| MD | HB353 | Pass | Defining the term "Health and Human Services Referral System" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the System to mean a certain coordinated system for health and human service resources that is accessible to State residents, rather...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 840 |
| MD | HB452 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Individual Tax Preparers to publish on the Board's website a certain code of ethics and rules of professional conduct by January 1, 2026; requiring the Board to notify the Comptroller and the Field Enforcement Bureau of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 731 |
| MD | HB576 | Pass | Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish the program by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 703 |
| MD | HB932 | Pass | Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review; altering requirements related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; altering certain reporting requirements on health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 847 |
| MD | HB938 | Pass | Requiring the department charged with oversight of a State-owned nursing home operated by a contractor, instead of the contractor, to provide notice of certain deficiencies and enforcement actions to the Governor and certain members of the General As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 861 |
| MD | HB1063 | Pass | Altering the definition of "underlying crime" that is applicable to certain prohibitions against participation in criminal organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 934 |
| MD | HB1229 | Pass | Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a kratom product to disclose the factual basis on which the representation is made; establishing prohibitions related to the preparation, distribution, and sale of kratom pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 748 |
| MD | HB1244 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each have a certain staff member who performs certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 963 |
| MD | HB1498 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from aiding or abetting the unauthorized practice of massage therapy; and providing penalties for a first violation of the Act of a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 1 year and for a subsequent offense, a fine of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 789 |
| MD | HB587 | Pass | Establishing a manufacturer's limited beer, wine, and liquor permit in Frederick County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Frederick County to issue a permit to holders of certain manufacturer's licenses; establishing that the permit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 1004 |
| MD | HB434 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 513 |
| MD | HB567 | Pass | Establishing generally the manner in which a controller or a processor may process a consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller of personal data to es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 |
| MD | HB605 | Pass | Requiring recreational vehicle dealers to hold a dealer agreement with a recreational vehicle manufacturer to sell the manufacturer's recreational vehicles in the State; establishing licensing requirements for a recreational vehicle manufacturer, dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 525 |
| MD | HB685 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Aerospace and Technology Commission in the Department of Commerce to promote innovation in the fields of space exploration and commercial aerospace opportunities, including the integration of space, aeronautics, and aviation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 622 |
| MD | HB809 | Pass | Providing that a member of a board, committee, commission, task force, or workgroup created by State law may be removed or suspended for misconduct, incompetence, neglect of duties, or other good cause by the individual or entity that appointed the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 469 |
| MD | HB1147 | Pass | Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 488 |
| MD | HB1192 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission is required to disqualify an applicant who committed a certain crime involving moral turpitude from holding a video lottery employee license; and altering the defi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 628 |
| MD | HB1212 | Pass | Establishing that the Executive Director of the State Retirement Agency shall employ a Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion of the State Retirement Agency; requiring the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to identify and minimize ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 495 |
| MD | HB1503 | Pass | Prohibiting, during a regular session of the General Assembly, the State Treasurer and a person acting on behalf of the State Treasurer, as to a candidate for federal, State, or local office or certain campaign finance entities, from receiving a cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 |
| MD | HB1168 | Pass | Establishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 600 |
| MD | HB664 | Pass | Authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the individual on the Internet, social medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 414 |
| MD | HB613 | Pass | Altering certain authorizations to recreationally catch clams in the State; establishing a recreational oyster license; requiring an applicant for a recreational oyster license to be at least 16 years of age; requiring the Department of Natural Resou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 518 |
| MD | HB991 | Pass | Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 531 |
| MD | HB371 | Pass | Requiring a petitioner for a recount to select the method for conducting the recount; limiting the methods from which the selection must be made; and requiring a local board of elections to preserve and store certain voter-verifiable paper records an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 220 |
| MD | HB333 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections to maintain a portal on the State Board's website that the public may use to report election misinformation and election disinformation; requiring the State Board to conduct a periodic review of material submitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 126 |
| MD | HB471 | Pass | Altering the records and documents that a board of canvassers is required to investigate under certain circumstances; altering the responsibilities of the State Administrator, the State Board of Elections, and the Board of State Canvassers regarding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 353 |
| MD | HB599 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments and financial assistance available in certain low-income communities in the State; expanding the eligible uses of the Strategic Demolition and Smart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 123 |
| MD | HB589 | Pass | Exempting applicants for employment as a paramedic or an emergency medical technician with Dorchester County or as a 9-1-1 specialist at the Dorchester County 9-1-1 Center from the prohibition on employers requiring or demanding that an individual su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 380 |
| MD | HB834 | Pass | Requiring that the conflict of interest provisions enacted by Calvert County include certain provisions relating to judicial relief for certain violations of the county's conflict of interest provisions; requiring the ethics provisions enacted by Cal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 370 |
| MD | HB1002 | Pass | Authorizing the Office of the Attorney General, a Deputy Attorney General, or an Assistant Attorney General to issue a subpoena to a person to produce certain materials, answer written interrogatories, and give certain testimony in furtherance of an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 140 |
| MD | HB1074 | Pass | Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 234 |
| MD | HB1230 | Pass | Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, exposing for sale, or advertising for sale a tianeptine product to an individual; and establishing a penalty for a retailer who violates the Act of a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up to 90...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 249 |
| MD | HB1388 | Pass | Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 378 |
| MD | HB1426 | Pass | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; requiring the State Board to approve certain specifications for teachers and admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 164 |
| MD | HB805 | Pass | Altering the distance restrictions from 2000 feet to one-half mile applicable to a licensed cannabis dispensary; prohibiting a political subdivision from establishing certain zoning requirements that are more restrictive than certain zoning requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 244 |
| MD | HB272 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from applying for or holding a cannabis license or registration under certain circumstances if an ownership interest in the license or registration is for the limited purpose of satisfying certain requirements of registration or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 242 |
| MD | HB1048 | Pass | Altering the membership and terms of members of the Behavioral Health Advisory Council; altering the membership of the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access; and requiring the Commission, in coordination with the Council, to make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| MD | HB459 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to evaluate the performance of the State Administrator of Elections; requiring the State Administrator to provide a performance evaluation of the election director of each local board of elections to the local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB859 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing certain processes regarding the expiration of real estate brokers', associate real estate brokers', and real estate salespersons' licenses; requiring that certain licenses expire on a staggered basis; modifying and setting certain time fram...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | HB1427 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority, subject to certain limitations; exempting the Authority from certain provisions of law; requiring the Author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1271 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments by December 1, 2024, and annually thereafter; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1217 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing direct-to-consumer alcoholic beverages permits authorizing the direct delivery of beer, wine, or liquor to a consumer; establishing the requirements an individual must meet to qualify for a direct-to-consumer alcoholic beverages delivery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting an entity owned, operated, or controlled by the government of certain countries subject to an embargo under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations from participating in any procurement with the State, a local government in the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1319 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1164 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting nonpublic schools that participate in State-funded education programs from refusing to provide a current or former student or the student's parent or guardian with a transcript or taking other punitive measures regarding a student's trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1001 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a custodian of recorded images produced by certain automated enforcement systems to deny inspection of the images; prohibiting certain State and local agencies from using a recorded image or associated data from an automated enforcement sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1174 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Technology Advisory Commission to study and make recommendations on technology and science developments and use in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit a report on its activities and recommendations to the Governor and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1161 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Dorchester County Council to, by public local law, abolish the Dorchester County Sanitary Commission, establish a department of public facilities and services, and provide for the department's abilities and functions, subject to certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish a clinical staffing committee by January 1, 2025; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan by July 1, 2025; requiring that an administrator of a hosp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive study of the potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring the study to evaluate best practices for the safe, responsible, and ethical uses of artificial i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
