| MD | SB254 | Pass | Requiring motor vehicle insurance companies to participate in the Administration's online verification program for vehicle insurance policies for law enforcement and administrative purposes; and requiring motor vehicle insurance companies to provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 74 |
| MD | SB156 | Pass | Renaming the Port of Baltimore to be the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 5 |
| MD | SB1188 | Pass | Establishing the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program and the Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund to provide tuition assistance to a student who was a dependent or is the surviving spouse of a fallen transportation worker; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3 |
| MD | SB202 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Caregiver Expense Grant Program in the Department of Aging to award grants up to certain caregivers for up to 30% of the qualified expenses that exceed $2,000 paid or incurred by the caregiver to provide care or support to certain qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB316 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing counties and municipalities to designate county or municipal highways under their respective jurisdictions on which a person may operate a golf cart; authorizing a person to operate a golf cart only on a highway with a maximum posted spee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB42 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting an adult from allowing certain minors to ride a horse, donkey, mule, or pony on a highway, a public horse-riding path, or the grounds of a certain facility unless the minor is wearing a properly secured helmet that meets or exceeds certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB345 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Vision Zero Advisory Commission to advise the Department of Transportation on best practices intended to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on roadways in all modes of ground transportation using data-driven prevention strategies,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB504 | Enroll
75% | Requiring recreational vehicle dealers to hold a dealer agreement with a recreational vehicle manufacturer to sell the manufacturer's recreational vehicles in the State; establishing licensing requirements for a recreational vehicle manufacturer, dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB672 | Enroll
75% | Requiring that citations and notices issued as a result of automated enforcement under the Maryland Vehicle Law be sent to the current mailing address on file with the Administration or if a mailing address is not available, the current residential a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB730 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a rear passenger on a motorcycle to be able to firmly position the passenger's feet on the footrests of the motorcycle, subject to an exception for permanent physical disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB891 | 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; authorizing the Governor to include in the fis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB943 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the use of automated bus obstruction monitoring systems to enforce violations of certain parking-related prohibitions; making statewide the authority of a local jurisdiction to use, in accordance with certain standards and procedures, bus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1005 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | SB1092 | Enroll
75% | Increasing the motor vehicle registration emergency medical system surcharge to $40.00 per year for certain motor vehicles; altering certain provisions of law related to the Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund, including provisions related to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1106 | Enroll
75% | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that this Act is not intended to affect any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1166 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to issue a permit for an outdoor sign along or near a scenic byway on a federal-aid primary highway in Frederick County in conformance with federal law if the sign was erected on or before January 1, 2008,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1028 | Enroll
75% | Establishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB126 | Enroll
75% | Repealing, for certain fiscal years, the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation withhold 35% of the State's share of annual operating grants for the Washington Suburban Transit District if the State's operating assistance provided in the ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB516 | 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] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB259 | Engross
50% | Extending the date by which the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund must be expended to July 1, 2029; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to expend up to $400,000 from the Park System Critical Maintenance Fund for a project that address...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB70 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration, before announcing any service reduction or cancellation of an existing bus route or line, to compile a report on the impacts of the proposed service reduction or cancellation; requiring the Administratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB547 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB699 | Engross
50% | Altering the process for distributing the Community Reinvestment and Repair Fund to Baltimore City by allocating certain funds to the Baltimore City Comptroller under certain circumstances; establishing an Equitable Community Investment Council in ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB1074 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB479 | Engross
50% | Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems to include certain distributions for highway and work zone safety purposes; clarifying that a work zone speed control system may be man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB442 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB668 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child who is en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB838 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing certain members of a volunteer fire company to equip their privately owned vehicles with red and green or red and white lights or signal devices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1036 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services; and requiring the Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB325 | Enroll
75% | Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB1003 | Enroll
75% | Establishing that certain requirements for motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and factory branches to deliver new motor vehicles to licensed dealers apply after receipt of an electronic order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB471 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB902 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Highway Administration, to identify and prioritize certain species whose habitat or movement corridors intersect with State highways and develop tools, technology, and tec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1067 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use 16 speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County, except that only 4 may be operated at any given time; requiring that fines collected in Baltimore County as a result of v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1076 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Comptroller to distribute to the Transportation Trust Fund revenue from the sales and use tax that is attributable to the sale of electricity used to charge an electric vehicle at an electric vehicle charging station or used to charge a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB397 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to register certain military vehicles; requiring all vehicles meeting certain criteria to be registered as a Class MV-C (military vehicle-collectors) vehicle; establishing a one-time registration fee of $5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB450 | Engross
50% | Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply in Baltimore County; requiring the fines collected by Baltimore County as a result of the use of speed monitoring syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1004 | Engross
50% | Repealing the time limitation within which the Motor Vehicle Administration is required to make available specially designed vintage reproduction registration plates; and requiring the Administration to charge a fee of $100 for the initial issuance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1065 | Engross
50% | Requiring the owners of zero-emission vehicles and plug-in electric drive vehicles that are not zero-emission vehicles to pay an annual surcharge of $150 and $122.50, respectively; authorizing the surcharge to be paid in installment payments; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB1022 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to each perform certain duties related to defining, identifying, and compiling data regarding the workforce needs in the State and wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB406 | Intro
25% | Requiring a law enforcement agency, under certain circumstances, 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1156 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Howard County Board of Education, in consultation with the Howard County Executive and the Howard County Council, to publish a model policy on or before January 1, 2025, concerning the inclusion and use of liquidated damages provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB641 | Intro
25% | Altering the contents and authorized uses of the Spay/Neuter Fund; requiring the Department of Agriculture to establish a process through which a person may make a voluntary donation to the Fund; requiring the Department to give additional considerat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB645 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB642 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1060 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, the blocking of highway grade crossings, wayside detectors, and investigations by railroad labor unio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1122 | Intro
25% | Requiring the owner or operator of a coal combustion by-products unit to submit certain reports and plans to the Department of the Environment and the Power Plant Research Program in the Department of Natural Resources on or before certain dates; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1126 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1081 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Driver Education in Public Schools Grant Program to provide grants to public schools and nonprofit organizations to assist public schools in offering driver education courses to students; establishing the State-Aided Institutions Fie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB870 | Intro
25% | Allowing plug-in electric drive vehicles and certain other electric vehicles to exceed gross, axle, tandem, and bridge weight limits by up to an additional 2,000 pounds total.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
