| MD | HB1038 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1089 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1106 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain providers of travel services to file with the Department of Labor evidence of financial security; and requiring the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office and the Department to provide reasonable notice of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1112 | Intro
25% | Altering the time limits for bringing an action for wrongful death or personal injury concerning exposure of a person to PFAS chemicals; and prohibiting a person, on or after July 1, 2026, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in the State a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1045 | Intro
25% | Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1109 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product unless the purchaser provides to the retailer certain proof; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1039 | Intro
25% | Requiring the owner of public electric vehicle supply equipment to register with the Secretary of Agriculture on or before certain dates; applying certain provisions of law regarding weights and measures to public electric vehicle supply equipment; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB996 | Intro
25% | Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a phenibut product to disclose the factual basis on which any representations regarding the phenibut product are made; establishing prohibitions related to the preparation, d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB956 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Workgroup on Artificial Intelligence Implementation; requiring the Workgroup to monitor and make recommendations related to the regulation of artificial intelligence, consumer protection, current private sector use of artificial inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1020 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from furnishing any consumer report containing certain adverse information relating to a consumer's medical debt, or any collection action against a consumer for medical debt, or maintain a file on a consumer r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB443 | Intro
25% | Altering the statement that must be included on a baby food product label if the baby food product has been tested for toxic heavy metals for the purpose of changing the term included on the label from "toxic heavy metal" to "toxic element".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB659 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain carriers from imposing a prior authorization, step therapy, or quantity limit requirement on eligible providers for health care services that are included in a two-sided incentive arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB830 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic testing for certain individuals who may have an increased risk of developing cancer and follow-up evidence-based cancer i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB936 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a carrier provide the written notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of a small group market health benefit plan by certified mail, return receipt requested, and by electronic means and include information regarding additional health ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB858 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB823 | Intro
25% | Requiring a developer of a generative artificial intelligence system, on or before January 1, 2026, and before the developer releases or substantially modifies a certain generative artificial intelligence system, to publish on the developer's website...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB842 | Intro
25% | Requiring a farm equipment manufacturer to make available certain documentation, updates, or information to an independent repair provider or owner of farm equipment to allow for the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the farm equipment; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB843 | Intro
25% | Requiring a manufacturer of certain motor vehicles to provide certain information and tools related to the diagnosis, service, and repair of motor vehicles to certain owners and independent repair facilities under certain circumstances; requiring a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB591 | Intro
25% | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB604 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a caregiver, family member, or household member from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of an individual the caregiver, family member, or household member knows or reasonably should know is a vulnerable or senior adult with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB505 | Intro
25% | Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB424 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for all purchases and payor reimbursements of prescription drug products in the State that the Board determines ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB332 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to adopt consumer protection regulations for domestic electronic funds transfers that apply to financial institutions in the State and are consistent with the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act; et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB431 | Intro
25% | Establishing that any provision of a consumer contract that sets a shorter period of time to bring an action under or on the consumer contract than is required under the law of the State at the time the contract is issued or delivered is void as agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB385 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, each business that uses a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose to whom the tip will be allocated and display a tip amount that is set at zero by default; and esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB31 | Intro
25% | Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB29 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain entities that process electronic payment transactions to exclude, under certain circumstances, the amount of tax and gratuity included in the electronic payment transaction from the amount on which an interchange fee is charged; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB107 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person who makes an automatic renewal offer to consumers to allow a consumer to cancel the automatic renewal in a certain manner; requiring automatic renewal offers to be displayed in a certain manner and contain certain information; esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB194 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a merchant provide a refund for shipping costs to a consumer who received an incorrect item within 30 days after a certain request is made; and making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice that is subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB208 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from advertising or offering for sale a digital good using certain terminology or alongside an option for a time-limited rental unless certain acknowledgments are received from the purchaser and certain statements are provided by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB267 | Intro
25% | Establishing prohibitions and requirements regarding compensation for certain services related to veterans benefits matters; prohibiting a person that is not V.A. accredited from making certain guarantees; providing for the enforcement of the Act und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
