| MD | SB378 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to enable certain incarcerated individuals t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| 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 | SB786 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a person from depriving an individual in a private detention facility of any right, privilege, or immunity secured or protected by the United States Constitution, the Maryland Constitution, the Maryland Declaration of Rights, or any state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB991 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections or the local boards of elections to automatically send an absentee ballot to each registered voter in pretrial detention in a correctional facility without the voter having to submit an absentee ballot applicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB647 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to provide a certain voter hotline for incarcerated individuals; and altering the circumstances under which an individual is not qualified to be a registered voter for the purpose of allowing individuals convict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB702 | Intro
25% | Altering a certain definition of restrictive housing; limiting the amount of time that an individual may be placed in restrictive housing from approximately 22 hours to 17 hours in a 24-hour period; requiring all restrictive housing units to create t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB694 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman to engage an independent consultant to perform a comprehensive assessment of the State's correctional system beginning on or before October 1, 2026; altering the items required to be included in a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB827 | 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] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB942 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Secretary of Health to provide funding to counties for medication-assisted treatment programs; requiring counties that receive funding to submit a certain report; authorizing the Governor to appropriate certain funds in the ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB924 | Intro
25% | Providing that the Director of Juvenile Justice Monitoring is appointed by the Correctional Ombudsman to serve a term of 4 years; and requiring the appointment of the Director of Juvenile Justice Monitoring to be subject to the advice and consent of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB197 | Engross
50% | Altering the membership of the Maryland Correctional Training Commission to include the Director and an employee of the Division of Parole and Probation within the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; and providing that certain Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB490 | Intro
25% | Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB387 | Intro
25% | Requiring a State or local correctional facility with custody of an undocumented immigrant who is serving a sentence in the facility for conviction of a crime, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer the undocumen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB181 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole, including providing for a meeting between the inca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB56 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a State correctional facility and a telephone service provider from charging an incarcerated individual or a third party, for an incarcerated individual's use of telephone equipment or telephone services while in the facility; requiring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
