| 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] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB482 | Intro
25% | Establishing a predetermination review process for occupational licenses and certificates in certain departments of State government; authorizing a department to charge a criminal history review fee of not more than $100; and authorizing the fee to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB85 | Intro
25% | Repealing provisions of law prohibiting law enforcement agents from taking certain actions related to an individual's citizenship or immigration status; prohibiting a county or municipality from adopting, enacting, or enforcing a sanctuary policy; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB734 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB810 | Intro
25% | Requiring each law enforcement agency to adopt a policy requiring the use of a lethality assessment protocol; and defining "lethality assessment protocol" as a multiprong validated tool intended for use by law enforcement officers investigating domes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB853 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to file a petition with the court to reduce the sentence if the individual has served at least 20 years of the term of confinement and at least 5 years have passed since the court decided any previous petition filed by the i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB847 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish and maintain the Domestic Violence Offender Registry; requiring a certain person convicted three or more times of a certain domestically related crime to register with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB952 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a local superintendent or the superintendent's designee to access the Juvenile Sex Offender Registry; and adding certain offenses to the list of offenses for which a person adjudicated delinquent is required to be included in the juvenile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB951 | Intro
25% | Including institutions and programs of higher education in which a student is enrolled as part of a dual enrollment program in the definition of "school system"; adding certain offenses to the list of offenses a law enforcement agency must report to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB620 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of a reportable offense to include only references to offenses defined as crimes of violence in relation to reporting arrests of students attending public and nonpublic schools in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB777 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a person who has been granted an expungement shall be determined for all purposes not to have been arrested for, cited for, charged with, or convicted of the underlying offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB831 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain limitations on the prospective employees or volunteers of Carroll County for whom the Department of Human Resources of Carroll County may request a criminal history records check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB487 | Intro
25% | Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; authorizing the Attorney General or an individual harmed by a violation of the Act to bring a certain civil action against a political subdivision, a unit of State or local government, or a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB533 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a judge to consider whether a military protection order has been issued against a respondent when determining whether to grant a temporary peace order or a temporary protective order; and requiring a law enforcement officer to notify a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB613 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing unless the court or the party redacts identifying information relating to a victim of sexual assault that appea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB635 | Intro
25% | Requiring a police officer to document all reasons for a traffic stop or other stop on a citation or police report resulting from the stop; establishing that certain evidence obtained during a traffic stop or other stop in violation of certain provis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB616 | Intro
25% | Extending from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for prosecutions relating to destroying funerary objects and other elements of a cemetery to begin at the time local authorities knew or reasonably should have known of the violation; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB591 | Intro
25% | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB706 | Intro
25% | Altering the statute of limitations applicable to a certain offense relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing any wire, oral, or electronic communications and reclassifying the offense as a misdemeanor instead of a felony; and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB677 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the court to admit into evidence in certain criminal proceedings certain out of court statements made by a vulnerable adult victim or witness under certain circumstances and subject to certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB703 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain evidence of certain diagnoses is admissible in a criminal proceeding if the evidence tends to show that the defendant, at the time of the alleged offense, did or did not have the mental state required for the offense charged an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB686 | Intro
25% | Altering the criteria for determining whether a certain victim or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend shall be considered to be helpful, to have been helpful, or likely to be helpful to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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] | 2025-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB579 | Intro
25% | Altering the requirements for certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the individuals eligible to request a certain official to certify victim helpfulness relating to certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; and authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB621 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that refusal by a person to disclose information about criminal charges that have been expunged may not be the sole reason for a unit, an official, or an employee of the State or a political subdivision of the State to deny the person's ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB638 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person who has been adjudicated delinquent for an act that, if committed by an adult, would constitute a certain sexual offense to register as a juvenile sex offender; requiring a juvenile registrant to remain on the juvenile sex offender...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB545 | Intro
25% | Repealing a certain provision of law requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to expunge certain cases involving charges of possession of cannabis on or before a certain date; and establishing procedures for the automated e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
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] | 2025-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB492 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Director of Human Resources of Frederick County to request from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services a State and national criminal history records chec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB293 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB301 | Intro
25% | Repealing the requirement that a sworn affidavit for judicial authorization to initiate forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) assert that the reasonable investigative leads have been pursued and failed to identify the perpetrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB314 | 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] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB441 | Intro
25% | Establishing a presumption that the sentencing of a minor convicted as an adult should be transferred to the juvenile court, under certain circumstances, and authorizing the court to do so; and requiring the juvenile court to make a juvenile determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB442 | Intro
25% | Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
[Hearing: Feb 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB241 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that "spouse" includes a former spouse for purposes of disclosure of confidential communications occurring during marriage; and establishing that a spouse, who is the alleged victim, is competent to disclose a confidential communication be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB89 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB365 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that expungement does not prohibit disclosure of records that contain information that is also contained in an expunged record, is formatted to facilitate research, and contains de-identified data.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB32 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; requiring each forensic review board to review the eligi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB14 | Intro
25% | Requiring the prosecuting attorney of thefts of property or services with a value less than $1,500 to notify the victim or the victim's representative about each court proceeding, the right of the victim to submit a victim impact statement, any postt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB165 | Intro
25% | Establishing a certain rebuttable presumption that a statement made by a minor during a custodial interrogation is involuntary and is inadmissible in a juvenile or criminal proceeding against the minor if the law enforcement officer intentionally use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB135 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the theft of mail or packages delivered or left to be collected by the United States Postal Service or a delivery service company; requiring the Central Collection Unit to report certain overdue restitution to certain consumer reporting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB64 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the theft of mail or packages; requiring the prosecutor of a violation of the Act to notify the victim or the victim's representative about each court proceeding, the right of the victim to submit a victim impact statement, any posttrial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB198 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Crime Solvers Reward Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to provide grants to law enforcement agencies and county reward programs to be used as rewards offered to the public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB269 | Intro
25% | Increasing, from 2 years to 3 years, the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of theft of property or services with a value of less than $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB21 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from issuing an arrest warrant to an individual other than a police officer or a State's Attorney; increasing the penalty for making a certain false statement or report to a certain governmental official or u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB195 | 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 under certain circumstances; and requiring a court to provide a certain notice and provide an opportunity to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB130 | Intro
25% | Reclassifying, as a misdemeanor instead of a felony, a certain offense relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing any wire, oral, or electronic communications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
