| HB233 | Pass | Authorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption of the critical area for climate resiliency, enhancing resilience in the critical area, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424 |
| SB616 | Pass | Altering prohibitions on grants from the Maryland Historical Trust; authorizing the Governor, for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Trust to be used to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 493 |
| SB337 | Pass | Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 478 |
| SB1014 | Pass | Requiring the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to consult with each primary procurement unit to identify potential contracting opportunities for and increase outreach efforts to small businesses; requiring each unit, on or before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 584 |
| SB534 | Pass | Repealing the Electronic Transactions Protection Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 643 |
| SB891 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Institute at the University of Maryland to conduct a study to identify methods to improve the Maryland Transit Administration's ADA MobilityLink paratransit service; authorizing the Governor in fiscal year 2026 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 647 |
| SB793 | Pass | Clarifying that a county is responsible for a certain tort claim against a sheriff or deputy sheriff under the Maryland Tort Claims Act; clarifying that, for certain tort claims against a sheriff or deputy sheriff, the State is the proper defendant; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 610 |
| HB979 | Pass | Altering the regulatory approach for controlling invasive plant species in the State, including repealing certain provisions of law relating to a two-tiered regulatory approach and requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a list of prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 590 |
| SB508 | Pass | Altering the fee for nonresident sika deer stamps from $25 to $200.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 591 |
| SB320 | Pass | Clarifying that the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System may pay certain incentive compensation to the Chief Investment Officer for the State Retirement and Pension System if the Chief Investment Officer retires from the Inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 663 |
| HB594 | Pass | Establishing for the publication of certain notices in Dorchester County that any required advertisement or notice be published and distributed through print and digital format; providing that if there is no print and digital publication meeting all ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 688 |
| HB809 | Pass | Providing that a member of a board, committee, commission, task force, or workgroup created by State law may be removed or suspended for misconduct, incompetence, neglect of duties, or other good cause by the individual or entity that appointed the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 469 |
| SB587 | Pass | Requiring certain reporting relating to minority business participation in State procurement by industry type to include real property title insurance services, including commercial real property title insurance services; and prohibiting the Special ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 632 |
| HB573 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Citizens Committee for the Enhancement of Communities Surrounding Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport by increasing the total number of members from 11 to 12 and requiring the Committee to inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 471 |
| HB812 | Pass | Increasing from $900,000 to $1,000,000 the amount of an appropriation that the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill each year for the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; repealing the ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 576 |
| SB596 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 each year to the Department of Planning to be used as a grant to the Maryland Humanities Council for the Marilyn Hatza Memorial Strengthening Humanities Inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508 |
| HB1101 | Pass | Providing certain persons standing in environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 535 |
| HB193 | Pass | Authorizing Anne Arundel County and municipalities in Anne Arundel County to decrease the maximum speed limit to not less than 15 miles per hour on highways after performing an engineering and traffic investigation; and prohibiting Anne Arundel Count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 468 |
| SB504 | Pass | Requiring recreational vehicle dealers to hold a dealer agreement with a recreational vehicle manufacturer to sell the manufacturer's recreational vehicles in the State; establishing licensing requirements for a recreational vehicle manufacturer, dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 526 |
| SB155 | Pass | Establishing a pilot program to authorize the use of noise abatement monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain motor vehicle noise requirements; requiring a county that authorizes a program of noise abateme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 625 |
| SB135 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Funding for the Westernport Wastewater Treatment Facility to identify and examine existing funding sources that support the Facility and study whether increased funding could enhance operations at the Facility, the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 640 |
| HB1147 | Pass | Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 488 |
| SB960 | Pass | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to provide at least $1,200,000 in each fiscal year for fiscal ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 474 |
| HB552 | Pass | Requiring that citations and notices issued as a result of automated enforcement under the Maryland Vehicle Law be sent to the current mailing address on file with the Administration or if a mailing address is not available, the current residential a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 586 |
| HB835 | Pass | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Calvert County to enact an ordinance that establishes a local percentage preference for certain procurement contracts; and requiring the County Commissioners to comply with certain provisions of law under certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 683 |
| SB764 | Pass | Establishing the Arts Incubator Workgroup to study how arts and cultural institutions can support local artists; and requiring the Workgroup to submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a preliminary report on its findings, including research, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 614 |
| SB835 | Pass | Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit, on or before December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for certain well ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 561 |
| SB1028 | Pass | Establishing 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 599 |
| HB306 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup on Independent Innovation in Prince George's County to promote innovation and technology in the county; and requiring the Workgroup by January 15, 2026, to report on recommendations regarding strategies to support investmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 677 |
| SB683 | Pass | Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees relating to tree expert licensing established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510 |
| HB962 | Pass | Increasing a participation goal from a minimum of 15% to 20% for certain small businesses for certain procurement contracts; requiring the certification agency, in consultation with Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 583 |
| SB507 | Pass | Increasing the license fee for a special Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing license for nonresident license applicants from $50 to $100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 594 |
| HB1509 | Pass | Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Model Workgroup to study the regional water governance approach in the Baltimore region; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $500,000 in the annual budget bill for the Workgroup; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 503 |
| HB198 | Pass | Repealing, for certain fiscal years, the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation withhold 35% of the State's share of annual operating grants for the Washington Suburban Transit District if the State's operating assistance provided in the ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 534 |
| SB491 | Pass | Repealing a requirement for certain transfers of service to be calculated under a certain formula; correcting a reference to a contribution rate for transfers of service into the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; and providing for eligibility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 668 |
| HB929 | Pass | Requiring, instead of authorizing, the Secretary of Agriculture to implement, under certain circumstances, a program to use Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis to control or eliminate nuisance insects in the State; and requiring, instead of authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680 |
| SB730 | Pass | Requiring a rear passenger on a motorcycle to be able to firmly position the passenger's feet on the footrests of the motorcycle, subject to an exception for permanent physical disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 636 |
| HB1507 | Pass | Altering the information that the Maryland Transit Administration is required to publish on its website before holding a public hearing on a major service change to include certain demographic information, a summary of any publicly available minutes,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
| SB42 | Pass | Prohibiting an adult from allowing certain minors to ride a horse, donkey, mule, or pony on a highway, a public horse-riding path, or the grounds of a certain facility unless the minor is wearing a properly secured helmet that meets or exceeds certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 466 |
| HB1012 | Pass | Altering the requirements that certain officers and employees of the State be covered by certain surety bonds to allow the officers and employees to be covered by certain insurance policies; transferring certain duties and responsibilities of the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 437 |
| SB417 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections to evaluate the performance of the State Administrator of Elections; requiring the State Administrator to provide a performance evaluation of the election director of each local board of elections to the local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 |
| SB740 | Pass | Altering the time period within which a court may prohibit a person convicted under certain circumstances of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol from operating a vessel on the waters of the State; requiring the Department of Natur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 |
| SB969 | Pass | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 559 |
| HB780 | Pass | Providing that competitive sealed proposals is the preferred procurement method for a contract for security services with an expected value that is greater than $1,000,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 |
| SB674 | Pass | Requiring the owner of a vessel that is required to be numbered to include certain contact information for each owner of the vessel with the application for a certificate of number; requiring the Department of Natural Resources, before and after seiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560 |
| SB808 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Agriculture to coordinate with the Maryland Energy Administration, the Department of the Environment, the Department of Commerce, the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the University of M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 445 |
| HB999 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network to identify and analyze options for establishing and maintaining an open access science, technology, and innovation network or hub of citizen sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 448 |
| SB916 | Pass | Requiring certain petitions to review the listing or unlisting of endangered or threatened species to contain certain information regarding the distribution, life, and habitat needs of the species and relevant information about the status of a specie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621 |
| HB1465 | Pass | Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 524 |
| HB1044 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that an appointing authority send a copy of the selection plan and job announcement to the Secretary of Budget and Management at least 1 week before posting a job announcement; and repealing the requirement that the appointi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 459 |
