| MD | SB895 | Intro
25% | Applying to governmental employers certain provisions of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law that prohibit an employer from making deductions from the wage of an employee except for specified purposes; and allowing a governmental employer to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-15
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1491 | Intro
25% | Applying to governmental employers certain provisions of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law that prohibit an employer from making deductions from the wage of an employee except for specified purposes; and allowing a governmental employer to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB264 | Intro
25% | Requiring, under certain circumstances, the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to notify a licensing authority when a licensee is found in violation of certain workplace fraud provisions; requiring licensing authorities to suspend or revoke the licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB451 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in the language of their choice; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering the exami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1096 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly making or using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement resulting in underpayments of unemployment insurance contributions or payment of unemployment insurance benefits of more than a certain am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1468 | Intro
25% | Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue certain competitive grants and contracts beginning in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB176 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to appoint an Assistant Commissioner for Public Employees' Safety and Health; establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to administer and enforce c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1288 | Intro
25% | Altering the noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts or similar documents that are null and void as being against public policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1476 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an employer from disclosing or threatening to disclose an employee's immigration status to a public body for the purpose of concealing an employer's violation of certain labor, benefit, or tax laws; authorizing the Commissioner of Labor a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1340 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "employer" to exclude employers who are covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act for the current year from being required to provide to employees a certain unpaid parental leave benefit in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1455 | Intro
25% | Requiring that the average weekly wages from employments of a covered employee who, at the time of an accidental personal injury, was concurrently employed by more than one employer be combined for purposes of computing the average weekly wages under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1438 | Intro
25% | Altering the exemption from overtime pay for individuals who are employed to work in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the exempted compensation rate in effect for certain periods ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1443 | Intro
25% | Authorizing counties and municipalities to grant, by local law, a preference in hiring and promotion to eligible veterans, spouses of an eligible service member, spouses of certain eligible veterans and eligible service members, and surviving spouses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro
25% | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by food service facilities; specifying the State minimum wage rate; prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2028, employers of tipped employees from including a tip credit amount as part of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1404 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical and a licensed clinical professional counselor to register as a rehabilitation practitioner; and providing that a licensed certified social worker-clinical or a licensed clinical professional co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1451 | Intro
25% | Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1413 | Intro
25% | Requiring employers to establish a policy that provides employees a certain right to ignore communications from the employer during nonworking hours and establishes nonworking hours by written agreement; and prohibiting, except under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1453 | Intro
25% | Requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB217 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB193 | Intro
25% | Altering, from 1% to up to 2%, the additional percentage the Uninsured Employers' Fund Board may direct the Workers' Compensation Commission to assess on awards and settlements if the Board determines that the reserves of the Fund are inadequate to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB554 | Intro
25% | Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, the dependent allowance, and the amount of earne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB938 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly making or using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement resulting in underpayments of unemployment insurance contributions or payment of unemployment insurance benefits of more than a certain am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB823 | Intro
25% | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by food service facilities; specifying the State minimum wage rate; prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2028, employers of tipped employees from including a tip credit amount as part of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB872 | Intro
25% | Authorizing counties and municipalities to grant, by local law, a preference in the hiring and promotion to eligible veterans, spouses of an eligible service member, spouses of certain eligible veterans and eligible service members, and surviving spo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB855 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, blocking of railroad and highway grade crossings, the length of trains operating on a main or branch ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB867 | Intro
25% | Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue certain competitive grants and contracts beginning in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1126 | Intro
25% | Establishing a Child Support Arrearage to Work Pilot Program within the Department of Labor to connect individuals who are unemployed and in arrears under a child support order with employment opportunities in the State; and requiring the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1210 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments involving a behavioral or mental disorder; and requiring a licensed certified social worker-clini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB227 | Intro
25% | Altering the process by which an award is payable from the Uninsured Employers' Fund; requiring the Workers' Compensation Commission to make the Fund a party to a claim filed against an uninsured employer; authorizing a covered employee or the depend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB219 | Intro
25% | Altering, from 1% to up to 2%, the additional percentage the Uninsured Employers' Fund Board may direct the Workers' Compensation Commission to assess on awards and settlements if the Board determines that the reserves of the Fund are inadequate to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB173 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB306 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Workers' Compensation Commission to regulate fees and other charges for the reimbursements of prescription drugs and pharmaceutical services; and limiting covered reimbursements to a cost index or indexes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB695 | Intro
25% | Altering the membership of the Uninsured Employers' Fund Board; and requiring, rather than authorizing, the Board to establish reserves to meet potential losses of the Uninsured Employers' Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB830 | Intro
25% | Altering the entities to which a claimant is required to authorize the release in a claim application filed with the Workers' Compensation Commission to include the Uninsured Employers' Fund and the Subsequent Injury Fund; altering the information wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB501 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to waive the license examination requirement for a journey plumber license; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to waive the examination for certain licenses; altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB779 | Intro
25% | Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB431 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to waive the license examination requirement for a journey plumber license; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to waive the examination for certain licenses; altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB576 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting employers from taking certain adverse actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB658 | Intro
25% | Altering the noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in employment contracts or similar documents that are null and void as being against public policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB752 | Intro
25% | Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, the dependent allowance, and the amount of earne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB785 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "employer" to exclude employers who are covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act for the current year from being required to provide to employees a certain unpaid parental leave benefit in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB958 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, blocking of railroad and highway grade crossings, the length of trains operating on a main or branch ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB784 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB895 | Intro
25% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing the regulation of business, economic development, insurance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB580 | Intro
25% | Replacing obsolete references to the Maryland State Firemen's Association with references to the Maryland State Firefighters Association; and replacing related terminology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB795 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements related to the certification of employment by public service employers under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, including requirements regarding determinations of whether employees are full-time; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB824 | Intro
25% | Altering the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program to provide benefits, beginning July 1, 2027, to alternatively qualified individuals who care for or bond with a child under certain circumstances; altering the date that the Secretary of Labor i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB825 | Intro
25% | Adding the Comptroller, or the Comptroller's designee, as a member to the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
