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MDHB688Engross
50%
Altering prohibitions on grants from the Maryland Historical Trust; authorizing the Governor beginning in 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...
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2024-03-29
Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation
MDHB601Engross
50%
Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for d...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDHB624Engross
50%
Altering the administrator of the Next Generation Scholars of Maryland Program to be the Maryland Higher Education Commission rather than the State Department of Education; and requiring the Department to assist the Commission with the review of appl...
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2024-03-28
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
MDHB1281Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipality to designate, by law, an area within that political subdivision as a tourism zone under certain circumstances; providing that the designation o...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDHB496Engross
50%
Requiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of certain sexual crimes; and altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force.
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2024-03-26
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1206Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland-Ireland Trade Commission in the Department of Commerce to study and make recommendations regarding bilateral trade relations and investment opportunities between Maryland and Ireland; and requiring the Commission by December...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB457Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a system to track the chain of custody of synthetic turf installed on sports and playing fields; requiring the custodian of a synthetic turf sports or playing field in the State to report chain...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1439Intro
25%
Altering the purpose, contents, and sources of the funding of the Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund; altering the methodology used to determine eligibility for disbursements from the Fund; altering the amount of the motor vehicle registration s...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1073Intro
25%
Altering the tobacco tax rate for cigarettes; and requiring that all cigarettes used, possessed, or held in the State on or after July 1, 2024, are subject to the tax enacted by the Act.
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1072Intro
25%
Increasing the rate of the sales and use tax from 9% to 10% applied to certain sales of alcoholic beverages.
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
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