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MDHB42PassRepealing the exceptions that allow the sale, distribution, or purchase of tobacco products, tobacco paraphernalia, and electronic smoking devices to or for certain individuals who are active duty members of the military; authorizing the Maryland Dep...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 765
MDSB220PassRepealing the exceptions that allow the sale, distribution, or purchase of tobacco products, tobacco paraphernalia, and electronic smoking devices to or for certain individuals who are active duty members of the military; authorizing the Maryland Dep...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 766
MDHB933PassEstablishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 780
MDSB974PassEstablishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 781
MDHB211PassProhibiting a person from serving or acting as a contractor, a subcontractor, or a broker between a contractor and subcontractor during the 5-year period immediately following the date the person was convicted of an offense constituting criminal malf...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 638
MDSB559PassEstablishing the Household Goods Movers Registration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring the Secretary of Labor to annually calculate certain costs; authorizing the Department to set by regulation certain...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 566
MDHB710PassEstablishing the Household Goods Movers Registration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring the Secretary of Labor to annually calculate certain costs; authorizing the Department to set by regulation certain...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 565
MDHB738PassIncreasing from $50,000 to $500,000 the amount of general liability insurance that an applicant for a home improvement contractor license or a licensed home improvement contractor must maintain.
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 530
MDSB648PassProhibiting a person from serving or acting as a contractor, a subcontractor, or a broker between a contractor and subcontractor during the 5-year period immediately following the date the person was convicted of an offense constituting criminal malf...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639
MDHB882PassEstablishing that certain provisions governing signage at retail service stations supersede inconsistent local law; altering a signage requirement for retail service stations relating to the price of regular gasoline so that the signage prominently d...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 451
MDHB871PassRequiring records of junk dealers, scrap metal processors, and automotive dismantlers and recyclers to include certain information about the vehicle from which a detached catalytic converter, or part of a detached catalytic converter, was obtained fr...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484
MDSB806PassIncreasing from $50,000 to $500,000 the amount of general liability insurance that an applicant for a home improvement contractor license or a licensed home improvement contractor must maintain.
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 529
MDSB1056PassProhibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain ...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462
MDSB1028PassEstablishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 599
MDSB951PassEstablishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework for reliability and reporting standards for electric vehicle charging stations and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Education,...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 452
MDHB1028PassEstablishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup to study certain standards related to EV charging stations; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework and recommendations to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Comm...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 453
MDHB1116PassAltering an exception for licensed restaurants to the requirement that a person who does business as a trader or an exhibitor have a trader's license to apply only to restaurants that generate 10% or less of their annual sales from nonfood items.
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 641
MDHB1168PassEstablishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 600
MDSB707PassAdding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26
MDHB1026PassAdding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 27
MDHB1180Engross

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Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless the products are located behind a counter; r...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB262Engross

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Authorizing the Secretary of State to suspend payment of certain late fees assessed to certain charitable organizations under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Secretary of State to cancel a charitable organization's registration or reinstat...
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2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB419Engross

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Requiring certain businesses that use a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose to whom the tip will be allocated and display a tip amount that is set at zero by default; and establishing that a violation...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB651Engross

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Establishing that certain provisions governing signage at retail service stations supersede inconsistent local law; altering a signage requirement for retail service stations relating to the price of regular gasoline so that the signage prominently d...
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2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB53Engross

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Establishing the Task Force to Study E-Commerce Monopolies in the State to investigate the business practices and industry impacts of e-commerce businesses that individually have annual revenue exceeding $10,000,000,000, have a presence in the State,...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB844Intro

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Requiring licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail to keep in stock and offer for sale at retail at least one kind of nicotine replacement therapy product and to post certain signs.
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1033Intro

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Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ce...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB360Intro

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Requiring a retail service station dealer in Prince George's County to provide fuel service upon request to an individual between 6:00 a.m. and midnight.
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB715Intro

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Requiring a private construction contract to include a provision requiring the owner to pay the contractor within 45 days after the receipt of a proper invoice following completion of the work or, if the owner withholds all or part of an amount invoi...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1414Intro

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Altering the grounds for disciplining the holder of an electronic smoking devices license or license applicant; altering the scope of the Clean Indoor Act and other provisions of law prohibiting smoking indoors to also prohibit the use of electronic ...
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2024-03-04
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1173Intro

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Requiring, beginning in a certain year, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest the amount of th...
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2024-02-27
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1365Intro

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Requiring a private construction contract to include a provision requiring the owner to pay the contractor within 45 days after the receipt of a proper invoice following completion of the work or, if the owner withholds all or part of an amount invoi...
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2024-02-27
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1197Intro

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Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certification fee of $1,000; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ...
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2024-02-26
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB1185Intro

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Requiring professional and occupational regulatory boards to issue licenses, certifications, and registrations to individuals who complete an apprenticeship program that is established under certain provisions of the Act, pass a certain examination, ...
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2024-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB642Intro

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Requiring professional and occupational regulatory boards to issue licenses, certifications, and registrations to individuals who complete an apprenticeship program that is established under the Maryland Apprenticeships in Licensed Occupations Act, p...
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2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1162Intro

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Requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting v...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB647Intro

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Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fu...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB987Intro

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Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ce...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1018Intro

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Requiring, beginning in a certain year, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest the amount of th...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1314Intro

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Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to waive the filing fee for certain annual reports for the first year that certain business entities are in existence; requiring that 25% of the fees collected be credited to the Child Care S...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB586Intro

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Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of corrugated stainless steel tubing that does not meet a certain International Code Council standard; requiring certain tubing used in the construction of fuel gas piping systems in cer...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB828Intro

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Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fu...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB582Intro

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Requiring licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail to keep in stock and offer for sale at retail at least one kind of nicotine replacement therapy product and to post certain signs.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB645Intro

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Requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting v...
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2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB503Intro

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Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of corrugated stainless steel tubing that does not meet a certain International Code Council standard; requiring certain tubing used in the construction of fuel gas piping systems in cer...
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2024-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB273Intro

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Creating the State Board of Common Ownership Community Managers in the Maryland Department of Labor to oversee the licensing of community managers who provide management services for common ownership communities; providing that certain provisions of ...
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2024-01-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
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