| MD | SB326 | 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 inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| 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] | 2025-02-17
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| 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
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1023 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an employer from taking certain discriminatory employment actions against a fire and rescue public safety employee based on the employee's use of medical cannabis, subject to certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to enable certain incarcerated individuals t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 | SB994 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, own, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB138 | 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB255 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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] | 2025-02-06
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] | 2025-02-06
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] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB969 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services from taking certain adverse employment actions against an employee or prospective employee solely because of the employee's or prospective employee's authorized use of medical canna...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SJ4 | Intro
25% | Stating that the General Assembly joins certain other state legislative bodies, counties, and municipalities in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's Congress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB775 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Implementation of a Statewide 3-1-1 Nonemergency Telephone System; requiring the Workgroup to review a certain study completed by the Department of Information Technology in order to establish a plan to implement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB766 | Intro
25% | Altering the jurisdiction of the Maryland Capitol Police of the Department of General Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB804 | 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] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB805 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of the term "first responder" as it relates to the 9-1-1 Emergency Telephone System to include emergency response technicians, facility maintenance technicians, and vehicle services and recovery technicians employed by the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB827 | Intro
25% | Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing to the extent necessary to eliminate identifiable risk; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB977 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law to require a law enforcement agency or a unit of State or local government to deny access to certain databases, facilities, or buildings by certain individuals seeking access for the purpose of enforcing federal imm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB199 | Engross
50% | Providing that the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy, rather than the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, is responsible for payment to a physician, qualified health care provider, and hospital for providing certain services to a vic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | 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
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB436 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to study building code requirements for single-staircase buildings in the State and other States and analyze best practices when drafting building code requirements; requiring the Department to make legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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 | SB504 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a Hagerstown Community College police officer to exercise powers granted to a peace and police officer within Washington County under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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 | 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
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB164 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB351 | Intro
25% | Altering the residency requirements for certain employees of the Department of State Police; requiring each police appointee to the Department to be a resident of the State or reside within 25 miles outside its borders on the date of appointment and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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 | SB122 | Intro
25% | Including law enforcement officers within the scope of certain prohibitions against committing certain crimes against certain persons, damaging certain property of certain persons, burning certain objects, and damaging certain buildings with which ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB201 | Intro
25% | Removing officer-involved deaths from the information required to be provided by local law enforcement agencies and collected, analyzed, and reported by the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy under a certain provision of law; altering t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
