| MD | SB774 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program to assist community organizations, nonprofit entities, and local governments in funding security operations during times of high pedestrian traffic in certain entertainment distr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB7 | Engross 50% | Adding positive community feedback to the list of records that are not considered personnel records for certain purposes; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop a process for citizens to submit positive community f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB89 | Engross 50% | Requiring a local director of a local department of social services or the Secretary of Human Services to disclose certain reports and records of child abuse and neglect within 30 days after receiving a request if certain conditions are met; requirin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB71 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Division of Correction to allow a certain pregnant woman and a certain woman who recently gave birth to transfer to the prerelease unit for women for up to 1 year following the birth; establishing the Healthy Start Bonding Program to fa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1036 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2025. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB965 | Engross 50% | Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Carroll County to be $191,078.10 beginning in 2026 and $212,309 beginning in 2027. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1038 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Human Relations Commission of Anne Arundel County to seek relief if a party fails to comply with a subpoena by applying to a circuit court in any county for an order requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the producti... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB839 | Engross 50% | Defining "damages" or "losses" in statutory causes of action to protect civil rights or consumer rights and providing that "damages" or "losses" includes reasonable nominal damages. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB688 | Engross 50% | Altering the number of resident judges of the circuit courts by adding one additional judgeship in Prince George's County. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB950 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the reimbursement of a sexual assault forensic exam conducted through peer-to-peer telehealth under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Policy and Funding Committee to conduct a study on the feasibili... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB873 | Engross 50% | Altering, clarifying, and expanding certain provisions of law relating to the immunity from liability of a parent who leaves an unharmed newborn with a responsible adult within 60 days of the birth under certain circumstances; requiring the Secretary... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1499 | Intro 25% | Altering provisions of law relating to the kinship care program in the Department of Human Services and certain procedures for the placement of children in need of out-of-home placement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB668 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child who is en... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB501 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Secretary of State Police to annually publish, beginning October 1, 2024, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, a handbook summarizing the State laws relating to wearing, carrying, and transporting a handgun in public... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB132 | Engross 50% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB26 | Engross 50% | Increasing the maximum period of imprisonment for a first conviction for manslaughter by vehicle or vessel from 10 years to 20 years and for a second or subsequent conviction, or having been previously convicted for certain other crimes, from 15 year... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB779 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Secretary of State Police to permanently delete or destroy certain personally identifying information relating to handgun qualification licenses under certain circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB794 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024;... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB922 | Intro 25% | Requiring the factfinder in a public welfare action to make a certain determination and assign responsibility and liability in a certain manner; authorizing the State to continue to pursue certain actions if it does not obtain complete relief from ce... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB4 | Engross 50% | Requiring a certain commitment unit to include in a notification given to a victim, victim's representative, or witness regarding the release from confinement of a sentenced defendant or child respondent the name and telephone number of the lead vict... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB683 | Intro 25% | Specifying that certain crimes involving homicide or life-threatening injury by motor vehicle or vessel are violent crimes for the purpose of parole eligibility; increasing penalties for certain crimes involving homicide or life-threatening injury by... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB348 | Engross 50% | Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, own, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB869 | Intro 25% | Requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a certain report of a prohibited person failing a background check to notify certain victims; requiring the Secretary of State Police to notify the Maryland State Police Gun Center of certain informati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB546 | Intro 25% | Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Pol... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1411 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish the Correctional Nursery Program to allow eligible incarcerated individuals and children born to them while in custody to reside together in a correctional facility. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB658 | 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; establishing procedures for the au... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB867 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of certain records relating to a probation before judgment for driving while impaired or driving while under the influence; and authorizing a certain person to petition the court to shield certa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1405 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to develop and offer an apprenticeship program in skilled trades for incarcerated individuals; establishing the purpose of the program is to assist incarcerated individuals to develo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB268 | Intro 25% | Altering certain definitions of "expunge" and "expungement". [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB269 | 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 political subdivision of the State to deny the person's appl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1063 | Intro 25% | Establishing the statute of limitations for a certain civil action for damages resulting from certain participation in a criminal organization; altering certain definitions of "criminal organization" and "underlying crime"; authorizing the filing of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1419 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting the intentional fraudulent sale, conveyance, or lease or attempted sale, conveyance, or lease of real property by a person who does not own the real property; prohibiting the acquisition, sale, or conveyance or the attempted acquisition, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1428 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Electric Vehicle Charging Station Safety Commission to develop policy recommendations to increase safety for vehicle owners and passengers and reduce violent crime and theft at electric vehicle charging stations; and requiring the Co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1429 | Intro 25% | 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 | HB799 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Correction or the Commissioner's designee to remove an incarcerated individual from home detention for violating a condition of the incarcerated individual's placement in home detention. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1126 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; and authorizing the State or a local government to bring a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB270 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a person to file for a petition for expungement of a conviction of failure to obey a court order to report to a place of confinement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB297 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Correctional Ombudsman Unit in the Office of the Attorney General; requiring the Unit to conduct investigations, reviews, and assessments of administrative acts taken by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services or in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB614 | Intro 25% | Requiring a private home detention monitoring agency to immediately notify the court after a defendant subject to home monitoring as a condition of pretrial release has been missing for 24 hours; requiring a private home detention monitoring agency t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB296 | Intro 25% | Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, own, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB61 | Intro 25% | Establishing a program within the Division of Correction that provides formerly incarcerated individuals and individuals on probation with certain services; requiring the facility that administers the program to be located in Prince George's County; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB523 | Intro 25% | Authorizing a court to grant a petition for expungement of records relating to a certain conviction at any time on a showing of good cause. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1245 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting an individual from distributing heroin or fentanyl or chemical analogues of heroin or fentanyl without the lawful authority to do so, the use of which results in the death or serious bodily injury of another. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB474 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a court from revoking a defendant's pretrial release or finding that a defendant has violated probation, and the Maryland Parole Commission from finding that a parolee has violated parole, based solely on the use of cannabis or a positive... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1183 | 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; and increasing the penalty for making a certain false statement or report to a certain governmental official ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1031 | Intro 25% | Repealing the requirement that each local correctional facility make available at least one formulation of each FDA-approved full opioid agonist, partial opioid agonist, and long-acting opioid antagonist used for the treatment of opioid use disorders... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1022 | Intro 25% | Establishing requirements regarding the provision of ballot drop boxes and information related to voting to eligible voters by correctional facilities and the State Board of Elections; establishing a Voting Rights Ombudsman for Incarcerated Individua... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1144 | Intro 25% | Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1366 | Intro 25% | Providing that a State correctional facility is responsible for the payment of costs charged by a telephone service provider under certain circumstances; providing that a State correctional facility and a telephone service provider may not charge an ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB430 | Intro 25% | Altering the circumstances under which a person is disqualified from possessing a regulated firearm, a rifle, and a shotgun; prohibiting a person from wearing or carrying a firearm under certain circumstances unless the person has obtained certain li... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |