| MD | SB243 | Intro
25% | Repealing a requirement that the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs conduct research, make recommendations, and submit a certain report on certain areas relating to black males; and repealing the authorization that the Special Secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB179 | Intro
25% | Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Judiciary |
| 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 | HB616 | Intro
25% | Extending from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for prosecutions relating to destroying funerary objects and other elements of a cemetery to begin at the time local authorities knew or reasonably should have known of the violation; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB39 | Engross
50% | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB241 | Engross
50% | Clarifying that "spouse" includes a former spouse for purposes of disclosure of confidential communications occurring during marriage; and establishing that a spouse, who is the alleged victim, is competent to disclose a confidential communication be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB44 | Engross
50% | Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB81 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from taking certain actions with the intent to interrupt or impair the functioning of a public safety answering point; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to impriso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB326 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB380 | Engross
50% | Repealing the prohibition on and criminal penalty related to the sale of certain contraceptives and contraceptive devices by means of a vending machine or other automatic device at a kindergarten, nursery school, or elementary or secondary school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
Third Reading Passed (89-41) |
| MD | SB443 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the prosecution for an offense of trafficking a regulated firearm be instituted within 3 years after the offense was committed; reclassifying the prohibition against transporting a regulated firearm into the State for the purpose of un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB545 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from possessing more than 100 images of certain child pornography or possessing or viewing images of certain child pornography depicting a minor or an individual indistinguishable from an actual and identifiable child under the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1352 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from denying access or services to a student based on the student's diagnosis of sickle cell disease; requiring an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations for students with s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1304 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of State Police to submit certain information collected through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program to the Department of Legislative Services on or before November 30 each year and create a certain work plan; and requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB1031 | Intro
25% | Increasing the penalty to up to 5 years of imprisonment or a fine or both for storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised minor has access to the firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB208 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from advertising or offering for sale a digital good using certain terminology unless a certain affirmative acknowledgment is received from the purchaser or a certain clear and conspicuous statement is provided by the seller; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB119 | Intro
25% | Repealing a requirement that the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs conduct research, make recommendations, and submit a certain report on certain areas relating to black males; and repealing the authorization that the Special Secr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB334 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB356 | Engross
50% | Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-19
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB202 | Engross
50% | Requiring a certain DNA sample to be collected in a certain manner from an individual who is required to register as a sex offender; requiring a DNA sample to be collected by a certain individual or at a certain location under certain circumstances; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB85 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB108 | Intro
25% | Requiring that an abortion be performed by a physician, rather than a qualified provider; repealing certain provisions of law related to State interference with an abortion, regulations related to abortion, and liability or criminal punishment for qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB312 | Intro
25% | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial to the lesser of 10 years or the maximum sentence for the most serious offense charged under certain circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB518 | Intro
25% | Establishing a certain mens rea requirement for bills passed by the General Assembly that establish a criminal offense; requiring the Department of Legislative Services to report annually by December 1 to certain committees of the General Assembly on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB594 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting recovery by a certain plaintiff from being barred in a certain civil action due to the plaintiff's negligence, except under certain circumstances; requiring any damages awarded under the Act to be diminished in proportion to the amount of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB510 | Intro
25% | Imposing an excise tax on the acquisition and excess ownership of certain single-family residences in the State by certain entities; providing for the calculation, collection, and distribution of the excise tax; establishing the Down Payment and Sett...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB582 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person who offers for sale to a third party improved single-family residential real property, for the first 30 days, to accept an offer to purchase the property made only by an individual, a community development organization, a nonprof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB734 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB803 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a computer-generated visual representation of another including a photograph, a film, a video, a digital image, or a picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB805 | Intro
25% | Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking open a letter; providing that a person may not knowingly and intentionally open mail addressed to another without permission of the person or an authorized designee; providing certain penalties for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB853 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to file a petition with the court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the term of confinement and at least 5 years have passed since the court decided any previous petition filed by the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB883 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle or vessel in a criminally negligent manner; and providing that driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle or vessel in a negligent manner does not constitute a viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB847 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish and maintain the Domestic Violence Offender Registry; requiring a certain person convicted three or more times of a certain domestically related crime to register with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB955 | Intro
25% | Providing that the distribution of a certain forged digital likeness to another constitutes a statement or communication for the purpose of an action for defamation; prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a certain forged digital likeness u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB943 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | HB1074 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from taking a certain gift card from another or receiving a gift card with the intent to use, sell, or transfer the gift card in a certain manner; prohibiting a person from receiving a gift card that the person knows was lost, mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1073 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the theft of mail or packages from intended recipients; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 5 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1081 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from intentionally harassing, intimidating, or threatening another person while hiding or concealing their face; providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1271 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a qualified provider from performing or inducing an abortion on a pregnant woman within 24 hours after the woman receives certain ultrasound imaging; establishing certain requirements related to the performance of a certain transabdominal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1398 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting an individual from distributing heroin or fentanyl or chemical analogues of heroin or fentanyl, the use of which results in the death or serious bodily injury of another; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a fel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1518 | Intro
25% | Altering the penalty for storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised minor has access to the firearm; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB347 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a local department of social services to request assistance from federal law enforcement officers in an investigation relating to an alleged vulnerable adult; and altering certain provisions relating to the disclosure of certain informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1504 | Intro
25% | Requiring an intake officer to file a petition alleging that a child under the age of 13 years is a child in need of supervision if the child is alleged to have committed an act that results in the death of a victim; and requiring a law enforcement o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1506 | Intro
25% | Increasing from $1,000 to $5,000 the maximum amount of a criminal fine or municipal infraction that may be imposed by a municipality to enforce certain ordinances and resolutions enacted by the municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1501 | Intro
25% | Increasing penalties for a person causing physical injury to a Baltimore City special enforcement officer, a special parking enforcement officer, or a special traffic enforcement officer while the officer is engaged in the performance of the officer'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB922 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain providers of travel services to file with the Department of Labor evidence of financial security; requiring the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office and the Department to provide reasonable notice of the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB620 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of a reportable offense to include only references to offenses defined as crimes of violence in relation to reporting arrests of students attending public and nonpublic schools in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB951 | Intro
25% | Including institutions and programs of higher education in which a student is enrolled as part of a dual enrollment program in the definition of "school system"; adding certain offenses to the list of offenses a law enforcement agency must report to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
