| MD | HB261 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "wages" for purposes of State unemployment insurance law to exclude compensation received for serving as an election judge for a local board of elections in the State; and prohibiting an individual from being denied unemplo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB333 | Engross 50% | Requiring each large social media platform of more than 1,000,000 monthly active users in the United States to make reasonable efforts to prevent, detect, and remove accounts and posts that communicate election disinformation in the State; requiring ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB356 | Engross 50% | Requiring a law enforcement agency, under certain cirucumstances, to issue a warning rather than a citation for a failure to stop for a school vehicle that is recorded by a school bus monitoring camera; and requiring the State Highway Administration ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB404 | Engross 50% | Requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a certain request for a wellness check of an individual to immediately conduct a wellness check or submit a request for the relevant law enforcement agency to conduct a wellness check. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB565 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Maryland Deaths in Custody Oversight Board within the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to analyze and make findings and recommendations related to deaths of incarcerated individuals; and requiring the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB542 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child who is be... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB833 | Engross 50% | Establishing a presumption that placement with a child's parent is in the best interest of the child, the child is receiving proper care and attention, and there is not a certain emergency situation if the child's parent is receiving certain substanc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB785 | Engross 50% | Establishing the State standards for libraries for the operation of each library that receives funding from the State; altering the duties of the State Library Board, the State Library Agency, and regional resource centers to incorporate the State st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB836 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan planning organization to perform an impact assessment under cert... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB945 | Engross 50% | Repealing a provision of law that requires a teacher preparation program to require a student to pass a certain assessment as a graduation requirement; altering the requirements for initial teacher certification; repealing certain certification requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB962 | Engross 50% | Altering the Small Business Reserve Program to be the Small and Minority Business Reserve Program; requiring a unit of State government, to the extent practicable, to structure its procurement procedures to achieve at least 10% of the unit's total do... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB961 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Commission on New Americans to study and periodically report on the contributions of new Americans and the availability of government services for new Americans; and requiring the Commission to submit to the Governor and the General ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB877 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Comptroller to develop and maintain on the Comptroller's website a certain procurement dashboard; and establishing certain requirements for the dashboard; and requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1051 | Engross 50% | Establishing requirements on local health departments and certain health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; prohi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1157 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to provide grants to local school systems for employees who pledge to fulfill a certain service obligation as a full-time teacher in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to admi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1078 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests if the patient is in a residence or a location other than the office of the patient's provider and the provider follows the sam... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1076 | Engross 50% | Requiring each county board of education, on or before January 15 each year, to determine the instructional materials that will be used in the upcoming school year and to coordinate with the Instructional Resources Center to provide the materials in ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1287 | Engross 50% | Requiring, beginning July 1, 2024, an employment contract for the State Superintendent of Schools or county superintendents of schools to include a provision requiring the completion of a school leadership course or program during the initial term of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1386 | Engross 50% | Requiring each county board of education and certain nonpublic schools to provide each employee with training on the prevention of antisemitism and Islamophobia each year; requiring institutions of higher education to include specific training on the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Engross 50% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1167 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Statewide Secure Schools Emergency Response Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to improve the safety and security of public schools in the State by implementing a certain emergency notification system... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1237 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Maryland Online IEP System; requiring the Task Force to consider the effectiveness, functionality and usability of the System and make recommendations to maintain and upgrade the system or to replace it with a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1441 | Engross 50% | Establishing certain requirements for a teacher's certificate in early childhood education; altering the teaching credentials required for staff of qualified providers for prekindergarten services for purposes of the Prekindergarten Grant Program; re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1522 | Intro 25% | Requiring, to address a certain funding disparity, that the Governor include at least $5,000,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the annual budget bill each fiscal year until a total amount of $321,181,312 is appropriated; and authoriz... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB200 | Engross 50% | Authorizing each county board of education that has fewer than 40 community schools and that receives funding from the Concentration of Poverty School Grant Program for the personnel grant and the per pupil grant to expend no more than 10% of the fun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB406 | Engross 50% | Establishing that a certain spouse is competent to disclose a confidential communication between spouses occurring during their marriage in a criminal action in which one spouse is charged with a crime against the other spouse. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB477 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a county to adopt by local law or ordinance provisions prohibiting a landlord of residential property from failing to renew a lease or from terminating a holdover tenancy without just cause; and establishing certain requirements for a loc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB534 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Governor, for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, to include an appropriation of $200,000 in the annual budget bill for the Live Near Your School program in the Community Development Administration; and extending the termination date of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1244 | Engross 50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each have a certain staff member who performs certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the wo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB385 | Engross 50% | Requiring that a notice containing certain information provided to an employee at the time of hiring be written; requiring that the statement regarding earnings required to be provided to employees by employers be written on the physical pay stub or ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB432 | Engross 50% | Replacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB641 | Engross 50% | Requiring each local board of elections, at least 6 months prior to each statewide primary election, to designate an outside location for curbside voting, subject to the approval of the State Board; requiring a local board to take into account certai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB627 | Engross 50% | Altering the definitions of "automatic voter registration agency" and "applicable transaction" for the purpose of designating the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services as an automatic voter registration agency and requiring the Depart... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB903 | Engross 50% | Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1489 | Intro 25% | Requiring each local board of elections to send the absentee ballot application approved by the State Board of Elections to each eligible voter at least 60 days before each statewide primary election, unless the voter has permanent absentee ballot st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB339 | Intro 25% | Establishing that the disqualification from receiving unemployment insurance benefits due to a stoppage of work does not apply for any week beginning after the first 14 days of an individual's unemployment resulting from the stoppage of work that exi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HJ1 | Intro 25% | Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to affirm, by joint resolution, the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amend... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HJ9 | Intro 25% | Declaring the State of Maryland's support of and consent to admitting Washington, D.C. to the Union as a state of the United States of America. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1020 | Intro 25% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB601 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB646 | Engross 50% | Increasing from $5,000 to $7,000 a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying police auxiliary or reserve volunteer. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HJ3 | Intro 25% | Stating that the General Assembly joins seven other state legislative bodies and over 75 municipalities and counties in passing a Back from the Brink resolution on reducing the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons; urging members of the State's ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB736 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to cover nonprescription naloxone hydrochloride and any other drug or product that is approved by the federal... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB522 | Engross 50% | Requiring each county board of education to establish a policy to accommodate students who need telehealth appointments during the school day; requiring each public middle and high school to designate a certain space for student telehealth appointmen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB472 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB331 | Engross 50% | Altering the definition of "expenditure" to include reasonable expenses for caregiving services that a candidate incurs as a direct result of campaign activity and that are necessary to promote the candidacy of the candidate; and defining "caregiving... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB287 | Engross 50% | Excluding the cash value of any qualified retirement savings plans or individual retirement accounts from the definition of "assets" for purposes of certain property tax relief provided to certain renters; and applying the Act to all taxable years be... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB305 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, on or before October 1, 2025, to develop outdoor lighting standards that consider energy consumption, the environment, and public health and safety; requiring the Department to consult with the Maryland De... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB357 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB474 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a court from revoking a defendant's pretrial release or finding that a defendant has violated probation, and the Maryland Parole Commission from finding that a parolee has violated parole, based solely on the use of cannabis or a positive... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |