| MD | SB258 | Intro
25% | Altering the fees for resident consolidated senior sport fishing licenses, angler's licenses, and trout stamps; and repealing the exemption from the requirement to obtain a trout stamp under certain circumstances for a holder of a resident consolidat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB264 | Intro
25% | Increasing the inspection fee that a nursery is required to pay to the Secretary of Agriculture in a specified manner; increasing the annual certification fee that a nursery is required to pay from $100 to $150; and increasing the annual license fee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB174 | Intro
25% | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold multistate licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the Social...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | SB72 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a health occupations board from requiring additional evidence of English proficiency as a condition for licensure, certification, or registration if an applicant holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification, or registration from ano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | SB67 | Intro
25% | Authorizing health occupations boards to include a notation indicating veteran status on a license, certificate, or registration and assist in determining eligibility for State and federal veterans benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | SB52 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the practice of chiropractic in the State related to Board membership, licensure of chiropractors, the discipline of chiropractors, and the denial of licenses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| MD | HB367 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a health occupations board from requiring additional evidence of English proficiency as a condition for licensure, certification, or registration if an applicant holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification, or registration from ano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB425 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain auctioneers from certain provisions of the State Boat Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB353 | Intro
25% | Repealing the requirement that a person have a certain permit before the person carries, wears, or transports a handgun; repealing certain criminal prohibitions against a person who is at least 21 years old wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB473 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of years that a recipient of an award under the Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program may hold the award under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | SB481 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from limiting the amount of revenue the holder of an on-farm home processing license may derive from food processed under the license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB497 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB745 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue a license to practice behavior analysis to qualified applicants within 10 days of receiving the completed application; and requiring the State Board to provide a certain e-m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | HB989 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from limiting the amount of revenue the holder of an on-farm home processing license may derive from food processed under the license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB934 | Intro
25% | Establishing a Class C-PCL (premium cigar lounge) alcoholic beverages license for use in conjunction with a certain tobacco products retailer license; authorizing a local licensing board to issue the license; exempting a holder of the license from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB323 | Engross
50% | Clarifying required information for registering a domestic partnership or obtaining a marriage license; and requiring a declaration of domestic partnership filed with the register of wills to include the Social Security number of each domestic partne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB565 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Board of Pharmacy to send renewal notices to licensees, permit holders, and registrants by electronic means, rather than by first-class mail, unless the licensee, permit holder, or registrant requests to receive the renewal notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1480 | Intro
25% | Requiring that the standards established by the Maryland Statewide Organization for Child Advocacy Centers require an individual providing medical or mental health services in a child advocacy center to be licensed or certified and provide services w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1000 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain sports wagering facility licensees to submit a written request to the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to relocate the sports wagering facility, subject to certain limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB1025 | Intro
25% | Establishing that each individual and a certain right holder have the right to authorize the use of the voice or visual likeness of the individual in a digital replica; providing that the right does not expire on the death of the individual and is tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB23 | Intro
25% | Exempting certain auctioneers from certain provisions of the State Boat Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB482 | Intro
25% | Establishing a predetermination review process for occupational licenses and certificates in certain departments of State government; authorizing a department to charge a criminal history review fee of not more than $100; and authorizing the fee to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB444 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person or an entity operating a gun buyback program to destroy a firearm, including all components and parts attached to the firearm, that is traded in at a certain gun buyback program; authorizing a certain person or entity to contract w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Motion Special Order until 2/25 (Senator Smith) Adopted |
| MD | HB887 | Intro
25% | Altering the qualifications for an individual licensed as a certified public accountant in another state to practice certified public accountancy in the State by requiring that the individual must have passed the Uniform CPA Examination when qualifyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB895 | 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 law governing the regulation of business, economic development, insurance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB1521 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain examination requirements for bachelor and master social worker licenses; requiring an applicant for licensure as a certified social worker or certified social worker-clinical to pass an examination prescribed by the State Board of S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1033 | Intro
25% | Repealing online sports wagering beginning January 1, 2026; and requiring the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission, notwithstanding a certain provision of law, to refund the application fee submitted by certain applicants for and holders of mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB380 | Intro
25% | Defining the term "breeding stable" as it relates to licensure, inspection, and regulation by the Maryland Horse Industry Board; and altering the definition of "horse establishment" to include a breeding stable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB880 | Intro
25% | Repealing a certain prohibition on certain outdoor advertising for cannabis licensees, products, or services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1124 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment, at the request of the Dorchester County government and the local health department or county agency in Dorchester County that has received a well or on-site sewage disposal system delegation of authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB218 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions relating to the commencement of a proceeding to hold a person in contempt of court for the person's default in payment of periodic child or spousal support under the terms of a court order and provisions relating to the commenceme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB779 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the establishment of a medication review committee within the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services that convenes to determine whether to approve the administration of psychotropic medication to a certain incarcerated indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB854 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to print an assigned permanent identification number in a certain manner for a person who completes the course of instruction in conservation and in competency and safety in the handling of firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB708 | Intro
25% | Requiring, rather than authorizing, certain sports wagering licensees and sports wagering operators that advertise in the State to contract with certain independent evaluators to evaluate and rate the sports wagering licensee's sports wagering conten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB924 | Intro
25% | Specifying certain qualifications necessary for an individual to be appointed by a court as a custody evaluator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1000 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "permanent cemetery" to include a cemetery owned by a family or religious organization; prohibiting a person from tampering with human remains interred in a cemetery; altering certain penalties relating to prohibitions agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1050 | Intro
25% | Altering and establishing provisions relating to the surrender of firearms by a respondent under the domestic violence statutes; creating the Task Force to Study the Use of Firearms in Domestic Violence Situations; and requiring the Task Force to sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1514 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "security guard employer" for purposes of provisions of law governing the regulation of security guards, security guard agencies, and security guard employers to exclude certain video lottery operators and sports wagering f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1516 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain provisions of law governing the licensing of providers of certain financial services in the State do not apply to a certain person that acquires or is assigned a certain mortgage, mortgage loan, or installment loan under certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1026 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain provisions of law governing the licensing of providers of certain financial services in the State do not apply to a certain person that acquires or is assigned a certain mortgage, mortgage loan, or installment loan under certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB40 | Engross
50% | Altering the fees for resident consolidated senior sport fishing licenses, angler's licenses, and trout stamps; and repealing the exemption from the requirement to obtain a trout stamp under certain circumstances for a holder of a resident consolidat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB92 | Engross
50% | Extending from 90 days to 4 years the time period during which an individual who has held a heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration contractor license may apply for license restoration after expiration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB214 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the officers and employees of the Field Enforcement Division of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission to issue a citation for a violation of §10-108 of the Criminal Law Article; prohibiting the sale or distribution of certain pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB3 | Engross
50% | Clarifying the definition of "physical therapist assistant" as used in the Maryland Physical Therapy Act to mean an individual licensed by the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners; increasing the membership of the State Board of Physical Therapy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB89 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to establish a certain process in collaboration with one or more boards under the Department's direction and control that requires a board to include a notation indicating veteran status on a professional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB51 | Engross
50% | Altering the qualifications for an individual licensed as a certified public accountant in another state to practice certified public accountancy in the State to include a requirement that the individual passed the Uniform CPA Examination to qualify ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB256 | Engross
50% | Continuing certain health occupations boards and the Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee within the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extendi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB286 | Engross
50% | Clarifying required information for registering a domestic partnership or obtaining a marriage license; and requiring a declaration of domestic partnership filed with the register of wills to include the Social Security number of each domestic partne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB299 | Engross
50% | Providing that a cannabis agent who is employed to provide security services for a cannabis licensee or cannabis registrant as a security guard or by a security guard agency is not required to obtain a State or national criminal history records check...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB345 | Engross
50% | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold multistate licenses to practice social work in member states in order to improve public access to competent social work services; establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
