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MDHB372Engross
50%
Establishing the Rent Court Workforce Solutions Pilot Program in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to provide residential tenants who are facing eviction for a failure to pay rent with information on workforce development and employment op...
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2024-03-29
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
MDHB702Engross
50%
Exempting minor league baseball players who are compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for the wages and working conditions of employees from the Maryland Wage and Hour Law.
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB244Engross
50%
Altering certain civil penalties for violations of the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to annually increase the maximum and minimum civil penalties, beginning in 2025, by the percentag...
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2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (34-12)
MDHB385Engross
50%
Requiring that a notice containing certain information provided to an employee at the time of hiring be written; requiring that the statement regarding earnings required to be provided to employees by employers be written on the physical pay stub or ...
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2024-03-27
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB604Engross
50%
Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to spouses of eligible service members; and requiring the appointing authorities in the Executive Branch of State government to apply a credit of 10 points on any selection test for ...
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2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
MDHB571Engross
50%
Modifying provisions of law governing application, administration, and enforcement of the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, including provisions related to the payment of contributions, the calculation of the average weekly wage, the submis...
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2024-03-27
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB589Engross
50%
Exempting applicants for employment as a paramedic or an emergency medical technician with Dorchester County, as a 9-1-1 Center dispatcher at the Dorchester County 9-1-1 Center, or as a correctional officer of the Dorchester County Detention Center f...
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2024-03-27
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
MDHB649Engross
50%
Altering the requirement that an employer disclose certain wage information to an applicant for employment; requiring an employer to disclose certain wage information in certain postings and to certain employees at certain times; requiring an employe...
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2024-03-27
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB650Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to submit a report to the General Assembly that analyzes the apprenticeship mentoring ratio for all nontraditional apprenticeable occupations in the State; and requiring the Department to submit the report t...
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2024-03-27
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB11Intro
25%
Establishing the Leasing Training Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to train, prepare, and connect job seekers with careers in the residential rental housing industry; requiring the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning to ad...
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2024-03-25
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB136Engross
50%
Prohibiting employers from taking or threatening to take adverse action against an employee because the employee takes certain actions regarding rights and responsibilities, complaints, investigations, proceedings, or hearings; authorizing the Commis...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1128Engross
50%
Establishing the Talent Innovation Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to increase access to high-quality job training by using innovative and sustainable talent financing mechanisms to help meet skill needs in the State's prominent and emerg...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1388Engross
50%
Applying to certain veterinary and health care professionals certain provisions of law stating that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the Sta...
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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB465Engross
50%
Increasing, from $5,000 to $10,000, the maximum civil penalty for the knowing failure of an employer to properly classify an individual as an employee; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, on a showing by clear and convincing evidenc...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1393Engross
50%
Altering the scope of certain policy goals with regard to energy systems; requiring the Public Service Commission to report on certain projects relating to certain goals; altering the scope of certain funds that may be used for certain projects relat...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1226Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
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2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB602Engross
50%
Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity to also prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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2024-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB536Intro
25%
Establishing the Correctional Services Apprenticeship Start-Up Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to provide high school students and individuals interested in changing careers opportunities to begin a career within correctional servic...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB679Engross
50%
Providing that an applicant for registration to provide security systems services may provide security system services and have access to circumventional information if the applicant applied for registration, received an application number confirming...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHJ7Intro
25%
Ratifying the federal Child Labor Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as proposed by U.S. House Joint Resolution 184 of 1924, to provide the U.S. Congress with the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under the age of 18 years.
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2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1172Intro
25%
Establishing requirements related to the certification of employment by public service employers under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, including requirements regarding determinations of whether employees are full-time and the fre...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB900Intro
25%
Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay in a certain manner; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each firefighter employed by the county or municipality; and authorizin...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1271Intro
25%
Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments; requiring the Department of Information Technology to conduct certain monitoring and adopt certain policies and procedures; prohibiting a unit of State government...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB104Intro
25%
Requiring a railroad employer to provide a railroad employee with unpaid earned sick and safe leave under the Healthy Working Families Act.
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB467Intro
25%
Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by restaurants; specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; and prohibiting employers of tipped employees, beginning January 1, 2027, from includ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1446Intro
25%
Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, wayside detectors, and investigations by railroad labor union representatives; and requiring the Comm...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1084Intro
25%
Prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to work on-site at the employer's workplace if the employee provides documentation from a physician or other licensed health care practitioner that the employee has been diagnosed with an autoimmune ...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1255Intro
25%
Prohibiting, subject to a certain exception, an employer from using an automated employment decision tool to make certain employment decisions; and requiring an employer, under certain circumstances, to notify an applicant for employment of the emplo...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB525Intro
25%
Prohibiting an employer from discriminating against an individual because of the individual's use of cannabis products under certain circumstances; establishing that certain provisions prohibiting employment discrimination do not prohibit an employer...
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2024-02-02
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB682Intro
25%
Requiring the developer of a covered project, on the approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain generating station or qualified generator lead line or approval for the construction of a certain gen...
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB802Intro
25%
Prohibiting employers from taking certain actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of...
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB554Intro
25%
Applying certain prevailing wage requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on certain projects involving, and traffic control activities related to, any gas or electric infrastructure of an investor-owned gas company, electric company, ...
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2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee
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