| MD | HB78 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Environmental Service to delegate certain responsibilities to an employee of the Service; altering the obligations of the Service after receiving a request for services and after ent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 |
| MD | HB52 | Pass | Providing that certain State employees are entitled to use up to 10 days of parental bereavement leave with pay within 60 days after the death of the employee's child; providing that certain State employees are entitled to use up to 60 days of parent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 419 |
| MD | HB62 | Pass | Increasing, from 30 days to 60 days, the time period during which an investigation must be conducted and a written decision must be issued regarding a complaint filed by an applicant or employee alleging discrimination or harassment by an employer; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 554 |
| MD | HB630 | Pass | Repealing a requirement for certain transfers of service to be calculated under a certain formula; correcting a reference to a contribution rate for transfers of service into the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; and providing for eligibility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 669 |
| MD | HB629 | Pass | Updating the definition of "Consumer Price Index" to replace the 1967 index with the 1982-1984 index as the reference used by the State Retirement and Pension System for certain calculations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 666 |
| MD | HB625 | Pass | Clarifying the topics that may be included in certain training required for each trustee on the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System; providing that the Board of Trustees may satisfy a requirement to provide each member and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 665 |
| MD | HB756 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of State to furnish a State flag to drape the casket of an eligible decedent; establishing the process for a State flag to be claimed after burial; providing that only one flag may be provided for the death of an eligible dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 |
| MD | HB983 | Pass | Increasing the number of certain bargaining units for the purpose of specifying certain pay rates for certain employees of the Maryland Department of Health; and requiring that the pay rates of certain Department employees who are in certain bargaini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 631 |
| MD | HB1004 | Pass | Establishing that certain adjustments to compensation may not be considered an extraordinary salary increase when determining the average final compensation of a member in the State Retirement and Pension System; and requiring a member to submit cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 673 |
| MD | HB1012 | Pass | Altering the requirements that certain officers and employees of the State be covered by certain surety bonds to allow the officers and employees to be covered by certain insurance policies; transferring certain duties and responsibilities of the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 437 |
| MD | HB1013 | Pass | Authorizing a licensed clinical professional counselor to sign a certificate of illness or disability when a State employee uses sick leave for 5 or more consecutive workdays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657 |
| MD | HB1044 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that an appointing authority send a copy of the selection plan and job announcement to the Secretary of Budget and Management at least 1 week before posting a job announcement; and repealing the requirement that the appointi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 459 |
| MD | HB1212 | Pass | Establishing that the Executive Director of the State Retirement Agency shall employ a Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion of the State Retirement Agency; requiring the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to identify and minimize ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 495 |
| MD | HB260 | Pass | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain supervisory State employees; and requiring that certain supervisory State employees have separate bargaining units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 133 |
| MD | HB598 | Pass | Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 322 |
| MD | HB1005 | Pass | Altering membership in the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include certain employees of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Maryland Department of Health; requiring the State Retirement and Pension System to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 135 |
| MD | HB577 | Pass | Establishing the Study on the Establishment of a Homeless Shelter Licensing Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Study to review current habitability and admissions standards of homeless shelters in the State;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| MD | HB538 | Pass | Establishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 122 |
| MD | HB1409 | Pass | Altering the definition of "public school employee" to include supervisory noncertificated employees in Dorchester County for purposes of collective bargaining.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 381 |
| MD | HB88 | Pass | Providing that an individual serving as the State Superintendent of Schools shall immediately vest in the State Retirement and Pension System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 53 |
| MD | HB580 | Pass | Increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of disaster service leave for employees in the Executive Branch of State government; and increasing, from 15 to 30, the maximum number of days of paid leave the Secretary of Budget and Management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7 |
| MD | HB1211 | Pass | Repealing a certain exemption from certain reemployed retiree earnings offsets for certain retirees of the Employees' and Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems; repealing certain requirements that certain participating employers pay certain offset...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 66 |
| MD | HB1188 | Engross
50% | Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; renaming the Major Information Technology Development Fund to be the Information Technology Investment Fund; requiring a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB575 | Enroll
75% | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB604 | Engross
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | HB566 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names to develop and implement a framework to identify real property owned by the State or a political subdivision that bears a Confederate name; and requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB173 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB559 | Intro
25% | Requiring, on or before October 1, 2025, the Department of Budget and Management to identify units of State government or functions of State government for which a transition to a 4-day workweek is feasible for 60% of State employees; requiring the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1172 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
25% | Altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; altering the funding formula for community colleges and the State aid program for private nonprofit institutions of higher education; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB900 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB949 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain State employees, on request and with approval from the appropriate appointing authority, are entitled to use up to 4 hours of cancer screening leave with pay in any 12-month period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB670 | Intro
25% | Authorizing certain retirees who began State service before July 1, 2011, to be eligible for prescription drug benefits in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; specifying that prescription drug benefits shall be discont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1305 | Intro
25% | Requiring that employees of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services supporting a State correctional facility who serve in the classification of lieutenant, captain, major, or case management supervisor or manager receive proportiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1520 | Intro
25% | Transferring employees of the Department of Transportation Human Resources Management System to the State Personnel Management System; and repealing the Department's Human Resources Management System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1422 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's refusal to undergo a genetic procedure in education, public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB269 | Intro
25% | Clarifying that refusal by a person to disclose information about criminal charges that have been expunged may not be the sole reason for a unit, an official, or an employee of the State or political subdivision of the State to deny the person's appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB658 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; establishing procedures for the au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB517 | Intro
25% | Altering the prohibition on reprisal against certain employees for certain disclosures and actions under the Maryland Whistleblower Law in the Executive Branch of State government; requiring the Office of the Attorney General to investigate unresolve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1328 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county to enact a local law creating a conservation and restoration fund for a certain purpose; establishing the Utility-Scale Solar Design and Siting Commission in the Power Plant Research Program to provide recommendations related to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1289 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "practice social work" to clarify the types of assessments that may be performed by a licensee, add biopsychosocial treatment as a treatment option, and clarify the scope of practice for individuals licensed as certified so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB788 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's criminal record in public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons; establishing certain exceptions to certain prohibitions establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB493 | Intro
25% | Providing collective bargaining rights to certain faculty, part-time faculty, post doctoral associates, and graduate assistants at certain State institutions of higher education; establishing separate collective bargaining units for the faculty, part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB617 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain employees, agents, or entities on any information technology owned or leased by a unit of State government from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeChat, or access any website developed by ByteDance Ltd. or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB114 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB9 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a public employee is subject to forfeiture of benefits from the State Retirement and Pension System when a public employee is found guilty of, pleads guilty to, or enters a plea of nolo contendere to a qualifying crime that is commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB140 | Intro
25% | Requiring an appointing authority to apply a credit of ten points on a selection test for specified positions in the State Personnel Management System for the spouse of an active duty service member relocating to the State on military orders; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
