| MD | SB220 | Pass | Repealing the exceptions that allow the sale, distribution, or purchase of tobacco products, tobacco paraphernalia, and electronic smoking devices to or for certain individuals who are active duty members of the military; authorizing the Maryland Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 766 |
| MD | SB136 | Pass | Transferring, from the county administrative judge of the circuit court for the county to the clerk of the circuit court for the county, the authority to designate a deputy clerk to perform a marriage ceremony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 926 |
| MD | SB439 | Pass | Requiring a victims of domestic violence program to be certified by the federally recognized State domestic violence coalition as a comprehensive domestic violence program; establishing the Victims of Domestic Violence Program Grant Fund as a special...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 767 |
| MD | SB270 | Pass | Altering provisions relating to the membership of, and the terms of members appointed to, adult public guardianship review boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 428 |
| MD | SB708 | Pass | Altering the definition of relative to mean an individual who is a kinship caregiver for purposes of provisions of law relating to children in need of assistance; and altering provisions of law relating to the kinship care program in the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 429 |
| MD | SB550 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" to include labor trafficking of a child by any individual for purposes of provisions of law governing children in need of assistance cases and child abuse and neglect reporting; and expanding provisions of law relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 348 |
| MD | SB668 | Pass | 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] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 345 |
| MD | SB707 | Pass | Adding the Space Force to certain provisions of law related to the armed forces; authorizing military spouses and residents of the State who are members of the National Guard of another state or a reserve component of the armed forces to terminate ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26 |
| MD | SB174 | Engross
50% | Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of the Child Support Enforcement Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (104-30) |
| MD | SB883 | Engross
50% | Requiring a county board of education, a nonpublic school, or a contracting agency that has contracted with a virtual tutoring service to require the virtual tutoring service to conduct a criminal history records check for any individual at the virtu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Ebersole, Patterson and Fair) |
| MD | SB139 | Engross
50% | Establishing a certain exception to the authority of the Child Support Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's license or privilege ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB89 | Engross
50% | Requiring a local director of a local department of social services or the Secretary of Human Services to disclose certain reports and records of child abuse and neglect within 30 days after receiving a request if certain conditions are met; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB663 | Intro
25% | Establishing a rebuttable presumption in certain child custody proceedings that joint legal custody and joint physical custody for approximately equal periods of time are in the best interests of a child and establishing factors a court may consider ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1011 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines by requiring the deduction, from actual income, of an allowance for support for each child in the parent's home for whom the parent owes a legal duty of supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB1016 | Intro
25% | Requiring health care providers who are authorized to prescribe to double the amount of each drug prescribed for a child if a parent of the child presents the prescriber with a court order of joint legal custody with a right of medical decision makin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB743 | Intro
25% | Adding stalking to the list of offenses for which a certain individual may petition for a protective order; and altering certain provisions of law relating to the issuance of a permanent protective order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB670 | Intro
25% | Requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation of custody or visitation between the parties that is in the best interest of the child, to consider the ability of each of the parties to meet the child's developmental needs, the relatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB438 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a parent has the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care, and welfare of the parent's child; and prohibiting the State or a political subdivision from infringing on a parent's fundamental right to direct the upbr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB327 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB365 | Intro
25% | Specifying certain qualifications and training necessary for an individual to be appointed or approved by a court as a custody evaluator; and specifying that certain expert evidence is admissible in certain child custody and visitation proceedings un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB390 | Intro
25% | Altering the definition of "actual income" to include taxes paid by a parent's employer or, if the income is nontaxable, the amount of taxes that would be paid if the income were taxable for purposes of child support calculations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
