| MD | HB1383 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education to publish a policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions in procurement contracts; requiring each student transportation procurement contract en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1468 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a certified school principal who is actively leading a school as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1022 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing requirements regarding the provision of ballot drop boxes and information related to voting to eligible voters by correctional facilities and the State Board of Elections; establishing a Voting Rights Ombudsman for Incarcerated Individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each local board of elections to maintain certain records, including all election data, absentee ballot requests, and voter registration lists, for at least 10 years and organized by election year; requiring an election director or represen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations for the secure storage and use of voter data from the list of registered voters and specifying procedures and requirements relating to electronic signatures; establishing and altering certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the General Assembly to authorize a county referendum on a transportation investment program; requiring a transportation investment program submitted to referendum to include a list of projects that each have a cost of at least $20,000,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1436 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1156 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education, in consultation with the Howard County Executive and the Howard County Council, to publish a model policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting nonprofit organizations qualified under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code from the requirement for a person providing lobbyist compensation to file a statement of political contributions with the State Board of Elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB598 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid nongovernment-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1088 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering automatic voter registration procedures at the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; establishing requirements regarding the transmission of automatic voter registration information by the Administration and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1109 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations for the secure storage and use of voter data from the list of registered voters and specifying procedures and requirements relating to electronic signatures; establishing and altering certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1222 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each local board of elections to maintain certain records, including all election data, absentee ballot requests, and voter registration lists, for at least 10 years and organized by election year; requiring an election director or a repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means 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 | HB1261 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Access to High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Child Care for Children Three Years Old and Younger to study implementing universal access to high-quality early childhood education and child care for children 3 yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1303 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that regular and substitute members of local boards of elections be paid certain amounts per day served for the canvass, election day, and in connection with a contested election; and requiring, if the amount of compensation paid to a regul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1288 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the people to petition to a vote a proposal to add to, amend, and repeal the public general laws or the Maryland Constitution under certain circumstances and establishing the Initiative process; and requiring the amendment to the Constitu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1342 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections and each applicable local board of elections to post the complete text and a plain language summary of certain proposed language or enactments relating to certain ballot questions for at least 65 days before the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1353 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Howard County Council to adopt a ranked-choice voting method for elections for the Howard County Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1343 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a certain statement included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about the purpose of a question on the ballot be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1352 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Howard County to establish a system of public campaign financing for members of the county board of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1350 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the terms of the members of the Howard County Board of Education; and establishing the Howard County Board of Education Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1130 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Howard County to establish a system of public campaign financing for members of the county board of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1129 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Howard County Council to adopt a ranked-choice voting method for elections for the Howard County Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each village community association for a village of Columbia to require each candidate for election to the village board or the Columbia Council who receives donations or makes disbursements to file reports of the donations and disbursement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1131 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the terms of the members of the Howard County Board of Education; and establishing the Howard County Board of Education Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering automatic voter registration procedures at the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; establishing requirements regarding the transmission of automatic voter registration information by the Administration and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting local governments from denying or impairing the right of a protected class member to vote; establishing requirements on the State Board of Elections and local governments related to the provision of language-related assistance in local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to submit a report on the costs and resources required to process Internet-delivered absentee ballots during elections in the State to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB824 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each local board of elections to send the absentee ballot application approved by the State Board of Elections to each eligible voter at least 60 days before each statewide primary election, unless the voter has permanent absentee ballot st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB812 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the application of provisions of law that prohibit an individual from simultaneously being a candidate for more than one public office or office of a political party; and prohibiting individuals from simultaneously being a candidate for, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish a process by which an individual with disabilities may return a marked absentee ballot to a local board of elections electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the procedures used to fill a vacancy of an elected member of the Montgomery County Board of Education occurring 55 days or more before a certain candidate filing deadline.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB913 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of a county to adopt, by law, an approval voting method for elections for offices in the executive or legislative branches of county government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting local governments from denying or impairing the right of a protected class member to vote; establishing requirements on the State Board of Elections and local governments related to the provision of language-related assistance in local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB769 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of a county to establish a system of public campaign financing for certain offices after the governing body of the county has implemented a system of public campaign financing for elective offices in the executive or le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB792 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to draft committees and exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for draft and exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB775 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish a process by which an individual with disabilities may return a marked absentee ballot to a local board of elections electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB872 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that candidates, campaign finance entities, and certain other persons, or agents of candidates, campaign finance entities, or certain other persons, that publish, distribute, or disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or dissemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting employers from taking certain actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing the term of office for the judges of the circuit courts; increasing the number of years between successive retention elections for judges of the Appellate Court of Maryland and justices of the Supreme Court of Maryland; providing for a tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that candidates for judge of the orphans' court appear on the ballot without party designation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections or a local board of elections, on request of a candidate, to provide the candidate with a list of registered voters who have requested an absentee ballot for an upcoming election; and requiring that the list of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a voter to establish the voter's identity at the request of an election judge at a polling place by presenting the voter's registration card, a valid Maryland driver's license, or certain other identification that contains a photograph.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid nongovernment-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB202 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and, except under certain circ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain political organizations from fraudulently claiming to be acting on behalf of a candidate or political party; prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB563 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election based on certain criteria; requiring local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from willfully or knowingly casting a ballot in a general election in more than one state in the same year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
