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MDHB1144Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1366Intro
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 ...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB430Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1111Intro
25%
Repealing an exclusion of conduct involving the use of a motor vehicle applicable to the crime of reckless endangerment.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB684Intro
25%
Establishing a certain intent element for wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in certain prohibited places; repealing a certain rebuttable presumption that a person transporting a handgun under certain circumstances transports the handgun kn...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1290Intro
25%
Authorizing a person to petition for a protective order against another person who the petitioner alleges has engaged in controlling or coercive behavior toward the petitioner; and defining "coercive control" as a pattern of emotional or psychologica...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1448Intro
25%
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to automatically expunge information in the public driving record of a licensee if the information has been expunged from a court record or a police record.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1323Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1335Intro
25%
Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good ...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB191Intro
25%
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 1 year following the birth; establishing the Healthy Start Bonding Program to facilita...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB15Intro
25%
Authorizing a police officer who is denied a certain right to apply to the circuit court at a certain time for an order that directs the law enforcement agency to show cause why the right should not be granted.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB320Intro
25%
Repealing a certain prohibition against a law enforcement officer initiating a stop or a search of a motor vehicle based solely on the odor of burnt or unburnt cannabis; and repealing a certain provision of law rendering inadmissible certain evidenc...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1146Intro
25%
Providing that certain indemnity agreements and agreements to pay the costs of defense made in connection with an agreement for the management or operation of a building, a structure, an appurtenance, or an appliance are against public policy and are...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB302Intro
25%
Altering penalties relating to sexual contact between a law enforcement officer, correctional employee, or court-ordered services provider and certain individuals under certain circumstances; increasing the penalties from a misdemeanor to a felony, a...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB316Intro
25%
Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a cert...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1166Intro
25%
Requiring the Secretary of State Police, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to annually publish, beginning on October 1, 2024, a handbook summarizing State laws that apply to the wearing, carrying, and transporting of a handgun ...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB118Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures fo...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1307Intro
25%
Authorizing a parent to petition a court for an emergency hearing to reevaluate a visitation schedule if the other parent fails to comply with a court-ordered visitation schedule without just cause; and requiring and authorizing a court to take certa...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB185Intro
25%
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.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB707Intro
25%
Altering certain provisions of law to require a certain law enforcement agency to require the use of body-worn cameras, subject to a certain policy, by each sworn law enforcement officer, regardless of rank, employed by the law enforcement agency whi...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1124Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain nonprofit organizations from aiding or abetting certain activity by the government of Israel or a citizen of Israel; authorizing the Attorney General or a certain person to bring a certain action against a nonprofit organization t...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1209Intro
25%
Altering the penalties for a person using or possessing with intent to use, delivering or selling under certain circumstances, or manufacturing or possessing with intent to deliver or sell under certain circumstances drug paraphernalia to inject, ing...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB27Intro
25%
Repealing the authority for the issuance and execution of a no-knock search warrant; establishing that a warrant may not authorize an officer to enter a building, apartment, premises or place without first announcing the officer's purpose and authori...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1178Intro
25%
Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting an individual to whom a handgun permit has been issued from wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in a State park or forest.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1392Intro
25%
Authorizing certain police officers to testify as expert witnesses on the ultimate issue of impairment in cases involving driving a vehicle or operating a vessel while impaired by drugs; establishing a certain presumption in cases involving driving a...
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2024-02-10
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MDHB1445Intro
25%
Authorizing service of process in an action to repossess leased residential property that also seeks a money judgment to be carried out by a private detective that is also otherwise authorized to serve process under the Maryland Rules.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB533Intro
25%
Authorizing the local governing body of a county, including Baltimore City, to authorize its police accountability board to exercise investigatory and subpoena powers; and authorizing a police accountability board to conduct an investigation of polic...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1079Intro
25%
Specifying the purpose of jury examination in any State court is to identify and remove prospective jurors who are unable to serve fairly and impartially, and allow the parties to obtain information that may provide guidance for the use of peremptory...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1248Intro
25%
Providing that a law enforcement officer may conduct a certain interrogation of a child if probable cause exists for the law enforcement officer to believe that the child committed a certain crime of violence or a crime involving a firearm and the la...
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2024-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1057Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study the Use and Possession of De Minimis Quantities of Controlled Dangerous Substances; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by October 1, 20...
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2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1045Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines by requiring the deduction, from actual income, of an allowance for support for each child in the parent's home for whom the parent owes a legal duty of supp...
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2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB788Intro
25%
Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's criminal record in public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons; establishing certain exceptions to certain prohibitions establishe...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB912Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to establish a Safe Neighborhoods Pilot Program to provide doorbell cameras or security systems with doorbell cameras to residents of high-crime areas; requiring the Offi...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB963Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from committing sexual solicitation of a minor or human trafficking within 5 miles of certain locations; and increasing the distance surrounding certain school property within which a person is prohibited from committing a certai...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB941Intro
25%
Altering the mental state required as an element of certain threat crimes and stalking from knowledge to recklessness.
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB937Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB911Intro
25%
Authorizing a certain person to petition for a peace order against another person whom the petitioner alleges has conducted visual surveillance of areas of the petitioner's residence where the petitioner has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB748Intro
25%
Requiring the Attorney General to adopt and make publicly available a code of conduct for members of the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention, adopt a policy for investigating violations of the code of conduct, and establish a process for...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB855Intro
25%
Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours; and authorizing a correctional facility to place a min...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB942Intro
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...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB946Intro
25%
Prohibiting the theft of mail or packages from intended recipients.
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB797Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person, with the intent to promote a certain crime or with the intent to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of proceeds of a certain crime, from taking certain actions with respect to the proceeds de...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB758Intro
25%
Establishing second degree assault of an employee or a subcontractor of a public or private elementary or secondary school as a crime of violence for certain purposes.
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB330Intro
25%
Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing ...
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2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB392Intro
25%
Providing that it is lawful for a person to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication if the person is working as a fair housing tester for a fair housing testing program operated by the federal government, the State, a local government, or...
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2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB83Intro
25%
Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
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2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB329Intro
25%
Establishing alternative expiration and renewal periods for a handgun permit issued to a certain retired law enforcement officer.
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2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB264Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB927Intro
25%
Requiring a magistrate for juvenile causes to determine a child's pretrial status within 24 hours after a child is charged with a violation involving a crime of violence, the unlawful possession of a firearm, or the unlawful taking or unauthorized us...
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2024-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB483Intro
25%
Expanding the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to include certain offenses committed by a child who is at least 10 years old.
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2024-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee
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