Maryland Senator William Smith [D] | Engrossed

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MDSB27Engross
50%
Entering into the Cosmetology Licensure Compact; establishing criteria for participating states; authorizing an individual practicing cosmetology to practice in a party state under certain circumstances; establishing the Cosmetology Licensure Compact...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Economic Matters
MDSB159Engross
50%
Altering certain provisions of law relating to the recordation and inspection of certain military records kept by the clerk of a circuit court to authorize the clerk to keep an electronic record instead of a book to record and index the discharge pap...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Judiciary
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
MDSB88Engross
50%
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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2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (139-0)
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
MDSB411Engross
50%
Renaming the Department of Veterans Affairs to be the Department of Veterans and Military Families; renaming the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to be the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families; requiring the Secretary to appoint a Deputy Secretar...
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2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (139-0)
MDSB538Engross
50%
Altering certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act only to causes of action arising after October 1, 2024.
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2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB488Engross
50%
Prohibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to harm to the public through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requirin...
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2024-03-27
To House Judiciary 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
MDSB1097Engross
50%
Exempting an employee of the Department of Natural Resources in the course of performing official duties from certain prohibitions against knowingly wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm in certain locations; requiring a person or entity opera...
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2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB1058Engross
50%
Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain fu...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
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
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
MDSB206Engross
50%
Authorizing the board of directors of a condominium, by a majority vote, to grant leases in excess of 1 year or similar interests affecting the common elements of the condominium for the installation and use of leased clean energy equipment.
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2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB608Engross
50%
Altering a requirement for a law enforcement agency to file administrative charges relating to alleged police officer misconduct that is required to be reviewed by an administrative charging committee within 30 days; requiring a law enforcement agenc...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB607Engross
50%
Authorizing the imposition of certain summary punishment of a police officer for a minor violation of law enforcement agency rules and regulations that does not involve an interaction between the police officer and a member of the public if the facts...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB687Engross
50%
Repealing certain provisions of law relating to bail bonds in the Seventh Judicial Circuit.
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary 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
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
MDSB864Engross
50%
Designating the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center as the State's Regional Higher Education Community of Innovation; and altering the purposes of the Universities at Shady Grove to include serving a diverse citizenry in an i...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1095Engross
50%
Establishing the Workgroup on Home Detention Monitoring to study and make recommendations regarding the costs and availability of both publicly and privately provided pretrial home detention monitoring systems; and requiring the Workgroup to submit a...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB1098Engross
50%
Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for rape in the first degree in a State or local correctional facility.
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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
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
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
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
MDSB134Engross
50%
Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office; requiring the Office to conduc...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee
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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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB827Engross
50%
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 to allow the parties to obtain information that may provide guidance for the use of perempto...
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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
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
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
MDSB688Engross
50%
Altering the number of resident judges of the circuit courts by adding one additional judgeship in Prince George's County.
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB436Engross
50%
Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of L...
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2024-03-14
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSJ1Engross
50%
Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish, without delay, the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to pass a joint resolution affirming the Equal Rights Amendm...
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2024-03-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
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
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