Maryland Senator Mary James [D]

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MDSB113Engross
50%
Prohibiting an individual from knowingly and with a certain intent soliciting a minor or law enforcement officer posing as a minor to engage in certain prohibited sexual acts with the minor by a certain means.
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Judiciary
MDSB130Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from committing the common law crime of indecent exposure; prohibiting a person from, with prurient intent, committing the common law crime of indecent exposure when the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor is pres...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Judiciary
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
MDSB55Engross
50%
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue certain special disabled veteran registration plates to disabled veterans who are between 50% and 99%, inclusive, service-connected disabled as designated or classified by the U.S. Department of V...
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed
MDSB50Engross
50%
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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2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (139-0)
MDSB413Engross
50%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDSB442Engross
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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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDSB1145Engross
50%
Requiring law enforcement agencies and State's Attorneys to notify schools of certain information when a child is arrested for a sexual offense in the third degree; prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic schoo...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1101Engross
50%
Altering the definition of an eligible institution for the Maryland Police Officers and Probation Agents Scholarship Program to include a community college in the State.
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 10:45 am]
To House Appropriations 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
MDSB107Engross
50%
Establishing that a certain person has a lien on a motor vehicle towed or removed from a privately owned parking lot for charges incurred for any towing, recovery, storage, or notice provided under certain circumstances; establishing that the lien cr...
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB423Engross
50%
Requiring a county treasurer, tax collector, or director of finance to provide a certificate enumerating certain taxes, assessments, and charges against a property and to establish certain procedures to facilitate the issuance of a certificate; requi...
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2024-03-21
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
MDSB65Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from possessing more than 100 images of certain child pornography or possessing images of certain child pornography depicting a minor or an individual indistinguishable from an actual minor younger than 13 years of age; providing...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB379Engross
50%
Extending the Task Force to Study Crime Classification and renaming it to be the Task Force to Study Crime Reclassification and Penalties; requiring the Task Force to study the penalties for crimes and civil offenses under State law, the potential ne...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB380Engross
50%
Establishing the Police Recruitment and Retention Workgroup to study issues and factors potentially contributing to recruitment challenges and the decline in police officer retention statewide; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and r...
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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
MDSB744Engross
50%
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain procedures relating to juvenile intake, detention, and probation; requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services...
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2024-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB2Engross
50%
Requiring an intake officer to file a petition alleging that a child under the age of 13 years is either delinquent or a child in need of supervision if the child is alleged to have committed an act that results in the death of a victim; and requirin...
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2024-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB89Engross
50%
Requiring a local director of a local department of social services or the Secretary of Human Services to disclose certain reports and records of child abuse and neglect within 30 days after receiving a request if certain conditions are met; requirin...
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2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee
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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2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB774Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program to assist community organizations, nonprofit entities, and local governments in funding security operations during times of high pedestrian traffic in certain entertainment distr...
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2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee
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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2024-03-16
To House Appropriations 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
MDSB781Engross
50%
Renaming the Regional Additive Manufacturing Partnership of Maryland to be the Regional Advanced Manufacturing Partnership of Maryland; altering the purposes and duties of the Partnership and composition of the Executive Board of the Partnership; and...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB884Intro
25%
Requiring the treasurer, tax collector, or director of finance for a county to provide a certificate enumerating certain taxes, assessments, and charges against a property and to establish certain procedures to facilitate the issuance of the certific...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB668Engross
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 en...
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2024-03-08
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB391Engross
50%
Altering the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of sexual extortion to be 5 years and the crime of stalking to be 10 years; providing that the State may institute a prosecution for revenge porn at any time; and providing that, for purpose...
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2024-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB4Engross
50%
Requiring a certain commitment unit to include in a notification given to a victim, victim's representative, or witness regarding the release from confinement of a sentenced defendant or child respondent the name and telephone number of the lead vict...
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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB575Engross
50%
Authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the protected individual on the Internet, s...
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2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB424Intro
25%
Providing that during the trial of a criminal case in which a defendant is charged with an assault in the second degree, a certain statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule if the statement is offered against a party that has engaged in, directed...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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
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
MDSB378Intro
25%
Establishing the felony of theft of a handgun; and establishing a penalty for theft of a handgun of, for a first conviction, imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both and, for a second or subsequent conviction, imprisonment of u...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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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