Maryland Senator Brian Feldman [D] | Senate

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MDSB967Engross
50%
Allowing an applicant of a part-time senatorial or delegate scholarship with a documented disability to request from the Maryland Higher Education Commission a waiver from the requirement to carry at least 6 semester hours of courses each semester.
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2024-03-29
Favorable Report by Appropriations
MDSB567Engross
50%
Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw from the institution under extenuating circumstances and to refund the student for tuition and fees paid by the student for a certain semester ...
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2024-03-29
Favorable Report by Appropriations
MDSB694Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to contract with an independent consultant to conduct a certain study of the Health Services Cost Review Commission, the Maryland Health Care Commission, the Maryland Insurance Administration, and the Maryl...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDSB88Enroll
75%
Establishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study and make recommendations for developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislat...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB806Engross
50%
Increasing from $50,000 to $500,000 the amount of general liability insurance that an applicant for a home improvement contractor license or a licensed home improvement contractor must maintain.
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDSB821Enroll
75%
Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to study professional employer organizations in the State to review certain regulations, history, health plans, requirements, and regulatory structures in other states and to address any potential impac...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB1009Engross
50%
Establishing the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study and make recommendations related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendatio...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed
MDSB341Enroll
75%
Altering the name of the museum operated by the Commission on African American History and Culture in certain provisions of law from the "Banneker-Douglass Museum" to the "Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum".
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB540Engross
50%
Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide funds to local school systems to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter scho...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB592Engross
50%
Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB738Engross
50%
Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school l...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means 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
MDSB425Engross
50%
Clarifying that secondary schools participating in the Maryland Meals for Achievement In-Classroom Breakfast Program may serve breakfast in any broadly accessible part of the school; and authorizing elementary schools participating in the Program, su...
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed
MDSB707Engross
50%
Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed
MDSB797Engross
50%
Establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; requiring certain information about the Program to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the A...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB448Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs, in coordination with certain entities, to conduct a study on the history of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union Army in Maryland and to make findings and recommendations regarding the f...
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDSB883Engross
50%
Requiring a county board of education, a nonpublic school, or a contracting agency that has contracted with a virtual tutoring service to require the virtual tutoring service to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtu...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1099Engross
50%
Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-loca...
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2024-03-25
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB537Engross
50%
Altering the distance restrictions applicable to a licensed cannabis dispensary; prohibiting a political subdivision from establishing certain zoning requirements for licensed cannabis dispensaries and certain licensed cannabis growers that are more ...
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2024-03-22
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB858Engross
50%
Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; and altering the prohibition against revenge porn to prohibit a person from knowingly distributing a computer-generated visual representation that i...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB1161Intro
25%
Requiring the Public Service Commission on June 1, 2024 to open a revised Round 2 proceeding to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; authorizing certain offshore wind projects to submit certain revised plans for project schedules, sizes, or prici...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment 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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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB126Engross
50%
Repealing, for certain fiscal years, the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation withhold 35% of the State's share of annual operating grants for the Washington Suburban Transit District if the State's operating assistance provided in the ap...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB541Engross
50%
Regulating the manner in which a controller or a processor in possession of a consumer's personal data may process the consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB539Engross
50%
Requiring the listing for a ticket and each step of a transaction to purchase a ticket to disclose certain information, including the total price of the ticket; repealing the exceptions to the prohibition against a reseller selling or offering to sel...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB818Engross
50%
Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and a certain assessment; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain circumstances; prohibiting a unit o...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB864Engross
50%
Designating the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center as the State's Regional Higher Education Community of Innovation; and altering the purposes of the Universities at Shady Grove to include serving a diverse citizenry in an i...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB960Engross
50%
Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to provide at least $1,200,000 in each fiscal year for fiscal ye...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB165Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental ill...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1178Engross
50%
Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB372Engross
50%
Requiring a candidate seeking a nomination for Governor in a primary election to designate a candidate for Lieutenant Governor within 2 days after certification of the primary election; requiring a candidate seeking a nomination for Governor by any m...
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2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB959Engross
50%
Requiring an investor-owned electric company to file certain time-of-use tariffs with the Public Service Commission by July 1, 2025; requiring an investor-owned electric company to attempt to achieve a reasonable enrollment target for the tariffs by ...
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2024-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB337Engross
50%
Adding the Secretary of Emergency Management, or the Secretary's designee, and the Chair of the Public Service Commission, or the Chair's designee, as members of the Commission on Climate Change.
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2024-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB547Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from allowing for the performance of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of those animals in a certain traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty no...
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2024-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB436Engross
50%
Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of L...
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2024-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSJ1Engross
50%
Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish, without delay, the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to pass a joint resolution affirming the Equal Rights Amendm...
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2024-03-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB696Intro
25%
Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or approval for the construction of a certain gen...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB695Intro
25%
Requiring the construction of new multifamily residential buildings with separate garages, carports, or driveways for each residential unit to include certain parking spaces for electric vehicle charging; requiring certain significant renovations of ...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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
MDSB865Intro
25%
Expanding, renaming, and altering certain provisions relating to a certain truancy reduction program in certain juvenile courts; authorizing a county or circuit administrative judge to establish a certain Truancy Reduction and School Reengagement Pro...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB783Intro
25%
Altering the maximum generating capacity authorized for certain net metered generating facilities; authorizing an eligible customer-generator participating in certain meter aggregation to receive excess generation from more than one generating system...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB431Intro
25%
Establishing that governmental essential workers are presumed to have an occupational disease that is compensable under workers' compensation law after being diagnosed with long COVID under certain circumstances; and applying the Act retroactively.
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB758Intro
25%
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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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB427Intro
25%
Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB432Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researchi...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB388Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $1,000,000 for the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund which provides funding for the Board; and requiring t...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Finance 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
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