Maryland Senator Benjamin Brooks [D]

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MDSB1067Engross
50%
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use 16 speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County, except that only 4 may be operated at any given time; requiring that fines collected in Baltimore County as a result of v...
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2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB906Engross
50%
Requiring each political subdivision to inventory vacant commercial buildings, develop a plan to convert certain vacant commercial buildings for residential use, and submit a report to the Department of Housing and Community Development on or before ...
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2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB50Enroll
75%
Providing that a certain final order of the Commission on Civil Rights on a complaint alleging a discriminatory act is appealable in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB585Engross
50%
Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; ...
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2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB1058Engross
50%
Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain fu...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB450Engross
50%
Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply in Baltimore County; requiring the fines collected by Baltimore County as a result of the use of speed monitoring syste...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB918Intro
25%
Changing the name of the Retail Choice Customer Education and Protection Fund to the Education and Protection Fund; and modifying the purpose and uses of the Fund to include educating certain customers on certain energy choices and developing a certa...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1023Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, on or before certain dates and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, a requirement that new buildings meet all water and space heating demands of the building without the use of f...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB640Intro
25%
Increasing, from 2 megawatts to 5 megawatts, the limitation on the generating capacity for certain community solar energy generating systems that are exempt from personal property taxes.
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2024-02-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB169Engross
50%
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
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2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB484Intro
25%
Prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of a certain manufactured home in certain residential zoning districts under certain circumstances; prohibiting a local jurisdiction from using an element of an adequate public facil...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB642Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB641Intro
25%
Altering the contents and authorized uses of the Spay/Neuter Fund; requiring the Department of Agriculture to establish a process through which a person may make a voluntary donation to the Fund; requiring the Department to give additional considerat...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB638Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, to allow completion of an eligible financial literacy courses to be applied toward fulfillment of the student service hours high school graduation requirement for the ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB637Intro
25%
Altering, from 3 years to 1 year, the number of years an individual or the individual's parent or guardian must file taxes before the academic year for eligibility to receive an out-of-state tuition exemption.
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB917Intro
25%
Altering the duties of behavioral health services coordinators and the Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports regarding duties related to implementing Restorative Practices Schools throughout the State; requiring the State Department o...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB586Intro
25%
Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of corrugated stainless steel tubing that does not meet a certain International Code Council standard; requiring certain tubing used in the construction of fuel gas piping systems in cer...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB802Intro
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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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB958Intro
25%
Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB757Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain employees, agents, or entities on any information technology owned or leased by a unit of State government from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeChat, or accessing any website developed by ByteDance Ltd....
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB803Intro
25%
Authorizing the exclusion of certain costs from the calculation of a county's highest local appropriation to its school operating budget if a county board of education and a county governing body agree annually to designate certain spending as nonrec...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB805Intro
25%
Establishing the Nuclear Energy Development Task Force to study and make recommendations on the deployment of nuclear power generation resources and other related technologies in the State and the establishment of a permanent nuclear energy commissio...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1025Intro
25%
Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program to develop and submi...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB989Intro
25%
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to limit the amount a covered individual is required to pay in copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles for a covered prescription epinephrine injector to not mo...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB481Intro
25%
Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB483Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments in certain low-income communities; requiring the Corporation to apply for an allocation of federal new markets tax credits; expanding the eligible u...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB639Intro
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; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2024.
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2024-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB346Intro
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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2024-01-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB176Intro
25%
Establishing November 11 as a tax-free day each year during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for sales to certain veterans; requiring an individual, in order to qualify for the exemption, to provide the vendor evidence of eli...
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2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB58Intro
25%
Altering, under certain circumstances, eligibility for and the value of a credit against the State income tax for certain residents who are at least 65 years old.
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2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB67Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on real property if use of the real proper...
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2024-01-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
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