Maryland Senator Katie Hester [D] | Bills

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MDSB470Engross
50%
Altering the Law Enforcement Cadet Apprenticeship Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to be the Public Safety Apprenticeship Program; expanding the purpose and scope of the Program to promote careers with certain public safety agencies; alter...
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2024-03-29
Favorable Report by Judiciary
MDSB477Engross
50%
Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ...
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2024-03-29
Favorable Report by Appropriations
MDSB475Engross
50%
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affecte...
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2024-03-29
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
MDSB570Intro
25%
Requiring each gas company to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems on or before October 1, 2024; requiring each gas company to submit a certain proposal or proposals to the Public Service Commission for approval on or b...
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2024-03-29
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment
MDSB682Intro
25%
Prohibiting public service companies from recovering through rates certain costs; requiring certain public service companies to submit an annual report to the Public Service Commission regarding costs related to certain activities; requiring each ele...
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2024-03-29
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment
MDSB394Engross
50%
Altering the amount of a certain credit against the State income tax that certain persons may claim for certain construction and rehabilitation costs for certain catalytic revitalization projects in the State; repealing a certain limitation on the nu...
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2024-03-28
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB473Engross
50%
Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based startup companies that are founded by students of postsecondary institutions located in and ha...
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2024-03-28
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
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
MDSB784Engross
50%
Altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 11%; and providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of certain firearm accessories and ammunition.
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2024-03-28
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 12:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB932Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Agricultural BMP Best in Show Program to provide and prioritize the use of certain funding relating to agricultural best management practices and to increase the cost-effectiveness and environmental, social, and health impac...
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2024-03-28
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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
MDSB472Engross
50%
Altering the principal departments of the Executive Branch; requiring certain departments and independent units to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit...
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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
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
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
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
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
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
MDSB1077Engross
50%
Authorizing an increase to a certain annual appropriation for certain school safety expenditures for fiscal year 2026 and further increasing permitted appropriations for certain school safety expenditures beginning in fiscal year 2027; requiring the ...
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2024-03-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB969Engross
50%
Establishing the Stream Restoration Contractors Licensing Board; requiring a person to be licensed as a stream restoration contractor or be employed by an individual or entity that is licensed as a stream restoration contractor before the person perf...
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDSB835Engross
50%
Requiring a local health department or county government to which the Department of the Environment has delegated authority to administer a septic and well program to submit by December 1, 2024, a schedule of review times for well and septic program ...
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2024-03-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB808Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of Agriculture to coordinate with the Maryland Energy Administration, the Department of the Environment, the Department of Commerce, the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the University ...
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2024-03-25
To House Environment and Transportation 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
MDSB615Engross
50%
Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim September 30 as Maryland Veterans Suicide Prevention Day.
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB683Engross
50%
Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees relating to tree expert licensing established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if th...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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
MDSB816Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to administer the Cyber Maryland Fund; altering the uses of the Fund to include administrative expenses of the Program, including hiring staff, consultants, and other professionals as necessar...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations 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
MDSB507Engross
50%
Increasing the license fee for a special Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing license for nonresident license applicants from $50 to $100.
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB508Engross
50%
Altering the fee for nonresident sika deer stamps from $25 to $200.
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB148Engross
50%
Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities and areas in which over 90% of households are at extre...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB180Engross
50%
Requiring each county board of education and authorizing nonpublic schools to update their policies to require school nurses and school personnel to complete certain training before they are authorized to administer auto-injectable epinephrine to cer...
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2024-03-20
To House Ways and Means 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
MDSB571Engross
50%
Requiring a certain entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment by April 1, 2026; requiring a certain entity to maintain documentation of certain risks asso...
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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
MDSB982Engross
50%
Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; altering the authority of the Board of Public Works over certain information technology projects; renaming the Major Informatio...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB33Engross
50%
Requiring certain county boards of education to consider the pursuit of certain certificates, certifications, or apprenticeships as the equivalent of pursuing postsecondary education and provide a method for a student or a student's parent or guardia...
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2024-03-20
To House Ways and Means 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
MDSB1094Engross
50%
Extending the termination date applicable to certain provisions relating to the purpose, use, and funding of the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027.
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB978Engross
50%
Requiring certain persons that publish, distribute, or disseminate or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated synthetic media to publish on their website the original content that was manipulated to generate the synthetic media; and requi...
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2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means 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
MDSB196Engross
50%
Authorizing a soil conservation district to recommend a fee system to cover the cost of reviewing plans for small ponds; establishing that any fees collected under the Act shall be supplemental to county and State funds; requiring a soil conservation...
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2024-03-17
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB6Engross
50%
Altering eligibility for a certain property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax on the dwelling house of certain disabled veterans to include individuals who have been declared by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair...
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2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB478Engross
50%
Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ...
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2024-03-15
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB755Intro
25%
Establishing the Office of Domestic Terrorism Response within the Maryland Department of Emergency Management for the purpose of implementing measures to prepare for, prevent, and recover from domestic terrorism and hate crimes; requiring the Marylan...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB798Intro
25%
Establishing the Stream Restoration Contractors Licensing Board; requiring a person to be licensed as a stream restoration contractor or be employed by an individual or entity that is licensed as a stream restoration contractor before the person perf...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB440Engross
50%
Allowing an individual, subject to certain requirements and limitations, to claim a credit against the State income tax for certain qualified expenses if the individual harvests an antlerless deer and donates the deer meat to certain organizations; a...
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2024-03-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB920Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Electric Transmission Authority to serve as the lead State agency on issues related to electricity transmission; and requiring the Authority to advocate on, research, evaluate, and identify certain issues related to electric...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB869Intro
25%
Clarifying a property owner's right to receive information on the calculation of an assessment; requiring owners of certain buildings to provide certain information to the supervisor of assessments within 90 days after construction of the buildings i...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
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