| MD | SB468 | Pass | Requiring a private home detention monitoring agency to notify the court within 24 hours after a defendant subject to home monitoring as a condition of pretrial release has violated a condition of home detention monitoring; requiring a private home d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 893 |
| MD | HB432 | Pass | Replacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 444 |
| MD | SB354 | Pass | Establishing the Rent Court Workforce Solutions Pilot Program in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to provide defendant tenants in failure to pay rent cases with workforce resources and information on workforce development, registered appr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 295 |
| MD | HB372 | Pass | Establishing the Rent Court Workforce Solutions Pilot Program in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to provide residential tenants who are facing eviction for a failure to pay rent with information on workforce development and employment op... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 294 |
| MD | HB614 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a private home detention monitoring agency to notify the court within 24 hours after a defendant subject to home monitoring as a condition of pretrial release has violated a condition of home detention monitoring; requiring a private home d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; establishing the statute of limitations for a certain prosecution relating to harassment by distribution of a deep fake image to begin at the time t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08 Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Pippy) Adopted |
| MD | HB1470 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial under certain circumstances; and authorizing a victim or victim's representative to petition the court to extend... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB449 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the time period after which a court is required to dismiss a certain charge against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB978 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts, beginning December 1, 2024, and each December 1 thereafter, to provide a report to the General Assembly containing certain information on the Maryland Judicial Public Text Messaging System; and requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1346 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the procedures related to competency evaluations, including by requiring the Maryland Department of Health, rather than the court, to determine the basis on which a defendant will be examined; altering the definition of "designated health ca... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the creative expression of a criminal defendant or juvenile respondent is not admissible against the defendant or respondent unless the court makes certain findings; and defining "creative expression" as the expression or application o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1429 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the creative expression of a criminal defendant or juvenile respondent is not admissible against the defendant or respondent unless the court makes certain findings; and defining "creative expression" as the expression or application o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB872 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing increased penalties of imprisonment for up to 3 years and a fine not to exceed $5,000 or both for the abuse or neglect of an animal if the abuse or neglect results in the death or euthanasia of the animal; and authorizing the court, as a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in the first degree to commit a defendant to a designated health care facility for life; and requiring a court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB330 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a person who is convicted of first-degree murder may be sentenced to death under certain circumstances; and establishing certain procedures relating to custody, warrant of execution, incompetency, method of execution, witnesses, certif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the unauthorized dissemination of certain personal identifying information without permission, with the intent to threaten, intimidate, abuse, harass or frighten a person, or place the person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |