| MD | HB117 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Geological Survey Fund to finance certain direct and indirect costs, including long-term budgeting and planning for survey projects, procurements, and equipment purchases; establishing the Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 85 |
| MD | HB819 | Pass | Altering the purposes of the Catastrophic Event Account and the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to provide financial assistance to noncivilian federal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 19 |
| MD | HB228 | Enroll
75% | Extending the date by which the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund must be expended to before July 1, 2029; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to expend up to $400,000 from the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB428 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the State Department of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB449 | Enroll
75% | Requiring at least 40% of funding provided under the comprehensive flood management grant program to be used for projects located in or directly benefiting underserved or overburdened communities; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB685 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Aerospace and Technology Commission in the Department of Commerce to promote innovation in the fields of space exploration and commercial aerospace opportunities, including the integration of space, aeronautics, and aviation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB773 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Individuals With Disabilities and Service-Disabled Veterans Boating Fund to provide sailing, boating, kayaking, canoeing, and paddleboarding and surfing opportunities for individuals with disabilities and service-disabled veterans; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB812 | Enroll
75% | Increasing from $900,000 to $1,000,000 the amount of an appropriation that the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill each year for the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; repealing the ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB764 | Enroll
75% | Repealing a certain limitation on the State Lottery Fund distribution and allocating an amount equal to $27,000,000 each fiscal year to the Bus Rapid Transit Fund for bus rapid transit system grants; adding an authorized use for the Prince George's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB838 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Prince George's County Family Child Care Home Expansion Grant Program in the Prince George's County public school system; providing that the purpose of the Program is to increase the number of registered family child care providers, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB864 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each electric company, each gas company, and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets through certain program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB950 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation from the Transportation Trust Fund of $80,533,314 for the Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1065 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program to assist community organizations, nonprofit entities, and local governments in funding security operations during times of high pedestrian traffic in certain entertainment distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1141 | Engross
50% | Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a virtual 3-1-1 portal as a source for Maryland residents to obtain nonemergency government information and services utilizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1167 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1082 | Enroll
75% | Requiring for each fiscal year each county board of education to provide $150,000 for the salary and benefits of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future implementation coordinator in the county; and requiring the implementation coordinator's salary and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| 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 | HB1220 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center to provide early-stage funding for certain start-up companies; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (101-35) |
| MD | HB1244 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each have a certain staff member who performs certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1441 | Enroll
75% | Altering staff qualifications in eligible prekindergarten programs; authorizing a county board to apply for funding to lease space for prekindergarten programs; establishing an early childhood educator career ladder; requiring the Department of Educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1472 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include at least $500,000 in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1509 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Baltimore Regional Water Governance Model Workgroup to study the regional water governance approach in the Baltimore region; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $500,000 in the annual budget bill for the Workgroup; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1390 | Enroll
75% | Establishing that the State share of eligible costs for certain school construction projects that meet certain criteria is 100%; repealing the provision of law that would have repealed the School Safety Grant Program on June 30, 2026; reducing the ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1524 | Enroll
75% | Altering the location, type, and ownership of horse racing facilities that the Maryland Stadium Authority is authorized to finance; increasing the amount of debt that the Maryland Stadium Authority may issue for certain purposes in connection with ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB233 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption of the critical area for climate resiliency, enhancing resilience in the critical area, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB306 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Workgroup on Independent Innovation in Prince George's County to promote innovation and technology in the county; and requiring the Workgroup by January 15, 2026, to report on recommendations regarding strategies to support investmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1165 | Enroll
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; authorizing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB7 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Housing Innovation Fund to provide loans for local housing authorities and county governments to develop mixed-income, cross-subsidized housing; establishing the Housing Innovation Pilot Program in the Department of Housing and Commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB92 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to assist incarcerated individuals in accessing federal Pell Grants for higher education; requiring the Department to set goals for the number of incarcerated individuals in postseco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB51 | Enroll
75% | 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 and to allow funds from the Fund to be used for admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB297 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Office of the Correctional Ombudsman; authorizing the Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board to make a recommendation for the distribution of money from the Performance Incentive Grant Fund to the Office; requiring the Office to conduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB397 | Enroll
75% | Requiring gas companies serving at least 75,000 customers in their distribution territories and authorizing gas companies serving fewer than 75,000 customers to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems on or before October ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB475 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Open-Source Phonics Matching Grant Program within the State Department of Education to provide free, open-source phonics learning materials to be used by adults to tutor students; requiring the Department to periodically review the o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB489 | Engross
50% | Altering the calculation of certain funding for the State Library Resource Center for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB541 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Anne Arundel County Student Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Educators to assist in the repayment of certain student loans owed by educators who meet certain eligibility requirements; providing that the purpose of the Program is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB583 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB903 | Enroll
75% | Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1155 | Enroll
75% | Requiring hospitals to establish and maintain certain protocols and capacity related to the treatment of patients who are being treated for an opioid-related overdose or opioid-related emergency medical condition; requiring hospitals to make a referr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1139 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program as a permanent program; and extending the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to the Program to fiscal year 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1271 | Engross
50% | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments by December 1, 2024, and annually thereafter; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1199 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Institute at the University of Maryland to conduct a study to identify methods to improve the Maryland Transit Administration's ADA MobilityLink paratransit service; requiring the Institute to submit a report on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB183 | Enroll
75% | Making technical and clarifying changes to the administration of certain food supplement benefits for children; authorizing the Department of Human Services to use certain funding to provide certain matching funds to a county to supplement certain be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB372 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Rent Court Workforce Solutions Pilot Program in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to provide residential tenants who are facing eviction for a failure to pay rent with information on workforce development and employment op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB396 | Enroll
75% | Altering a certain provision of law relating to the use of certain revenue from the sales and use tax on energy and fuel in Prince George's County by allowing the revenue to be used to meet certain education funding requirements for the county; and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB410 | Enroll
75% | Specifying that the Equitech Growth Fund in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation may be used only to make certain awards and to pay the costs of administering the Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB451 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Comptroller, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to distribute a certain amount of abandoned property funds to the Tax Clinics for Low-Income Marylanders Fund; requiring the Governor to include $800,000 in the annual budget for the CASH Camp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB582 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based start-up companies founded by students from institutions located in the Baltimore-Columbia-Tow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB534 | Enroll
75% | Extending the termination date for the Live Near Your School program and a related homebuyer program from September 30, 2024, to September 30, 2030.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB504 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 each year to the Department of Planning to be used as a grant to the Maryland Humanities Council for the Marilyn Hatza Memorial Strengthening Humanities Inve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| 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 |
