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MDSB169Engross
50%
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and ins...
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2024-02-14
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB761Intro
25%
Requiring each testing facility in the State to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture to use animals in research, education, or testing; establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a testing facility; prohibiting a t...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB893Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from locating a new crematory or a property with a crematory incinerator within 1,000 feet of certain properties in Areas III and IV of the State; and prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a certain permit to...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1029Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations for the secure storage and use of voter data from the list of registered voters and specifying procedures and requirements relating to electronic signatures; establishing and altering certai...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB47Intro
25%
Establishing prohibitions and requirements regarding the sale of diet pills to individuals under the age of 18 years; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a notice with information about the potential health risks of diet pills; and...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB96Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to conduct a climate and environmental equity evaluation regarding the impact of issuing an approval for certain environmental permits; requiring the Department to provide opportunities for residents of the...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB598Intro
25%
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a school principal as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB638Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, to allow completion of an eligible financial literacy courses to be applied toward fulfillment of the student service hours high school graduation requirement for the ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB642Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a produ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB957Intro
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 Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1060Intro
25%
Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, the blocking of highway grade crossings, wayside detectors, and investigations by railroad labor unio...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB987Intro
25%
Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ce...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1018Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in a certain year, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest the amount of th...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1083Intro
25%
Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt certain regulations to oversee electric distribution system planning in the State on or before December 31, 2025; requiring electric companies in the State to submit to the Commission certain plans to ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1020Intro
25%
Requiring each hospital licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to conduct investigations regarding alleged violatio...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB955Intro
25%
Establishing the Technology Advisory Commission to study and make recommendations on technology and science developments and use in the State; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $100,000 for the Commission...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1051Intro
25%
Authorizing the Dorchester County Council to, by public local law, abolish the Dorchester County Sanitary Commission, establish a department of public facilities and services, and provide for the department's abilities and functions, subject to certa...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1133Intro
25%
Authorizing a Class BWLT beer, wine, and liquor tasting permit to be issued by the Board of License Commissioners for Allegany County; and establishing an annual fee for a Class BWLT beer, wine, and liquor tasting permit of $150 in addition to a one-...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1138Intro
25%
Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualified apprentices or journeymen necessary to meet a certain applicable percentage for ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1126Intro
25%
Establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain congestion relief plans; establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region conge...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB1081Intro
25%
Establishing the Driver Education in Public Schools Grant Program to provide grants to public schools and nonprofit organizations to assist public schools in offering driver education courses to students; establishing the State-Aided Institutions Fie...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB586Intro
25%
Prohibiting the sale, offer for sale, transfer, or distribution of corrugated stainless steel tubing that does not meet a certain International Code Council standard; requiring certain tubing used in the construction of fuel gas piping systems in cer...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB605Intro
25%
Altering automatic voter registration procedures at the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; establishing requirements regarding the transmission of automatic voter registration information by the Administration and ...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB660Intro
25%
Prohibiting local governments from denying or impairing the right of a protected class member to vote; establishing requirements on the State Board of Elections and local governments related to the provision of language-related assistance in local go...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB686Intro
25%
Establishing the Covered Electronic Device Recycling Program in the Department of the Environment; repealing certain provisions of law relating to existing covered electronic takeback programs; repealing a certain provision of law authorizing a count...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB865Intro
25%
Expanding, renaming, and altering certain provisions relating to a certain truancy reduction program in certain juvenile courts; authorizing a county or circuit administrative judge to establish a certain Truancy Reduction and School Reengagement Pro...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB954Intro
25%
Requiring certain business entities to file with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation a report including certain information regarding beneficial owners of the entities; and prohibiting the inspection of the reports in certain circumstanc...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB913Intro
25%
Authorizing the governing body of a county to adopt, by law, an approval voting method for elections for offices in the executive or legislative branches of county government.
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB983Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a certain process to phase out on or before December 31, 2026, the use of lead or lead-based ammunition for hunting; and requiring the Department to establish a process to certify ammunition ...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB958Intro
25%
Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue f...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1086Intro
25%
Authorizing a resident of a local jurisdiction or an overburdened and underserved community in the State to submit an application to the Department of the Environment to request the designation of a certain area as an environmental justice district i...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB424Intro
25%
Providing that during the trial of a criminal case in which a defendant is charged with an assault in the second degree, a certain statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule if the statement is offered against a party that has engaged in, directed...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB780Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person from selling an Internet-connected device that is intended for minors unless the device is sold with a certain filter, certain privacy settings, and other features; making a violation of the prohibition an unfair, abusive, or dec...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB861Intro
25%
Requiring a person that owns, operates, or controls a high energy use facility to ensure greenhouse gas emissions associated with the electricity used by the facility are reduced by certain amounts by certain years; prohibiting a person from using ce...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB888Intro
25%
Authorizing a local behavioral health authority to hire its own inspectors to monitor behavioral health program quality and safety; requiring a local behavioral health authority to track complaints against behavioral health programs and health care p...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB998Intro
25%
Requiring a certain provider of earned wage access services to register with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring a provider to file a certain surety bond or an irrevocable letter of credit with the Commissioner in a certain manner; re...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1025Intro
25%
Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program to develop and submi...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB1012Intro
25%
Establishing the Disabled Veterans Guaranteed Basic Income Program; establishing the Disabled Veterans Guaranteed Basic Income Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring, beginnin...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB988Intro
25%
Establishing the Self-Directed Mental Health Services Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to facilitate access to clinically appropriate, person-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed self-directed services in the most in...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1021Intro
25%
Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimb...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1019Intro
25%
Requiring that the calculation of an enrollee's contribution to a cost sharing requirement for a prescription drug be based on the list price of the drug reduced by at least 85% of the total amount of rebates received or expected to be received by th...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB269Intro
25%
Establishing a property tax credit against the State, county, and municipal corporation real property tax on certain properties that provide permanent supportive housing; providing for the calculation of the tax credit; providing for the recapture of...
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2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB97Intro
25%
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to develop and make available a specially designed registration plate honoring the Maryland horse industry.
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2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB463Intro
25%
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to develop and make available a specially designed registration plate that features the statement "Submarine Warfare".
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2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB1110Intro
25%
Requiring child advocacy centers to report annually to the Behavioral Health Administration certain information related to behavioral health care services provided at the center; requiring the Administration to include in its annual report certain in...
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2024-02-04
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB104Intro
25%
Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, the dependent allowance, and the amount of earne...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB483Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments in certain low-income communities; requiring the Corporation to apply for an allocation of federal new markets tax credits; expanding the eligible u...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB752Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024;...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB779Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to set a special property tax rate for improved residential property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation or other authorized use; establishing a subclass ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB766Intro
25%
Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; requiring...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
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