| MD | HB1189 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a student who is enrolled at a public high school to satisfy part of a graduation requirement to earn credits in mathematics by completing a credit in an advanced placement computer science or computer programming course or an equally rig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1396 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct a certain study on linkages between levels of care within the substance use disorder treatment and recovery continuum of care; and requiring the Department to report the results of the study and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1237 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Maryland Online Special Education System; requiring the Task Force to consider the effectiveness, functionality and usability of the Maryland Online Individualized Education Program and the Maryland Online Ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB167 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to support and facilitate each county board of education in publishing information on financially accessible dental health available care in the county in student handbooks and on local school system websit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB180 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the State Board of Cosmetology to issue a limited license to provide eyelash extension services; altering the definition of "provide esthetic services" to include providing eyelash extension services; and requiring an applicant for a limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB175 | Engross
50% | Establishing a predetermination review process for occupational licenses and certificates in certain departments of State government; authorizing a department to charge a criminal history review fee of not more than $100 or to waive the fee under cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB196 | Engross
50% | Requiring the public school safety education program to include student instruction concerning school bus safety and the proper use of seat belts on school buses; requiring that school buses purchased after July 1, 2027, be equipped with 3-point seat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to develop, by July 1, 2025, a comprehensive plan for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1285 | Engross
50% | Authorizing licensed social workers to register as a rehabilitation practitioner; and authorizing a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers' compensation claims related to permanent impairments involving a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1297 | Engross
50% | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive study of the potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring the study to evaluate best practices for the safe, responsible, and ethical uses of artificial i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB919 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB848 | Engross
50% | Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1017 | Intro
25% | Requiring Maryland Correctional Enterprises to develop a plan for program participants to obtain employment after release on parole or supervised mandatory release; requiring the Division of Parole and Probation to report on individuals who participa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1054 | Intro
25% | Exempting a foreign practicing physician applicant for a license from certain education requirements under certain circumstances; requiring the State Board of Physicians to establish a consortium of postgraduate medical education programs for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1514 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the State Board of Elections, beginning with the 2028 statewide primary election, to use ranked-choice voting to conduct a contest for the nomination by a political party of a candidate for the office of President of the United States; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB536 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Correctional Services Apprenticeship Start-Up Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to provide high school students and individuals interested in changing careers opportunities to begin a career within correctional servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB527 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting institutions of higher education that receive State funds from considering a legacy preference as an eligible criterion for admissions standards at the institution; and allowing an institution of higher education to ask applicants for inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1058 | Intro
25% | Authorizing membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System for certain employees of the Baltimore City School Police Force under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1169 | Intro
25% | Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1463 | Intro
25% | Repealing the requirement that Baltimore City must provide a 25% match to receive State funds for certain operating expenses of the Enoch Pratt Free Library; requiring an appropriation of $10,000,000 to fund aging infrastructure construction and capi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1360 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to funding and grants to transition to zero-emission vehicle school buses to include propane-powered school buses; and authorizing a county board of education, beginning in fiscal year 2030, to enter into a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB856 | Intro
25% | Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ5 | Intro
25% | Reaffirming the Maryland General Assembly's commitment to free speech, academic freedom, and open public discourse; and upholding the right of individuals to express views on matters of foreign policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1515 | Intro
25% | Altering the definitions of "taxable price" and "taxable service" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the sales and use tax to impose the tax on certain labors and services; altering the rate of the sales and use tax; altering the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1172 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements related to the certification of employment by public service employers under the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, including requirements regarding determinations of whether employees are full-time and the fre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB163 | Intro
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; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB399 | Intro
25% | Establishing the High School Metal Detector Program in the Prince George's County Public School System to install a metal detector in each public high school in the county; requiring the Prince George's County Superintendent of schools to coordinate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB925 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a person whose authorization to catch oysters is revoked under certain provisions of law to apply for reinstatement of the authorization after 5 years; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish an Oyster Harvester Educati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HJ8 | Intro
25% | Condemning Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian hate, and antisemitism; encouraging certain awareness initiatives; and committing to supporting certain legislation and policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB918 | Intro
25% | Changing the name of the Retail Choice Customer Education and Protection Fund to the Education and Protection Fund; and modifying the purpose and uses of the Fund to include educating certain customers on certain energy choices and developing a certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB352 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB909 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the exclusion of certain costs from the calculation of a county's highest local appropriation to its school operating budget if a county board of education and a county governing body agree annually to designate certain spending as nonrec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB126 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to require the curriculum for family life and human sexuality instruction in Prince George's County schools begin no later than grade 6, provide age-appropriate instruction, include certain medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB34 | Engross
50% | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold interstate compact licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB640 | Intro
25% | Clarifying a property owner's right to receive information on the calculation of an assessment; requiring owners of certain buildings to provide certain information to the supervisor of assessments within 90 days after construction of the buildings i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB869 | Intro
25% | Clarifying a property owner's right to receive information on the calculation of an assessment; requiring owners of certain buildings to provide certain information to the supervisor of assessments within 90 days after construction of the buildings i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1381 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of prekindergarten enrollment for private prekindergarten providers; requiring the State Department of Education to forward fund the State and local share or provide a pay guarantee of not greater than 30 days for certain prek...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1513 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for each fiscal year an appropriation of $225,000 for Economic Action Maryland to support the Securing Older Adult Resources program; and specifying that the appropriation may be used only t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB546 | Intro
25% | Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB25 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting sexually explicit materials in elementary, middle, and secondary public school libraries and media centers; defining sexually explicit materials as books and auditory and visual material that contain graphic or obscene depictions of sexua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB160 | Intro
25% | Establishing the third week in April as Workplace Readiness Week and requiring county boards of education to establish a specified program of education to be held during Workplace Readiness Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1484 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1422 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB658 | Intro
25% | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; establishing procedures for the au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB698 | Intro
25% | Altering the scope of authority of the Accountability and Implementation Board regarding conflicts between a decision or policy of the Board and another entity responsible for implementing an element of the Blueprint for Maryland's Future.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB761 | Intro
25% | Requiring each testing facility in the State to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture to use animals in research, education, or testing; establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a testing facility; prohibiting a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1144 | Intro
25% | Altering a reporting requirement for correctional units relating to restrictive housing; requiring hearing officers and personnel involved with the supervision and care of individuals placed in restrictive housing to undergo certain training; and est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1268 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Education, county boards of education, and institutions of higher education in the State to update certain drug addiction and prevention education programs to include information on the mitigating effects of naloxone or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1373 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Extracurricular Activities for Homeschooled Students Pilot Program in Calvert County to allow homeschooled students to participate in extracurricular activities sponsored by public schools in the county; establishing the Workgroup to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1385 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a resident early childhood teaching certificate and a conditional early childhood teaching certificate for teachers who meet certain criteria in eligible publicly funded prekindergarten program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
