| MD | HB243 | Intro
25% | Limiting the requirement that a petitioner's spouse join in the petition for adoption to apply only when the prospective adoptee is a minor; authorizing a petitioner's spouse to join in the petition for adoption if the prospective adoptee is an adult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Favorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB809 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to adopt regulations setting the maximum number of children that may be placed with an out-of-home placement provider; and establishing an exemption from the limitation on the number of children that may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1205 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local department of social services to provide non-confidential information to a prospective foster care parent on the medical, educational, and behavioral history of a child as it directly relates to the care of a child in an out-of-home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1057 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Human Services to review and reallocate a portion of the Department of Human Services' annual budget to be used to provide child care stipends to certain private treatment foster care homes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB765 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to adopt regulations setting the maximum number of children that may be placed with an out-of-home placement provider; and establishing an exemption from the limitation on the number of children that may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB833 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Human Services to review and reallocate a portion of the Department of Human Services' annual budget to be used to provide child care stipends to certain private treatment foster care homes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB218 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions relating to the commencement of a proceeding to hold a person in contempt of court for the person's default in payment of periodic child or spousal support under the terms of a court order and provisions relating to the commenceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB649 | Intro
25% | Requiring a child placement agency to provide a background report concerning a child to a foster parent before the foster parent may consent to the placement of the child with the foster parent; and requiring the report to indicate whether the child ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB944 | Intro
25% | Repealing a provision that authorizes a local department of social services to ask the juvenile court to find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent or guardian are not required if the local department concludes that a par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB191 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a child in need of assistance from being placed in an unlicensed setting except under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB223 | Intro
25% | Requiring a local department of social services or a law enforcement agency to provide oral and written notice of certain rights to a parent or caretaker of a child at the time of initial contact during an investigation of suspected child abuse or ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "legally protected health care" to include certain reproductive, fertility preservation, and contraceptive treatment, including medications and supplies, for the purposes of certain provisions of law that prohibit health oc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB24 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB280 | 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] | 2025-01-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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] | 2025-01-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB195 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions relating to the commencement of a proceeding to hold a person in contempt of court for the person's default in payment of periodic child or spousal support under the terms of a court order and provisions relating to the commenceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
