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House Bill 191 – State Police Retirement System – Benefits (The Speaker (Administration),
et al)
Altering the formula for computing the retirement allowance of members of the State Police
Retirement System; specifying the contribution rate for specified members of the System;
creating a Deferred Retirement Option Program for specified members of the System; providing
for annual adjustments to the service retirement allowances of specified service and disability
retirees of the System or beneficiaries of retirees; etc.
House Bill 192 – Crimes - Stalking - Increased Penalty (The Speaker (Administration), et
al)
Doubling the penalty for stalking if the victim is a law enforcement officer or a family member
of the officer.
Senate Bill 228 – Drunk and Drugged Driving - Young Drivers - License Suspension (The
President (By Request - Administration), et al)
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to suspend for a specified period of time the driver's
license of a person who is adjudicated delinquent or found to have committed a delinquent act
without an adjudication of delinquency by reason of a violation of specified alcohol- or drug-
related driving offenses or who is under a specified age and is convicted of specified alcohol- or
drug-related driving offenses; etc.
House Bill 96 – Financial Institutions - Task Force to Study Modernization of Credit Union
Law (Delegate Wood)
Establishing a Task Force to Study the Modernization of Credit Union Law; specifying the
composition, duties, and leadership of the Task Force; providing for staff support for the Task
Force; requiring the Task Force to make specified reports to the General Assembly by specified
dates; providing for the termination of the Act; etc.
House Bill 141 – Criminal Procedure - Pretrial Release - Crimes of Violence (Delegate
Valderrama)
Adding specified crimes of violence to the list of crimes for which a person may not be released
pretrial under specified circumstances; and making stylistic revisions.
House Bill 154 – Corporations and Real Estate Investment Trusts - Powers of Corporations
and Boards of Directors - Extraordinary Actions (Delegate Barve)
Altering the power of a corporation to make gifts or contributions; allowing a corporation to
issue stock or other securities without consideration of any kind under specified circumstances;
allowing specified amendments to be made to the charter of a corporation or to the declaration of
trust of a real estate investment trust without stockholder or shareholder approval; allowing a
corporation to consolidate with and merge into a corporation or business trust organized under
the laws of a foreign country; etc.
House Bill 216 – Evidence - Admissibility of Health Care Writings and Records and Paid
Bills for Goods and Services - Notice of Service (Delegates K. Kelly and Vallario)
Requiring a party who intends to introduce in evidence, without the support of specified
providers' testimony, a writing or record of a health care provider, or a paid bill for goods or
services, to file a notice of service and a list that identifies each writing, record, or bill with the
court rather than file a copy of the writing, record, or bill; and requiring the party to serve notice
of the party's intent to introduce the evidence, a copy of the list, and a copy of the writing,
record, or bill on specified other parties.
House Bill 227 – Vehicle Laws - Failure to Stop at Red Light – Points (Delegate Bronrott, et
al)
Increasing the number of points required to be assessed by the Motor Vehicle Administration
against an individual convicted of failing to stop a vehicle as directed by a traffic control signal
displaying a steady red light; and generally relating to the assessment of points for red light
violations.
House Bill 231 – Pretrial Release - Violators of Ex Parte Orders or Protective Orders
(Delegate Doory, et al)
Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant
charged with violating specified provisions of an ex parte order or protective order; authorizing a
judge to allow the pretrial release of a defendant charged with violating specified provisions of
an ex parte order or protective order; etc.
House Bill 232 – Crimes - Unlawful Contact on Prison Employees by Inmates (Delegate
Hecht, et al)
Making it a misdemeanor for an inmate to maliciously cause or attempt to cause specified
employees of specified correctional facilities to come into contact with seminal fluid, urine, or
feces, or with blood under specified circumstances; providing for specified penalties; etc.
House Bill 233 – Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Peace Orders (Delegate McMillan, et al)
Authorizing an individual to seek relief by filing with the court a petition that alleges the
commission of any of specified acts against the individual by a respondent; requiring a petition
to be under oath and to contain specified information; authorizing the address of a petitioner to
be stricken or omitted from the petition and other documents filed with the court under specified
circumstances; authorizing the court to issue a temporary peace order to protect a petitioner; etc.
House Bill 270 – State Commission on the Capital City (Delegate McMillan)
Establishing the State Commission on the Capital City; providing for the membership and duties
of the Commission; providing for the appointment and tenure of the individual appointed by the
Governor; providing for the chairmanship of the Commission; providing for the meeting times of
the Commission; and authorizing the Commission to accept and dispense money.
House Bill 302 – Victims' Rights - Juvenile Hearings and Dispositions (Delegate Vallario
(Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime Victims' Rights Laws), et al)
Requiring that specified victims be notified of specified waiver hearings involving a child;
granting victims the right to be present at specified juvenile proceedings; authorizing a victim to
submit a victim impact statement to the court in specified waiver hearings involving a child;
authorizing the court to consider a victim impact statement in determining its jurisdiction in
specified waiver hearings involving a child; requiring the State's Attorney to notify a victim of
the right to submit a victim impact statement; etc.
House Bill 304 – Victims' Rights - Notification and Attendance - Posttrial Proceedings
(Delegate Vallario (Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime Victims' Rights Laws), et al)
Requiring the notification of victims and victims' representatives about specified postconviction
proceedings and hearings on motions for new trials; authorizing victims and victims'
representatives to attend specified postconviction proceedings and hearings on motions for new
trials; and requiring the State's Attorney to notify a victim or designated family member of any
appeals to the Court of Special Appeals and the Court of Appeals.
House Bill 305 – Victims' Rights - Criminal Injuries Compensation Board – Claims
(Delegate Vallario (Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime Victims' Rights Laws), et al)
Providing that a resident of this State who is the victim of a crime in another state is eligible for
an award if the other state operates a criminal injuries compensation program for which funds
have not been appropriated; establishing specified time limitations for notifying a claimant,
evaluating specified claims and decisions, and reporting specified recommendations concerning
criminal injuries compensation; establishing and increasing the maximum amount of
compensation for specified claims; etc.
House Bill 350 – Task Force on Food Allergies and Restaurant Patrons (Delegate Stern, et
al)
Establishing a Task Force on Food Allergies and Restaurant Patrons to examine the concerns that
a person with a food allergy may have about eating in a restaurant; providing for the
membership, Chairman, staffing, and duties of the Task Force; etc.
House Bill 463 – Crimes - Escape Revision (Delegate Doory (Committee to Revise Article
27 - Crimes and Punishments), et al)
Revising the laws relating to escape, contraband, and related offenses; prohibiting a person from
knowingly violating restrictions on movement under temporary release or home detention;
prohibiting a person who has been lawfully arrested from knowingly departing from custody;
prohibiting a person from knowingly failing to obey a court order to report to a place of
confinement; allowing a court to order a person convicted of escape to pay expenses; applying
the escape law to local detention centers and home detention programs; etc.
House Bill 495 – State Lottery - Licensed Agents - Commissions (Delegate Dewberry, et al)
Requiring that a licensed agent of the State Lottery Agency be paid a 5% commission on ticket
sales made during a year.
House Bill 544 – Evidence - Paid Bills for Goods or Services (Delegates Valderrama and
Vallario)
Providing that a paid bill for goods or services is admissible without the testimony of the
provider of the goods or services as evidence of its authenticity in specified cases filed originally
in a circuit court; etc.
House Bill 582 – Evidence - Health Care Records and Writings (Delegate Vallario)
Expanding the definition of the term "health care provider" to include specified health care
facilities, agencies, institutions, services, and programs for the purpose of making their health
care records and writings admissible in specified civil trials without a health care provider's
testimony; providing that specified evidentiary provisions apply to specified cases originally
filed in a circuit court; providing that specified evidentiary provisions do not apply to specified
health care malpractice claims; etc.
House Bill 584 – Vehicle Laws - Drunk and Drugged Driving – Penalties (Delegate
Grosfield)
Increasing the penalties for a second or subsequent violation of certain offenses relating to
driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs, drugs and alcohol, or controlled
dangerous substances; establishing that prior convictions of certain offenses relating to driving a
motor vehicle while intoxicated or while under the influence of alcohol, drugs, drugs and
alcohol, or controlled dangerous substances are considered convictions for the purposes of
certain second or subsequent offender penalties; etc.
House Bill 600 – Motor Vehicle Administration - Records - Probation Before Judgment
Dispositions (Delegate Malone, et al)
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to keep records and make suitable notations
showing probation before judgment dispositions of all violations of the Maryland Vehicle Law;
requiring the Administration to segregate records or notations of probation before judgment
dispositions and make them available only to specified persons; and requiring the Motor Vehicle
Administration to expunge specified records pertaining to probation before judgment.
House Bill 679 – State Aid for Police Protection - Municipal Sworn Officer Allocation
(Delegate Rudolph, et al)
Altering the calculation of a certain payment by the State each fiscal year to certain
municipalities based on the number of sworn police officers employed by the municipality; and
declaring that it is the intent of the General Assembly that the increased municipal sworn officer
allocation be included in the Governor's budget for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2030.
House Bill 681 – Crime Prevention - Maryland Drug and Alcohol Grants Program Fund
(Delegate Rosenberg)
Establishing the Maryland Drug and Alcohol Grants Program Fund; specifying that the purpose
of the Fund is to provide funding for grants for specified neighborhood crime prevention, drug
abuse, and alcohol abuse programs; establishing the Fund as a special nonlapsing fund;
establishing a funding mechanism for the Fund; establishing procedures for holding moneys in
the Fund and accounting for the Fund; requiring that administrative expenditures and
disbursements be made only under specified conditions; etc.
House Bill 738 – Family Law - Domestic Violence – Relief (Delegate Menes, et al)
Authorizing a judge to order the respondent in a petition for a temporary ex parte order or
protective order to remain away from a child care provider of a person eligible for relief from
abuse while a child of the person is in the care of the child care provider; and providing for the
application of the Act.
House Bill 791 – Nursing Facilities - Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Task Force
on Quality of Care in Nursing Facs-Nursing Home Comparative Evaluation System
(Delegate Nathan-Pulliam, et al)
Providing that certain payments to nursing facilities for reserving beds for Maryland Medical
Assistance Program recipients may not include payment for certain nursing services; repealing
the requirement that certain payments to nursing facilities for reserving beds for Program
recipients may not be less than a certain amount; establishing a Task Force on Quality of Care in
Nursing Facilities; requiring the Health Care Access and Cost Commission to develop and
implement a specified quality evaluation system; etc.
House Bill 864 – Task Force to Study Alternative Educational Programs for Chronically
Disruptive Students (Delegate Vallario)
Establishing a Task Force to Study Alternative Educational Programs for Chronically Disruptive
Students; providing for the membership, duties, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the
Task Force to issue a final report of its findings, recommendations, and comprehensive strategy
to the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 31, 2030; and providing for the
termination of the Act.
Senate Bill 677 – Property Tax - Mandatory Semiannual Payment (Senator Lawlah)
Altering from optional to mandatory the semiannual payment program for payment of property
taxes on owner-occupied residential property; providing that a service charge for semiannual
payments does not apply if both installments of property tax are paid on or before the first
installment due date; etc.
House Bill 907 – School Safety Act of 2030 (Delegate Barkley (Montgomery County
Administration))
Adding arrests of public school students for certain controlled dangerous substance offenses and
offenses related to destructive devices to a list of offenses required to be reported to the local
superintendent of schools by the arresting law enforcement agency; prohibiting threats of bodily
harm to certain employees at home and to certain individuals on school vehicles, at school-
sponsored activities held off school property, or on property owned by a county board of
education and used for certain purposes; etc.
House Bill 1202 – Drivers' Education - Task Force on Driver's Education Programs in
Maryland (Southern Maryland Delegation)
Creating a Task Force on Driver's Education Programs in Maryland; providing for the
composition, organization, staffing, and duties of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to
evaluate the standards of private driver's education programs in Maryland and to evaluate the
feasibility of returning driver's education programs to the public schools; and requiring the Task
Force to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before
December 31, 2030.
Senate Bill 73 – Convictions for Crimes Against Children, Sexually Violent Other Sexual
Offenses - Registration Requirements and Procedures (Chairman, Judicial Proceedings
Committee (Departmental - Public Safety and Correctional Services))
Revising the laws concerning the registration requirements and procedures required of
individuals convicted of certain crimes against children, sexually violent offenses, or other
sexual offenses; altering the length of the term of registration for certain registrants; requiring
individuals convicted of certain sex crimes in other states who live in another state and work or
attend school in this State to register; etc.
Senate Bill 223 – Offenses Involving Destructive Devices - Penalties - Suspension of Driving
Privileges and Parental Restitution (Senator Baker, et al)
Authorizing a court to order the Motor Vehicle Administration to suspend the driving privilege
of a child convicted of a crime or found to have committed a delinquent act involving a
destructive device; authorizing a court to order a child, the child's parent, or both to pay
restitution for offenses involving a destructive device under specified circumstances; specifying
penalties related to offenses involving destructive devices; etc.
Senate Bill 380 – Local Government Tort Claims - Indemnification of Law Enforcement
Officers (Senator Jimeno)
Allowing a local government to indemnify law enforcement officers for a judgment for punitive
damages unless the act or omission giving rise to the judgment would constitute a felony under
the laws of this State; etc.
Senate Bill 382 – Unlawful Taking of Vehicle - Theft Offenses – Preclusion (Senator
Jimeno)
Clarifying that prosecution of a person for the unlawful taking of a motor vehicle does not
preclude prosecution of that person for theft of a motor vehicle; and providing that, if a person is
convicted of both theft and the unlawful taking of a motor vehicle for the same act or transaction,
the conviction for the unlawful taking of a motor vehicle shall merge for sentencing purposes
into the conviction for theft.
Senate Bill 446 – Maryland Standardbred Race Fund Advisory Committee – Membership
(Senator Lawlah)
Altering the membership of the Maryland Standardbred Race Fund Advisory Committee; and
requiring the chairman of the State Racing Commission to nominate as members a representative
from each harness racing licensee.
Senate Bill 568 – Crimes - Laser Pointers – Prohibited (Senators Green and Forehand)
Prohibiting the use of laser pointers to knowingly illuminate in a public place another person in a
manner that harasses or endangers the other person; providing exceptions to the prohibition on
the use of laser pointers; and providing a penalty for violating the Act.
Senate Bill 609 – Vehicle Laws - Speeding in a School Zone – Penalties (Senator Stone)
Establishing that fines for speeding in a school zone are doubled if a sign designating the school
zone indicates that fines for speeding are doubled during school hours; repealing a limitation on
a certain penalty for speeding within a school zone; etc.
Senate Bill 653 – Personal Injury Claims - Subrogation – Reduction (Senator Green)
Requiring that the amount for which certain persons have a right of subrogation for health care
benefits or services paid or payable on behalf of an injured person be reduced by a certain
amount related to the amount of attorney's fees incurred by the injured person in a personal
injury claim under certain circumstances; specifying that a payor has no obligation to advise the
injured person of the right to a certain reduction of a subrogation claim; etc.
Senate Bill 711 – Local Government Tort Claims Act - Regional Library Resource Centers
and Cooperative Library Corporations (Senator Middleton)
Establishing that the definition of "local government" in the Local Government Tort Claims Act
includes regional library resource centers and cooperative library corporations established under
Title 23, Subtitle 2 of the Education Article.
House Bill 13 – Law Enforcement Agencies - Prohibition Against Arrest and Citation
Quotas (Delegate Smigiel)
Prohibiting a law enforcement agency from establishing a quota for the agency or law
enforcement officers of the agency for making arrests or issuing citations; prohibiting a law
enforcement agency from using the number of arrests made or citations issued by a law
enforcement officer as the sole or primary criterion for promotion, demotion, dismissal, or
transfer of the officer; etc.
House Bill 183 – Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance - Sexual Abuse of a Minor
(Delegate Shewell, et al)
Providing that it is lawful for an investigative or law enforcement officer to intercept a wire, oral,
or electronic communication in order to provide evidence of the commission of sexual abuse of a
minor; etc.
House Bill 215 – Assault Against a Law Enforcement Officer - Correctional Officer
(Delegate Elmore, et al)
Including a correctional officer at a correctional facility in the definition of law enforcement
officer, applicable to the crime of assault against a law enforcement officer.
House Bill 325 – Department of State Police - Protective Body Armor Fund - Transfer to
the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention (Chairman, Judiciary Committee
(By Request - Departmental - State Police))
Transferring the administration of the Protective Body Armor Fund from the Department of State
Police to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention; and transferring the functions
of the Secretary of State Police relating to the Protective Body Armor Fund to the Executive
Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention.
House Bill 353 – Teachers and School Administrators - Sexual Contact with Students –
Prohibition (Charles County Delegation)
Prohibiting a person in a position of authority from engaging in a sexual act, sexual contact, or
vaginal intercourse with a specified person under a specified age under specified circumstances;
defining a term; providing for a statute of limitations for the prosecution of specified
misdemeanors created by this Act; etc.
House Bill 474 – Crimes - Controlled Dangerous Substances - Restitution for Cleanup
Costs (Delegate Menes (Chairman, Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse), et al)
Establishing that a person who is convicted or found to have committed a juvenile act under
specified provisions of law relating to the manufacture, distribution, dispensation, or possession
of a controlled dangerous substance may be ordered to pay restitution for the costs of cleaning up
laboratories or other facilities operated for the illegal manufacture of a controlled dangerous
substance; etc.
House Bill 475 – Correctional Services - Correctional Units - Mutual Aid Agreements
(Chairman, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Departmental - Public Safety and
Correctional Services))
Authorizing mutual aid agreements between specified local and State correctional units to supply
temporary services to alleviate emergency situations at correctional facilities; establishing the
rights, liabilities, and duties of the parties to a mutual aid agreement; establishing that a staff
person who meets specified training requirements may function at a specified location under
specified circumstances; etc.
House Bill 487 – Tax Credit for Maryland-Mined Coal (Garrett County Delegation and
Allegany County Delegation)
Altering tax credits allowed against specified taxes for the purchase of Maryland-mined coal;
limiting the credit to the amount approved by the Department of Assessments and Taxation;
limiting the total amount of credits that the Department may approve for specified calendar years
to specified amounts; prohibiting the credits from being claimed after a specified date; etc.
House Bill 525 – Vehicle Laws - Administrative Per Se Offenses - High Alcohol
Concentration or Test Refusal - Ignition Interlock System - Suspension Modifications and
Restrictive Licenses (Delegate Cardin, et al)
Increasing the period of a suspension of a driver's license required for specified administrative
per se offenses if the driver took a specified test that indicates a specified alcohol concentration;
providing that a person has the right to elect to participate in the Ignition Interlock System
Program under specified circumstances; etc.
House Bill 527 – Criminal Offenses - Driving Without a License - Arrest and Penalties
(Delegate Simmons, et al)
Authorizing a police officer to arrest an individual without a warrant for the violation of driving
without a license if the officer has probable cause to believe that the individual has committed
the violation; altering a penalty; etc.
House Bill 533 – Community Colleges - State Funding - Size Factor Component (Delegate
Bozman, et al)
Altering the Senator John A. Cade Funding Formula for community colleges to allow colleges
that are no longer eligible for funding under the size factor component to receive a specified
percentage of funding for a specified number of fiscal years; and providing for the distribution of
size factor component grants.
House Bill 581 – Education - Tuition Assistance Program for Firemen and Rescue Squad
Members – Renaming (Harford County Delegation, et al)
Renaming the tuition assistance program for firemen and rescue squad members as the Charles
W. Riley Fire and Emergency Medical Services Tuition Reimbursement Program; and
authorizing the publishers of the Annotated Code of Maryland to correct specified statutory
references under specified circumstances.
House Bill 658 – Criminal Procedure - Defendant with an Alcohol or Drug Dependency -
Commitment Procedures (Delegates Menes and Vallario)
Requiring that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, on receiving an order to treat a
defendant with an alcohol or drug dependency, order a report of the defendant's pending cases,
warrants, and detainers; requiring the Department to forward a copy of the report to the court, the
defendant, and the defendant's attorney; providing that a court may not order a defendant
delivered to the Department until specified conditions are met; etc.
House Bill 673 – Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Line of Duty Death Benefits
(Delegates Conway and McMillan, et al)
Providing that specified minor children of correctional officers are entitled to enroll in the State
Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; providing that surviving spouses or
children under the age of 18 of deceased members of the Correctional Officers' Retirement
System who die in the line of duty are eligible to receive a line of duty death benefit; etc.
House Bill 686 – Delinquency Prevention and Diversion Services Task Force (Delegate
Gutierrez, et al)
Establishing a Delinquency Prevention and Diversion Services Task Force; providing for the
membership and cochairs of the Task Force; requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to
staff the Task Force; providing that the members of the Task Force may not receive
compensation but are entitled to a specified reimbursement; establishing the duties of the Task
Force; requiring the Task Force to submit a specified report by a specified date; etc.
House Bill 704 – Criminal Law - Prohibition Against Wild Animals (Delegate Menes, et al)
Expanding the list of animals that a person is prohibited from importing into the State, selling,
trading, bartering, or exchanging; prohibiting the possession or breeding of specified animals;
expanding the list of exceptions to the prohibition on importing into the State, selling, trading,
bartering, possessing, breeding, or exchanging specified animals; providing for the enforcement
of the prohibition by specified entities; authorizing the seizure of specified animals under
specified circumstances; etc.
House Bill 707 – Crimes - Obscene Video Games - Prohibition on Sale, Display, or Rental
to Minor (Delegates Kach and Ross)
Prohibiting a person from willfully or knowingly displaying or exhibiting to a minor an obscene
video game; establishing criminal penalties for violation of the Act; etc.
House Bill 752 – Alcoholic Beverages - Proof of Age - United States Military Identification
Card (Delegates Kach, Conroy, and Love)
Allowing an alcoholic beverages licensee or employee of a licensee to accept a United States
military identification card as proof of age before selling or furnishing alcoholic beverages to a
person; etc.
House Bill 795 – Criminal Procedure - Criminal Defendants - Incompetency and Criminal
Responsibility (Delegate Dumais)
Requiring a court, under specified circumstances, to determine, on evidence presented on the
record, whether a defendant is incompetent to stand trial for a violation of probation proceeding;
authorizing a court to reconsider the question of whether a defendant is incompetent to stand trial
at any time before final judgment; etc.
House Bill 799 – Child Welfare Accountability Act of 2030 (Delegate Branch, et al)
Requiring the Secretary of Human Resources and the Secretary of Budget and Management to
develop and implement a specified system of accountability to measure the efficiency and
effectiveness of specified child welfare services; providing for the purpose of the outcome
measurement system; requiring the Secretary of Human Resources to adopt regulations;
requiring a variety of indicators to be used to measure the effectiveness of specified child welfare
services; etc.
House Bill 800 – Election Law - Voter Registration (Chairman, Ways and Means
Committee (By Request - Departmental - Elections, State Board of))
Providing that a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot may be used as a voter registration
application; prohibiting a voter registration volunteer from copying or collecting specified
information contained in a voter registration application; authorizing an election director to
remove from the voter registry a voter whose eligibility has been successfully challenged;
restoring to active status a voter who completes and signs an absentee ballot application; etc.
House Bill 833 – Surety Insurance - Failure to Pay Bail Bond Judgment – Penalties
(Delegate Goodwin, et al)
Providing that a specified surety insurer that is removed by the District Court from the list of
surety insurers eligible to post bonds with the Court because that surety insurer failed to timely
resolve or satisfy one or more bail bond forfeitures appearing on the District Court's list of
absolute bond forfeitures in default shall be subject to specified penalties.
House Bill 850 – Crimes - Burial, Memorial Service, Funeral, or Funeral Procession
(Delegates James and Cadden)
Prohibiting a person from knowingly obstructing, hindering, impeding, or blocking another
person's entry to or exit from a burial, memorial service, funeral, or funeral procession under
specified circumstances; prohibiting a person from addressing specified speech to a person
attending a burial, memorial service, funeral, or funeral procession; prohibiting specified
picketing; providing penalties for a violation of the Act; etc.
House Bill 859 – Tax Procedure - Refunds - Interest Rate (Delegates Rosenberg and
Cardin)
Altering the calculation of the annual interest rate that the Comptroller sets for refunds.
House Bill 903 – Thoroughbred Racing - Maryland-Bred Fund Races - Out-of-State Tracks
(Delegate Gilleland, et al)
Authorizing the State Racing Commission to approve the running of a Maryland-Bred Fund
Race at a thoroughbred track outside the State; and requiring the Commission to set the location
of each Fund Race held outside the State.
House Bill 956 – Insurance - Waiver of Customer Liability - Utility Providers (Delegate
Feldman)
Providing that a waiver of customer liability by specified utility providers in a specified
agreement between the customer and the utility provider is not considered insurance for purposes
of the Insurance Article.
House Bill 1035 – Uninsured Employers' Fund - Liability of Corporate Officers and
Limited Liability Company Members (Delegates Simmons and Feldman)
Providing that a specified officer of a corporation that does not have sufficient assets to satisfy
workers' compensation awards and assessments owed by the corporation is jointly and severally
liable for those payments if a specified officer knowingly failed to secure workers' compensation
insurance; etc.
House Bill 1036 – Assisted Living Programs - Prohibited Acts, Penalties, and Quality
Account (Delegate Mandel, et al)
Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully operating, maintaining, or owning an assisted
living program without a license; prohibiting a person from advertising, representing, or
implying to the public that an assisted living program is authorized to provide services that the
program is not licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized to provide; providing for specified
penalties; establishing a Health Care Quality Account for Assisted Living Programs in the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; etc.
House Bill 1056 – Family Law - Domestic Violence - Address Confidentiality Program
(Delegate Shank, et al)
Requiring the Secretary of State to establish the Address Confidentiality Program for victims of
domestic violence; stating the purpose of the Program; establishing eligibility requirements of
the Program; establishing application and participation requirements; requiring an applicant to
provide a specified release and waiver; prohibiting false statements in an application;
establishing participation cancellation procedures; etc.
House Bill 1107 – Real Estate Licenses – Reciprocity (Delegate Jameson, et al)
Authorizing the State Real Estate Commission to deny, suspend, or revoke specified licenses
under specified circumstances; prohibiting the Commission from imposing a specified fine based
solely on a specified violation; authorizing the Commission to issue a reciprocal license to
specified persons holding a license to provide real estate brokerage services in another state and
whose principal place of business is outside the State; etc.
House Bill 1172 – Public Safety - Missing Persons - Reports and Investigations (Delegate
Cryor, et al)
Altering the method by which a person may delegate authority for disposition of a body by
cremation; authorizing the Police Training Commission, with the cooperation of the Office of the
Chief Medical Examiner and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to develop a uniform missing
person report form to be used by law enforcement agencies in the State by October 1, 2032;
providing that a law enforcement agency may not impose a mandatory waiting period before
taking a missing person report; etc.
House Bill 1175 – Crimes - Knowing Sale or Issuance of False Identification Card or
Document – Penalties (Delegate Lee, et al)
Prohibiting a person from knowingly selling, issuing, offering for sale, or offering to issue an
identification card or document that contains an incorrect name instead of a person's true name or
an incorrect address for a person; etc.
3/22 House: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
4/5 Senate: Third Reading Passed (45-0)
5/14 Approved by the Governor – Chapter 896
House Bill 1201 – Criminal Law - Identity Theft Passports (Delegate Lee, et al)
Authorizing a person who knows or reasonably suspects that the person is a victim of identity
fraud and has filed a specified report to apply for an identity theft passport; requiring a law
enforcement agency that receives an identity theft passport application to submit the application
and a copy of a specified report to the Attorney General; authorizing the Attorney General, in
cooperation with a law enforcement agency, to issue an identity theft passport; etc.
House Bill 1257 – Juvenile Law - Competency – Services (Delegate Dumais, et al)
Authorizing the juvenile court to order the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene or a
qualified expert to conduct an evaluation of a child's competency to proceed in specified juvenile
delinquency hearings; repealing provisions relating to a finding of incompetency to proceed;
specifying the procedures for a finding of incompetency to proceed; etc.
House Bill 1309 – Baltimore Corridor Transit Study - Red Line - Requirements and
Citizens' Advisory Council (Delegate Oaks, et al)
Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to consider the establishment of a fund to
compensate property owners for damages incurred during the construction of a Red Line project;
requiring the Administration to consider specified matters concerning alterations and areas
surrounding the Red Line corridor in consultation with specified persons; establishing a Citizens'
Advisory Council for the Baltimore Corridor Transit Study - Red Line; requiring the Council to
report annually by September 1; etc.
House Bill 1515 – Public Safety - Volunteer Company Assistance Fund - Grants and Loans
(Delegate Glassman, et al)
Clarifying that specified permissible reasons for awards from the Volunteer Company Assistance
Fund apply only to grants from the Fund; altering a prohibition on specified grant or loan awards
from being used to refinance specified debts or obligations; providing that the Treasurer shall
disburse specified money from the Fund to the Association; etc.
House Bill 1581 – Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Participation - Baltimore
City Sheriff (Delegate Goodwin)
Providing that an individual serving as the Baltimore City Sheriff may elect to participate in the
Employees' Pension System; providing that an individual serving as the Baltimore City Sheriff
who does not elect membership in the Employees' Pension System within 6 months of becoming
the Baltimore City Sheriff is required to join the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; etc.
House Bill 1600 – Insurance - Automobile Insurance and Prosecution of Automobile Theft
(Delegate Patterson, et al)
Requiring specified insurers that use territory as a factor in establishing automobile insurance
rates to submit a statement to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner certifying that the
territories used by the insurers have been reviewed within a specified time period and that use of
the territories is actuarially justified; requiring the Commissioner to submit a specified report to
the General Assembly; specifying the contents of the report; etc.
House Bill 1669 – Public Safety - Baltimore City Community College Police - Law
Enforcement Officer (Chairman, Appropriations Committee (By Request - Baltimore City
Community College))
Establishing a police force for Baltimore City Community College; specifying the powers of a
Baltimore City Community College police officer; requiring the Board of Trustees of the
Baltimore City Community College to adopt standards and regulations; etc.
House Bill 1700 – Maryland Military Installation Council (Delegates Bohanan and
O'Donnell)
Altering the name of the Maryland Military Installation Strategic Planning Council to be the
Maryland Military Installation Council; altering the membership, purposes, and termination date
of the Council; requiring the Council to submit a specified annual report to the Governor and the
General Assembly; and making a specified conforming change.
Senate Bill 63 – State-Owned Vehicles - State Fleet Biodiesel Fuel Usage Act of 2030
(Senator Giannetti)
Requiring the State to ensure that, in fiscal year 2032 and in each subsequent fiscal year, at least
50% of vehicles using diesel fuel in the State vehicle fleet use a blend of fuel that is at least 5%
biodiesel fuel; exempting specified vehicles; etc.
Senate Bill 79 – Vehicle Laws - Standing or Parking Near Crosswalks - Baltimore City
(Senator Della)
Exempting Baltimore City from statewide provisions prohibiting a person from standing or
parking a vehicle within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection; authorizing Baltimore City to
regulate the distance from specified crosswalks at intersections in Baltimore City within which a
person may not stand or park a vehicle; etc.
Senate Bill 84 – Higher Education - University System of Maryland and Morgan State
University - Financial Management (Senator Conway, et al)
Authorizing the University System of Maryland and Morgan State University to use an internal
financial management information system software program and State-approved interfaces for its
accounting, budgeting, personnel, and payroll systems.
Senate Bill 101 – Election Law - Petition Verification (Chair, Education, Health, and
Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Elections, State Board of))
Providing that the purpose of verification of signatures on specified petitions is to ensure that the
name of the individual who signed the petition is listed as a registered voter.
Senate Bill 102 – Health Care Facilities and Laboratories - Accreditation Organizations
and Deeming (Chairman, Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health and
Mental Hygiene))
Defining the term "health care facility" for the purpose of specified licensing, accreditation, and
regulatory provisions so as to include specified hospitals, health maintenance organizations,
freestanding ambulatory care facilities, assisted living facilities, laboratories, home health
agencies, and residential treatment centers; requiring specified accreditation organizations to
apply to the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene for approval; etc.
Senate Bill 103 – Department of Aging - Continuing Care Contracts (Chairman, Finance
Committee (By Request - Departmental - Aging))
Authorizing the exemption of specified continuing care providers from a requirement to submit a
specified actuarial study to the Department of Aging; identifying circumstances under which the
Department must disclose specified information; authorizing the Secretary of Aging to waive
specified requirements for a continuing care provider in the process of decertifying; amending
existing requirements related to changes in ownership or control of a continuing care provider or
facility; etc.
Senate Bill 104 – Commissioner of Labor and Industry - Elevator Safety (Chairman,
Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor, Licensing and Regulation))
Exempting specified elevator units from specified provisions of elevator law; requiring an owner
or lessee of an elevator unit to reregister with the Commissioner of Labor and Industry within a
specified period of time prior to the expiration of a specified certificate; requiring the
Commissioner to conduct an inspection; requiring contractors, owners, or lessees to submit a
written certification prior to the final inspection that the elevator plans and construction
documents have been reviewed and certified; etc.
Senate Bill 107 – Education - Special Programs for Exceptional Children (Chair,
Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental -
Education))
Prohibiting the payment or reimbursement of the cost of specified services if a child is eligible
for specified funding under regulations adopted by the State Department of Education; requiring
a local school system to obtain specified funding approval for nonpublic tuition payments in
accordance with regulations adopted by the Department; altering the procedures for the
appointment of parent surrogates; altering procedures for the resolution of disputes and
administrative hearings; etc.
Senate Bill 111 – Education - Nonpublic School Employees - Criminal Convictions (Chair,
Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental -
Education))
Prohibiting nonpublic schools from knowingly employing an individual with specified criminal
convictions, including child sexual abuse, if that individual works with or has access to students;
and requiring the State Department of Education to revoke the certificate of approval or letter of
tentative approval of the nonpublic school that violates the Act.
Senate Bill 112 – Campaign Finance Entities - Organization and Reporting (Chair,
Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental -
Elections, State Board of))
Altering the types of campaign finance entities that specified individuals may establish;
abolishing the personal treasurer as a type of campaign finance entity and repealing specified
related provisions; requiring a political committee to specify, when it is established, the elections
in which it will participate; repealing provisions relating to continuing political committees;
establishing penalties for a campaign finance entity that participates in an election for which it
did not declare its intent to participate; etc.
Senate Bill 115 – Criminal Procedure - Criminal Injuries Compensation Board – Claims
(Chairman, Judicial Proceedings Committee (By Request - Departmental - Public Safety
and Correctional Services))
Altering a specified time limit for filing a claim with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board;
prohibiting the collection of debts from specified claimants; establishing specified legal
protections for claimants from debt collection activities under specified circumstances; allowing
specified health care providers to notify the Board of specified claims; etc.
Senate Bill 118 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Office of the Inspector
General - Health Program Integrity and Recovery Act (Chairman, Finance Committee (By
Request - Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene))
Establishing the Office of the Inspector General in the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene; providing for the authority, duties, and powers of the Office; providing a person with
civil immunity under specified circumstances; prohibiting health care providers from taking
retaliatory actions against specified employees under specified circumstances; defining terms;
etc.
Senate Bill 137 – Harford County - Injury Reports (Senator Harris, et al)
Providing that specified provisions of law regarding injury reports made by a physician,
pharmacist, dentist, or nurse who treats an individual with specified injuries, or by an individual
in charge of a hospital that treats the injured individual, apply in Harford County.
Senate Bill 146 – Education - Task Force on School Safety (Senator Dyson, et al)
Establishing a Task Force on School Safety; providing for the membership and staffing of the
Task Force; authorizing the Task Force to establish subcommittees; providing that the members
of the Task Force may not receive compensation but are entitled to a specified reimbursement;
requiring the Task Force to evaluate and make recommendations regarding methods to address
violence in public schools and methods to provide a safe learning environment for students; etc.
Senate Bill 158 – Private Review Agents - Treatment Plan Form - Form Mandated by
Another State (Senator Kelley)
Requiring a private review agent that requires a health care provider to submit a treatment plan in
order for the private review agent to conduct utilization review of proposed or delivered services
for the treatment of a mental illness, emotional disorder, or a substance abuse disorder to accept a
treatment plan form mandated by the state in which the service was provided.
Senate Bill 184 – Vehicle Laws - Historic Motor Vehicles – Registration (Senator Haines)
Altering the definition of "historic motor vehicle"; establishing a one-time registration fee for
vehicles manufactured at least 60 years prior to the current model year; etc.
Senate Bill 294 – Children, Youth, and Family Services - Local Management Boards, State
Coordinating Council, and Local Coordinating Councils - Services for Children with
Special Needs (Senator Garagiola (Chairman, Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and
Families))
Establishing a local management board and local coordinating council in each county;
establishing the State Coordinating Council for children; establishing the duties and composition
of the local management board, State Coordinating Council, and local coordinating council;
requiring a public agency to disclose specified information and records to another public agency
or the Office for Children; requiring the Maryland Association of Local Management Board
Directors to submit a report to committees of the General Assembly; etc.
Senate Bill 311 – Criminal Law - Bribery of a Public Official - Public Employees (Senators
Stone and Giannetti (Committee to Revise Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments))
Clarifying the category of persons considered to be public employees for purposes of specified
prohibitions against bribery.
Senate Bill 313 – Community Colleges - Baltimore City Community College – Governance
(Senator Conway, et al)
Clarifying the role of the Board of Trustees of Baltimore City Community College; prohibiting
the Board from participating in the day-to-day operations of the College; altering the amount of
money provided by Baltimore City to the College; etc.
Senate Bill 314 – Maryland Clean Energy Incentive Act of 2030 (Senator Hafer, et al)
Providing for an income tax credit for renewable energy to cover facilities placed in service on or
after January 1, 2030, but before January 1, 2035; expanding the definition of qualified energy
resources under the credit; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to issue initial credit
certificates to qualified energy producers under specified circumstances; allowing the credit to be
claimed in addition to the federal income tax credit for renewable energy; etc.
Senate Bill 350 – Task Force on Minority Participation in the Environmental Community
(Senator Gladden, et al)
Establishing a Task Force on Minority Participation in the Environmental Community; requiring
the Task Force to evaluate and make recommendations regarding methods of improving minority
participation in the environmental community, methods of improving communication to minority
communities, and methods of improving the flow of information and services into minority
communities; etc.
Senate Bill 379 – Environment - Patuxent River Watershed (Senator Dyson, et al)
Requiring upgrades to enhanced nutrient removal at specified wastewater treatment plants in the
Patuxent River watershed on or before specified dates under specified circumstances; etc.
Senate Bill 400 – Carroll County - Public Facilities Bonds (Carroll County Senators)
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County, from time to time,
to borrow not more than $52,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or
development of specified public facilities in Carroll County, and to effect such borrowing by the
issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.
Senate Bill 418 – Joint Committee on Access to Mental Health Services – Membership
(Senator Kelley)
Adding a member of the Judicial Proceedings Committee and a member of the Judiciary
Committee to the Joint Committee on Access to Mental Health Services.
Senate Bill 420 - Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights - Hearing Boards - Binding
Arbitration (Senator Frosh, et al)
Repealing prohibitions against making specified actions regarding the formation of a law
enforcement officers' hearing board and specified decisions by a hearing board the subject of
binding arbitration under specified circumstances.
Senate Bill 431 – Blue Ribbon Commission to Study Retiree Health Care Funding Options
(Senator Kasemeyer, et al)
Establishing a Blue Ribbon Commission to Study Retiree Health Care Funding Options;
providing for the membership, chair, principles, duties, and staffing of the Commission;
requiring the Department of Budget and Management to provide the Commission with specified
information; requiring the Department of Budget and Management to fund the hiring of more
than one actuarial firm and a health care consulting firm by the Commission; requiring the
Commission to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on its findings; etc.
Senate Bill 432 – Primary and Secondary Education - School Facilities - Aging Schools
Program - Grant Calculation (Senator Kasemeyer, et al)
Altering a requirement that the State distribute grants to county boards of education under the
Aging Schools Program; providing for the calculation of the amount of grants to be distributed to
county boards under the Program in specified fiscal years; etc.
Senate Bill 444 – Higher Education - Morgan State University and St. Mary's College of
Maryland – Authority (Senator Conway, et al)
Authorizing the Maryland Higher Education Commission to review and comment on the
operating and capital budgets of the Board of Regents of Morgan State University only within
the broad context of the State Plan for Higher Education; prohibiting the Commission from
recommending against a specified budget item except under specified circumstances; designating
the University as a public corporation; etc.
Senate Bill 456 – Vehicle Laws - Special Dealer Registration Plates - Authorized Uses
(Senators Mooney and Kasemeyer)
Exempting from certificate of title requirements new vehicles owned by a manufacturer or dealer
and held for sale even though used for specified other purposes; allowing a licensed dealer to
lend a vehicle to an educational institution providing specified driver's education instruction
under a manufacturer-sponsored loan program approved by the Administration; etc.
Senate Bill 468 – Criminal Law - Credit Card Crimes - Use of Affidavit by Credit
Cardholder in Criminal Case or Juvenile Proceeding (Senator Garagiola, et al)
Authorizing in a criminal case or juvenile proceeding involving a violation of a credit card crime
the introduction of the affidavit of a lawful credit cardholder as substantive evidence that the
credit card or credit card number was taken, used, or possessed without the authorization of the
credit cardholder; requiring the State to provide a specified notice to the defendant within a
specified time period before a specified proceeding; etc.
Senate Bill 508 – Victim's Rights - Leave to Appeal - Delinquent Acts (Senator Stone)
Adding to the list of statutes that secure rights to victims of a violent crime, in accordance with
which a victim may file an application for leave to appeal from an order that denies or fails to
consider such a right; altering the definition of "violent crime" in the statute relating to appeal
rights of victims of a violent crime to include a delinquent act that would be a crime of violence
if committed by an adult; etc.
Senate Bill 509 – Criminal Law - Crimes of Violence - Child Abuse (Senator Stone)
Adding the crime of child abuse in the first degree to the list of crimes of violence for which
specified enhanced penalties are applied to specified offenders.
Senate Bill 521 – Natural Resources - Hunting Via an Internet Connection – Prohibition
(Senator Astle)
Prohibiting a person from shooting at or killing a bird or animal in the State with a gun or other
device operated or accessed via an Internet connection; providing that specified actions are prima
facie evidence of a violation of the Act; establishing a specified penalty; requiring the revocation
of the hunting privilege or the hunting license of a person who is convicted of an offense under
the Act; etc.
Senate Bill 622 – State Police Retirement System - Special Disability Retirement - Former
Members (Senator Colburn)
Requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to accept an
application for special disability that is submitted prior to December 31, 2030, by specified
former members of the State Police Retirement System; requiring specified former members of
the State Police Retirement System to repay their member contributions to the Board of Trustees
on or before a specified date; etc.
Senate Bill 624 – Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Prescriptions (Senator Colburn)
Authorizing a prescription, except a prescription for a prescription drug containing a specified
substance, for an enrollee of the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to be written or oral; and
prohibiting a pharmacist, when dispensing a drug to a Program enrollee, from dispensing a drug
on an oral prescription unless the pharmacist promptly writes out and files the prescription.
Senate Bill 642 – State Aid for Police Protection - Supplemental Grants (Senator Lawlah, et
al)
Requiring a supplemental grant for police protection to be paid from the State to each
subdivision that borders the District of Columbia.
Senate Bill 656 – Harford County - Alcoholic Beverages Licenses - Residency Requirement
for Applicants (Harford County Senators)
Requiring applicants for alcoholic beverages licenses in Harford County to be residents for at
least 1 year before filing an application.
Senate Bill 682 – Environment - County Plans - Removal of Solid Waste Acceptance
Facilities (Senator Dyson)
Authorizing a county to remove a proposed solid waste acceptance facility from the county plan
under specified circumstances; and providing for the construction and application of specified
provisions of the Act.
Senate Bill 728 – Telemedicine - Use and Reimbursement – Study (Senator Teitelbaum)
Requiring the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the School of
Nursing and other stakeholders, to conduct a specified study regarding telemedicine; requiring
the School of Medicine to report to specified committees of the General Assembly by January 1,
2031; etc.
3/17 Senate: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
4/3 House: Third Reading Passed (137-0)
5/14 Approved by the Governor – Chapter 962
Senate Bill 734 – Mortality and Quality Review Committee - Reportable Incidents of
Injury (Senator Teitelbaum)
Renaming the Mortality Review Committee to be the Mortality and Quality Review Committee;
requiring the Committee to review specified data and make specified findings and
recommendations; requiring the Office of Health Care Quality to provide specified data to the
Committee; authorizing the Committee to consult with experts under specified circumstances;
requiring the Committee to prepare a specified report; requiring the Developmental Disabilities
Administration to provide a specified report; etc.
Senate Bill 736 – Criminal Procedure - Process Against Limited Liability Companies -
Summons, Service, and Execution (Senator McFadden (By Request - Baltimore City
Administration))
Authorizing a clerk of court, if a charging document is filed against a specified limited liability
company, to issue a summons to the limited liability company in the company name to appear at
court to answer the charging document; establishing that, if a sheriff or other officer returns a
summons in a specified manner, the limited liability company to whom the summons was issued
shall be considered as in court and as appearing to the charging document; etc.
Senate Bill 753 – Rural Broadband Communication Services (Senator Pipkin, et al)
Establishing the Maryland Rural Broadband Coordination Board; requiring the Board and
affected units of State government to cooperate with specified entities in a specified manner for
the establishment of rural broadband telecommunication services in rural and underserved areas;
establishing a Rural Broadband Assistance Fund as a special fund in the Department of Business
and Economic Development for specified purposes; etc.
Senate Bill 754 – Caregivers - Voluntary Tax Withholding (Senator Exum, et al)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide voluntary withholding of
specified taxes for specified self-employed providers in the Maryland Medical Assistance
Program; etc.
Senate Bill 810 – Residential Child Care Programs - Corporate Responsibility and
Governance (Senator Currie, et al)
Requiring corporations to meet specified requirements as a condition of licensure to operate a
residential child care program; requiring specified corporations to adopt written bylaws that
require the corporation's board of directors to be legally responsible for specified actions;
authorizing specified licensing agencies to deny a residential child care program license under
specified circumstances; requiring specified inspections; prohibiting a person from operating a
residential child care program in the State without a license; etc.
Senate Bill 811 – Residential Child Care Capital Grant Program (Senator Currie, et al)
Establishing the Residential Child Care Capital Grant Program; authorizing the Board of Public
Works, on the recommendation of the Executive Director of the Governor's Office for Children,
to provide grants under the Program to counties, municipal corporations, and nonprofit
corporations for residential child care programs; authorizing specified residential child care
programs to amend a specified plan; authorizing the Governor to include funding in the capital
budget for the grant program; etc.
Senate Bill 832 – Maryland Health Care Commission - Certificate of Need - Health Care
Facilities (Senator Middleton)
Altering the level of capital expenditures made by or on behalf of a hospital or a health care
facility other than a hospital that requires a certificate of need; providing that a certificate of need
is not required for a capital expenditure by a hospital or a plant donated to a hospital, under
specified circumstances; altering an exemption from the requirement to obtain a certificate of
need to close a hospital or part of a hospital; etc.
Senate Bill 848 – Education - Educational Technology Pilot Program - Elementary Schools
(Senator Conway)
Establishing the Educational Technology Pilot Program in Baltimore City and Dorchester, Prince
George's, Somerset, and St. Mary's counties; requiring the State Superintendent of Schools and
specified organizations to develop a plan to implement the program in elementary schools;
requiring the plan to meet specified requirements; providing for the funding of the program; etc.
Senate Bill 850 – Transportation Funding - Mass Transit - Funding Study (Senator
Kramer, et al)
Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to conduct specified analyses of the
operating and capital funding needs for transit over a specified period of time; requiring the
Department to review the funding structures of specified transit services across the country and
in specified cities outside the United States; etc.
Senate Bill 866 – State Retirement and Pension System - Military Service - Members and
Former Members (Senator Kasemeyer)
Providing that members or former members of a State system who are entitled to a vested
retirement allowance may apply for service credit in a State system for military service;
prohibiting retirees from applying for service credit in a State system for military service; and
providing that the military service that specified members or former members of a State system
who are entitled to a vested retirement allowance receive is applied toward their retirement
allowance using a specified accrual rate.
Senate Bill 882 – At-Risk Youth Prevention and Diversion Programs (Senator Lawlah, et
al)
Establishing an Advisory Council to the Children's Cabinet; establishing the purpose of the
Council; specifying requirements for at-risk youth prevention and diversion programs; specifying
the duties of a local management board; providing that it is the intent of the General Assembly
that the Governor include a specified appropriation in the annual budget bill to fund at-risk youth
prevention and diversion programs; etc.
Senate Bill 971 – State Ethics Law - Architectural and Engineering Services - Applicability
of Restrictions on Participation in Procurement (Senators Conway and Greenip)
Providing that specified persons who do not have specified design responsibilities and are not
involved in the construction phase of specified procurements on behalf of the State are eligible to
be part of specified teams bidding on specified construction projects under the State procurement
law, subject to specified conditions; etc.
Senate Bill 982 – Property Tax Credit - Nonprofit Swim Clubs (Senator Giannetti)
Authorizing the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation or the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore City to grant, by law, a tax credit against the county or municipal
corporation property tax imposed on swim club property used exclusively for providing a
recreational outlet for the community; etc.
Senate Bill 985 – Election Law - Baltimore City Board of Elections - Compensation for
Substitute Board Members and Election Judges (Senator McFadden)
Altering the compensation for the substitute members of the Baltimore City Board of Elections
and for election judges in Baltimore City; prescribing minimum compensation levels for election
judges in Baltimore City; providing compensation for an election judge's attendance at a
specified course of instruction, subject to a condition; providing that the Act does not apply to
the salary or compensation of the incumbent substitute members of the Board; etc.
Senate Bill 996 – Baltimore County Liquefied Natural Gas Task Force (Senator Stone, et
al)
Establishing a Baltimore County Liquefied Natural Gas Task Force; providing for the
composition and duties of the Task Force; requiring the Department of the Environment to
provide staffing for the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to report to the Governor and the
General Assembly by December 31, 2030; etc.
Senate Bill 1036 – Environment - Sewerage Service - Unpaid Services (Senator Colburn)
Extending the period of time after which a political subdivision or private water company may
disconnect water service to a property if a bill for sewerage service is unpaid; authorizing a
private water company to disconnect water service if a bill for sewerage service is unpaid for 45
days; and authorizing a private water company to charge a reasonable reconnection charge in
accordance with specified requirements when it reconnects water service.
Senate Bill 1049 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - On-Farm Home Processing
Facility - License and Fee (Senators Middleton and Dyson)
Permitting an on-farm food processing facility to obtain an on-farm home processing plant
license for a specified fee.
3/26 Senate: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
4/6 House: Third Reading Passed (137-0)
5/14 Approved by the Governor – Chapter 982
Senate Bill 1065 – Revenue Stabilization Account - Fund Transfer - Prince George's
County (Senator Currie)
Authorizing the transfer, for fiscal year 2031, of up to $5,000,000 from the Revenue Stabilization
Account to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for the operation of Prince George's
Hospital Center; and making the Act subject to specified contingencies.
Senate Bill 1086 – Health Insurance - Contracts of Carriers with Providers, Ambulatory
Surgical Facilities, or Hospitals - Prohibited Provisions (Senator Klausmeier)
Prohibiting carriers from including in contracts with providers, ambulatory surgical facilities, or
hospitals specified terms or conditions relating to reimbursement rates and reimbursement
arrangements; and making a violation of the Act an unfair and deceptive practice for purposes of
insurance.