| MD | SB153 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renaming of the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee to be the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee; altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB279 | Engross
50% | Adding the Department of Planning to the list of entities to which a municipality must send a copy of an annexation resolution with the new municipal boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB100 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "public entity" to include a Resilience Authority for purposes of insurance pooling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB971 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park Advisory Committee to provide advice on the planning of the Park; requiring the Advisory Committee to make recommendations to ensure that the Park focuses on mental and physical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB50 | Intro
25% | Altering references to the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau to be Visit Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB505 | Intro
25% | Allowing a certain redevelopment authority that owns real property in an area to be annexed with fewer than 20 eligible residents to sign a petition for annexation and vote in the annexation referendum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1525 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a municipality from annexing land that is located in a different legislative district than a legislative district in which the municipality is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB574 | Intro
25% | Altering the terms of the members of the Howard County Board of Education; establishing the Howard County Board of Education Compensation Commission; and requiring the Commission to study the salaries of the Members of the Howard County Board of Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB85 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions of law prohibiting law enforcement agents from taking certain actions related to an individual's citizenship or immigration status; prohibiting a county or municipality from adopting, enacting, or enforcing a sanctuary policy; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB593 | Intro
25% | Increasing from $250,000 to $700,000 the annual revenue threshold at which the Legislative Auditor may alter the frequency that certain municipalities or special taxing districts are required to have audits of their financial records performed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1509 | Intro
25% | Establishing collective bargaining rights for public local employees; applying the Maryland Public Employee Relations Act to county and municipal government employers and their employees; providing that a public employee may be deemed a certain manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB102 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "public entity" to include a Resilience Authority for purposes of insurance pooling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB245 | Engross
50% | Adding the Department of Planning to the list of entities to which a municipality must send a copy of an annexation resolution with the new municipal boundaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation 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 | HB1506 | Intro
25% | Increasing from $1,000 to $5,000 the maximum amount of a criminal fine or municipal infraction that may be imposed by a municipality to enforce certain ordinances and resolutions enacted by the municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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 | HB760 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipality to approve a certain project that was previously denied by the Maryland Historical Trust under certain circumstances; and requiring a local planning commission to hold a certain public hearin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1080 | Intro
25% | Establishing that an employee of a governmental unit of a county or a municipality in the State may be entitled to disaster service leave with pay under certain circumstances; authorizing certain governmental units to waive certain requirements for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB469 | Intro
25% | Altering references to the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau to be Visit Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Intro
25% | Requiring that the conflict of interest provisions or regulations adopted by a county, municipal corporation, or school board be equivalent to or exceed certain provisions of State law and authorize removal of a certain official for certain violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB254 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a public library, a recipient of a certain award from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department, a public housing agency, a county, or a municipality from requiring an individual experiencing homelessness to prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB526 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county board of education each year to prepare and post to the county's website a report that identifies pathways that public school students, who are ineligible for transportation services, may use to travel to school using only safe alt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB748 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a municipality to adopt an ordinance or a resolution authorizing an official who is authorized to act as an enforcement officer to utilize a body-worn camera; and requiring that a municipality that adopts a certain ordinance or resolution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB851 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Carroll County Office of Permits and Inspections from issuing or renewing a commercial license or permit in the county if the applicant has unpaid personal property taxes except under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Carroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1164 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a county or municipality from enacting or enforcing a local law that is designed to prevent an individual from resting or sleeping in a public space, protecting oneself from the elements in a manner that does not obstruct the use of or ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1278 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "hotel" for purposes of the hotel rental tax in Garrett County to include a transient vacation rental unit; requiring certain short-term rental platforms and managers to perform certain duties and be subject to certain pena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB691 | 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 personnel, pensions, and taxation to apply to all uniformed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB811 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county board of education each year to prepare and post to the county's website a report that identifies pathways that public school students may use to travel to school using only safe alternative routes under certain circumstances; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB947 | Intro
25% | Limiting the amount that retail establishments may charge for paper carryout bags under certain local laws to not more than 10 cents for each paper carryout bag.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1056 | Intro
25% | Requiring a county to impose an excise tax on the amount of a fee charged by a retailer to a customer for a plastic or paper carryout bag that exceeds the amount required by local law; and providing for the allocation of the excise tax revenue betwee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1067 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain retailers that are authorized or required by a local law to charge a fee to a customer for a plastic or paper carryout bag from charging the fee if the customer's form of payment uses federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1103 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain accommodations intermediaries to collect and remit the hotel rental tax to the Comptroller rather than to each county; providing for the administration of the hotel rental tax by the Comptroller; providing that certain provisions of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1467 | Intro
25% | Requiring interest earnings on money deposited for a certain taxing and assessment district to be credited to that district; and specifying that a certain provision of law governing the petition process for the construction of an erosion prevention p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1444 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a county or municipality from authorizing payment of a fee-in-lieu of a requirement under local law that a developer provide moderate income housing units in a new residential development project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1232 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain retailers that charge a fee for providing a plastic or paper carryout bag to a customer under a local law to provide a receipt to a customer that includes the fee amount charged and the number of bags issued to the customer; and pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1401 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Calvert County to enact a local law that authorizes the County Attorney or the State's Attorney for Calvert County to prohibit future events or gatherings that have a substantial likelihood of creating a nuisan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary 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 | 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 | SB976 | Intro
25% | Establishing collective bargaining rights for public local employees; applying the Maryland Public Employee Relations Act to county and municipal government employers and their employees; providing that a public employee may be deemed a certain manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB803 | Intro
25% | Altering the amount of time that a hotel has to pay the hotel rental tax in Talbot County before incurring a penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB979 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain accommodations intermediaries to collect and remit the hotel rental tax to the Comptroller rather than to each county; providing for the administration of the hotel rental tax by the Comptroller; providing that certain provisions of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB962 | Intro
25% | Exempting a municipality with annual revenues below $100,000 from a certain audit requirement; clarifying that a certain audit exemption does not affect certain financial reporting requirements; and authorizing the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB814 | 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1128 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain land bank authorities to create a special fund for certain purposes, make loans or grants for certain purposes, and enter into partnerships for certain purposes; requiring a land bank authority to include in the sale, lease, trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB132 | Intro
25% | Applying certain health and safety requirements to short-term rental units and home amenities; prohibiting certain activities at a home amenity or short-term rental; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB440 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Anne Arundel County Council to establish an Office of the Inspector General in the county; requiring the County Council to establish certain ordinances and include a projected budget for the Office of the Inspector General in the county...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB546 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain organizing committee to make certain determinations and provide a certain report to the county commissioners or county council of a certain county regarding a proposed municipal incorporation; requiring the county commissioners or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB797 | Intro
25% | Exempting a lease of county property for a term of 5 years or less made by Dorchester County from certain notice requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB820 | Intro
25% | Increasing from $1,000 to $5,000 the maximum amount of a criminal fine or municipal infraction that may be imposed by a municipality to enforce certain ordinances and resolutions enacted by the municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB990 | Intro
25% | Requiring that an individual appointed or employed by a municipality in a role with certain financial oversight responsibilities satisfy certain educational requirements and have a certain amount of experience; requiring a municipality to establish c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
