| MD | SB754 | Intro
25% | Regulating commercial financing transactions, including by establishing requirements related to certain disclosures, calculations of annual percentage rates, terms of repayments, and other related items, and the extension of specific offers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB41 | Engross
50% | Adding the Comptroller, or the Comptroller's designee, as a member to the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB498 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB648 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Business Resource Initiative for Developmental Growth and Empowerment Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish certain business incubators; prohibiting the grants awar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB601 | Intro
25% | Providing that a guaranty under the Small Business Guaranty Fund may be supported by the full faith and credit of the State of Maryland or appproved by an irrevocable letter of credit, an official treasurer's check, funds on deposit in an escrow or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB716 | Intro
25% | Altering the renewable energy portfolio standard; including nuclear energy generated by certain nuclear energy reactors as a Tier 1 renewable source; establishing a certified nuclear renewable energy credit for use in meeting certain renewable energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB760 | Intro
25% | Exempting from certain requirements relating to offering health benefit plans to small employers in the State health benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization, coemployer, or other organization located in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB302 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain provisions of law specifying certain limitations on awards or investments provided to certain small businesses under the Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB426 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB377 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Business Resource Initiative for Developmental Growth and Empowerment (BRIDGE) Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish certain business incubators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB701 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "cottage food product" for purposes of provisions of law governing the sale of cottage food products to include nonpotentially hazardous foods, rather than nonhazardous foods, as specified in regulations adopted by the Mary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB693 | Intro
25% | Regulating commercial financing transactions, including by establishing requirements related to certain disclosures, calculations of annual percentage rates, terms of repayments, and other related items, and the extension of specific offers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB825 | Intro
25% | Adding the Comptroller, or the Comptroller's designee, as a member to the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB826 | Intro
25% | Repealing the Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs within the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB316 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company in the State to submit to the Public Service Commission by certain dates plans for the construction or procurement of distribution-connected energy storage devices and to construct or procure the devices in accordance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB488 | Intro
25% | Exempting all personal property, including manufacturing inventory, in the possession of a person engaged in a manufacturing business that is a small- or medium-sized enterprise from the personal property tax, including any special taxing district pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB542 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to contract with a third party to conduct a study of the structure and composition of the distribution and retail sector of the alcoholic beverages industry in the State a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB494 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements related to project labor agreements, community benefit agreements, and the use of registered apprentices under procurement contracts and public-private partnerships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB500 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations 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 | SB434 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB427 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB279 | 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] | 2025-01-20
[Hearing: Feb 5 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB168 | Intro
25% | Exempting all personal property in the possession of a person engaged in a manufacturing business that is a small- or medium-sized enterprise from the personal property tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB398 | Intro
25% | Requiring each electric company in the State to submit to the Public Service Commission by certain dates plans for the construction or procurement of distribution-connected energy storage devices and to construct or procure the devices in accordance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB235 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Project Restore Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development; authorizing the Department to distribute Program funds to certain place-based community development organizations and units of local governments; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB90 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Project Restore Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development; authorizing the Department to distribute Program funds to certain place-based community development organizations and units of local governments; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB23 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of certain commercial and industrial property and to set a special property tax rate for certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
