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MDHB785Intro
25%
Prohibiting a provision in certain documents of certain cooperative housing corporations from prohibiting or restricting the establishment or operation of certain family child care homes; prohibiting a provision in certain documents of certain cooper...
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2025-03-10
Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation
MDHB1128Intro
25%
Authorizing certain land bank authorities to create a special fund for certain purposes, make loans or grants for certain purposes, and enter into partnerships for certain purposes; requiring a land bank authority to include in the sale, lease, trans...
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2025-03-10
Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation
MDSB26Engross
50%
Establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to administer and enforce certain duties regarding the oversight of certain public bodies; altering the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act as it ...
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2025-03-06
Third Reading Passed (44-0)
MDHB1080Engross
50%
Establishing that governmental units may provide disaster service leave with pay to certain employees; establishing that an employee of a governmental unit of a county or a municipality in the State may be entitled to disaster service leave with pay ...
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2025-03-06
Third Reading Passed (125-8)
MDHB286Intro
25%
Altering the planning visions for local comprehensive planning to consist of certain planning principles; altering the State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy to consist of certain planning principles; and requiring the publis...
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2025-03-05
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDHB1479Intro
25%
Requiring the reporting of certain procurement contracts and memoranda of understanding entered into by certain public elementary and secondary education systems in the State.
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2025-03-04
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB760Intro
25%
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipality to approve a certain project that was previously denied by the Maryland Historical Trust under certain circumstances; and requiring a local planning commission to hold a certain public hearin...
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2025-03-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1120Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Information Technology by December 1, 2025, and periodically thereafter, to update certain information available on the Maryland OneStop portal, the internet-based statewide licensing portal managed by the Department; requ...
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2025-03-03
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 11:00 am]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1255Intro
25%
Authorizing a local jurisdiction to authorize any person aggrieved by a decision of a historic preservation commission to appeal the decision to the board of appeals of the local jurisdiction.
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2025-03-02
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1164Intro
25%
Prohibiting a county or municipality from enacting or enforcing a local law that is designed to prevent an individual from resting or sleeping in a public space, protecting oneself from the elements in a manner that does not obstruct the use of or ac...
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2025-02-27
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1413Intro
25%
Requiring employers to establish a policy that provides employees a certain right to ignore communications from the employer during nonworking hours and establishes nonworking hours by written agreement; and prohibiting, except under certain circumst...
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2025-02-25
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1549Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Public Works for each county in which a water main breaks or leaks to publish certain information on the department's website; and requiring each department to update any information published on its website related to a w...
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2025-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1548Intro
25%
Establishing requirements related to the reporting of incidents of employee harassment and intimidation, including provisions regarding the reporting of incidents by employers to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, the creation of a reporting for...
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2025-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB497Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Information Technology by December 1, 2025, and periodically thereafter, to update certain information available on the Maryland OneStop portal, the internet-based statewide licensing portal managed by the Department; requ...
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2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB895Intro
25%
Applying to governmental employers certain provisions of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law that prohibit an employer from making deductions from the wage of an employee except for specified purposes; and allowing a governmental employer to...
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2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1405Intro
25%
Establishing that a certain person has a lien on a motor vehicle towed or removed from a privately owned parking lot for certain charges under certain circumstances; establishing the circumstances in which the lien is extinguished or suspended; estab...
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2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB100Engross
50%
Altering the definition of "public entity" to include a Resilience Authority for purposes of insurance pooling.
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2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB266Engross
50%
Providing certain planning principles that are collectively intended to create sustainable communities and to protect the environment utilizing active public participation; altering the State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy ...
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2025-02-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB824Intro
25%
Altering the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program to provide benefits, beginning July 1, 2027, to alternatively qualified individuals who care for or bond with a child under certain circumstances; altering the date that the Secretary of Labor i...
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2025-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB85Intro
25%
Repealing provisions of law prohibiting law enforcement agents from taking certain actions related to an individual's citizenship or immigration status; prohibiting a county or municipality from adopting, enacting, or enforcing a sanctuary policy; re...
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2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB593Intro
25%
Increasing from $250,000 to $700,000 the annual revenue threshold at which the Legislative Auditor may alter the frequency that certain municipalities or special taxing districts are required to have audits of their financial records performed.
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2025-02-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB102Engross
50%
Altering the definition of "public entity" to include a Resilience Authority for purposes of insurance pooling.
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2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1491Intro
25%
Applying to governmental employers certain provisions of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law that prohibit an employer from making deductions from the wage of an employee except for specified purposes; and allowing a governmental employer to...
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2025-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB254Intro
25%
Prohibiting a public library, a recipient of a certain award from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department, a public housing agency, a county, or a municipality from requiring an individual experiencing homelessness to prov...
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2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1431Intro
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 by certain individuals seeking access for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration law, under certai...
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2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB176Intro
25%
Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to appoint an Assistant Commissioner for Public Employees' Safety and Health; establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to administer and enforce c...
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2025-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB691Intro
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 law governing personnel, pensions, and taxation to apply to all uniformed...
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2025-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1467Intro
25%
Requiring interest earnings on money deposited for a certain taxing and assessment district to be credited to that district; and specifying that a certain provision of law governing the petition process for the construction of an erosion prevention p...
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2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1466Intro
25%
Establishing the policy of the State to promote and encourage the creation of accessory dwelling units on land zoned for single-family residential use in order to meet the housing needs of the citizens of the State; requiring, on or before October 1,...
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2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1038Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Commerce to create and maintain a complaint portal for reporting when a governmental unit takes longer than 60 days to process an application for a license, form, certificate, certification, permit, or registration for a b...
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2025-02-06
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1058Intro
25%
Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt ordinances, rules, or regulations that set emission standards or ambient air quality standards under certain conditions; specifying that the requirement for the ...
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2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB546Intro
25%
Requiring a certain organizing committee to make certain determinations and provide a certain report to the county commissioners or county council of a certain county regarding a proposed municipal incorporation; requiring the county commissioners or...
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2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB891Intro
25%
Establishing the policy of the State to promote and encourage the creation of accessory dwelling units on land zoned for single-family residential use in order to meet the housing needs of the citizens of the State; requiring, on or before October 1,...
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2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB832Intro
25%
Authorizing a municipal corporation in Prince George's County that is in the regional district to override, by a majority vote of the governing body of the municipal corporation, a certain zoning law made by the district council if the zoning law aff...
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2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB977Intro
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...
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2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB752Intro
25%
Establishing the Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names to develop and implement a framework to identify real property owned by the State or a political subdivision that bears a Confederate name; and requirin...
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2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB652Intro
25%
Establishing that an employee of a governmental unit of a county or a municipality in the State may be entitled to disaster service leave with pay under certain circumstances; authorizing certain governmental units to waive certain requirements for d...
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2025-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB97Intro
25%
Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority; authoriz...
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2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB409Intro
25%
Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority; authoriz...
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2025-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB496Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Commerce to create and maintain a complaint portal for reporting when a governmental unit takes longer than 60 days to process an application for a license, form, certificate, certification, permit, or registration for a b...
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2025-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB751Intro
25%
Altering the restrictions on a municipality, for a period following an annexation of land, to authorize the development of certain annexed land for certain land uses or certain densities without obtaining the express approval of the county in which t...
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2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB768Intro
25%
Requiring a certain organizing committee to make certain determinations and provide a certain report to the county commissioners or county council of a certain county regarding a proposed municipal incorporation; requiring the county commissioners or...
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2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB487Intro
25%
Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; authorizing the Attorney General or an individual harmed by a violation of the Act to bring a certain civil action against a political subdivision, a unit of State or local government, or a...
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2025-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB480Intro
25%
Applying certain provisions relating to the adoption of or revision or amendment to a county plan to county plans in St. Mary's County; and repealing certain provisions relating to public sewerage systems and water supply systems in St. Mary's County...
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2025-01-27
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB484Intro
25%
Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; authorizing the Attorney General or an individual harmed by a violation of the Act to bring a certain civil action against a political subdivision, a unit of State or local government, or a...
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2025-01-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB645Intro
25%
Requiring each county and Baltimore City to update its comprehensive plan to include an electric system planning element for purposes of minimizing the impact of future transmission line development in the State; requiring each electric company servi...
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2025-01-23
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB459Intro
25%
Requiring certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage without the requirement for copayment, coinsurance, or deductible to professional firefighters for cancer screening in accorda...
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2025-01-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB374Intro
25%
Requiring certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage without the requirement for copayment, coinsurance, or deductible to professional firefighters for cancer screening in accorda...
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2025-01-20
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB278Intro
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 law governing personnel, pensions, and taxation to apply to all uniformed...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB74Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements for the print or digital publication of legal advertisements and notices in counties and municipalities in the State; requiring digital publications that publish a legal advertisement or notice to maintain a certain ...
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2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee
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