| MD | HB42 | Pass | Repealing the exceptions that allow the sale, distribution, or purchase of tobacco products, tobacco paraphernalia, and electronic smoking devices to or for certain individuals who are active duty members of the military; authorizing the Maryland Dep... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 765 |
| MD | SB220 | Pass | Repealing the exceptions that allow the sale, distribution, or purchase of tobacco products, tobacco paraphernalia, and electronic smoking devices to or for certain individuals who are active duty members of the military; authorizing the Maryland Dep... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 766 |
| MD | SB136 | Pass | Transferring, from the county administrative judge of the circuit court for the county to the clerk of the circuit court for the county, the authority to designate a deputy clerk to perform a marriage ceremony. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 926 |
| MD | HB300 | Pass | Transferring, from the county administrative judge of the circuit court for the county to the clerk of the circuit court for the county, the authority to designate a deputy clerk to perform a marriage ceremony. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 927 |
| MD | SB439 | Pass | Requiring a victims of domestic violence program to be certified by the federally recognized State domestic violence coalition as a comprehensive domestic violence program; establishing the Victims of Domestic Violence Program Grant Fund as a special... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 767 |
| MD | SB270 | Pass | Altering provisions relating to the membership of, and the terms of members appointed to, adult public guardianship review boards. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 428 |
| MD | HB435 | Pass | Authorizing a court, if an obligor becomes incarcerated, to determine that a material change of circumstances warranting a modification of child support has occurred, provided that the party's ability to pay child support is sufficiently reduced due ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 427 |
| MD | HB690 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Adult Protective Services Review Board in Charles County to authorize the appointment of a physician's assistant or nurse practitioner in the field of psychiatry to serve on the board instead of a psychiatrist. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 674 |
| MD | SB708 | Pass | Altering the definition of relative to mean an individual who is a kinship caregiver for purposes of provisions of law relating to children in need of assistance; and altering provisions of law relating to the kinship care program in the Department o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 429 |
| MD | HB508 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" to include labor trafficking of a child by any individual for purposes of provisions of law governing children in need of assistance cases and child abuse and neglect reporting; expanding provisions of law relating ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 349 |
| MD | HB542 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child in foster... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346 |
| MD | SB550 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" to include labor trafficking of a child by any individual for purposes of provisions of law governing children in need of assistance cases and child abuse and neglect reporting; and expanding provisions of law relat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 348 |
| MD | SB668 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child who is en... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 345 |
| MD | HB833 | Pass | Establishing a presumption that placement with a child's parent is in the best interest of the child, the child is receiving proper care and attention, and there is not a certain emergency situation if the child's parent is receiving certain substanc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 |
| MD | HB380 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Board from requiring an applicant to provide proof that the applicant is lawfully present in the United States or have a Social Security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number as a c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 43 |
| MD | SB374 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Board from requiring an applicant to provide proof that the applicant is lawfully present in the United States or have a Social Security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number as a c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 44 |
| MD | SB707 | Pass | Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26 |
| MD | HB1026 | Pass | Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 27 |
| MD | SB174 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of the Child Support Enforcement Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's licens... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Third Reading Passed (104-30) |
| MD | HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of the Child Support Enforcement Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's licens... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Griffith) Adopted |
| MD | HB813 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a certain exception to the authority of the Child Support Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's license or privilege ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB139 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a certain exception to the authority of the Child Support Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's license or privilege ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB656 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a victims of domestic violence program to be certified by the federally recognized State domestic violence coalition as a comprehensive domestic violence program; establishing the Victims of Domestic Violence Program Grant Fund as a special... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1499 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "relative" to mean an individual who is a kinship caregiver for purposes of provisions of law relating to children in need of assistance; altering provisions of law relating to the kinship care program in the Department of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB745 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the definition of "person eligible for relief" under the domestic violence statutes to include an individual who alleges that the respondent committed stalking under certain circumstances; and altering certain provisions of law relating to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB214 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that certain provisions of law requiring the issuance and service of a show-cause order on a prospective adoptee's parents do not apply if the prospective adoptee is an adult; authorizing a court to order, for good cause shown, certain i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB648 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "actual income" to include certain amounts of nontaxable, earned income from an employer, the amount of federal, State, and local, taxes, including Medicare taxes and any amount required to be withheld under the Federal Ins... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB848 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1298 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the father of a child to file a petition to add the father's surname to the child's name under certain circumstances and establishing related court procedures; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to develop and update, as appropriate, a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an equity court may grant visitation rights to a grandparent of a child if the court finds it to be in the best interest of the child, both the child's living parents consent, one of the child's living parents consents, both of the chi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a rebuttable presumption in certain child custody proceedings that joint legal custody and joint physical custody for approximately equal periods of time are in the best interests of a child and establishing factors a court may consider ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1307 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a parent to petition a court for an emergency hearing to reevaluate a visitation schedule if the other parent fails to comply with a court-ordered visitation schedule without just cause; and requiring and authorizing a court to take certa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1290 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to petition for a protective order against another person who the petitioner alleges has engaged in controlling or coercive behavior toward the petitioner; and defining "coercive control" as a pattern of emotional or psychologica... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines by requiring the deduction, from actual income, of an allowance for support for each child in the parent's home for whom the parent owes a legal duty of supp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1045 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines by requiring the deduction, from actual income, of an allowance for support for each child in the parent's home for whom the parent owes a legal duty of supp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB743 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding stalking to the list of offenses for which a certain individual may petition for a protective order; and altering certain provisions of law relating to the issuance of a permanent protective order. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings under ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB553 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB644 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a local department of social services or a law enforcement agency to provide a certain notice to a parent or caretaker of a child at a certain time during an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect; and excluding evidence obtained... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation of custody or visitation between the parties that is in the best interest of the child, to consider the ability of each of the parties to meet the child's developmental needs, the relatio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB327 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; and specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings un... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB390 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "actual income" to include taxes paid by a parent's employer or, if the income is nontaxable, the amount of taxes that would be paid if the income were taxable for purposes of child support calculations. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |