Maryland Delegate Stephanie Smith [D]

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MDHB496PassRequiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of determining certain sexual crimes; altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 761
MDHB1037PassEstablishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to identify reentry services in the State, develop a plan to establish a new division within the Department of Public Safety and Correctiona...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 937
MDHB1244PassRequiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each have a certain staff member who performs certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the wo...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 963
MDHB1358PassRequiring the Department of Natural Resources and Baltimore City to convene focus group meetings on the establishment of the Gwynns Falls State Park with community members and stakeholders that reside or operate in the vicinity of the proposed State ...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 965
MDHB332PassRequiring the Motor Vehicle Administration, in consultation with Baltimore City and other interested jurisdictions, to prepare a report on motor vehicles owned by Maryland residents that are improperly titled or registered in another state; requiring...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 648
MDHB457PassRequiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with represe...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567
MDHB1013PassAuthorizing a licensed clinical professional counselor to sign a certificate of illness or disability when a State employee uses sick leave for 5 or more consecutive workdays.
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657
MDHB1206PassEstablishing the Maryland-Ireland Trade Commission in the Department of Commerce to study and make recommendations regarding bilateral trade relations and investment opportunities between Maryland and Ireland; and requiring the Commission by December...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409
MDHB1203PassEstablishing the Strategic Infrastructure Revolving Loan Program in the Maryland Economic Development Corporation to make loans for targeted investments in real estate and infrastructure projects located in sustainable communities, priority funding a...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 449
MDHB336PassRequiring 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...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 172
MDHB383PassEntering into the Cosmetology Licensure Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an individual practicing cosmetology to practice in a party state under certain circumstances; establishing the Cosmetology Licensure Compact...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328
MDHB367PassRequiring on or before certain dates each community college to develop and implement a plan to provide students with access to over-the-counter contraception; requiring each community college to submit a certain report to the Maryland Higher Educatio...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 337
MDHB811PassEstablishing the Financial Well-Being Pilot Program at the University of Maryland, College Park Campus and Morgan State University to provide comprehensive financial guidance and coaching to help students who may benefit from financial coaching servi...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342
MDHB901PassAllowing an applicant of a part-time senatorial or delegate scholarship with a documented disability to request from the Maryland Higher Education Commission a waiver from the requirement to carry at least 6 semester hours of courses each semester.
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 175
MDHB902PassAuthorizing a provider in the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program to receive certain State funds under certain circumstances; and exempting providers in the Program from certain State requirements for eligible prekindergarten providers.
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 209
MDHB1034PassIncreasing from one to three the number of assistant sheriffs required to be appointed by the Baltimore City Sheriff; authorizing the Baltimore City Sheriff to appoint social workers and any additional sworn or civilian personnel if the funding for t...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 202
MDHB1082PassRequiring for each fiscal year each county board of education to provide $150,000 for the salary and benefits of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future implementation coordinator in the county; and requiring the implementation coordinator's salary and b...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 336
MDHB1304PassRequiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process for providing information about the availability of the State's earned income tax credits to individuals enrolled or participating in certain programs or services, or potential enrollee...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 376
MDHB1334PassRepealing the termination of the Continuing the CORE Partnership Fund; and requiring the Governor to include an appropriation in the annual budget bill for fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter of $50,000,000 to the Fund.
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 335
MDHB634PassAuthorizing the Governing Board of the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center to authorize the Center to send student information to the United States Census Bureau.
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 63
MDHB614Engross

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Requiring a private home detention monitoring agency to notify the court within 24 hours after a defendant subject to home monitoring as a condition of pretrial release has violated a condition of home detention monitoring; requiring a private home d...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB836Engross

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Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
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2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted
MDHB1522Intro

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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...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1164Engross

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Prohibiting nonpublic schools that participate in State-funded education programs from refusing to provide a current or former student or the student's parent or guardian with a transcript or taking other punitive measures regarding a student's trans...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB448Engross

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Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim January 13 as Korean American Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge certain organizations to observe Korean American Day properly.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1267Engross

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Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting academic or policy research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB359Engross

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Authorizing a petitioner to request a stay of certain civil actions or proceedings on the filing of a petition for guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person; requiring, to effectuate service of process for certain civil actions again...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1140Engross

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Requiring a virtual tutoring service that contracts with a county board of education, including the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, or a nonpublic school to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtual tuto...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1415Intro

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Requiring each county board of education to submit a report on community schools to the State Department of Education on or before December 1, 2024; and requiring the Department to submit a report summarizing the reports received from county boards t...
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2024-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHJ1Intro

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Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to affirm, by joint resolution, the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amend...
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2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHJ9Intro

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Declaring the State of Maryland's support of and consent to admitting Washington, D.C. to the Union as a state of the United States of America.
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2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB366Engross

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Prohibiting a restriction on land use that increases the cost of installing a solar collector system by at least 5% over a certain cost or that reduces the efficiency of the system by at least 10% under a certain energy generation level; authorizing ...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHJ3Intro

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Stating that the General Assembly joins seven other state legislative bodies and over 75 municipalities and counties in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's ...
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2024-02-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1513Intro

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Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for each fiscal year an appropriation of $225,000 for Economic Action Maryland to support the Securing Older Adult Resources program; and specifying that the appropriation may be used only t...
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2024-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB474Intro

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Prohibiting a court from revoking a defendant's pretrial release or finding that a defendant has violated probation, and the Maryland Parole Commission from finding that a parolee has violated parole, based solely on the use of cannabis or a positive...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1429Intro

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Providing that the creative expression of a criminal defendant or juvenile respondent is not admissible against the defendant or respondent unless the court makes certain findings; and defining "creative expression" as the expression or application o...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB543Intro

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Increasing the amount of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit that the State is required to provide for a household that includes an individual who is at least 62 years old.
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2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB619Intro

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Establishing the Commission on Universal Health Care to determine the feasibility of establishing a State universal health care program to provide health benefits to all residents of the State through a single-payer system; and requiring the Commissi...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1036Intro

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Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to reimburse physicians billing for maternal fetal medicine services at the rate set under the federal Medicare fee schedule.
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1438Intro

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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...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB964Intro

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Altering the number of years of criminal history, from 7 years to 3 years, that are reviewed in a certain reusable tenant screening report; establishing certain prohibitions and limitations on the review and consideration of a prospective tenant's cr...
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2024-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1007Intro

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Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; requiring...
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB800Intro

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Prohibiting local governments from denying or impairing the right of a protected class member to vote; establishing requirements on the State Board of Elections and local governments related to the provision of language-related assistance in local go...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB403Intro

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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...
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2024-02-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB643Intro

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Altering the eligibility requirements of the School Construction Revolving Loan Fund to include the Maryland School for the Blind.
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2024-02-01
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB547Intro

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Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB724Intro

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Authorizing an individual who is serving a term of confinement to petition a court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the individuals term of confinement and at least 3 years have passed since the court decided a...
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB301Intro

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Prohibiting an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for first degree rape or first degree sexual offense as first degree sexual offense existed prior to October 1, 2017, from being entitled to diminution of the incarcerated individual's ...
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2024-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB348Intro

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Requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include an appropriation of $1,900,000 in the annual budget bill for the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore.
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2024-01-18
To House Appropriations Committee
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