| 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 | HB27 | Engross
50% | Clarifying the commissions that a guardian of the property may charge; authorizing a trustee of a trust to charge compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances; and authorizing trustees who are financial institutions or members of the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB243 | Engross
50% | Limiting the requirement that a petitioner's spouse join in the petition for adoption to apply only when the prospective adoptee is a minor; authorizing a petitioner's spouse to join in the petition for adoption if the prospective adoptee is an adult...
[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 | 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 | SB548 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB513 | Engross
50% | Altering notice requirements relating to the recordation of a restrictive covenant modification to an unlawfully restrictive covenant by authorizing a county or municipality to provide notice by publication in one or more newspapers of general circul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1091 | Intro
25% | Including salary, wages, and certain benefits in the compensation with regard to which full-time sworn law enforcement officers and court security officers in Baltimore City may collectively bargain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB110 | Intro
25% | Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of the Child Support Enforcement Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB275 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines by requiring the deduction, from actual income, of an allowance for support for each child in the parent's home for whom the parent owes a legal duty of supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary 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 | HB663 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation against another person who distributes a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from an actual visual representation of the person and falsely depict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB721 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which an equity court is authorized to grant visitation rights to a grandparent of a child to include that the petition for visitation rights was filed after an action for divorce, annulment, custody, or paternity was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB759 | Intro
25% | Requiring the governing body of Baltimore County to establish, by law, a special fund that may be used only to assist in covering the cost of siting, constructing, installing, and maintaining traffic calming devices on county roads; and requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB818 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in certain actions seeking to remedy a violation of a Maryland constitutional right; authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB944 | Intro
25% | Repealing a provision that authorizes a local department of social services to ask the juvenile court to find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent or guardian are not required if the local department concludes that a par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary 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 | HB940 | Intro
25% | Requiring a court to stay the entering of judgment, defer further proceedings, and place a defendant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or an intellectual disability on probation before judgment under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1060 | 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 judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1191 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB19 | Engross
50% | Clarifying the commissions that a guardian of the property may charge; authorizing a trustee of a trust to charge compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances; and authorizing trustees who are financial institutions or members of the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB321 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB828 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at certain sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt policies consistent with the guidelines or provide cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1117 | Intro
25% | Establishing certain requirements for elections to governing bodies and organizing activities of cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and homeowners associations in Montgomery County; establishing procedures and requirements during a dispu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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 | HB1505 | Intro
25% | Establishing a rebuttable presumption in certain child custody proceedings that joint legal custody and joint physical custody for approximately equal periods of time are in the best interests of a child and establishing factors a court may consider ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
25% | Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB504 | Intro
25% | Altering the definitions of target per pupil foundation amount, collaborative time per pupil amount, and special education per pupil amount for certain fiscal years; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB709 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1409 | Intro
25% | Providing for an exception to the prohibition against willfully intercepting wire or electronic communication for a resident in a medical care facility under certain circumstances; requiring a medical care facility to allow electronic monitoring of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1490 | Intro
25% | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to raise the mandatory retirement age of all judges in the State from 70 to 75; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for their adoption or rejection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB429 | Intro
25% | Altering the definitions of target per pupil foundation amount, collaborative time per pupil amount, and special education per pupil amount for certain fiscal years; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB55 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of any misdemeanor or felony conviction after the completion of the sentence, parole, probation, and any other form of mandatory treatment associated with the conviction; authorizing a court to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB309 | Intro
25% | 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 int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB499 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB610 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the expungement of a charge under a certain provision of law if the charge was not disposed of by an unequivocal conviction, but was instead disposed of by the court with a no finding designation or included in a case that was designated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB683 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the parent, guardian, or custodian of a child from intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently acting or failing to act in a manner that results in the child committing a crime or delinquent act; requiring an individual convicted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1099 | Intro
25% | Providing that punitive damages may be awarded in a civil action only if the plaintiff proves by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant acted with gross negligence; requiring the State Court Administrator to assess a certain surcharge on a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1107 | Intro
25% | Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing to the extent necessary to eliminate identifiable risk; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1096 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly making or using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement resulting in underpayments of unemployment insurance contributions or payment of unemployment insurance benefits of more than a certain am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1190 | Intro
25% | Providing that a person who was a child at the time of the offense may not be found to have committed felony murder in the first degree under certain provisions of law unless the person was a principal in the first degree; and providing for a motion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1425 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from utilizing certain personal identifying information or engaging in certain conduct in order to cause certain harm; prohibiting a person from using certain artificial intelligence or certain deepfake representations for certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1358 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Division of Correction from applying credit for any portion of the time served in a certain home detention program toward any sentence of a certain incarcerated individual; requiring that a court consider pending cases of a defendant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1004 | Intro
25% | Altering the circumstances under which an equity court is authorized to grant visitation rights to a grandparent of a child to include that the petition for visitation rights was filed after an action for divorce, annulment, custody, or paternity was...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1007 | Intro
25% | Providing that the contents of a certain intercepted communication and evidence derived from the communication may be received in evidence in a certain proceeding under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB11 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB789 | Intro
25% | Establishing minimum adequate security standards for courtroom security at all courthouse facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB959 | Intro
25% | Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for mult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1043 | Intro
25% | Altering public notice requirements of the State Board of Elections, local boards of elections, and certain municipal corporations with respect to changes in administrative policy affecting voting rights; prohibiting local governments from taking any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
