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MDHB951Intro
25%
Requiring each county board of education to post on the main page of its website a link to the voter registration webpage maintained on the website of the State Board of Elections or the local board of elections of that county and a certain statement...
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2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1489Intro
25%
Requiring each local board of elections to send the absentee ballot application approved by the State Board of Elections to each eligible voter at least 60 days before each statewide primary election, unless the voter has permanent absentee ballot st...
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2024-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1514Intro
25%
Authorizing the State Board of Elections, beginning with the 2028 statewide primary election, to use ranked-choice voting to conduct a contest for the nomination by a political party of a candidate for the office of President of the United States; an...
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2024-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB182Intro
25%
Requiring that each legislative district established for the purpose of electing members of the House of Delegates consist of a certain number of single-member delegate districts; requiring the General Assembly to enact a law establishing and governi...
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2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1383Intro
25%
Requiring the Howard County Board of Education to publish a policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions in procurement contracts; requiring each student transportation procurement contract en...
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2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1468Intro
25%
Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include a certified school principal who is actively leading a school as a member; and providing for the initial term of the principal member of the State Board.
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2024-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1022Intro
25%
Establishing requirements regarding the provision of ballot drop boxes and information related to voting to eligible voters by correctional facilities and the State Board of Elections; establishing a Voting Rights Ombudsman for Incarcerated Individua...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB46Intro
25%
Authorizing the General Assembly to authorize a county referendum on a transportation investment program; requiring a transportation investment program submitted to referendum to include a list of projects that each have a cost of at least $20,000,00...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1436Intro
25%
Requiring a certain organizing committee to make certain determinations and provide a certain report to the county commissioners or county council of a certain county regarding a proposed municipal incorporation; requiring the county commissioners or...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1088Intro
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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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1109Intro
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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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1222Intro
25%
Requiring each local board of elections to maintain certain records, including all election data, absentee ballot requests, and voter registration lists, for at least 10 years and organized by election year; requiring an election director or a repres...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1191Intro
25%
Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; providing that certain provisions of law regarding the issuance of an initial teaching certificate do not apply to certain teachers u...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1261Intro
25%
Establishing the Commission on Access to High-Quality Early Childhood Education and Child Care for Children Three Years Old and Younger to study implementing universal access to high-quality early childhood education and child care for children 3 yea...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1303Intro
25%
Requiring that regular and substitute members of local boards of elections be paid certain amounts per day served for the canvass, election day, and in connection with a contested election; and requiring, if the amount of compensation paid to a regul...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1288Intro
25%
Authorizing the people to petition to a vote a proposal to add to, amend, and repeal the public general laws or the Maryland Constitution under certain circumstances and establishing the Initiative process; and requiring the amendment to the Constitu...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1342Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections and each applicable local board of elections to post the complete text and a plain language summary of certain proposed language or enactments relating to certain ballot questions for at least 65 days before the...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1353Intro
25%
Authorizing the Howard County Council to adopt a ranked-choice voting method for elections for the Howard County Board of Education.
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1343Intro
25%
Requiring that a certain statement included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about the purpose of a question on the ballot be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be u...
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1352Intro
25%
Authorizing the governing body of Howard County to establish a system of public campaign financing for members of the county board of education.
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1350Intro
25%
Altering the terms of the members of the Howard County Board of Education; and establishing the Howard County Board of Education Compensation Commission.
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2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB988Intro
25%
Altering the procedures used to fill a vacancy of an elected member of the Montgomery County Board of Education occurring 55 days or more before a certain candidate filing deadline.
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2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB800Intro
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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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB769Intro
25%
Authorizing the governing body of a county to establish a system of public campaign financing for certain offices after the governing body of the county has implemented a system of public campaign financing for elective offices in the executive or le...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB792Intro
25%
Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to draft committees and exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for draft and exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, ...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB775Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish a process by which an individual with disabilities may return a marked absentee ballot to a local board of elections electronically.
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB872Intro
25%
Requiring that candidates, campaign finance entities, and certain other persons, or agents of candidates, campaign finance entities, or certain other persons, that publish, distribute, or disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or dissemi...
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2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means 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
MDHB48Intro
25%
Decreasing the term of office for the judges of the circuit courts; increasing the number of years between successive retention elections for judges of the Appellate Court of Maryland and justices of the Supreme Court of Maryland; providing for a tra...
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB677Intro
25%
Requiring that candidates for judge of the orphans' court appear on the ballot without party designation.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB164Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections or a local board of elections, on request of a candidate, to provide the candidate with a list of registered voters who have requested an absentee ballot for an upcoming election; and requiring that the list of ...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB142Intro
25%
Authorizing a voter to establish the voter's identity at the request of an election judge at a polling place by presenting the voter's registration card, a valid Maryland driver's license, or certain other identification that contains a photograph.
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB192Intro
25%
Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid nongovernment-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states the...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB202Intro
25%
Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and, except under certain circ...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB494Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain political organizations from fraudulently claiming to be acting on behalf of a candidate or political party; prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB563Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election based on certain criteria; requiring local b...
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2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB479Intro
25%
Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution by requiring a candidate for Governor in a primary election to designate a candidate for Lieutenant Governor within 21 days after the primary election; requiring a candidate seeking a nomination for...
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2024-01-23
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB373Intro
25%
Authorizing the General Assembly to provide by suitable enactment the authority of a county to lower the age at which an individual may vote in an election for members of an elected county board of education; authorizing a county to enact a local law...
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2024-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB423Intro
25%
Authorizing the Montgomery County Council to adopt, by law, a ranked choice voting method or an approval voting method for elections for certain local offices; and authorizing the Montgomery County Council to provide for the format of ballots to be u...
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2024-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB412Intro
25%
Proposing a constitutional amendment to require that a special election be held at the same time as the regular statewide primary and general elections that are held in the second year of the term to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senato...
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2024-01-22
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB81Intro
25%
Requiring each county to adopt a charter by December 31, 2030, using a certain procedure; altering the method by which a county shall adopt a charter under certain circumstances; requiring the charter to provide for the election of members of the cou...
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2024-01-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB257Intro
25%
Authorizing unaffiliated voters to request to affiliate with a political party at an early voting center during a primary election and vote a provisional ballot for the voter's preferred political party.
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2024-01-17
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB114Intro
25%
Altering the collective bargaining process for State employees, including by requiring the selection of a neutral arbitrator to oversee all aspects of collective bargaining, establishing a process of arbitration in the event of impasse, and providing...
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2024-01-15
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB132Intro
25%
Repealing the prohibition on applicants for and holders of video lottery operation licenses and persons who own an interest in video lottery facility operations in the State from directly or indirectly making contributions to the campaign finance ent...
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2024-01-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
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