| MD | HB832 | Pass | Defining "damages" or "losses" in statutory causes of action to protect civil rights or consumer rights and providing that "damages" or "losses" includes reasonable nominal damages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 884 |
| MD | HB947 | Pass | Prohibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to a public nuisance through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 714 |
| MD | HB382 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 607 |
| MD | HB432 | Pass | Replacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 444 |
| MD | HB664 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 414 |
| MD | HB137 | Pass | Providing that a member of the administrative, educational, or support staff of any public, private, or parochial school, acting in an official capacity, is not civilly liable for personal injury or property damage resulting from intervention in a st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 243 |
| MD | HB394 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 259 |
| MD | HB1062 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; establishing the statute of limitations for a certain prosecution relating to harassment by distribution of a deep fake image to begin at the time t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Pippy) Adopted |
| MD | HB162 | Engross
50% | Establishing that a provision in a contract or agreement relating to the use of a recreational facility that purports to limit the recreational facility's liability, or release the recreational facility from or indemnify or hold harmless the recreati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB359 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a petitioner to request a stay of certain civil actions or proceedings on the filing of a petition for guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person; requiring, to effectuate service of process for certain civil actions again...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB698 | Intro
25% | Requiring a court to rule on petitions to appoint a guardian of the person of a disabled person in order to seek transfer or discharge of a disabled person from a hospital within 10 days; and requiring that hearings to appoint a guardian of the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB158 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a provision in a contract or agreement relating to architectural, engineering, inspecting, or surveying services that requires the promisor to defend a promisee against claims brought by a third party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1361 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Task Force to Study Various Aspects of Changing Contributory Negligence to Comparative Negligence; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by December 31, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB922 | Intro
25% | Requiring the factfinder in a public welfare action to make a certain determination and assign responsibility and liability in a certain manner; authorizing the State to continue to pursue certain actions if it does not obtain complete relief from ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1126 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; and authorizing the State or a local government to bring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1449 | Intro
25% | Applying to charter counties and the City of Baltimore certain provisions relating to a request for judicial review of certain decisions of a board of appeals or a zoning action; specifying when a person is aggrieved by a board of appeals decision or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1146 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain indemnity agreements and agreements to pay the costs of defense made in connection with an agreement for the management or operation of a building, a structure, an appurtenance, or an appliance are against public policy and are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1124 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain nonprofit organizations from aiding or abetting certain activity by the government of Israel or a citizen of Israel; authorizing the Attorney General or a certain person to bring a certain action against a nonprofit organization t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1311 | Intro
25% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, all devices activated in the State to enable a certain filter to prevent minors from accessing obscene material; prohibiting a certain person from deactivating the filter; providing that a manufacturer of a devic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB691 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "legally protected health care" to include certain gender-affirming treatment, including medications and supplies, for the purposes of certain provisions of law that prohibit health occupations disciplinary actions and cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB911 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a certain person to petition for a peace order against another person whom the petitioner alleges has conducted visual surveillance of areas of the petitioner's residence where the petitioner has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB83 | Intro
25% | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB330 | Intro
25% | Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB595 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain civil enforcement actions brought by the Attorney General may be instituted at any time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB555 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the unauthorized dissemination of certain personal identifying information without permission, with the intent to threaten, intimidate, abuse, harass or frighten a person, or place the person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
