| MD | SB216 | Pass | Increasing, from $10,000 to $25,000, the cap on penalties for an employer's failure to secure required workers' compensation insurance or comply with an order of the State Workers' Compensation Commission regarding an employer's failure to secure req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 78 |
| MD | SB476 | 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 14 |
| 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 | SB683 | Enroll
75% | Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees relating to tree expert licensing established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB864 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each electric company, each gas company, and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets through certain program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1034 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the 9-1-1 Specialist Recruitment and Retention Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup to review the reports submitted by the Commission to Advance Next Generation 9-1-1 Across Maryland, identify and examine certain recruitment and retention ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB561 | Enroll
75% | Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if the license holder fails to maintain...
[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; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1162 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the 9-1-1 Specialist Recruitment and Retention Workgroup to identify and examine recruitment and retention challenges that affect 9-1-1 specialists in the State; and requiring the Workgroup to submit an interim report of its findings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB669 | Enroll
75% | Altering the frequencies in which industrial noise must be for an employer to be required to provide workers' compensation to a covered employee for hearing loss; altering the method used to determine the percentage of hearing loss deafness for purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB969 | 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; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB843 | Enroll
75% | Altering the frequencies in which industrial noise must be for an employer to be required to provide workers' compensation to a covered employee for hearing loss; altering the method used to determine the percentage of hearing loss deafness for purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB85 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the formation of limited worker cooperative associations; and establishing rules and procedures for the formation, governance, conversion, and dissolution of limited worker cooperative associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1285 | Engross
50% | Authorizing licensed social workers to register as a rehabilitation practitioner; and authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments involving a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB798 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Stream Restoration Contractors Licensing Board; requiring a person to be licensed as a stream restoration contractor or be employed by an individual or entity that is licensed as a stream restoration contractor before the person perf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB915 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Uninsured Employers' Fund to begin paying compensation for a workers' compensation claim within 15 days after the later of the date an award is made or payment of an award is due; applying certain provisions of law regarding the failure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB190 | Intro
25% | Providing that a first responder who is diagnosed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed under certain circumstances to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB160 | Intro
25% | Establishing the third week in April as Workplace Readiness Week and requiring county boards of education to establish a specified program of education to be held during Workplace Readiness Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1050 | Intro
25% | Extending, for 60 days, the period of time during which the Workers' Compensation Commission may modify an award related to a workers' compensation claim if an appeal is filed during the original 5-year period during which the Commission maintains au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1145 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1204 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "qualified position" for purposes of eligibility for and the calculation of benefits under the One Maryland and More Jobs for Marylanders economic development programs; altering the definition of "qualified employee" for pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB1069 | Intro
25% | Providing that a first responder who is diagnosed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed under certain circumstances to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB931 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain licensed social workers to register as a rehabilitation practitioner; and authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB919 | Intro
25% | Extending, for 60 days, the period of time during which the Workers' Compensation Commission may modify an award related to a workers' compensation claim if an appeal is filed during the original 5-year period during which the Commission maintains au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB431 | Intro
25% | Establishing that governmental essential workers are presumed to have an occupational disease that is compensable under workers' compensation law after being diagnosed with long COVID under certain circumstances; and applying the Act retroactively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB789 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Uninsured Employers' Fund to begin paying compensation for a workers' compensation claim within 15 days after the later of the date an award is made or payment of an award is due; applying certain provisions of law regarding the failure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB750 | Intro
25% | Altering the exception to the exclusivity of an employer's liability under workers' compensation law for covered employees who are injured or killed as the result of the deliberate intent of the employer to injure or kill the covered employee; deemin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB845 | Intro
25% | Requiring the employer at the employment where the accidental personal injury or occupational disease occurred or its insurer to pay a temporarily partially disabled covered employee who holds concurrent employment compensation that equals two-thirds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB844 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
