10 years or a fine of u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
