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MDHB538Engross
50%
Prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of a certain manufactured home in certain residential zoning districts under certain circumstances; prohibiting a local jurisdiction from using an element of an adequate public facil...
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2024-03-28
Third Reading Passed (98-36)
MDHB1281Enroll
75%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipality to designate, by law, an area within that political subdivision as a tourism zone under certain circumstances; providing that the designation o...
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2024-03-28
Returned Passed
MDHB989Engross
50%
Providing that the Montgomery County Planning Board may tentatively approve a subdivision plat subject to specified conditions; and providing for the approval and submission of a certain subdivision plat to the county land records.
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2024-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1364Intro
25%
Requiring the County Executive of Montgomery County to appoint a People's Counsel for Land Use Planning to represent the public interest of county residents in land use proceedings, to ensure fairness to certain populations, and to ensure that a comp...
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2024-03-20
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB356Engross
50%
Requiring a law enforcement agency, under certain cirucumstances, to issue a warning rather than a citation for a failure to stop for a school vehicle that is recorded by a school bus monitoring camera; and requiring the State Highway Administration ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB836Engross
50%
Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1001Engross
50%
Requiring a custodian of recorded images produced by certain automated enforcement systems to deny inspection of the images; prohibiting certain State and local agencies from using a recorded image or associated data from an automated enforcement sys...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1194Engross
50%
Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish a clinical staffing committee by January 1, 2025; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan by July 1, 2025; requiring that an administrator of a hosp...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1321Engross
50%
Authorizing a Southern Maryland code county to provide in the county's subdivision regulations for a dedication of real property for recreation, or the payment of a fee in lieu of dedication, to be used by the county for the purchase, development, an...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB632Engross
50%
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue a Class GSF (golf simulator facility) license to a golf simulator facility under certain circumstances; authorizing the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor for on-pr...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB991Engross
50%
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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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB101Intro
25%
Requiring the State Highway Administration to provide certain notices to the owner or operator of a utility facility for the removal, relocation, or adjustment of the utility facility for a State highway project; requiring the owner or operator of th...
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2024-03-16
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters
MDHB919Intro
25%
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to set special property tax rates for certain subclasses of property for the purpose of financing certain transportation improvements or a certain minimum scho...
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2024-03-16
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means
MDHB253Engross
50%
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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2024-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB233Engross
50%
Authorizing the Critical Area Commission to adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights, fee in lieu payments, the assessment of and adaption to climate change relevant to the critical area, enhancing resilience in the critical are...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB805Engross
50%
Altering the distance restrictions applicable to a licensed cannabis dispensary; prohibiting a political subdivision from establishing certain zoning requirements for licensed cannabis dispensaries and certain licensed cannabis growers that are more ...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1154Intro
25%
Establishing the Office of Domestic Terrorism Response within the Maryland Department of Emergency Management for the purpose of implementing measures to prepare for, prevent, and recover from domestic terrorism and hate crimes; requiring the Marylan...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB697Engross
50%
Establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for commercial real estate transactions related to a buyer's right to make certain title, settlement, and escrow selections.
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2024-03-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB182Intro
25%
Requiring that each legislative district established for the purpose of electing members of the House of Delegates consist of a certain number of single-member delegate districts; requiring the General Assembly to enact a law establishing and governi...
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2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1359Intro
25%
Requiring that certain regulations adopted by the Department of Juvenile Services governing juvenile care facilities and juvenile detention facilities include a requirement for the establishment, implementation, and review of certain community relati...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB366Engross
50%
Prohibiting a restriction on land use that increases the cost of installing a solar collector system by at least 5% over a certain cost or that reduces the efficiency of the system by at least 10% under a certain energy generation level; authorizing ...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB389Intro
25%
Repealing a requirement that a political subdivision maintain and repair certain sidewalks constructed by any developer of an industrial, commercial, or apartment area along a highway maintained by the State Highway Administration; and repealing a re...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB241Engross
50%
Authorizing the Governor, on the recommendation of the Secretary of Housing and Community Development, to designate certain areas as Just Communities based on certain criteria; and providing for the prioritization of State funding for Just Communitie...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1123Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to adopt minimum cybersecurity standards for hospitals and take certain other actions related to the cybersecurity of hospitals, including supporting hospitals that do not meet the minimum cybersecurity s...
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2024-02-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1444Intro
25%
Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply statewide; and requiring all speed limit signs on certain highways in residential districts to include certain signs.
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2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB283Engross
50%
Repealing a requirement that the Department of Housing and Community Development identify certain property as suitable for use or redevelopment; prohibiting the Department from identifying certain property for use or redevelopment as affordable housi...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1096Intro
25%
Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide st...
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2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1427Intro
25%
Altering the administration and membership of the West North Avenue Development Authority; specifying the powers and duties of the Authority, subject to certain limitations; exempting the Authority from certain provisions of law; requiring the Author...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB530Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Office of Trails in the Department of Transportation to develop and maintain the Maryland Trails Network, advance the development, maintenance, and use of trails in the State, develop a certain inventory and database, and co...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1449Intro
25%
Applying to charter counties and the City of Baltimore certain provisions relating to a request for judicial review of certain decisions of a board of appeals or a zoning action; specifying when a person is aggrieved by a board of appeals decision or...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB55Engross
50%
Establishing the Maryland Commission on Veterans and Military Families to study developing and implementing a statewide strategic plan to make Maryland the best state for veterans and military families, including legislative and budgetary recommendat...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB924Intro
25%
Establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain congestion relief plans; establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region conge...
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2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1046Intro
25%
Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program to develop and submi...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters 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
MDHB1328Intro
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 ...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1407Intro
25%
Prohibiting counties from establishing zoning laws or other regulations that restrict or prohibit the construction or operation of Tier 1 renewable source generating systems or facilities; requiring the Public Service Commission to study the electric...
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB1160Intro
25%
Altering the penalties for the offenses of allowing the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and reckless, negligent, and aggressive driving; and adding certain motor vehicle offenses as elements that may contribute to charges for reckless or aggressi...
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2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1106Intro
25%
Prohibiting the Prince George's County district council from amending its zoning law to allow single-family attached dwelling uses on property that is used, or was previously used, as an airport and is located in an area zoned for residential-agricul...
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2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1059Intro
25%
Authorizing a governing body of a qualifying municipal corporation by resolution to exercise the powers of the Prince George's County Planning Board, the zoning hearing examiner for Prince George's County, or the District Council for Prince George's ...
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2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1152Intro
25%
Authorizing the Prince George's County district council to require that a developer negotiate and enter into a community benefits agreement if at least 25% of the residents, landowners, or businesses within a 2-mile radius of the development site opp...
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2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1104Intro
25%
Providing that, in Prince George's County, the planning board's authority over zoning and subdivision matters is not exclusive and may be subject to review by the district council under certain circumstances; authorizing the district council in Princ...
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2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation 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
MDHB781Intro
25%
Requiring the State Highway Administration to use rubber modified asphalt in the construction, reconstruction, and repair of State highways; and requiring the Administration to consider different types of rubber modified asphalt, including those prod...
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2024-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB685Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Aerospace and Technology Commission to promote innovation in the fields of space exploration and commercial aerospace opportunities, including the integration of space, aeronautics, and aviation industries into the economy o...
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2024-01-25
To House Ways and Means 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
MDHB402Intro
25%
Authorizing an individual to bring a nuisance action for damages caused by rodent harborage on certain real property against certain individuals and authorizing a landlord to bring a breach of lease action against a tenant for behavior that causes or...
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2024-01-23
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB3Intro
25%
Requiring local jurisdictions to establish and implement an expedited development review process for certain proposed affordable housing developments; applying the process to a charitable organization seeking to develop affordable housing on its own ...
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2024-01-22
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
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