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MDSB500Enroll
75%
Altering the qualifications for an award from the Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund to include a service obligation to work in an approved child care setting for at least 20 hours per week; requiring the Office of Child Care to prio...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB838Enroll
75%
Establishing the Prince George's County Family Child Care Home Expansion Grant Program in the Prince George's County public school system; providing that the purpose of the Program is to increase the number of registered family child care providers, ...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB951Enroll
75%
Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework and recommendations to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Economic Matters Committee on or before...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1028Enroll
75%
Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework and recommendations to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Economic Matters Committee on or before...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB991Enroll
75%
Establishing the Language Assistance Services Pilot Program in the Behavioral Health Administration to provide grants to local behavioral health authorities to reimburse behavioral health providers for language assistance services for children with l...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB937Enroll
75%
Establishing the Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to provide grants to local school systems for employees who pledge to fulfill a certain service obligation as a full-time teacher in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to admi...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1032Enroll
75%
Establishing the Tourist Area and Corridor Signage Program to create a system of supplemental guide signs to direct motorists to eligible individual attractions by directing the motorists first to groups of attractions; requiring the State Highway Ad...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1141Engross
50%
Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a virtual 3-1-1 portal as a source for Maryland residents to obtain nonemergency government information and services utilizi...
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2024-04-08
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB420Enroll
75%
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and local governing bodies to construct communication boards in certain newly constructed public play areas; defining "communication board" as a device that displays photos, symbols, or illustrations to e...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1441Enroll
75%
Altering staff qualifications in eligible prekindergarten programs; authorizing a county board to apply for certain funding to lease space to provide prekindergarten programs; establishing an early childhood educator career ladder for eligible privat...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB395Enroll
75%
Requiring a public community college to consider a course or program for English as a second language or English language learner as eligible for world language or humanities credit toward an associate's degree under certain circumstances; requiring ...
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDSB1068Enroll
75%
Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Information Technology evaluate the feasibility of creating a 3-1-1 portal utilizing artificial intelligence and that the Department prioritize the creation of the portal if feasible.
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB981Enroll
75%
Requiring, on or before July 1, 2025, the principal departments of the Executive Branch to fully implement certain provisions of law requiring equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency.
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDSB797Enroll
75%
Establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; requiring certain information about the Program to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the A...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB903Enroll
75%
Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB882Enroll
75%
Establishing the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program as a permanent program; and extending the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to the Program to fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year the...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB1103Enroll
75%
Altering the required contents of the written notice regarding outpatient facility fees; and requiring the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, in consultation with certain entities, to study and make recommendations regarding hospital ou...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1139Enroll
75%
Establishing the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Pilot Program as a permanent program; and extending the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to the Program to fiscal year 2026.
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2024-04-05
Returned Passed
MDSB708Enroll
75%
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; altering provisions of law relating to the kinship care program in the Department of Hu...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1157Enroll
75%
Establishing the Grow Your Own Educators Grant Program to provide grants to local school systems for employees who pledge to fulfill a certain service obligation as a full-time teacher in the State; requiring the State Department of Education to admi...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB592Enroll
75%
Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1499Engross
50%
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; altering provisions of law relating to the kinship care program in the Department of ...
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2024-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee
MDHB569Enroll
75%
Requiring a public community college to consider a course or program for English as a second language or English language learner as eligible for world language or humanities credit toward an associate's degree if the course is not classified as reme...
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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDHB336Enroll
75%
Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland...
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2024-03-29
Returned Passed
MDHB148Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees on the identification and reporting of human trafficking victims; requiring, by January 1, 2025, and e...
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2024-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB347Engross
50%
Establishing requirements for the filling of a vacancy in the office of Senator or Delegate in the General Assembly by a central committee of a political party under the Maryland Constitution relating to applications, public notice, public meetings, ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDSB495Engross
50%
Requiring that a certain statement included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about the purpose of a question on the ballot be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be u...
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2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1226Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
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2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB884Intro
25%
Prohibiting an individual from committing or threatening certain actions, including certain actions related to sex trafficking, with the intent of coercing a pregnant woman to have an abortion; providing that a pregnant minor is considered an emancip...
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2024-03-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB1104Intro
25%
Requiring out-of-network health care facilities to provide certain information to a consumer and obtain certain consent before providing a health care service; requiring that certain out-of-network status information be provided in a certain consent ...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1148Intro
25%
Requiring out-of-network health care facilities to provide certain information to a consumer and obtain certain consent before providing a health care service; requiring that certain out-of-network status information be provided in a certain consent ...
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB501Engross
50%
Requiring the Secretary of State Police to annually publish, beginning October 1, 2024, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, a handbook summarizing the State laws relating to wearing, carrying, and transporting a handgun in public...
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2024-03-01
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB815Intro
25%
Establishing the Maryland Financial Empowerment Center Network Pilot Program in the Department of Commerce; providing that the purpose of Program is to establish a statewide network of financial empowerment centers in different regions of the State; ...
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB994Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements on food service establishments, hospitality establishments, and retail establishments regarding work schedules for employees, including requirements related to the provision of work schedules to employees, notificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB987Intro
25%
Altering provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency by establishing certain requirements for certain State departments, agencies, or programs, including establishing certain position...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations 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
MDHB1149Intro
25%
Altering the definition of "hospital" to require a hospital located outside the State that provides outpatient services to patients in the State to provide a certain written notice regarding outpatient facility fees under certain circumstances; alter...
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2024-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations 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
MDHB1343Intro
25%
Requiring that a certain statement included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about the purpose of a question on the ballot be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB201Intro
25%
Requiring the commercial driver's license knowledge test to be offered in English and Spanish.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB660Intro
25%
Prohibiting local governments from denying or impairing the right of a protected class member to vote; establishing requirements on the State Board of Elections and local governments related to the provision of language-related assistance in local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB890Intro
25%
Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB600Intro
25%
Altering the qualifications for an award from the Child Care Career and Professional Development Fund to include a service obligation to work in an approved child care setting for at least 20 hours per week; requiring the Office of Child Care to prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB786Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force on Access to Pharmacy Services and the Impact of Telepharmacy in Maryland to analyze access to pharmacy services and identify barriers to pharmacy services and telepharmacy; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB862Intro
25%
Prohibiting an individual from committing or threatening certain actions, including certain actions related to sex trafficking, with the intent of coercing a pregnant woman to have an abortion; providing that a pregnant minor is considered an emancip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB800Intro
25%
Prohibiting local governments from denying or impairing the right of a protected class member to vote; establishing requirements on the State Board of Elections and local governments related to the provision of language-related assistance in local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-05
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB671Intro
25%
Requiring that individuals have access to legal representation in certain foreclosure proceedings; establishing the Access to Counsel in Foreclosure Proceedings Program to organize and direct services and resources to provide covered individuals with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB185Intro
25%
Establishing a Deafblind Co-Navigation Services Program in the Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to provide co-navigation services at no cost to deafblind individuals in the State; and defining "co-navigation services" as services providing visu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-29
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB563Intro
25%
Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election based on certain criteria; requiring local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-29
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDSB140Intro
25%
Establishing requirements for the filling of a vacancy in the office of Senator or Delegate in the General Assembly by a central committee of a political party under the Maryland Constitution relating to applications, public notice, public meetings, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
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