| MD | HB375 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to ride a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area unless prohibited by local ordinance; and requiring a person riding a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area or in or through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB428 | Intro
25% | Establishing certain requirements for a complaint for a money judgment; and prohibiting the creation of a lien on owner-occupied residential property by contract or as a result of a breach of contract for the payment of medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB961 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB243 | Engross
50% | Limiting the requirement that a petitioner's spouse join in the petition for adoption to apply only when the prospective adoptee is a minor; authorizing a petitioner's spouse to join in the petition for adoption if the prospective adoptee is an adult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1352 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from denying access or services to a student based on the student's diagnosis of sickle cell disease; requiring an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations for students with s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB879 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB113 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB594 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting recovery by a certain plaintiff from being barred in a certain civil action due to the plaintiff's negligence, except under certain circumstances; requiring any damages awarded under the Act to be diminished in proportion to the amount of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB818 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB853 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB930 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB7 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a person operating a bicycle that is approaching a stop sign at an intersection on a highway with two or fewer lanes for moving traffic to cautiously make a turn or proceed through the intersection without stopping if the person reduces t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB338 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a conta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB9 | Engross
50% | Altering certain definitions related to the Food Resiliency Council; defining what constitutes "healthy food priority areas" as predominantly lower-income areas that have limited access to retail outlets that sell, affordable, healthy foods; defining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB124 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a seller or assignee of certain residential property to rescind a contract of sale without penalty at any time before closing if a certain seller does not provide a certain notice; establishing that an assignee is entitled to a refund of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB678 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $450,000 to the Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library; and requiring the Deaf Culture Digital Library to submit its annual operating budget to the State Library Agency on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB941 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not access...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1328 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1251 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain health care facilities to adopt a certain policy relating to obstetric services and to provide evidence to the Maryland Department of Health that the health care facility has the policy; and requiring insurers that issue or deliver ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1306 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish certain specialized clinics for the management and treatment of sickle cell disease and establish a scholarship program for medical residents who specialize in benign or classical hematology wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB55 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of any misdemeanor or felony conviction after the completion of the sentence, parole, probation, and any other form of mandatory treatment associated with the conviction; authorizing a court to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1198 | Intro
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;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1178 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1393 | Intro
25% | Requiring youth sports programs to maintain and update a registry of youth sports program personnel who participate in the youth sports program; requiring a parent or guardian of a youth registered with a youth sports program to sign and submit to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1380 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to adopt regulations establishing minimum perinatal care standards for hospitals that meet or exceed the Maryland Perinatal System Standards for each hospital that provides obstetrical services; and requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1422 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to study and make recommendations relating to appropriate benefits to be made to individuals whose ancestors were enslaved in the State or were impacted by certain inequitable government policies; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1222 | Intro
25% | Requiring an employee or agent of a State or local correctional facility and a law enforcement agent to detain an individual not lawfully present in the United States and who has been convicted of a certain crime of violence and transfer the individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1127 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to develop certain instructional content on water safety and swimming for public school students in the county; and requiring each county board to develop a certain plan regarding access to swimming pools and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1226 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in school zones in Baltimore City if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded failing to obey a stop sign is subject to a citation and a certain civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1322 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from operating a gasoline-powered vessel on the waters of the State unless the vessel has carbon monoxide warning labels affixed in conspicuous locations in the vicinity of both the transom and the helm of the vessel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB932 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor to place certain interests into a certain certified blind trust or divest of certain interests within 6 months after taking the oath of office; requiring the Governor to enter into a nonparticipation agreement with the State Et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB798 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB910 | Intro
25% | Increasing the amount of a certain property tax exemption for dwelling houses owned by blind individuals or their surviving spouses from $15,000 to $40,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1014 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB601 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB648 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB893 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to suspend for 2 years for a first violation and up to 10 years for two or more violations, rather than revoke, a person's oyster authorization for knowingly committing certain violations; requiring the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB650 | 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 a $1,450,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB698 | Intro
25% | Requiring county governments to make a certain report by July 1 each year to the Governor and General Assembly on the amount and use of county development impact fees, surcharges, and excise taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB699 | Intro
25% | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges based on an incident or incidents relating to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB666 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB767 | Intro
25% | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB667 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB635 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB591 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a training program for transportation sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims; requiring transportation secto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB346 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue additional B-D-7 beer, wine, and liquor licenses in certain areas of the 43rd alcoholic beverages district of Baltimore City if the license applicant meets certain criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB42 | 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] | 2025-01-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
