| MD | HB97 | Engross 50% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to conduct certain testing on baby food for toxic heavy metals before packaging individual units of baby food for sale or distribution in the State; and requiring, beginning January 1, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB117 | Engross 50% | Requiring that the Maryland Department of Health's newborn screening system include screening for Krabbe leukodystrophy. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB119 | Engross 50% | Altering certain HIV and syphilis reporting and testing requirements for hospitals and health care providers for pregnant women and newborns, including by requiring that the pregnancy status of certain individuals be included in certain reports and t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB288 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a person from conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual located in a residence or place of private use or accommodation without the consent of the individual; altering the penalties for the crime of visual surve... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB362 | Engross 50% | 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] | 2024-03-18 Motion Special Order until 3/20 (Delegate Barnes) Adopted |
| MD | HB458 | Engross 50% | Requiring, with a certain exception, a party or nonparty making a certain filing in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case to redact certain identifying information relating to a minor victim that appears in the filing; and authorizing the Supreme C... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB567 | Engross 50% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB508 | Engross 50% | Adding labor trafficking by a child's parent or guardian to the list of conditions under which a local department of social services is authorized to ask the juvenile court in a child in need of assistance proceeding to find that reasonable efforts t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB528 | Engross 50% | Altering a prohibition on judges of the orphans' court acting as attorneys to prohibit a judge of the orphans' court from acting as an attorney in matters related to the administration of an estate or a guardianship of a minor within the jurisdiction... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB693 | Engross 50% | Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB723 | Engross 50% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to conduct certain testing on baby food for toxic heavy metals before packaging individual units of baby food for sale or distribution in the State; and requiring, beginning January 1, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB708 | Engross 50% | Altering provisions of law relating to the kinship care program in the Department of Human Services and certain procedures for the placement of children in need of out-of-home placement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB902 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a provider in the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program to receive certain State funds under certain circumstances; and exempting providers in the Program from certain State requirements for eligible prekindergarten providers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1047 | Engross 50% | Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of a sexual crime may not introduce evidence that physical evidence of a sexual crime was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offering for sale, or distributing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1102 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB1147 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from using, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain certain concentrations of PAH, PFAS, or lead for the construction or renovation of the gro... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1330 | Engross 50% | Lowering, from 18 to 16 years of age, the minimum age of an individual that may be employed by a license holder in Allegany County. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1426 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the State Department of Education to award funding for a new Judy Center or Family Support Center for planning and development under a certain circumstance; altering the date by which the Accountability and Implementation Board has to con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1441 | Engross 50% | Establishing certain requirements for a teacher's certificate in early childhood education; altering the teaching credentials required for staff of qualified providers for prekindergarten services for purposes of the Prekindergarten Grant Program; re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1521 | Engross 50% | Altering the eligibility requirements for the Maryland Children's Health Program; and repealing the requirement that the Program be administered, based on the family income of eligible individuals, through the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB13 | Engross 50% | Altering the use of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to require that the Fund be used only for pediatric cancer research instead of only for pediatric cancer research, prevention, and treatment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB228 | Engross 50% | Repealing a certain provision of law providing that a qualified health plan is not required under certain circumstances to provide essential benefits that duplicate the minimum benefits of qualified dental plans; and repealing the authority of the Ma... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB18 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals who are at least 3 years old; and al... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB482 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to establish the ENOUGH grant program, subject to certain requirements; requiri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB550 | Engross 50% | Adding labor trafficking by a child's parent or guardian to the list of conditions under which a local department of social services is authorized to ask the juvenile court in a child in need of assistance proceeding to find that reasonable efforts t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB883 | Engross 50% | Requiring a virtual tutoring service to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to child sexual abuse or sexual misconduct of the applicant; requiring certain former employers of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16 [Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB541 | Engross 50% | Regulating the manner in which a controller or a processor in possession of a consumer's personal data may process the consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB571 | Engross 50% | 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; requiring a certain entity to maintain documentation of certain risks asso... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB549 | Engross 50% | Providing that certain provisions of law regarding the use of a certain forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) do not apply when the FGGS is conducted solely for the purpose of identifying an individual under the age of 18 years... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB287 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police to determine the manner and format for applications for certification as a private detective and security guard and for a license to provide security guard services; altering the application requirements rela... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB51 | Engross 50% | Altering the use of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to require that the Fund be used only for pediatric cancer research instead of only for pediatric cancer research, prevention, and treatment. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB76 | Engross 50% | Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals at least 5 years old; altering the c... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB603 | Engross 50% | Requiring a certain entity that offers an online product reasonably likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment under certain circumstances; requiring certain privacy protections for certain online produc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB991 | Engross 50% | Establishing the Language Assistance Services Pilot Program in the Behavioral Health Administration to provide grants to local behavioral health authorities to reimburse behavioral health providers for language assistance services for children with l... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | HB1140 | Engross 50% | Requiring a virtual tutoring service to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to child sexual abuse or sexual misconduct of the applicant; requiring certain former employers of... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1229 | Engross 50% | Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a food that is represented to be a kratom product to disclose the factual basis on which the representation is made; establishing prohibitions related to the preparation, dis... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1230 | Engross 50% | Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a food that is represented to be a tianeptine product to disclose the factual basis on which the representation is made; prohibiting a retailer from preparing, distributing, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14 To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB141 | Engross 50% | Altering a certain requirement under which a court is authorized to order that the testimony of a child victim be taken outside a courtroom and shown in the courtroom by closed circuit television in certain child abuse cases. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13 [Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB324 | Engross 50% | Increasing, from in excess of $10,000 to in excess of $25,000, the threshold amount for certain transfers by a personal representative, trustee, or conservator as a custodian for the benefit of a minor to require authorization by a court. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB476 | Engross 50% | Providing that certain provisions of law regarding the use of a certain forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) do not apply when the FGGS is conducted solely for the purpose of identifying an individual who is deceased or the su... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1499 | Intro 25% | Altering provisions of law relating to the kinship care program in the Department of Human Services and certain procedures for the placement of children in need of out-of-home placement. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB172 | Engross 50% | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police to determine the manner and format for applications for certification as a private detective, security guard, security systems technician, and railroad police officer and for a license to provide security gua... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB5 | Engross 50% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB239 | Engross 50% | Altering and repealing certain definitions for purposes of the State Boat Act; repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing provisions of the State Boat Act; altering the fees for manufacturer an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB99 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting an individual from knowingly and with a certain intent soliciting a minor or law enforcement officer posing as a minor to engage in certain prohibited sexual acts with the minor by a certain means. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB250 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a county public library from charging a minor a fine for overdue library materials; prohibiting a county public library from charging a minor a replacement fee for overdue library materials until 21 days after the date on which the librar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07 [Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm] To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB744 | Engross 50% | Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain procedures relating to juvenile intake, detention, and probation; requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HJ7 | Intro 25% | Ratifying the federal Child Labor Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as proposed by U.S. House Joint Resolution 184 of 1924, to provide the U.S. Congress with the power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under the age of 18 years. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB814 | Engross 50% | 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB208 | Engross 50% | Prohibiting a county public library from charging a fine for overdue library materials borrowed by a minor or intended for children or teens; prohibiting a county public library from charging a reserve fee for library materials reserved by a minor or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01 To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |