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MDHB455Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Veterans and Military Families to designate a location for an American braille tactile flag to be placed on the grounds of one or more State veterans' cemeteries.
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2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
MDHB221Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Digital Service within the Department of Information Technology to support improved service delivery to Maryland residents and agency staff through user-centered design, software development, and product management best prac...
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2025-02-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB214Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Assistive Technology Program in the Department of Disabilities; providing the purpose of the Program is to increase access to assistive technology services and devices for individuals with disabilities, support the State's e...
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2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB912Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, certain institutions of higher education to provide instructors with certain training on institutional obligations toward students with disabilities under certain federal laws; and requiring the Ma...
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2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB986Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct a study on patient navigation services in the State that help a patient overcome health care system barriers and facilitate timely access to quality health and psychosocial care from prediagnosis...
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2025-02-21
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB85Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Veterans and Military Families to designate a location for an American braille tactile flag to be placed on the grounds of one or more State veterans' cemeteries to honor members of the uniformed services, veterans, and ot...
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2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDSB1027Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council to advise and provide recommendations to the Developmental Disabilities Administration on system design, service delivery, and quality enhancement strategies ...
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2025-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB223Engross
50%
Renaming the Senior Call-Check Service and Notification Program to be the Senior Call-Check and Social Connections Program; providing the purpose of the Program is to provide regular, direct communication from the Department of Aging or the Departmen...
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2025-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB208Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Assistive Technology Program in the Department of Disabilities; providing the purpose of the Program is to increase access to assistive technology services and devices for individuals with disabilities, support the State's ...
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2025-02-14
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB158Engross
50%
Renaming the Senior Call-Check Service and Notification Program to be the Senior Call-Check and Social Connections Program; providing the purpose of the program is to provide regular, direct communication from the Department of Aging or the Departmen...
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2025-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1117Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements for elections to governing bodies and organizing activities of cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and homeowners associations in Montgomery County; establishing procedures and requirements during a dispu...
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2025-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB694Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not access...
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2025-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1481Intro
25%
Establishing the Adapted Vehicle Access Pilot Program to provide adapted vehicles to individuals who require a wheelchair for mobility; requiring the Department of Disabilities to implement and administer the Program, solicit certain donations for th...
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2025-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB700Intro
25%
Requiring a notary public to provide certain reasonable accommodations to individuals with a physical disability that limits the individual's ability to sign a record without assistance, including specifying that a notary public shall notarize the si...
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2025-02-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB297Intro
25%
Altering from January 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026, the date by which an individual must be licensed by the State Board of Sign Language Interpreters before providing certain sign language interpretation services or making certain representations.
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2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB329Intro
25%
Altering from January 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026, the date by which an individual must be licensed by the State Board of Sign Language Interpreters before providing certain sign language interpretation services or making certain representations.
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2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1040Intro
25%
Requiring regulated financial institutions to develop a community benefit plan in connection with applications to the Commissioner of Financial Regulation relating to financial services for purposes of providing safe and sound loans, and other financ...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1244Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council to advise and provide recommendations to the Developmental Disabilities Administration on system design, service delivery, and quality enhancement strategies ...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1473Intro
25%
Altering provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency to include individuals with disabilities; establishing certain requirements for equal access to public services for certain State ...
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2025-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB531Intro
25%
Requiring all public institutions of higher education to establish remote learning accommodations for students with disabilities that impede regular, in-person attendance beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year; authorizing the Maryland Higher Educa...
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2025-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB498Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB427Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryl...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB858Intro
25%
Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2031, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1097Intro
25%
Establishing the Workgroup on Mail-In Ballot Accessibility to examine current processes in the State relating to mail-in ballot return, assessing the impact on voters with disabilities, collect information about current practices for accessible alter...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1043Intro
25%
Altering public notice requirements of the State Board of Elections, local boards of elections, and certain municipal corporations with respect to changes in administrative policy affecting voting rights; prohibiting local governments from taking any...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1127Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education to develop certain instructional content on water safety and swimming for public school students in the county; and requiring each county board to develop a certain plan regarding access to swimming pools and ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1363Intro
25%
Altering the number of screens in a motion picture house above which the motion picture house is required to provide open movie captioning; and requiring that each motion picture house that is a place of public accommodation report to the Commission ...
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2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB936Intro
25%
Requiring a certain developer of, and a certain deployer who uses, a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system to use reasonable care to protect consumers from known and reasonably foreseeable risks of certain algorithmic discrimination in a c...
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2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB851Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not access...
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2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1039Intro
25%
Requiring the owner of public electric vehicle supply equipment to register with the Secretary of Agriculture on or before certain dates; applying certain provisions of law regarding weights and measures to public electric vehicle supply equipment; r...
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2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB781Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish guidelines for the local boards of election to implement a process to accommodate and expedite voting for elderly voters and voters with disabilities at each early voting center and polling place; r...
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2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB913Intro
25%
Requiring the owner of public electric vehicle supply equipment to register with the Secretary of Agriculture on or before certain dates; applying certain provisions of law regarding weights and measures to public electric vehicle supply equipment; r...
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2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB929Intro
25%
Establishing the Workgroup on Mail-In Ballot Accessibility to examine current processes in the State relating to mail-in ballot return, assessing the impact on voters with disabilities, collect information about current practices for accessible alter...
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2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB901Intro
25%
Requiring certain producers of packaging materials, individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization, to submit a certain packaging materials producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval o...
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2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB66Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish guidelines for the local boards of election to implement a process to accommodate and expedite voting for elderly voters and voters with disabilities at each early voting center and polling place; r...
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2025-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB591Intro
25%
Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device recycling account and a separate cov...
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2025-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB807Intro
25%
Establishing the position and responsibilities of the State Chief Data Officer; establishing the Office of Enterprise Data in the Department of Information Technology and the responsibilities of the Office; requiring each unit of State government to ...
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2025-02-03
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB931Intro
25%
Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device recycling account and a separate cov...
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2025-02-03
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB502Intro
25%
Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate ef...
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2025-01-31
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB433Intro
25%
Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate ef...
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2025-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB642Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations for the secure storage and use of voter data from the list of registered voters and specifying procedures and requirements relating to electronic signatures; establishing and altering certai...
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2025-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB93Intro
25%
Establishing a homeless shelter certification program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to develop certain operational and building standards for homeless shelters and minimum standards for the protectio...
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2025-01-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB234Intro
25%
Establishing a homeless shelter certification program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to develop certain operational and building standards for homeless shelters and minimum standards for the protectio...
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2025-01-15
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB242Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Digital Service within the Department of Information Technology to support improved service delivery to Maryland residents and agency staff through user-centered design, software development, and product management best prac...
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2025-01-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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