| MD | HB282 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting sexually explicit materials in elementary, middle, and secondary public school libraries and media centers; defining sexually explicit materials as books and auditory and visual material that contain graphic or obscene depictions of sexua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| 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 | HB561 | Intro
25% | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to borrow not more than $71,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in St. Mary's County, and to effect such borro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB833 | Intro
25% | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $36,900,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County and to effect such borrowing by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1071 | Intro
25% | Authorizing supervisory employees of the Baltimore County Public Library to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; authorizing certain bargaining units for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB678 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $450,000 to the Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library; and requiring the Deaf Culture Digital Library to submit its annual operating budget to the State Library Agency on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB254 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a public library, a recipient of a certain award from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department, a public housing agency, a county, or a municipality from requiring an individual experiencing homelessness to prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB369 | Intro
25% | Requiring operators of certain libraries, beginning January 1, 2026, to place an automated external defibrillator in a certain area, maintain the functionality of the automated external defibrillator, and ensure a trained individual is present under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB863 | Intro
25% | Altering the State standards for libraries and the State policy for local school systems operating school library media programs to clarify that programming offered by a library or library media program is among the library services that must be made...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1122 | Intro
25% | Increasing the maximum number of members of the Office of Child Care Advisory Council from 30 to 31; and adding a representative of the Maryland Association of Public Library Administrators to the membership of the Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1235 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the governing body of Queen Anne's County from allowing licensed cannabis processors to locate within 1,000 feet of child care facilities and certain pre-existing public places in the county; and altering certain distance requirements app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1377 | Intro
25% | Altering a certain prohibition on advertising for cannabis licensees, products, or services by repealing a prohibition on certain outdoor advertising and instead prohibiting advertising within 500 feet of a substance use treatment facility, certain s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB914 | Intro
25% | Authorizing supervisory employees of the Baltimore County Public Library to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; authorizing certain bargaining units for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB416 | Intro
25% | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County to borrow not more than $36,900,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in Carroll County and to effect such borrowing by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB515 | Intro
25% | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB623 | Intro
25% | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to borrow not more than $71,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in St. Mary's County, and to effect such borro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB593 | Intro
25% | Requiring operators of certain libraries, beginning January 1, 2026, to place an automated external defibrillator in a prominent area accessible to employees and library users, provide maintenance for the automated external defibrillator, and ensure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB552 | Intro
25% | Requiring each institution of higher education to provide certain drug detection products to students at no charge; and altering a certain reporting requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB597 | Intro
25% | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB379 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to provide, at no charge to the students, drink spiking detection products and drug detection strips to public middle and high school students in the county beginning in the 2025-2026 school yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB415 | 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] | 2025-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
