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MDHB67PassAltering the maximum civil penalty to which an unauthorized insurer or person that violates certain provisions of State insurance law is subject for each violation; and altering the maximum civil penalty that the Maryland Insurance Commissioner may i...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 119
MDHB244PassAltering 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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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 104
MDHB513PassAltering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that a system operator does not need to be pre...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17
MDHB585PassProhibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 21
MDHB139Enroll
75%
Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of utility services for which certain landlords are required to provide a certain notice in a written lease and a copy of a certain receipt or bill summary under certain circumstances.
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB105Enroll
75%
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to require persons who are convicted of or granted probation before judgment for certain criminal offenses related to driving while impaired by alcohol, a drug or drug combination, or a combination of drugs ...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB346Engross
50%
Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of a v...
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2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Carter) Adopted
MDHB465Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB457Enroll
75%
Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish a system to track the chain of custody of synthetic turf installed on sports and playing fields; requiring the custodian of a synthetic turf sports or playing field in the State to report chain...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB567Enroll
75%
Establishing generally the manner in which a controller or a processor may process a consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller of personal data to es...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB577Enroll
75%
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;...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB603Enroll
75%
Requiring a certain entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment by April 1, 2026, under certain circumstances; requiring certain privacy protections for cer...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB693Enroll
75%
Establishing the Office of Tenant and Landlord Affairs in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide certain educational resources and information to tenants; requiring the Office to develop and publish a Maryland Tenants' Bill of...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB896Engross
50%
Prohibiting a merchant from selling a certain open- or closed-loop gift card to a consumer unless the merchant meets certain requirements; requiring a merchant to provide to the employees of the merchant training on identification of gift card fraud;...
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2024-04-08
Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Kramer, Hayes and Mautz)
MDHB1028Enroll
75%
Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework and recommendations to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Economic Matters Committee on or before...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1056Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a 340B manufacturer from taking certain direct or indirect actions to limit or restrict the acquisition or delivery of a 340B drug; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice within the meaning of the C...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1047Enroll
75%
Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offe...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1147Enroll
75%
Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to whi...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1180Engross
50%
Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless the products are located behind a counter; r...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB1308Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from recording a deed or other instrument that the person knows contains false information; establishing a 3-year limitation on when a prosecution for a violation of the Act may be commenced; establishing a fine not to exceed $50...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1439Enroll
75%
Increasing the motor vehicle registration emergency medical system surcharge for certain motor vehicles; providing for the distribution of revenues derived from the surcharge; altering certain provisions of law related to the Maryland Trauma Physicia...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1482Enroll
75%
Altering penalties for failing to maintain certain required security for certain motor vehicles; and altering the amount of the penalties that are required to be paid for fiscal year 2025 to the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund and the base amount ...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB635Enroll
75%
Establishing in Harford County a performing arts nonprofit organization beer, wine, and liquor license that authorizes the holder to sell or serve beer, wine, and liquor for on-premises consumption at up to three locations designated at the time of a...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB307Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Prince George's County to issue a Class C (fraternal/sororal/service organization) alcoholic beverages license for use by an independent and nonprofit fraternal or sororal organization that meets cer...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB948Engross
50%
Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be joined and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; prohibiting one or more persons from...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB614Engross
50%
Requiring a private home detention monitoring agency to notify the court within 24 hours after a defendant subject to home monitoring as a condition of pretrial release has violated a condition of home detention monitoring; requiring a private home d...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB333Enroll
75%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to maintain a portal on the State Board's website that the public may use to report election disinformation; requiring the State Board to conduct a periodic review of material submitted by the public through the...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB379Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,00...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB561Enroll
75%
Specifying the maximum amounts of certain fees established by the Department of Natural Resources by regulation; and authorizing the Department to permanently revoke or temporarily suspend a tree expert license if the license holder fails to maintain...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB808Enroll
75%
Establishing a local delivery service permit that authorizes the holder to deliver alcoholic beverages from a retail license holder that is authorized to deliver alcoholic beverages to purchasers in a certain jurisdiction under certain circumstances;...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB834Enroll
75%
Requiring that the conflict of interest provisions enacted by Calvert County include certain provisions relating to judicial relief for certain violations of the county's conflict of interest provisions; requiring the ethics provisions enacted by Cal...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB991Enroll
75%
Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1165Enroll
75%
Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
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2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled
MDHB770Engross
50%
Altering the time period within which a court may prohibit a person convicted under certain circumstances of operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol from operating a vessel on the waters of the State; requiring the Department of Natur...
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2024-04-06
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB253Enroll
75%
Making alterations and clarifications related to the duties of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission, the Office of Social Equity, the Advisory Board on Medical and Adult-Use Cannabis, and the Maryland Cannabis Administration; altering the me...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB364Enroll
75%
Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in school zones in Prince George's County, if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded failing to obey a stop sign is subject to a citation and a certa...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB609Enroll
75%
Authorizing employees of public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engage in goo...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB667Engross
50%
Establishing that certain crimes relating to animals do not include certain activities; establishing that each animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for pur...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB814Enroll
75%
Altering certain provisions relating to the Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform and Emerging and Best Practices; altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering cer...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1101Enroll
75%
Providing certain persons standing in environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, under certain cir...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1230Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale or advertising for sale a tianeptine product to an individual; and establishing a penalty for a retailer who violates the Act of a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up to ...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1171Enroll
75%
Prohibiting the sale of natural membrane condoms, rather than all nonlatex condoms, through a vending machine or other automatic device; repealing a criminal penalty related to the sale of certain contraceptives by means of a vending machine or other...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB5Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from committing the common law crime of indecent exposure; prohibiting a person from, with prurient intent, committing the common law crime of indecent exposure when the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor is pres...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB136Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB272Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from applying for or holding a cannabis license or registration under certain circumstances if an ownership interest in the license or registration is for the limited purpose of satisfying certain requirements of registration or ...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB337Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from committing a violation of a certain provision of law governing the right-of-way of a bicycle, a motor scooter, or an electronic personal assistive mobility device lawfully in a designated bike lane or shoulder that contribut...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB452Enroll
75%
Requiring the State Board of Individual Tax Preparers to publish on the Board's website a certain code of ethics and rules of professional conduct by January 1, 2026; requiring the Board to notify the Comptroller and the Field Enforcement Bureau of a...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB454Enroll
75%
Altering the definition of "tax information" for purposes of law governing the confidentiality and disclosure of tax information; authorizing, subject to certain limitations, the disclosure of certain tax information to certain tax compliance organiz...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB501Enroll
75%
Increasing from $1,000 to $5,000 the maximum amount of a civil or criminal fine that may be imposed by a charter county to enforce certain local laws enacted by the county.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB548Enroll
75%
Establishing the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study existing laws, scientific data, and practices related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations regarding a...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
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