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MDHB1032Intro
25%
Montgomery County - Stop Sign Monitoring Systems - Authorization MC 4-25
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2025-02-03
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB767Intro
25%
Providing that full-time deputy sheriffs and correctional deputies at the rank of major and below in the Calvert County Sheriff's Office have the right to organize and negotiate with the County Commissioners of Calvert County and the Calvert County S...
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2025-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB142Engross
50%
Clarifying that "spouse" includes a former spouse for purposes of disclosure of confidential communications occurring during marriage; and establishing that a spouse, who is the alleged victim, is competent to disclose a confidential communication be...
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2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB218Intro
25%
Altering provisions relating to the commencement of a proceeding to hold a person in contempt of court for the person's default in payment of periodic child or spousal support under the terms of a court order and provisions relating to the commenceme...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary 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
MDHB594Intro
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...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB663Intro
25%
Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation against another person who distributes a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from an actual visual representation of the person and falsely depict...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB670Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from knowingly sending by electronic means to another person an image or video depicting obscene material that the sender knows or reasonably should know is unsolicited; authorizing a person to bring an action against a person wh...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 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
MDHB805Intro
25%
Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking open a letter; providing that a person may not knowingly and intentionally open mail addressed to another without permission of the person or an authorized designee; providing certain penalties for...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB944Intro
25%
Repealing a provision that authorizes a local department of social services to ask the juvenile court to find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent or guardian are not required if the local department concludes that a par...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB952Intro
25%
Authorizing a local superintendent or the superintendent's designee to access the Juvenile Sex Offender Registry; and adding certain offenses to the list of offenses for which a person adjudicated delinquent is required to be included in the juvenile...
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2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB975Intro
25%
Increasing to two the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County.
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2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB784Intro
25%
Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any l...
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2025-01-31
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB955Intro
25%
Providing that the distribution of a certain forged digital likeness to another constitutes a statement or communication for the purpose of an action for defamation; prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a certain forged digital likeness u...
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2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB966Intro
25%
Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on the a...
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2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB954Intro
25%
Providing that certain evidence obtained through the use of an unmanned aircraft is inadmissible in a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding; prohibiting a unit of State government or a political subdivision of the State from deploying or oper...
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2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB926Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "health care provider" to include employees, agents, or contractors of a hospital who are licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise authorized to render health care services in Maryland in provisions relating to health ...
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2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB978Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and three systems on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County, subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected in Balt...
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2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB761Intro
25%
Authorizing civil penalties issued under an automated traffic enforcement program to be included in an installment payment plan agreement with the clerk of the court.
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2025-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB908Intro
25%
Establishing a pilot program to authorize the use of distracted driving monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain prohibitions regarding the use of certain devices while operating a vehicle; and requiring t...
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2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB531Intro
25%
Altering a certain provision of law authorizing a law enforcement officer to conduct an otherwise lawful custodial interrogation of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian consents to the custodial interrogation of the child without the...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB507Intro
25%
Providing that certain evidence of certain diagnoses is admissible in a criminal proceeding if the evidence tends to show that the defendant, at the time of the alleged offense, did or did not have the mental state required for the offense charged an...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB512Intro
25%
Establishing a certain rebuttable presumption that a statement made by a minor during a custodial interrogation is involuntary and is inadmissible in a juvenile or criminal proceeding against the minor if the law enforcement officer intentionally use...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB600Intro
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...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB579Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "local government" under the Local Government Tort Claims Act to include the Hagerstown Multi-Use Sports and Events Facility, Inc., in Washington County.
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB581Intro
25%
Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the perso...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB584Intro
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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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB613Intro
25%
Establishing a pilot program to authorize the use of distracted driving monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain prohibitions regarding the use of certain devices while operating a vehicle; and requiring t...
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2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB681Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "health care provider" to include an employee, agent, or contractor of a hospital who is licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise authorized to render health care services in Maryland in provisions relating to health c...
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2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB873Intro
25%
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of at least 13 years of age alleged to have committed a certain offense.
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2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB903Intro
25%
Prohibiting the State or a local government, or an agency of the State or a local government, from filing an action for monetary damages or alleged economic damages against a business for the adverse effects of global warming or climate change in the...
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2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB864Intro
25%
Altering the number of resident judges of the circuit courts by adding one additional judgeship in St. Mary's County.
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2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB860Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; authorizing the State or a local government to bring a civ...
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2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB206Intro
25%
Replacing references to a bus lane monitoring system with references to a bus obstruction monitoring system; prohibiting a person from stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle in a bus stop zone; and clarifying that a person may not stop a vehicle in...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB348Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to use speed monitoring systems in areas determined to be of high risk to vulnerable road users and priority corridors in the Administration's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan; and requiring the Comptroller t...
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB428Intro
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.
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB580Intro
25%
Replacing obsolete references to the Maryland State Firemen's Association with references to the Maryland State Firefighters Association; and replacing related terminology.
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2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB620Intro
25%
Altering the number of resident judges of the circuit courts by adding one additional judgeship in St. Mary's County.
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2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB786Intro
25%
Authorizing the Appellate Court of Maryland, in conjunction with the administrations of secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State, to hold sessions at certain secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State.
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2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB789Intro
25%
Establishing minimum adequate security standards for courtroom security at all courthouse facilities.
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2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB622Intro
25%
Repealing a requirement that the State Reporter secure copyright for the State of published reports of opinions of the Supreme Court of Maryland and the Appellate Court of Maryland.
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2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB787Intro
25%
Repealing a requirement that the State Reporter secure copyright for the State of published reports of opinions of the Supreme Court of Maryland and the Appellate Court of Maryland.
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2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB626Intro
25%
Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Frederick County to be equal to the salary of a Department of State Police lieutenant colonel, at the highest available step for a lieutenant colonel under the Department of State Police pay plan.
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2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB655Intro
25%
Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on the a...
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2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB642Intro
25%
Altering a provision of law that makes unenforceable a provision of a contract or agreement limiting liability for injury caused by negligence or other wrongful acts to apply the unenforceability only to contracts or agreements relating to the use of...
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2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB629Intro
25%
Authorizing the Appellate Court of Maryland, in conjunction with the administrations of secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State, to hold sessions at secondary and postsecondary educational institutions in the State.
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2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB621Intro
25%
Establishing minimum adequate security standards for courtroom security at all courthouse facilities; requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, the presence of a certain number of security officers in every court room during certain proceedings; and requiri...
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2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB408Intro
25%
Establishing the Prince George's County Coordinated Youth Violence Review and Response Team to examine and prevent violence against youth through intensive case management; requiring that the review team be provided with access to certain information...
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2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB421Intro
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...
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2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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