Maryland Senator Ron Watson [D]

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MDSB139Engross
50%
Establishing a certain exception to the authority of the Child Support Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's license or privilege ...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB9Engross
50%
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Prince George's County to issue a Class C (fraternal/sororal/service organization) alcoholic beverages license for use by an independent nonprofit organization whose membership is composed solely of ...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB100Engross
50%
Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from com...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB418Engross
50%
Expanding the purpose and use of the Seed Community Development Anchor Institution Fund administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to include providing grants and loans to anchor institutions for a certain purpose in sustaina...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation 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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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB540Engross
50%
Establishing the School Mapping Data Program in the State Department of Education to provide funds to county Boards to produce school mapping data for each public school and public charter school in the county to assist first responders in responding...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1091Engross
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 ...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
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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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
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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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB883Engross
50%
Requiring a virtual tutoring service to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to child sexual abuse or sexual misconduct of the applicant; requiring certain former employers of...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB1022Engross
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...
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2024-03-15
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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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations 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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2024-03-15
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; establishing the Information ...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB818Engross
50%
Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments; requiring the Department of Information Technology to conduct certain monitoring and adopt certain policies and procedures; prohibiting a unit of State government...
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2024-03-15
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
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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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
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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2024-03-07
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB352Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to establish a workgroup to conduct a study on the maximum height restriction for an apartment building with a single-exit stairway in each state; requiring the workgroup to make certain recommendations for ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB564Engross
50%
Repealing certain processes regarding the expiration of certain licenses for real estate brokers, associate real estate brokers, and real estate salespersons; requiring that certain licenses expire on a staggered basis; modifying and setting certain ...
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2024-03-01
To House Economic Matters 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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2024-03-01
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB462Engross
50%
Authorizing a licensed real estate broker to designate himself or herself as the manager of a branch office maintained by the licensed real estate broker.
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2024-02-28
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB461Engross
50%
Providing that a complaint filed with the State Real Estate Commission alleging an advertising violation may be made anonymously but must be accompanied by documentary or other evidence.
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2024-02-28
To House Economic Matters 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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2024-02-23
To House Appropriations 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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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB186Intro
25%
Establishing a Class B-CL (cigar lounge) beer, wine, and liquor license in Prince George's County; excluding the license from certain distance restrictions; excluding a certain business that operates in the county under the license from the requireme...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Finance 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
MDSB823Intro
25%
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance 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
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
MDSB692Intro
25%
Establishing the Workgroup to Study Data Security to study certain data protection standards, identify existing standards that would best be assimilated by State agencies, and develop recommendations on and assess certain fiscal impacts; and requirin...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB861Intro
25%
Requiring a person that owns, operates, or controls a high energy use facility to ensure greenhouse gas emissions associated with the electricity used by the facility are reduced by certain amounts by certain years; prohibiting a person from using ce...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB842Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an official, umpire, referee, or judge officiating at a sporting event; authorizing a police officer to arrest a pe...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB351Intro
25%
Adding a certain intent requirement to the elements of the crime of first degree assault, with regard to committing an assault with a firearm.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB792Intro
25%
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to establish that the juvenile court has exclusive jurisdiction over a child who is at least 11 years old alleged to have committed a crime of violence or a crime involving the use or possession of a fi...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB636Intro
25%
Establishing the Commission to Study the Ability of the Department of Juvenile Services to Provide Effective Social Services to Juvenile Offenders; and requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Genera...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB565Intro
25%
Providing that the General Assembly may authorize, by law, the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain Internet gaming licenses; requiring certain implementation legislation to include certain criteria and specifications; declari...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB603Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain video lottery operators and certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Go...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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
MDSB566Intro
25%
Authorizing a county board of education to authorize a certain employee to transport a public school student in a vehicle if the driver meets certain requirements; and requiring, on or before December 31, 2024, the Career and Technical Education Comm...
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2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB438Intro
25%
Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbr...
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2024-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB127Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety, in collaboration with in collaboration with public safety agencies, the State Department of Education, local school systems, the University System of Maryland, and other public institutions of higher e...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB73Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to report to the General Assembly, by January 1 each year, on the number of assessments completed during the intake process involving children who commit firearm offenses.
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB87Intro
25%
Specifying that certain crimes involving homicide or life-threatening injury by motor vehicle or vessel are violent crimes for the purpose of parole eligibility; increasing penalties for certain crimes involving homicide or life-threatening injury by...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB68Intro
25%
Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good ...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB94Intro
25%
Altering provisions of law relating to the juvenile intake process such that certain complaints and case files are required to be forwarded to the State's Attorney under certain circumstances; and altering provisions of law relating to the length of ...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB195Intro
25%
Requiring a law enforcement officer to make a certain report to a local department of social services after a certain arrest of a certain child under the age of 13 for purposes of a neglect investigation.
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB120Intro
25%
Authorizing a child to consult with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian instead of an attorney before a law enforcement officer may conduct a custodial interrogation of the child.
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB179Intro
25%
Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a cert...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB326Intro
25%
Providing that a law enforcement officer may conduct a certain interrogation of a child if probable cause exists for the law enforcement officer to believe that the child committed a certain crime of violence or a crime involving a firearm and the la...
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2024-01-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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