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MDSB590Intro
25%
Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
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2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted
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
MDSB1017Intro
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...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1054Intro
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...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1514Intro
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...
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2024-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB536Intro
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...
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2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB527Intro
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...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1058Intro
25%
Authorizing membership in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System for certain employees of the Baltimore City School Police Force under certain circumstances.
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1169Intro
25%
Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1463Intro
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...
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2024-03-11
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1360Intro
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...
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2024-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB856Intro
25%
Providing for a waiver from minimum school funding requirements for schools with fewer than 300 students.
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2024-03-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1515Intro
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...
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2024-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1172Intro
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...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB163Intro
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; ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB399Intro
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 ...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB925Intro
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...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB918Intro
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...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB352Intro
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...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB909Intro
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...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB126Intro
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...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB640Intro
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...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB869Intro
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...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1381Intro
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...
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1513Intro
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...
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2024-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB546Intro
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...
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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB25Intro
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...
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2024-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means
MDHB160Intro
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.
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2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1484Intro
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...
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2024-02-15
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1422Intro
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.
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2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB658Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB698Intro
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.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB761Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1144Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1268Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1373Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1385Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1418Intro
25%
Requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, a public middle school to begin instruction not before 8 a.m. and a public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8:30 a.m. unless granted a waiver by the county board of education under c...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1400Intro
25%
Authorizing a student to take reasonable action necessary to prevent violence on school premises or on a school-sponsored trip; authorizing a student to use reasonable force necessary to protect themselves or escape an attack under certain circumstan...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1403Intro
25%
Altering the age of children in family child care homes and large family child care homes, from under the age of 2 years to under the age of 15 months, under which certain limitations on the number of children in care and certain adult to child ratio...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1433Intro
25%
Altering the career ladder for teachers to allow teachers with a certain higher degree to participate as an equivalent to teachers with National Board Certification; requiring the State Department of Education to study the efficacy of National Board ...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1430Intro
25%
Providing that parents of children in public schools have certain rights regarding information and communication from the children's local school system about education and school-related topics.
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1455Intro
25%
Requiring a county board of education that requests a certain waiver for publicly funded full-day prekindergarten to develop and submit a certain action plan to certain government entities; requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboratio...
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2024-02-13
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB138Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education to update the Maryland State Curriculum for Personal Financial Literacy Education and corresponding financial literacy standards to include certain content; requiring the State Board of Education to develop...
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB221Intro
25%
Altering certain definitions relating to student enrollment that are generally used for the calculation of funding for general education programs.
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2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1336Intro
25%
Increasing a certain annual appropriation for certain school safety expenditures for fiscal year 2026 and further increasing the annual appropriation for certain school safety expenditures beginning in fiscal year 2027; altering the allocation of cer...
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2024-02-12
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB1163Intro
25%
Prohibiting the location of a school bus stop on any highway with five or more undivided traffic lanes in certain counties unless a school crossing guard is posted or a certain traffic control device is placed at the school bus stop.
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2024-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB1307Intro
25%
Authorizing a parent to petition a court for an emergency hearing to reevaluate a visitation schedule if the other parent fails to comply with a court-ordered visitation schedule without just cause; and requiring and authorizing a court to take certa...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB184Intro
25%
Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibi...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB675Intro
25%
Establishing the Education Savings Account program in the State administered by the State Department of Education to provide grants to the account of the parent of an eligible student in order to provide for the eligible student's education; requirin...
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2024-02-09
To House Appropriations Committee
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