| MD | HB181 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Adjutant General instead of the Governor to appoint certain staff in the Military Department; and establishing that certain staff in the Military Department serve at the pleasure of the Adjutant General instead of the Governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | SB36 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund for costs related to the operation of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline, including software interfaces and joint training; and altering a certain restriction on the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund to prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB180 | Engross
50% | Establishing alternative expiration and renewal periods for a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer who retired in good standing from service with a law enforcement agency of the State or a county or municipal corporation of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB387 | Intro
25% | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB713 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to prepare certain literature relating to firearms and ammunition and to distribute the literature to all county health departments in the State; requiring each county health department to distribute certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary 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 | SB762 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain record relating to an administrative investigation of misconduct by a police officer to be expunged under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB985 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the local governing body of a county to authorize the use of a second administrative charging committee if the local governing body determines that one administrative charging committee is insufficient to serve the countywide law enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB973 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, by October 1, 2025, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, energy conservation requirements, an electric- and solar-ready standard for certain buildings, and a requirement that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB954 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB937 | Intro
25% | Increasing the sales and use tax rate for sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 12%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB729 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county to apply for the appointment of special police officers in order to protect the county's employees and public officials while present in the county; and authorizing a certain special police officer employed by a county to exercis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1002 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the sale and possession of certain consumer fireworks, subject to certain requirements and restrictions; altering certain provisions to establish that certain provisions authorizing the State Fire Marshal to issue a certain permit relatin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB396 | Intro
25% | Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits; altering the circumstances under whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB533 | Intro
25% | Altering the deadline for the completion of the process of review by a certain investigating unit through disposition by an administrative charging committee under certain circumstances; requiring a law enforcement agency to file any administrative c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB509 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from possessing a regulated firearm, rifle, or shotgun if the person is currently a respondent subject to a court order to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment; and requiring a court to promptly report certain inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB577 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to prepare certain literature relating to firearms and ammunition and to distribute the literature to all county health departments in the State; requiring each county health department to distribute certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB532 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a police officer who is denied a certain right to apply to the circuit court at any time before a hearing is held by the hearing board for an order that directs the law enforcement agency to show cause why the right should not be granted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB865 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the transfer of funds from the Catastrophic Event Account to the State Disaster Recovery Fund if the balance of the Fund has been depleted due to use or transfer or the estimated costs for providing adequate disaster relief for a natural ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB669 | Intro
25% | Altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund; expanding the duties of the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy relating to the Fund; and prohibiting the use of the Fund for the Sexual Assault E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB691 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Insurance Administration to include a cybersecurity expert as staff to perform certain functions and submit to the State Chief Information Security Officer a report on the cybersecurity p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB885 | Intro
25% | Requiring that all investigation records relating to a complaint of misconduct by a police officer be removed from the police officer's personnel record 3 years after an administrative charging committee or a trial board issues a finding that the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB180 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Gun Violence Victim Relocation Program within the Victim Services Unit of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy to provide certain victims of gun violence certain services and assistance related to relocating for the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary 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 | HB749 | Intro
25% | Adding Washington County to the list of counties where an existing agricultural building used for agritourism is not considered a change of occupancy that requires a building permit under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB625 | Intro
25% | Requiring that all investigation records relating to a complaint of misconduct by a police officer be removed from the police officer's personnel record 3 years after an administrative charging committee or a trial board issues a finding that the com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB836 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the local governing body of a county to authorize, by local law, the county's police accountability board to exercise investigatory and subpoena powers; and authorizing a police accountability board to conduct an investigation of police m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB391 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to annually review a certain report published by the Independent Investigations Division of the Office of the Attorney General; and requiring the Commission to make any recommendations t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB444 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person or an entity operating a gun buyback program to destroy a firearm, including all components and parts attached to the firearm, that is traded in at a certain gun buyback program; authorizing a certain person or entity to contract w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB455 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a certain security guard agency to apply for the appointment of special police officers in order to protect property owned or leased by the security guard agency's clients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB443 | Intro
25% | Reclassifying the prohibition against transporting a regulated firearm into the State for the purpose of unlawfully selling or trafficking the firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalty on conviction of imprisonment of up to 10 years or a fine o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB804 | Intro
25% | Maryland Building Performance Standards - Fossil Fuel Use, Energy Conservation, and Electric- and Solar-Ready Standards (Better Buildings Act of 2025)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB149 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB206 | Intro
25% | Altering the name of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund to be the Rape Kit Collection, Testing, and Tracking Grant Fund; revising the purpose of the Fund to provide law enforcement agencies with multiyear funding to pay for testing of sexual assault evi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB353 | Intro
25% | Repealing the requirement that a person have a certain permit before the person carries, wears, or transports a handgun; repealing certain criminal prohibitions against a person who is at least 21 years old wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB592 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from possessing a regulated firearm, rifle, or shotgun if the person is currently a respondent subject to a court order to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment; and requiring a court to promptly report certain inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB626 | Intro
25% | Requiring the installation of micro conduits in any utility easement and building power or telecommunication rooms during the new construction or major improvement of certain commercial and residential premises; requiring that buried fiber optic cabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB675 | Intro
25% | Altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund; expanding the duties of the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy relating to the Fund; and prohibiting the use of the Fund for the Sexual Assault E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB564 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the transfer of funds from the Catastrophic Event Account to the State Disaster Recovery Fund if the balance of the Fund has been depleted due to use or transfer or the estimated costs for providing adequate disaster relief for a natural ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB580 | Intro
25% | Adding Washington County to the list of counties where an existing agricultural building used for agritourism is not considered a change of occupancy that requires a building permit under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-01-24
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB687 | Intro
25% | Altering a prohibition against using the number of arrests made, investigations conducted, citations issued, or warrants served or executed by a law enforcement officer as a criterion for the evaluation, compensation, discipline, promotion, demotion,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB527 | Intro
25% | Providing that a City of Salisbury fire and explosive investigator has the same authority as the State Fire Marshal under certain circumstances; authorizing the City of Salisbury Fire Chief to limit the authority of a fire and explosive investigator ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB669 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a recording of a body-worn camera worn by a law enforcement officer to be used as evidence in certain proceedings; requiring a custodian to deny inspection of a recording made with the use of a body-worn camera used by a law enforcement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB682 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting persistent aerial surveillance by a unit, an agency, or a political subdivision of the State to gather evidence or other information in a criminal investigation, subject to certain exceptions; and defining "persistent aerial surveillance"...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-01-23
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB537 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a police officer who is denied a certain right to apply to the circuit court at any time before a hearing is held by the hearing board for an order that directs the law enforcement agency to show cause why the right should not be granted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB548 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Governor from ordering the militia or a member of the militia into active duty combat unless the U.S. Congress has passed an official declaration of war or taken a certain official action; and establishing that this prohibition does n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB175 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of corrugated stainless steel tubing that does not meet a certain International Code Council standard or is not proven to withstand a certain electrical arcing charge; requiring certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
