| MD | HB37 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Commission on Reentry Services for Women overseen by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to create a comprehensive reentry plan for formerly incarcerated women; requiring the Commission to study the challenges f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB73 | Engross 50% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB338 | Engross 50% | Establishing requirements, procedures, and prohibitions relating to the use of facial recognition technology by a law enforcement agency under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to develop and a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB496 | Engross 50% | 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB541 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Student Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Educators to assist in the repayment of certain student loans owed by educators who meet certain eligibility requirements; providing the purpose of the program is to a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB597 | Engross 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; requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB575 | Engross 50% | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB583 | Engross 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB745 | Engross 50% | Adding stalking to the list of offenses for which a certain individual may petition for a protective order; and altering certain provisions of law relating to the issuance of a permanent protective order. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB878 | Engross 50% | Requiring certain custodians to deny inspection of the part of a public record that contains personal information of a constitutional officer except under certain circumstances; authorizing a certain constitutional officer or certain immediate family... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB854 | Engross 50% | Specifying that a person required to register as a sex offender may register at any law enforcement unit, barracks, or station operated by the county in which the person is required to register as a sex offender. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 [Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB933 | Engross 50% | Establishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions;... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB969 | Engross 50% | Requiring, if a victim's initial determination of death recorded on the victim's death certificate was amended or corrected to be undetermined or homicide, an assistant State's Attorney with knowledge of the case to meet with a person in interest on ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1013 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a licensed clinical professional counselor to sign a certificate of illness or disability when a State employee uses sick leave for 5 or more consecutive workdays. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation 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 | HB1047 | Engross 50% | Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of a sexual crime may not introduce evidence that physical evidence of a sexual crime was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offering for sale, or distributing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB274 | Engross 50% | Reclassifying, as a misdemeanor instead of a felony, a certain offense relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing any wire, oral, or electronic communications. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB290 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a person to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication if the person has a good faith belief that the person intercepting the communication or another person is in imminent danger of becoming the victim of a crime of violence, st... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB315 | Engross 50% | Repealing and altering a reporting requirement to require the Department of State Police, instead of the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, to report on the number of charges, convictions, and sentences for certain regulated firearm viol... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB490 | Engross 50% | Repealing certain termination provisions relating to a subtraction under the Maryland income tax for certain donations to diaper banks and other charitable entities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB585 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB513 | Engross 50% | Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that a system operator does not need to be pre... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1192 | Engross 50% | Altering the circumstances under which the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission is required to disqualify an applicant who committed a certain crime involving moral turpitude from holding a video lottery employee license. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB698 | Intro 25% | Requiring a court to rule on petitions to appoint a guardian of the person of a disabled person in order to seek transfer or discharge of a disabled person from a hospital within 10 days; and requiring that hearings to appoint a guardian of the perso... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12 Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB476 | Engross 50% | Providing that certain provisions of law regarding the use of a certain forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) do not apply when the FGGS is conducted solely for the purpose of identifying an individual who is deceased or the su... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1127 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the reimbursement of a sexual assault forensic exam conducted through peer-to-peer telehealth under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Policy and Funding Committee to conduct a study on the feasibili... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB99 | Engross 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. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB604 | Engross 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB584 | Engross 50% | Providing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal who have thyroid, colon, or ovarian cancer are presumed, under certain circu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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 | 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 | HB615 | Engross 50% | Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offense... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB576 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a psychiatric nurse practitioner to evaluate an emergency evaluee for purposes of involuntary admission; authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of H... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB694 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB580 | Engross 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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB869 | Intro 25% | Requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a certain report of a prohibited person failing a background check to notify certain victims; requiring the Secretary of State Police to notify the Maryland State Police Gun Center of certain informati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB297 | Intro 25% | Establishing the Correctional Ombudsman Unit in the Office of the Attorney General; requiring the Unit to conduct investigations, reviews, and assessments of administrative acts taken by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services or in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB658 | Intro 25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; establishing procedures for the au... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB118 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; requiring the Commission to develop procedures fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB185 | Intro 25% | Repealing provisions relating to gubernatorial approval of a decision of the Maryland Parole Commission to grant medical parole to an inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB302 | Intro 25% | Altering penalties relating to sexual contact between a law enforcement officer, correctional employee, or court-ordered services provider and certain individuals under certain circumstances; increasing the penalties from a misdemeanor to a felony, a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB947 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to a public nuisance through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requiring... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1079 | Intro 25% | Specifying the purpose of jury examination in any State court is to identify and remove prospective jurors who are unable to serve fairly and impartially, and allow the parties to obtain information that may provide guidance for the use of peremptory... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1255 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting, subject to a certain exception, an employer from using an automated employment decision tool to make certain employment decisions; and requiring an employer, under certain circumstances, to notify an applicant for employment of the emplo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB881 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to establish a pilot program to operate one or more schools within the county using an innovative scheduling model including extended year, year-round school, or a 4-day school week; authorizing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB997 | Intro 25% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Department of Education and in consultation with other relevant parties, to establish criteria for designating green schools in the State as model professional development... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB489 | Intro 25% | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal years 2025 through 2031. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB855 | Intro 25% | Limiting the circumstances under which an incarcerated minor may be involuntarily placed in restrictive housing; prohibiting the placement of a minor in restrictive housing for more than 6 hours; and authorizing a correctional facility to place a min... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB403 | Intro 25% | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessm... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB696 | Intro 25% | Altering the standards of the State Free Feeding Program, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to require that if a school participates in the federal School Breakfast Program or the National School Lunch Program, then each student in the school must be of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31 To House Ways and Means Committee |