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MDHB145Engross
50%
Clarifying what consitutes a visual representation for purposes of a certain prohibition against distributing a certain visual representation in a certain manner.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB17Engross
50%
Establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense; and establishing that a conviction for a crime relating to animals may not merge with a conviction for any other crime based on the act...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (44-0)
MDHB128Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from intentionally threatening a witness or retaliating against a witness or intentionally soliciting another to threaten a witness or retaliate against a witness to affect testimony before a legislative body in a legislative pro...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB100Engross
50%
Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from com...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDHB288Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual located in a residence or place of private use or accommodation without the consent of the individual; altering the penalties for the crime of visual surve...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB321Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of arson that causes injury to a firefighter during the response to the fire or the efforts to suppress the fire; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on co...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB382Engross
50%
Establishing exceptions to certain criminal prohibitions against trespass on property and the civil tort of trespass for professional land surveyors, and agents and employees of professional land surveyors, who enter the property of another to practi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB346Engross
50%
Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of a v...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB496Engross
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.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB544Engross
50%
Providing that the State may institute a prosecution for sexual extortion, stalking, or revenge porn at any time; and providing that, for purposes of the Maryland Constitution, a person who commits sexual extortion, stalking, or revenge porn shall be...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB810Engross
50%
Authorizing a law enforcement unit to seize as contraband and dispose of a certain switch/auto-sear in a certain manner; prohibiting a person from transporting a switch/auto-sear into the State or manufacturing, possessing, selling, offering to sell,...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB763Engross
50%
Removing the representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Maryland Office from the Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention; and adding two members of the Muslim community to be appointed by the Attorney General to the Commissi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB892Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from knowingly recruiting, harboring, transporting, or obtaining an individual for the purpose of appropriating the government benefits of an individual for the benefit of the person or another through deception, coercion, exploi...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB1056Engross
50%
Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain ...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (32-13)
MDSB944Engross
50%
Repealing the prohibition on the sale of certain contraceptives by means of a vending machine or other automatic device; and authorizing registered nurses to provide, without a prescription, nonprescription drugs and devices in a local health departm...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDHB1041Engross
50%
Defining "disability" as it relates to laws prohibiting hate crimes; and prohibiting a person from committing or attempting to commit certain crimes motivated either in whole or in substantial part by another person's religion.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1171Engross
50%
Repealing the prohibition on the sale of certain contraceptives by means of a vending machine or other automatic device; and authorizing registered nurses to provide, without a prescription, nonprescription drugs and devices in a local health departm...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB344Engross
50%
Establishing exceptions to certain criminal prohibitions against trespass on property and the civil tort of trespass for professional land surveyors, and agents and employees of professional land surveyors, who enter the property of another to practi...
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB373Engross
50%
Prohibiting the theft of mail from a mail depository owned by the United States Postal Service; prohibiting the theft of a device used to open a mail depository owned by the United States Postal Service; prohibiting the theft of mail with intent to c...
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB664Engross
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 individual on the Internet, social medi...
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2024-03-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB70Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from taking certain actions with the intent to interrupt or impair the functioning of a public safety answering point; prohibiting a person from taking certain actions that interrupt or impair the functioning of a public safety a...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB5Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from committing the common law crime of indecent exposure; prohibiting a person from, with prurient intent, committing the common law crime of indecent exposure when the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor is pres...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB273Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from intentionally operating an unmanned aircraft over a correctional facility to record images of the facility without the authorization of the managing official of the correctional facility or the Secretary of Public Safety and...
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2024-03-08
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB99Engross
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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2024-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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
MDHB439Intro
25%
Adding a certain intent requirement to the elements of the crime of first degree assault, with regard to committing an assault with a firearm.
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1301Intro
25%
Requiring a business that does not want firearms on the business's property to post a clear and conspicuous sign at the main or any secondary entrance of the business at least 24 inches from the edge of the entryway and 4 feet off the ground.
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB585Engross
50%
Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; ...
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2024-02-28
To House Judiciary Committee
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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2024-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB130Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from committing the common law crime of indecent exposure; prohibiting a person from, with prurient intent, committing the common law crime of indecent exposure when the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor is pres...
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2024-02-23
To House Judiciary 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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2024-02-23
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB26Engross
50%
Increasing the maximum period of imprisonment for a first conviction for manslaughter by vehicle or vessel from 10 years to 20 years and for a second or subsequent conviction, or having been previously convicted for certain other crimes, from 15 year...
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2024-02-23
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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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB683Intro
25%
Specifying that certain crimes involving homicide or life-threatening injury by motor vehicle or vessel are violent crimes for the purpose of parole eligibility; increasing penalties for certain crimes involving homicide or life-threatening injury by...
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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB1180Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from making a threat to take the life of, kidnap, or cause physical injury to an immediate family member of a State or local official or a certain government employee.
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2024-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB1469Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an official, umpire, referee, or judge officiating at a sporting event; authorizing a police officer to arrest a pe...
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2024-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1063Intro
25%
Establishing the statute of limitations for a certain civil action for damages resulting from certain participation in a criminal organization; altering certain definitions of "criminal organization" and "underlying crime"; authorizing the filing of ...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1245Intro
25%
Prohibiting an individual from distributing heroin or fentanyl or chemical analogues of heroin or fentanyl without the lawful authority to do so, the use of which results in the death or serious bodily injury of another.
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1419Intro
25%
Prohibiting the intentional fraudulent sale, conveyance, or lease or attempted sale, conveyance, or lease of real property by a person who does not own the real property; prohibiting the acquisition, sale, or conveyance or the attempted acquisition, ...
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2024-02-13
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
MDSB619Intro
25%
Substituting civil penalties in place of criminal penalties for certain offenses relating to possessing, possessing with the intent to distribute, and cultivating cannabis and manufacturing cannabis products.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1460Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from intentionally disseminating the personal identifying information or image of a minor without express permission and with the intent to intimidate or harm the minor; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guil...
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2024-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB1158Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and, in addition to any other p...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1159Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person responsible for a premises from conducting, causing, authorizing, or aiding in maintaining an unruly social event; authorizing certain fire officials to enter a certain premises for a certain purpose without a search warrant unde...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1150Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony, and in addition to any other p...
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB302Intro
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...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB316Intro
25%
Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a cert...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB684Intro
25%
Establishing a certain intent element for wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in certain prohibited places; repealing a certain rebuttable presumption that a person transporting a handgun under certain circumstances transports the handgun kn...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1111Intro
25%
Repealing an exclusion of conduct involving the use of a motor vehicle applicable to the crime of reckless endangerment.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1209Intro
25%
Altering the penalties for a person using or possessing with intent to use, delivering or selling under certain circumstances, or manufacturing or possessing with intent to deliver or sell under certain circumstances drug paraphernalia to inject, ing...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
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