| MD | SB134 | Pass | Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office for fiscal year 2025 only; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 836 |
| MD | SB144 | Pass | Adding an attorney representing a patient to the list of individuals to whom a health care provider is prohibited from charging a fee for providing copies of a medical record that will be used for the purpose of filing a claim regarding or appealing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 837 |
| MD | SB119 | Pass | Altering the definition of "legally protected health care" to include certain gender-affirming treatment, including medications and supplies, for the purposes of certain provisions of law that prohibit health occupations disciplinary actions and cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 863 |
| MD | SB165 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental ill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 734 |
| MD | SB439 | Pass | Requiring a victims of domestic violence program to be certified by the federally recognized State domestic violence coalition as a comprehensive domestic violence program; establishing the Victims of Domestic Violence Program Grant Fund as a special...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 767 |
| MD | SB470 | Pass | Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; alter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 |
| MD | SB475 | Pass | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707 |
| MD | SB473 | Pass | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based startup companies that are founded by students of postsecondary institutions located in and ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 711 |
| MD | SB905 | Pass | Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order; requiring the Maryland Judiciary to require an institution of hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 929 |
| MD | SB1091 | Pass | Establishing requirements for each county board of education regarding provision of the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year by students with individualized education programs; requiring the county board to coordinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 750 |
| MD | SB1099 | Pass | Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 764 |
| MD | SB952 | Pass | Establishing certain requirements for assisted living referrers, including requirements related to the maintenance of general liability insurance, criminal history records checks, and the provision of certain agreements and descriptions of services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 839 |
| MD | SB975 | Pass | Establishing the Reproductive Health Care Clinic Security Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Health to assist reproductive health care clinics in the State with costs associated with security improvements and safety operational expenses; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 768 |
| MD | SB950 | Pass | Authorizing the reimbursement of a sexual assault forensic exam conducted through peer-to-peer telehealth under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Policy and Funding Committee to conduct a study on the feasibili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 833 |
| MD | SB578 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 782 |
| MD | SB580 | Pass | Providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to a sale by a nonprofit organization that maintains a memorial on property that is owned by the State if the proceeds of the sale are used to maintain a memorial on property that is owned by the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 791 |
| MD | SB181 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $1,000,000 in the annual budget bill for fiscal years 2026 through 2028 to provide operating grants to certain qualifying nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing training in automot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 892 |
| MD | SB822 | Pass | Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $5,000 of income earned by certain law enforcement officers to include State law enforcement officers who reside in a political subdivision in which the crime rate exceed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 908 |
| MD | SB472 | Pass | Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| MD | SB482 | Pass | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to chair the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Office to staff the Children's C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 408 |
| MD | SB474 | Pass | Altering and establishing the definition of "generating station" for the purpose of exempting the construction of certain generating facilities used to produce electricity for the purpose of on-site emergency backup and certain test and maintenance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411 |
| MD | SJ1 | Enroll
Sine Die | Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish, without delay, the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to pass a joint resolution affirming the Equal Rights Amendm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 1 |
| MD | SB547 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596 |
| MD | SB783 | Pass | Requiring that certain home improvement contracts for the installation of a solar energy generating system on the roof of a building include the installation of a certain wildlife barrier under certain circumstances; requiring a county or municipalit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595 |
| MD | SB951 | Pass | Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework for reliability and reporting standards for electric vehicle charging stations and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Education,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 452 |
| MD | SB604 | Pass | Establishing a line-of-duty special death benefit for members of the Judges' Retirement System; providing for health benefits for a surviving spouse, child, or dependent parent who is receiving a special death benefit for the death of a member of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 486 |
| MD | SB897 | Pass | Allowing a subtraction under the Maryland income tax for the payment of a death benefit under a collective bargaining agreement from a county or municipality in the State to the surviving spouse or other beneficiary of a law enforcement officer or fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 417 |
| MD | SB76 | Pass | Requiring a provider to post the provider's most recent disclosure statement on the provider's website; altering the number of times providers are required to hold a meeting open to all of the provider's subscribers each year; requiring an authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 257 |
| MD | SB333 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that the Department of Housing and Community Development identify certain property as suitable for use or redevelopment; prohibiting the Department from identifying certain property for use or redevelopment as affordable housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 154 |
| MD | SB370 | Pass | Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the State Department of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 210 |
| MD | SB451 | Pass | Increasing the annual compensation of nonstudent members of the Baltimore County Board of Education who are not the chair of the county board from $7,500 to $16,500; providing that the chair of the county board is entitled to receive an annual compen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 358 |
| MD | SB592 | Pass | Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 |
| MD | SB738 | Pass | Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 130 |
| MD | SB1107 | Pass | Establishing the Study on the Establishment of a Homeless Shelter Licensing Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Study to review current habitability and admissions standards of homeless shelters in the State;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| MD | SB430 | Pass | Establishing the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to support certain eligible projects that improve the quality of life within and economic potential of Maryland communities by mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 221 |
| MD | SB434 | Pass | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 180 |
| MD | SB1178 | Pass | Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176 |
| MD | SB394 | Pass | Altering the amount of a certain credit against the State income tax that certain persons may claim for certain construction and rehabilitation costs for certain catalytic revitalization projects in the State; repealing a certain limitation on the nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 159 |
| MD | SB425 | Pass | Clarifying that secondary schools participating in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program may serve breakfast in any broadly accessible part of the school; and authorizing elementary schools participating in the Program, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 62 |
| MD | SB480 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 20 |
| MD | SB478 | Pass | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 |
| MD | SB477 | Pass | Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| MD | SB476 | Pass | Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 |
| MD | SB108 | Pass | Increasing, from $5,000 to $7,000, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying police auxiliary or reserve volunteer; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 16 |
| MD | SB118 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of certain records relating to a probation before judgment for driving while impaired or driving while under the influence; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to require certain pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (113-24) |
| MD | SB949 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB479 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems to include certain distributions for highway and work zone safety purposes; clarifying that a work zone speed control system may be man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB591 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing employees of certain public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of certain sexual crimes; altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB934 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Baltimore County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
