| MD | HB513 | Pass | Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that a system operator does not need to be pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17 |
| MD | HB1487 | Pass | Reestablishing the Maryland Entertainment Council to be the Maryland Entertainment Industry Council within the Department of Commerce to assess the State's existing assets, study certain existing State programs, agencies, and offices, and make recomm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70 |
| MD | HB567 | Enroll
75% | Establishing generally the manner in which a controller or a processor may process a consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller of personal data to es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB685 | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB947 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to a public nuisance through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB990 | Enroll
75% | Altering the definition of "manufacturing" for purposes of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements to exclude the production of cement; altering the application of certain provisions of law regarding the reduction of greenhouse gas em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB999 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Workgroup on Establishing a Science and Technology Best Practices and Innovation Network to identify and analyze options for establishing and maintaining an open access science, technology, and innovation network or hub of citizen sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1056 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting a 340B manufacturer from taking certain direct or indirect actions to limit or restrict the acquisition or delivery of a 340B drug; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice within the meaning of the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1128 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Talent Innovation Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to increase access to high-quality job training by using innovative and sustainable talent financing mechanisms to help meet skill needs in the State's prominent and emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1147 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1180 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless the products are located behind a counter; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1220 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Climate Technology Founder's Fund in the Maryland Clean Energy Center to provide early-stage funding for certain start-up companies; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to use the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Third Reading Passed (101-35) |
| MD | HB1427 | 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
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1393 | Enroll
75% | Altering the scope of certain policy goals with regard to energy systems; requiring the Public Service Commission to report on certain projects relating to certain goals; altering the scope of certain funds that may be used for certain projects; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB899 | Enroll
75% | Altering the Charles W. Riley Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship to make the scholarship applicable to all programs at institutions of higher education in the State; altering the maximum award available, when a scholarship ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB457 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a producer or seller of synthetic turf to disclose to a customer typical maintenance practices and costs for removing, replacing, and disposing of synthetic turf; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with represe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB97 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2025, manufacturers of baby food to test a representative sample of each production aggregate of the manufacturer's final baby food product for certain toxic heavy metals; requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, manufact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB306 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Workgroup on Independent Innovation in Prince George's County to promote innovation and technology in the county; and requiring the Workgroup by January 15, 2026, to report on recommendations regarding strategies to support investmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB991 | 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] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB397 | Enroll
75% | Requiring gas companies serving at least 75,000 customers in their distribution territories and authorizing gas companies serving fewer than 75,000 customers to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems on or before October ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB897 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Redevelopment and Operating Organization Task Force to study and make recommendations concerning the membership, purpose, and function of an organization to govern the renovation, revitalization, fina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Hayes) Adopted |
| MD | HB1143 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Maryland Emergency Department Wait Time Reduction Commission to address factors throughout the health care system that contribute to increased emergency department wait times; authorizing the Commission to request data from certain e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1271 | Engross
50% | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and assessments by December 1, 2024, and annually thereafter; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1296 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Public Service Commission to open a revised Round 2 proceeding on June 1, 2024, to evaluate certain offshore wind projects; prohibiting the Commission from approving an application for an offshore wind project unless the application inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB582 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based start-up companies founded by students from institutions located in the Baltimore-Columbia-Tow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB548 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study existing laws, scientific data, and practices related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations regarding a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB605 | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB676 | Enroll
75% | Altering certain provisions of law authorizing certain activity by manufacturers of investigational drugs, biological products, or devices under the Right to Try Act to apply to manufacturers of certain individualized investigational treatments; alte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB753 | Enroll
75% | Requiring an application for investment by the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to include an option for an applicant to provide certain demographic information of the applicant and the geographic area of the applicant's primary place of b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB776 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, subject to a written agreement, to provide certain outside entities administrative services or support and to receive compensation for providing the services or support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1273 | 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] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1486 | Engross
50% | Requiring the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to administer the Cyber Maryland Fund and Program; authorizing the Fund to be used for administrative expenses of the Program, including hiring staff, consultants and other professionals as ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Kerr, Hill and Kipke) |
| MD | HB1217 | Engross
50% | Establishing direct-to-consumer alcoholic beverages permits authorizing the direct delivery of beer, wine, or liquor to a consumer; establishing the requirements an individual must meet to qualify for a direct-to-consumer alcoholic beverages delivery...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1153 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Department of the Environment to identify significant industrial users that currently and intentionally use PFAS chemicals by July 1, 2026; requiring the Department to develop certain PFAS monitoring and testing criteria for certain sig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1 | 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] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB650 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to submit a report to the General Assembly that analyzes the apprenticeship mentoring ratio for all nontraditional apprenticeable occupations in the State; and requiring the Department to submit the report t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1327 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Body Altering Aesthetics Advisory Committee within the Maryland Department of Health to study whether the current health occupations licensing and certification system adequately regulates the body altering aesthetics industry in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1174 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Technology Advisory Commission to study and make recommendations on technology and science developments and use in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit a report on its activities and recommendations to the Governor and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1275 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a vehicle dealer association, on behalf of itself, a vehicle dealer, or a group of vehicle dealers, to request an administrative hearing on certain matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1006 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a hospital or an ambulatory surgical facility from employing or contracting with an individual to provide surgical technology services unless the individual completes certain educational requirements and holds a certain credential or prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1270 | Intro
25% | Requiring that the calculation of an enrollee's contribution to a cost sharing requirement for a prescription drug be based on the list price of the drug reduced by at least 85% of the total amount of rebates received or expected to be received by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1320 | Intro
25% | Altering the disbursement of certain fee revenue deposited into the Bay Restoration Fund in a certain manner; and authorizing certain fee revenue deposited into the Fund to be used for certain costs attributable to the testing, engineering, or design...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB155 | Engross
50% | Establishing the Carbon Capture Opportunity Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to assist nonprofit and for-profit businesses in the State engaged in carbon capture projects or carbon capture research; and requiring the Administration to us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1490 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Business Diversity Incubator Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish diverse and effective business incubators in the State; authorizing the Governor in each of fisca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB820 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Nuclear Energy Development Task Force to study and make recommendations on the deployment of nuclear power generation resources and other related technologies in the State and the establishment of a permanent nuclear energy commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1033 | Intro
25% | Requiring a tobacco product manufacturer and a certain electronic smoking devices manufacturer to pay a certain certification fee; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1508 | Intro
25% | Altering the termination date of the Job Creation Tax Credit Program from 2027 to 2025; providing for the termination date for the One Maryland Economic Development Tax Credit Program on January 1, 2025; establishing the Maryland Jobs Development Tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| 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 | HJ4 | Intro
25% | Affirming the General Assembly of Maryland's commitment to aligning with President Joseph R. Biden's vision for the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence, as delineated in the Blueprint for an Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1020 | Intro
25% | Designating the Universities at Shady Grove Regional Higher Education Center as the State's Regional Higher Education Community of Innovation; and altering the purposes of the Universities at Shady Grove to include serving a diverse citizenry in an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee |
