| MD | HB1242 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to adopt certain regulations related to lead telecommunications cables; and requiring a company that applied for a grant through the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB705 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a person conducting a meeting of a cooperative housing corporation, condominium, or homeowners association by telephone conference, video conference, or similar electronic means to provide a participant a reasonable opportunity to participa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Stream Restoration Contractors Licensing Board; requiring a person to be licensed as a stream restoration contractor or be employed by an individual or entity that is licensed as a stream restoration contractor before the person perf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1463 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that Baltimore City must provide a 25% match to receive State funds for certain operating expenses of the Enoch Pratt Free Library; requiring an appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund aging infrastructure construction and capi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HJ4 | Intro
Sine Die | Affirming the General Assembly of Maryland's commitment to aligning with President Joseph R. Biden's vision for the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence, as delineated in the Blueprint for an Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1515 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definitions of "taxable price" and "taxable service" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the sales and use tax to impose the tax on certain labors and services; altering the rate of the sales and use tax; altering the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center as the State's Regional Higher Education Community of Innovation; and altering the purposes of the Universities at Shady Grove to include serving a diverse citizenry in an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1172 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing requirements related to the certification of employment by public service employers under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, including requirements regarding determinations of whether employees are full-time and the fre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that each member of the State Board of Elections receive a stipend as provided in the State budget; requiring the State Administrator of Elections or the procurement officer for the State Board to disclose requests for proposals, invitation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; providing that the Fund includes all revenue received by the State from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB34 | Engross
Sine Die | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold interstate compact licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB425 | Engross
Sine Die | Entering into the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an advanced practice registered nurse to practice in a party state under certain scope of practice rules; establishing the Inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a State agency, in administering certain federal funds, to allocate 40% of those funds to infrastructure construction projects in overburdened communities and underserved communities and an additional 40% of those funds to infrastructure co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to study options for upgrading the licensing and telephone systems used by the State Board of Nursing and submit to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Health and Government Operations Committee an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing certain individuals who are employed as 9-1-1 specialists and certified by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to become members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System as employees of a participating governmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB40 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to adopt minimum cybersecurity standards for hospitals and take certain other actions related to the cybersecurity of hospitals, including supporting hospitals that do not meet the minimum cybersecurity s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain requirements relating to an annual evaluation of the use of emerging technologies in providing public services by the Secretary of Information Technology; and requiring the evaluation to include an assessment of the use of emerging t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1366 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a State correctional facility is responsible for the payment of costs charged by a telephone service provider under certain circumstances; providing that a State correctional facility and a telephone service provider may not charge an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1380 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Calvert County Board of Education to collect and update the data required for the federal Civil Rights Data Collection survey each year, collect certain other incident data from each public school and each school bus in the county, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1430 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that parents of children in public schools have certain rights regarding information and communication from the children's local school system about education and school-related topics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1455 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education that requests a certain waiver for publicly funded full-day prekindergarten to develop and submit a certain action plan to certain government entities; requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Office of Trails in the Department of Transportation to develop and maintain the Maryland Trails Network, advance the development, maintenance, and use of trails in the State, develop a certain inventory and database, and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1284 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing an exemption for stream restoration projects from certain application fees for certain projects that impact a wetland or waterway; requiring a person applying for a wetlands and waterways authorization for a stream restoration project assoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB227 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definitions of "information technology" and "major information technology development project" for the purpose of certain provisions of law governing information processing and security; requiring a unit of State government to submit cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB813 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, certain health care facilities to implement a program to provide individuals admitted to the health care facility reasonable access to a telephone.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB955 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Technology Advisory Commission to study and make recommendations on technology and science developments and use in the State; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $100,000 for the Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1191 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; providing that certain provisions of law regarding the issuance of an initial teaching certificate do not apply to certain teachers u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1193 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the owner or operator of a coal combustion by-products unit to submit certain reports and plans to the Department of the Environment and the Power Plant Research Program in the Department of Natural Resources on or before certain dates; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1311 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, all devices activated in the State to enable a certain filter to prevent minors from accessing obscene material; prohibiting a certain person from deactivating the filter; providing that a manufacturer of a devic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education, under certain circumstances, to publish on the website of the Howard County public school system a report that details the differences between the Howard County Superintendent of Schools' proposed capit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the owner or operator of a coal combustion by-products unit to submit certain reports and plans to the Department of the Environment and the Power Plant Research Program in the Department of Natural Resources on or before certain dates; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB980 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public high schools to promote and increase the enrollment of certain students in high school computer science courses; requiring, beginning on or before June 1, 2025, the State Board of Education to update computer science content standard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB979 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the AI Subcabinet of the Governor's Executive Council, to develop and update guidelines on artificial intelligence for county boards of education and to develop a pilot program to supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Artificial Intelligence Advisory and Oversight Commission to guide the State in growing, developing, using, and diversifying artificial intelligence in the State; and requiring the Commission to report its findings and recom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1156 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting consumer wire transaction from certain provisions of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code; limiting liability for damages resulting from consumer wire transfers; defining sufficient notice; requiring investigations; requiring decisions and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB384 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Carbon Capture Opportunity Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to assist nonprofit and for-profit businesses engaged in carbon capture projects or carbon capture research; and requiring the Administration to establish appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB551 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of Legislative Audits to perform a performance audit of the Maryland Transportation Authority's toll operations; increasing the number of days within which a person alleged to be liable for a video toll must pay the toll; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; repealing certain provisions of law relating to existing covered electronic takeback programs; repealing a certain provision of law authorizing a count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a State correctional facility is responsible for the payment of costs charged by a telephone service provider under certain circumstances; providing that a State correctional facility and a telephone service provider may not charge an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1088 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing judicial review of certain environmental permitting and license decisions by the Department of the Environment at the request of certain persons who meet certain federal standing requirements under certain circumstances; requiring a perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1087 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting online gambling while on campus at an institution of higher education in the State; requiring by August 1, 2024, each institution of higher education to establish a geofence around the perimeter of the campus that prevents access to onlin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education to use a certain appropriation to update, by January 1, 2026, and maintain a certain website dedicated to green schools and becoming certified as a green school; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Data Security to study certain data protection standards, identify existing standards that would best be assimilated by State agencies, and develop recommendations on and assess certain fiscal impacts; and requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from selling an Internet-connected device that is intended for minors unless the device is sold with a certain filter, certain privacy settings, and other features; making a violation of the prohibition an unfair, abusive, or dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
