| 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] | 2025-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB244 | Intro
25% | Altering the duties of the Cyber Preparedness Unit in the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; altering the duties of the Office of Security Management in the Department of Information Technology; altering the content of a certain report on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1116 | Intro
25% | Renaming and transferring the State Clearinghouse for Missing Children to be the State Clearinghouse for Missing Persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB1496 | Intro
25% | Requiring the construction of new multifamily residential buildings with separate garages, carports, or driveways for each residential unit to include certain parking spaces for electric vehicle charging; requiring certain significant renovations of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB333 | 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] | 2025-03-03
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:00 am]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB444 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1544 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Maryland Law Enforcement Public Service Medal as the highest State honor awarded to law enforcement officers for exceptional public service, valor, and heroism; establishing eligibility requirements for the medal and procedures for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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] | 2025-03-02
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB24 | Engross
50% | Altering certain terminology throughout the Annotated Code that refers to a clergyman to refer to a member of the clergy and churches to refer to faith institutions and places of worship; and defining "faith institution" as any Christian, Jewish, Isl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB153 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB421 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund for certain expenditures that support the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline; and altering a certain restriction on the use of the 9-1-1 Trust Fund to prohibit funds from being used for expenses solely relate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB423 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Maryland 9-1-1 Board to adopt regulations to implement and enforce certain responsibilities of the Board; and authorizing the Maryland Department of Emergency Management to adopt regulations to implement and enforce the responsibiliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB164 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-27
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB533 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1452 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "sexual orientation" applicable to certain hate crime statutes; and defining "hate bias incident" applicable to a certain requirement that the Department of State Police collect, analyze, and report certain information prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB2 | Intro
25% | Altering certain terminology throughout the Annotated Code that refers to a clergyman to refer to a member of the clergy and churches to refer to faith institutions and places of worship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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] | 2025-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB235 | Engross
50% | Altering the duties of the Cyber Preparedness Unit in the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; altering the duties of the Office of Security Management in the Department of Information Technology; requiring the Office to submit a yearly repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB326 | Engross
50% | Establishing certain confidentiality requirements for peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies; prohibiting a peer support specialist from disclosing the contents of any written or oral communication regarding a peer support inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB455 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB443 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the prosecution for an offense of trafficking a regulated firearm be instituted within 3 years after the offense was committed; reclassifying the prohibition against transporting a regulated firearm into the State for the purpose of un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB202 | Engross
50% | Requiring a certain DNA sample to be collected in a certain manner from an individual who is required to register as a sex offender; requiring a DNA sample to be collected by a certain individual or at a certain location under certain circumstances; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB58 | 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] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB26 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of State Police to compile and report on its website by December 31 each year information on missing persons disaggregated by age, race, and reporting county and provide the number of resolved missing persons reports in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1060 | 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 judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB9 | Engross
50% | Altering certain definitions related to the Food Resiliency Council; defining what constitutes "healthy food priority areas" as predominantly lower-income areas that have limited access to retail outlets that sell, affordable, healthy foods; defining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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
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
To House Appropriations 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] | 2025-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB255 | Intro
25% | Repealing the authority for the issuance and execution of a no-knock search warrant; establishing that a warrant may not authorize an officer to enter a building, apartment, premises, or place without first announcing the officer's purpose and author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB238 | 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] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB122 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a police officer to file a complaint of police misconduct with a police accountability board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB186 | Intro
25% | Altering the composition of trial boards responsible for adjudicating matters of police discipline to include certain attorneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB139 | Intro
25% | Requiring the investigating unit of a law enforcement agency to complete its review of a certain complaint and forward its investigatory files to the administrative charging committee as soon as possible, but not later than 9 months after the filing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB309 | Intro
25% | Establishing certain confidentiality requirements for peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies; prohibiting a peer support specialist from disclosing the contents of any written or oral communication regarding a peer support int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-10
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] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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] | 2025-02-10
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] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary 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] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1437 | Intro
25% | Repealing immunity from civil and criminal liability for health care providers acting in good faith and under a catastrophic health emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1361 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to create a standardized report writing system for all law enforcement agencies in the State; requiring all law enforcement agencies in the State to implement the standardized report wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
