| MD | HB585 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 21 |
| MD | HB584 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 13 |
| MD | HB580 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7 |
| MD | HB231 | Pass | Authorizing the recipient of a U.S. Department of Defense Next of Kin lapel button to apply for special registration plates; and waiving the initial vehicle registration fee associated with special registration plates issued to the recipient of a Gol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 24 |
| MD | HB457 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with represe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB468 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Commission to Advance Lithium-Ion Battery Safety in Maryland to study and make legislative, regulatory, programmatic, or other recommendations regarding certain best practices, standards, and guidelines; requiring the Commission to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB567 | Enroll
75% | Establishing generally the manner in which a controller or a processor may process a consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller of personal data to es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB603 | Enroll
75% | 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, under certain circumstances; requiring certain privacy protections for cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB689 | Engross
50% | Repealing the electric vehicle excise tax credit; establishing the Electric Vehicle Rebate Program; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to establish a website to administer the rebate program; requiring a participating dealer to provide a reba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (33-11) |
| MD | HB836 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | HB139 | Enroll
75% | Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of services for which landlords of buildings that contain six or more residential units are required to provide a written notice to a tenant, before the initiation of a lease and each term thereaf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1511 | Enroll
75% | Altering the definition of "qualified conservation" for purposes of provisions of law related to forest mitigation banks; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to update a certain model local government ordinance by July 1, 2025 and adopt cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB437 | Enroll
75% | Codifying provisions relating to the Maryland Zero Emission Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council; altering and clarifying the composition of the Council to include certain public and private sector members; requiring the Council to submit interim ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB841 | Engross
50% | Requiring that a water bottle filling station be installed in certain new construction beginning October 1, 2024; requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a certain survey, gather certain data, and identify alternative methods for provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted |
| MD | HB1055 | Engross
50% | Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| MD | HB1147 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB693 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Office of Tenant and Landlord Affairs in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide certain educational resources and information to tenants; requiring the Office to develop and publish a Maryland Tenants' Bill of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1117 | Enroll
75% | Establishing that a landlord that offers a residential dwelling unit for rent is deemed to warrant the dwelling fit for human habitation; authorizing multiple tenants to join as plaintiffs in a civil action against a landlord and authorizing a court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1032 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Tourist Area and Corridor Signage Program to create a system of supplemental guide signs to direct motorists to eligible individual attractions by directing the motorists first to groups of attractions; requiring the State Highway Ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB538 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB345 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain petitions to review the listing or unlisting of endangered or threatened species to contain certain information regarding the distribution, life needs, habitat requirements, and status of the species; requiring the Secretary of Natu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB379 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB991 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1165 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; authorizing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1304 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a process for providing information about the availability of the State's earned income tax credits to individuals enrolled or participating in certain programs or services, or potential enrollee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB7 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Housing Innovation Fund to provide loans for local housing authorities and county governments to develop mixed-income, cross-subsidized housing; establishing the Housing Innovation Pilot Program in the Department of Housing and Commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB344 | Engross
50% | Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation; requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 each year on the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB475 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Open-Source Phonics Matching Grant Program within the State Department of Education to provide free, open-source phonics learning materials to be used by adults to tutor students; requiring the Department to periodically review the o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB496 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of determining certain sexual crimes; altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB576 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing each county to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program by July 1, 2026; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish an assisted outpatient treatment program in a county that does not opt to establish the program by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB583 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention 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 age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB581 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each principle department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and to submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB667 | Engross
50% | Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB696 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB874 | Enroll
75% | Extending, from October 1, 2024, to July 1, 2026, the date by which an individual must be licensed by the State Board of Long-Term Care Administrators before practicing as an assisted living manager in the State; altering the requirements for the man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1101 | Enroll
75% | Providing certain persons standing in environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, under certain cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1171 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting the sale of natural membrane condoms, rather than all nonlatex condoms, through a vending machine or other automatic device; excluding the violation of a certain provision of the Act from certain penalties; and authorizing registered nurs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB120 | Enroll
75% | Altering a certain loan program to authorize the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans of up to $10,000 for each seasonal full-time job; expanding eligibility for the Maryland Watermen's Microloan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB43 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing counties and municipalities to designate certain highways in their respective jurisdictions on which a person may operate a golf cart; authorizing a person with a valid driver's license to operate a golf cart only on a highway with a maxi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB337 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a person from committing a violation of a certain provision of law governing the right-of-way of a bicycle, a motor scooter, or an electronic personal assistive mobility device lawfully in a designated bike lane or shoulder that contribut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB582 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based start-up companies founded by students from institutions located in the Baltimore-Columbia-Tow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB597 | Enroll
75% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB575 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB728 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to establish and implement the Qualified Resident Enrollment Program to facilitate the enrollment of qualified residents in qualified plans; providing that the operation and administration of the Program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB887 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to contract with an independent consultant to conduct a certain study of the Health Services Cost Review Commission, the Maryland Health Care Commission, the Maryland Insurance Administration, and the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1103 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Miriam Kelty Aging and Senior Social Connection Hub and Spoke Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Aging; establishing that the purpose and the goals of the Pilot Program are to support the "village" concept of local, voluntee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB601 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1153 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to identify significant industrial users that currently and intentionally use PFAS chemicals by July 1, 2026; requiring the Department to develop certain PFAS monitoring and testing criteria for certain sig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB159 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain requirements for procedures relating to electric vehicle recharging equipment; establishing requirements and procedures relating to an application to the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation to install or use electric ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB113 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting an adult from allowing certain minors to ride a horse, donkey, mule, or pony on a highway, a public horse-riding path, or the grounds of a facility for which the primary purpose is recreational, educational, therapeutic, or competitive eq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
