Bills Pending Maryland House Ways and Means Committee

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MDHB532Intro
25%
Establishing the Driver's Education Assistance Grant Program in the State Department of Education to support student driver's education instruction in public schools; and authorizing a public school to receive a grant under the Program if the percent...
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1025Intro
25%
Repealing a requirement that certain motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled...
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB500Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student so that these students are eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant.
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1029Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Health to conduct certain prevalence studies concerning problem and pathological mobile gambling; requiring the initial prevalence study to be completed by July 1, 2029; and altering the distribution of certain State lotte...
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1015Intro
25%
Authorizing certain fire, rescue, and ambulance organizations conducting certain gaming events in Frederick County to accept credit from a person as payment to play a gaming device at the gaming event.
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1007Intro
25%
Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; requiring...
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1018Intro
25%
Exempting all personal property in the possession of a person engaged in a manufacturing business that is a small or medium-sized enterprise from the personal property tax.
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB450Intro
25%
Establishing the Soccer Opportunities Program in the State Department of Education to increase opportunities for minority students to participate in soccer in their communities; authorizing an agency or youth soccer nonprofit organization to apply fo...
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB519Intro
25%
Requiring the St. Mary's County Board of Education to collect and update the data required for the federal Civil Rights Data Collection survey each year, collect certain other incident data from each public school and each school bus in the county, a...
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2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB800Intro
25%
Prohibiting local governments from denying or impairing the right of a protected class member to vote; establishing requirements on the State Board of Elections and local governments related to the provision of language-related assistance in local go...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB769Intro
25%
Authorizing the governing body of a county to establish a system of public campaign financing for certain offices after the governing body of the county has implemented a system of public campaign financing for elective offices in the executive or le...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB792Intro
25%
Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to draft committees and exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for draft and exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, ...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB754Intro
25%
Altering the calculation of the vehicle excise tax by repealing an allowance against the total purchase price of a vehicle for the value of a trade-in vehicle.
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2024-02-05
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MDHB925Intro
25%
Increasing the vehicle excise tax rate from 6% to 6.5%.
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2024-02-05
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MDHB862Intro
25%
Expanding eligibility for a property tax exemption for the dwelling house of a disabled veteran to include veterans with at least an 80% service connected disability.
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2024-02-05
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MDHB775Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish a process by which an individual with disabilities may return a marked absentee ballot to a local board of elections electronically.
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB872Intro
25%
Requiring that candidates, campaign finance entities, and certain other persons, or agents of candidates, campaign finance entities, or certain other persons, that publish, distribute, or disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or dissemi...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB955Intro
25%
Repealing a requirement that certain motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers.
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB826Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to set a special property tax rate for improved residential property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use; establishing a subclass ...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB868Intro
25%
Altering, for purposes of provisions of law concerning the sales and use tax, the definition of "taxable price" to exclude the value of credit provided for a trade-in of certain portable electronics accepted in partial payment under certain circumsta...
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2024-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB952Intro
25%
Phasing in, over a period of 3 years, an increase in a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax to allow for a subtraction of all military retirement income beginning in taxable year 2026.
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2024-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB954Intro
25%
Authorizing certain electronic machines offering a game of instant bingo to provide a player the option to print a paper ticket for each game of instant bingo played.
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2024-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB935Intro
25%
Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State; etc.
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2024-02-02
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB744Intro
25%
Allowing a qualified investor that is a pass-through entity that pays a certain income tax on behalf of its members to receive and allocate in any manner a credit or refund of a credit under the Biotechnology Investment Incentive Tax Credit Program; ...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB795Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content standards for a high school course on peace and conflict studies; requiring each county board of education to implement a course on peace and conflict studies in each public high sc...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB671Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "item" relating to the prohibition against displaying or distributing obscene material to minors to include a drawing or illustration; and prohibiting certain public schools from displaying certain obscene material under ce...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB828Intro
25%
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
MDHB789Intro
25%
Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB746Intro
25%
Providing that the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Education is a state educational authority under a certain federal law; providing that the Office is the State unit authorized to audit or evaluate certain education programs; prohibitin...
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB803Intro
25%
Altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
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2024-01-31
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB220Intro
25%
Authorizing certain local governments to allow, by law, a first-time homebuyer in the State to calculate the homestead property tax credit for property that includes a newly purchased dwelling using a certain method; requiring that the credit for a n...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB494Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain political organizations from fraudulently claiming to be acting on behalf of a candidate or political party; prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB663Intro
25%
Establishing the alcoholic beverage tax rates for ready-to-drink cocktails at 40 cents for each gallon or 10.57 cents for each liter; and defining "ready-to-drink cocktail" as a beverage that contains distilled spirits mixed with nonalcoholic beverag...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB142Intro
25%
Authorizing a voter to establish the voter's identity at the request of an election judge at a polling place by presenting the voter's registration card, a valid Maryland driver's license, or certain other identification that contains a photograph.
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB202Intro
25%
Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and, except under certain circ...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB563Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election based on certain criteria; requiring local b...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB638Intro
25%
Altering the State transfer tax rate and the distribution of State transfer tax revenue.
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB591Intro
25%
Providing that certain requirements for the payment of certain taxes, assessments, and charges do not apply to an instrument of writing transferring real property from the estate of a decedent to an heir or legatee of the decedent.
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB164Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections or a local board of elections, on request of a candidate, to provide the candidate with a list of registered voters who have requested an absentee ballot for an upcoming election; and requiring that the list of ...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB192Intro
25%
Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid nongovernment-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states the...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB521Intro
25%
Prohibiting an individual registered lobbyist who is engaged to lobby on behalf of any unit of the government of St. Mary's County from making a personal political contribution to a member of the General Assembly who represents any part of St. Mary's...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB714Intro
25%
Increasing, from $15,000 to $20,000, the amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to an individual's employment as a public safety employee; and applying the Act to all taxable year...
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2024-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB719Intro
25%
Allowing certain eligible taxpayers who volunteer in a certain elementary and secondary school a credit against the State income tax in an amount equal to $20 for each volunteer hour, not to exceed $500; requiring the State Department of Education, i...
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2024-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB717Intro
25%
Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to devel...
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2024-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB713Intro
25%
Increasing the amount of a subtraction modification from $12,500 to $20,000 under the Maryland income tax for military retirement income for individuals who are under the age of 55 years; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after Dece...
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2024-01-26
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB692Intro
25%
Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority; authoriz...
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2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB626Intro
25%
Increasing, from $7,000 to $10,000, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying public safety volunteer for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2024; requiring each police agenc...
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2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB674Intro
25%
Including income from certain retirement plans within a certain subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for certain individuals who are at least 65 years of age or who are disabled or whose spouse is disabled; altering the maxi...
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2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB606Intro
25%
Expanding an exemption from the sales and use tax for the sale of certain baby products to include certain toilet training and child safety items, furniture, strollers, textiles, foods, and baby monitors.
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2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB608Intro
25%
Expanding eligibility for the Maryland earned income tax credit for individuals without qualifying children by altering the income thresholds at which the credit phases out; and providing that, after the 2023 tax year, the income threshold and phase...
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2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee
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