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MDSB615Enroll
75%
Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim September 30 as Maryland Veterans Suicide Prevention Day.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB801Enroll
75%
Providing that certain provisions of the Maryland Rules relating to discovery in civil matters apply in a certain administrative proceeding; requiring a court that receives a certain report to promptly notify counsel of record for the committed perso...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB933Enroll
75%
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;...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB1036Enroll
75%
Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2025.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB470Enroll
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...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB974Enroll
75%
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;...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB1009Enroll
75%
Establishing the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study and make recommendations related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendatio...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB432Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researchi...
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2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB36Enroll
75%
Requiring the Department of State Police, on or before December 31 each year, to post on its website and submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a report detailing, for the preceeding calendar year, the number of investigations completed by t...
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDHB204Enroll
75%
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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2024-03-29
Returned Passed
MDSB412Enroll
75%
Altering the membership of a county's mental health advisory committee by including an individual with experience with mental health care for veterans or individuals serving in the military on the list of groups from which individuals may be appointe...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB332Enroll
75%
Requiring, on or before January 1, 2025, each hospital and urgent care center in the State to implement an evidence-based protocol for the early recognition and treatment of a patient with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock that is based on gener...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDSB419Engross
50%
Altering the fiscal years, from through 2025 to through 2028, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program.
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
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
MDSB1102Engross
50%
Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con...
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2024-03-27
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1319Engross
50%
Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue certain licenses to certain qualified applicants to conduct or participate in certain Internet gaming operations in the State; authorizing the Governor, on recommendation of the Com...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB558Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a comprehensive health education framework; requiring each county board of education to create an age-appropriate curriculum that is cons...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1019Engross
50%
Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by the court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, but not to exceed a tot...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1396Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct a certain study on linkages between levels of care within the substance use disorder treatment and recovery continuum of care; and requiring the Department to report the results of the study and ...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB829Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to the limitations of its budget, to provide a virtual mental health awareness and skills building training program for service sector employees; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health, su...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1257Engross
50%
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, a comprehensive plan for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to e...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1285Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1310Engross
50%
Establishing the Baltimore City Coordinated Youth Violence Review and Response Team to examine and prevent violence against youth through intensive case management; requiring that the review team be provided with access to certain information and rec...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB848Engross
50%
Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB141Engross
50%
Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB295Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day.
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1346Intro
25%
Altering the procedures related to competency evaluations, including by requiring the Maryland Department of Health, rather than the court, to determine the basis on which a defendant will be examined; altering the definition of "designated health ca...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1298Intro
25%
Authorizing the father of a child to file a petition to add the father's surname to the child's name under certain circumstances and establishing related court procedures; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to develop and update, as appropriate, a ...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1394Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, each county board of education to provide students in grades six through twelve with the telephone numbers of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the Safe Schools Maryland anonymous tip line by p...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB10Intro
25%
Altering which individuals are eligible to receive mental health counseling paid for by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; requiring the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to provide direct reimbursement to mental health professionals providi...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB79Intro
25%
Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB190Intro
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...
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2024-03-04
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters
MDHB187Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a fina...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1094Intro
25%
Authorizing a community-based organization to establish an overdose prevention site pilot program with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health and in consultation with the local health department; requiring a program to acquire gas chromato...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1423Intro
25%
Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB132Engross
50%
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.
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2024-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB352Intro
25%
Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB694Intro
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...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1119Intro
25%
Establishing the Algorithmic Addiction Fund; providing that the Fund includes all revenue received by the State from a judgment against, or settlement with, technology conglomerates, technology companies, social media conglomerates, or social media c...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB828Intro
25%
Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw under extenuating circumstances and reimburse the student for tuition and fees paid for the semester in which the student withdraws under certa...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1389Intro
25%
Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits.
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB331Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study Paratransit in Maryland; requiring the Task Force to study paratransit in the State, including current, needed, and expected funding for paratransit, reasons for current funding and spending gaps, and the role pub...
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2024-02-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1484Intro
25%
Altering the process for distributing the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund to Baltimore City by allocating certain funds to the Baltimore City Comptroller under certain circumstances; establishing an Equitable Community Investment Council in ea...
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2024-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB61Intro
25%
Establishing a program within the Division of Correction that provides formerly incarcerated individuals and individuals on probation with certain services; requiring the facility that administers the program to be located in Prince George's County; ...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB103Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim August 31 as Overdose Awareness Day.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1144Intro
25%
Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1376Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, managed care organizations, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for a special administrative...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1372Intro
25%
Establishing the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth as to support improved access to mental health care services to children and youth in the State; imposing a tax on certain annual revenues derived from certain digital social media servi...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB65Intro
25%
Requiring a school health practitioner, health care practitioner, or certified school psychologist employed by or under a contract with a school-based health center, local school system, or local health department to provide school health services at...
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2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB121Intro
25%
Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services not locate training facilities with outdoor firearm ranges near a hospital, educational, state or local correctional, or juvenile facility; requ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
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