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MDHB1249Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Aviation Administration to conduct a study on increasing commercial air travel at the Martin State Airport; and requiring the Administration to report its finding and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembl...
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2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1226Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
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2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1077Intro
25%
Establishing the Small Business Climate Change Coordinator in the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs in the Executive Department to support the State's small, minority, and women-owned business community on matters related to clima...
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2024-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB1490Intro
25%
Establishing the Business Diversity Incubator Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish diverse and effective business incubators in the State; authorizing the Governor in each of fisca...
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2024-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB695Intro
25%
Requiring a dealer of used motor vehicles sold or leased in the State to establish procedures under which each consumer, before completing a transaction to purchase or lease a used motor vehicle from the dealer, is notified and provided with a copy o...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB844Intro
25%
Requiring licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail to keep in stock and offer for sale at retail at least one kind of nicotine replacement therapy product and to post certain signs.
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1033Intro
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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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1508Intro
25%
Altering the termination date of the Job Creation Tax Credit Program from 2027 to 2025; providing for the termination date for the One Maryland Economic Development Tax Credit Program on January 1, 2025; establishing the Maryland Jobs Development Tax...
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2024-03-12
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1095Intro
25%
Establishing the Local Journalism Sustainability Grant Program within the Department of Commerce; requiring the Department to award grants under the Program to certain small businesses for costs paid or incurred to place an advertisement in a local n...
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2024-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB163Intro
25%
Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1301Intro
25%
Requiring a business that does not want firearms on the business's property to post a clear and conspicuous sign at the main or any secondary entrance of the business at least 24 inches from the edge of the entryway and 4 feet off the ground.
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHJ6Intro
25%
Supporting the Governor's request for a federal commercial fishery disaster declaration; and encouraging further efforts to obtain federal assistance to protect and rehabilitate the State's commercial fisheries as a result of an abundance of invasive...
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2024-02-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB352Intro
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...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1365Intro
25%
Requiring a private construction contract to include a provision requiring the owner to pay the contractor within 45 days after the receipt of a proper invoice following completion of the work or, if the owner withholds all or part of an amount invoi...
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2024-02-27
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB815Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Financial Empowerment Center Network Pilot Program in the Department of Commerce; providing that the purpose of Program is to establish a statewide network of financial empowerment centers in different regions of the State; ...
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1197Intro
25%
Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certification fee of $1,000; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ...
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2024-02-26
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1481Intro
25%
Prohibiting a retail business from charging a consumer a certain surcharge in excess of the amount required to reimburse the retail business for the cost of processing certain credit or debit transactions; and making a violation of this Act an unfair...
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2024-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB357Intro
25%
Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operat...
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2024-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1422Intro
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.
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2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1471Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "beneficial ownership" to mean any ownership interest of 25% rather than 5% for the purposes of certain disclosures made by certain businesses to the Secretary of State under certain circumstances.
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2024-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1405Intro
25%
Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to develop and offer an apprenticeship program in skilled trades for incarcerated individuals; establishing the purpose of the program is to assist incarcerated individuals to develo...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1413Intro
25%
Establishing the Prince George's Development Authority in Prince George's County to support and develop a certain neighborhood revitalization plan in coordination with certain residents; and requiring, on or before October 31, 2026, the Authority to ...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB106Intro
25%
Establishing the Public Assistance to Entrepreneurship (PA2E) Program in the Department of Human Services to train participants on how to establish and run a small business; requiring the Department to establish eligibility criteria and a process to ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB467Intro
25%
Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by restaurants; specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; and prohibiting employers of tipped employees, beginning January 1, 2027, from includ...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1355Intro
25%
Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2029, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2029, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain ex...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1124Intro
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...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1184Intro
25%
Requiring a unit to structure procurement procedures to meet federal procurement standards and to try to achieve or exceed a certain overall percentage goal of the unit's total dollar value of procurement contracts to be made with historically underu...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1314Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to waive the filing fee for certain annual reports for the first year that certain business entities are in existence; requiring that 25% of the fees collected be credited to the Child Care S...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1425Intro
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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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1438Intro
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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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1204Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "qualified position" for purposes of eligibility for and the calculation of benefits under the One Maryland and More Jobs for Marylanders economic development programs; altering the definition of "qualified employee" for pu...
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2024-02-08
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB201Intro
25%
Requiring the commercial driver's license knowledge test to be offered in English and Spanish.
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2024-02-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB735Intro
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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2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB179Intro
25%
Replacing references to Columbus Day in certain provisions of law with references to Indigenous Peoples' Day; and establishing that Indigenous Peoples' Day is to be observed on October 12 or, if the United States Congress designates another day for ...
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2024-02-06
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB797Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person, with the intent to promote a certain crime or with the intent to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of proceeds of a certain crime, from taking certain actions with respect to the proceeds de...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB751Intro
25%
Authorizing a person who offers for sale to a third party improved single-family residential real property, for the first 30 days, to accept an offer to purchase the property made only by an individual, a community development organization, a nonprof...
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2024-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB788Intro
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...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB831Intro
25%
Prohibiting a provision in certain documents of a cooperative housing corporation from prohibiting or restricting the establishment or operation of certain family child care homes; prohibiting a provision in certain documents of a cooperative housing...
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2024-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB516Intro
25%
Establishing the Climate Crisis Initiative in the Department of the Environment to provide for the assessment of greenhouse gas pollution fees, the provision of certain benefits to households and employers, and the funding of certain climate-related ...
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2024-02-02
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB267Intro
25%
Establishing an energy salesperson license for certain persons that offer or sell electricity or gas supply agreements to customers in the State; providing for the terms of electricity supplier, energy salesperson, and gas supplier licenses issued by...
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2024-02-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB595Intro
25%
Providing that certain civil enforcement actions brought by the Attorney General may be instituted at any time.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB574Intro
25%
Regulating commercial financing transactions, including by establishing requirements related to disclosures, calculations of annual percentage rates, terms of repayments, and other related items, and the extension of specific offers.
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2024-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB616Intro
25%
Prohibiting adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, acquiring, leasing, or holding any property interest in agricultural land in the State; and requiring the Attorney General to enforce the Act in a certain manner.
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2024-01-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB692Intro
25%
Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority; authoriz...
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2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB384Intro
25%
Requiring the Prince George's County Department of Housing and Community Development to notify and consider comments from the board of directors of a certain business improvement district corporation before the sale of certain commercial property; an...
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2024-01-17
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB33Intro
25%
Establishing the Entrepreneurial Leave Tax Credit Program in the Department of Commerce to encourage employers to implement leave policies that provide unpaid leave for employees for the purpose of establishing or expanding an employee business in th...
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2024-01-11
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB156Intro
25%
Establishing the Electric Bicycle Rebate and Voucher Program to provide rebates and vouchers for qualified individuals who purchase electric bicycles and related items; requiring the Governor to include in the budget bill an appropriation of $100,000...
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2024-01-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
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