SB753 - Public Safety - Firearm Background Checks, Victim Notification, and the Maryland State Police Gun Center
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Shelly Hettleman
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a report of a prohibited person failing a background check to immediately notify certain victims; requiring the Secretary of State Police to notify the Maryland State Police Gun Center of certain information if the Secretary disapproves a firearm application because a prospective purchaser, lessee, or transferee failed a background check; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB974 - Behavioral Health Crisis Response Services - 9-8-8 Trust Fund Fees
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Guy J Guzzone
Last updated 4 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing a 9-8-8 fee to be paid by each subscriber to switched local exchange access service, commercial mobile radio service, or other 9-8-8-accessible service; establishing a prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fee to be paid on certain retail transactions; requiring the Comptroller to deposit the 9-8-8 fees and the prepaid wireless 9-8-8 fees in the 9-8-8 Trust Fund; and requiring the Comptroller to adopt procedures for auditing fee collection and remittance by telephone companies and commercial mobile radio service providers.
STATUS
Passed
SB828 - Public Institutions of Higher Education - Student Withdrawal Policy - Reimbursement of Tuition and Fees (Cameron Carden Act of 2024)
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring each public institution of higher education to adopt a policy to authorize a student to withdraw under extenuating circumstances and reimburse the student for tuition and fees paid for the semester in which the student withdraws under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Introduced
SB756 - Primary and Secondary Education - School Safety and Student Well-Being - Examination of Policies and Funding
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety, the State Department of Education, and the Interagency Commission on School Construction by July 1, 2025, and every 2 years thereafter, to review and promulgate guidelines on the state of physical security in schools; altering the amount and uses of annual funding relating to school safety; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $20,000,000 to the Safe Schools Fund to provide grants to local school systems to enhance school safety; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB5 - Higher Education - University System of Maryland, Morgan State University, and St. Mary's College of Maryland - Guaranteed Admissions
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the University System of Maryland, Morgan State University, and St. Mary's College of Maryland to develop admission policies that require the institutions to admit as freshmen applicants who graduate from a public or nonpublic high school in the State and are in the top 10% of their high school class.
STATUS
Introduced
SB44 - Safe Communities Act of 2024
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
William Folden, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 9 months ago13 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiting a deduction of diminution credits of more than 10% of an incarcerated individual's aggregate sentence for crimes of violence for an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for a crime of violence; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB247 - Information Technology - Modernize Maryland Oversight Commission - Membership, Responsibilities, and Staffing
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Education, Energy, and the Environment
Last updated 9 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
Altering the membership and responsibilities of the Modernize Maryland Oversight Commission; and requiring the Department of Information Technology to provide staff for the Commission.
STATUS
Introduced
SB61 - Higher Education - Disciplinary Records - Use in Admissions and Disciplinary Proceedings
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Alonzo T. Washington
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting an institution of higher education from using an admissions application that contains questions about an applicant's disciplinary record, subject to certain exceptions; and authorizing an institution of higher education to make inquiries into and consider information about a student's disciplinary record for discipline related to academic dishonesty.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3 - Health Occupations - Service Members, Veterans, and Military Spouses - Temporary Licensure, Certification, Registration, and Permitting
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Michael A. Jackson
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring health occupations boards to issue an expedited temporary license, certificate, registration, or permit to a service member, veteran, or military spouse who meets certain requirements; requiring each health occupations board to include a check-off box prominently on each license, certification, or registration application form; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to publish prominently on its website information about the expedited licensing process and any assistance provided; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB619 - Criminal Law - Cannabis-Related Offenses - Civil Penalties
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jill P Carter
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Substituting civil penalties in place of criminal penalties for certain offenses relating to possessing, possessing with the intent to distribute, and cultivating cannabis and manufacturing cannabis products.
STATUS
Introduced
SB757 - State Information Technology - Prohibited Applications and Websites
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Jack Bailey, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 8 months ago11 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting certain employees, agents, or entities on any information technology owned or leased by a unit of State government from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeChat, or accessing any website developed by ByteDance Ltd. or Tencent Holdings Ltd; requiring by December 31, 2024, the Department of Budget and Management, in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology, to prepare guidance for units of State government regarding access to certain applications and websites; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB664 - Real Property - Land Installment Contracts - Requirements and Vendor Duties and Limitations
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Nick Charles
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the vendor to provide a purchaser under a land installment contract with the results of a title search for the property at or before the time the purchaser signs the contract; requiring the inclusion of certain notice, terms, and recitals in a land installment contract formed in the State; altering, from 40% to 20%, the percentage of the original cash price of a land installment contract that the purchaser must pay before the purchaser may demand a grant of the deed to the property to the purchaser; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB153 - Maryland Department of Transportation - Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Michael A. Jackson
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees, taxicab drivers, and transportation network operators on the identification and reporting of suspected child exploitation and human trafficking; requiring certain transportation-sector employers to establish procedures for reporting suspected child exploitation and human trafficking to certain entities; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB684 - Health Insurance – Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits – Sunset Repeal and Modification of Reporting Requirements
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required of health insurance carriers; establishing certain remedies the Commissioner may use to enforce compliance with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and related reporting requirements; repealing the requirement that a certain form be used for the reporting requirements; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB1137 - Maryland Department of Health - List of Diet Pills (Weight Loss Supplement Identification)
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a list of diet pills, make the list publicly accessible on or before January 1, 2025, and update the list on a quarterly basis.
STATUS
Introduced